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GUNDWANA, a large province of Hindustan, in the Deccan, extending from the 18th to the 25th degree of north latitude. On the north it is bounded by the provinces of Allahabad and Bahar; on the south by Berar, Hyderabad, and Orissa; on the east by Bahar and Orissa; and on the west by Allahabad, Malwah, Khandesh, Berar, ...
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GUNDWANA
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GUN-MAKING. Of the word gun there is no satisfactory etymology. Some have derived it from the French word man gon (omitting the first syllable), which was the name of a warlike instrument used before the invention of the gun now employed; and the use would seem to justify the derivation, for it was employed in dischar...
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GUN-MAKING
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GUNNERY, Is the art of determining the motions or ranges of projectiles discharged from cannon, mortars, howitzers, and other kinds of artillery. I.—THEORY OF GUNNERY. The use of fire-arms had been long known before any theory concerning them was attempted. The first author who wrote professedly on the flight of can...
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GUNNERY
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GUNPOWDER. The invention of gunpowder is popularly ascribed to Barthold Schwartz, a German monk and alchemist; and the date of the discovery is further supposed to have been in 1320. The prior claims of our countryman, Roger Bacon, whatever they be, are however unquestionable, as this substance is described in his wri...
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GUNPOWDER
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GUNSBURG, a bailiwick of the circle of the Upper Danube, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over 130 square miles. It contains two cities, two market-towns, and forty-eight villages, with 18,620 inhabitants. It is a fertile district, productive of corn, cattle, hops, flax, and timber. The capital is a city of the sam...
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GUNSBURG
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GUNTER, Edmund, an excellent English mathematician and astronomer, was born in Hertfordshire in 1581, and studied at Westminster-school, whence he removed to Oxford, where he took the degree of master of arts in 1606, and afterwards entered into holy orders. In 1615 he took the degree of bachelor of divinity; but being...
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GUNTER
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GUNTOOR, one of the districts in Hindustan, on the western side of the Bay of Bengal, called the Northern Circars. It is situated principally between the sixteenth and seventeenth degrees of north latitude, and lies immediately north of the Carnatic, and south of the river Kistnah or Krishnah, which separates it from C...
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16 12' N 80 20' E
GUNTOOR
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GUNWALE, or Gunnel, is the uppermost wale of a ship, or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend which finishes the upper works of the hull, in that part in which are put the stanchions that support the waste trees.
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GUNWALE
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GURDAIZ, a town in the Afghan territories, in the province of Cabul, thirty-nine miles east by south from Ghizni. Long. 68. 53. E. Lat. 33. 31. N.
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33 31' N 68 53' E
GURDAIZ
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GURRAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Malwah, in a district of the same name. It had formerly a mint. It lies a hundred and forty miles north by east from Nagpoor. Long. 80. 15. E. Lat. 23. 10. N. The district is situated about the twenty-third degree of north latitude. It was formerly the seat of a considera...
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23 10' N 80 15' E
GURRAH
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GURRUMCONDAH, a strong-built fort and town, the capital of a district of the same name, a hundred and twenty-five miles west-north-west from Madras. Long. 78. 40. E. Lat. 13. 45. N. It was besieged in 1791 by the nizam’s army, assisted by a small detachment of the British, but was afterwards taken by Hyder Sahib, Tippo...
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13 45' N 78 40' E
GURRUMCONDAH
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GURUDWARAH, an extensive village of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Serinagur. It is noted for a handsome temple erected by Ram Roy, the founder of the Sikks; also for a great annual fair held at the vernal equinox, and numerously attended by pilgrims from Lahore and the western countries. The surrounding distri...
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GURUDWARAH
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GURWAL, a province of Northern Hindustan, situated at the foot of the Himalaya Mountains, principally between the thirtieth and thirty-first degrees of north latitude. The great Himalaya range separates it from Thibet on the north; on the south it has the plain of the Ganges; to the east the Dauli, Alacananda, and Ramg...
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GURWAL
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GUNZENHAUSEN, a bailiwick in the circle of the Rezat, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over eighty-eight square miles. It contains one city, one market-town, and fifty-two villages, with 14,670 inhabitants. It is generally a light sandy soil, but well cultivated by a prosperous peasantry. The capital, of the same n...
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GUNZENHAUSEN
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GUSTAVUS I. king of Sweden, was son of Eric de Vasa, duke of Gripsholm. Christian II. king of Denmark, having made himself master of the kingdom of Sweden, confined Gustavus at Copenhagen; but the latter making his escape, wandered for a long time in the forests, till the cruelties of the tyrant having occasioned a rev...
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GUSTAVUS I
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GUSTROW, a duchy of the dominion of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, which came to that dukedom in 1695. It is an extensive district, containing 140,000 inhabitants. The city of Gustrow is a large old town, and its walls have been converted into pleasant walks and gardens. It contains 823 houses, with 8264 inhabitants. There is a...
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GUSTROW
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GUTPURBA, a small river of Hindustan, which takes its rise in the Western Ghauts, and, after a short course, falls into the river Kistnah, near the village of Almady. Long. 76. 5. E. Lat. 16. 37. N.
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16 37' N 76 5' E
GUTPURBA
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GUTTA, a Latin term for what in English we call drop. Gutta Serena, a disease in which the patient, without any apparent fault in the eye, is deprived of sight. Gutta, in Architecture, an ornament in the form of a little cone, used in the Doric corniche, or on the architrave underneath the triglyphs, representing a so...
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GUTTA
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GUTTURAL, a term applied to letters or sounds pronounced or formed as it were in the throat.
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GUTTURAL
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GUTTY, in Heraldry, a term used when any thing is charged or sprinkled with drops. In blazoning, the colour of the drops is to be named; as gutty of sable, of gules, and so forth.
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GUTTY
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GUY, Thomas, an eminent bookseller, founder of the hospital for sick and lame in Southwark which bears his name, was the son of Thomas Guy, lighterman and coal-dealer in Horsley-down, Southwark. He was put as apprentice, in 1660, to a bookseller in the porch of Mercer’s Chapel; and set up trade with a stock of about L....
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GUY
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GUYON, Jeanne Bouviers de la Motte, a French lady, memorable for her writings, and for her sufferings in the cause of quietism, was descended from a noble family, and born at Montargis in 1648. She was daughter of Claude Bouvier, seigneur of La Motte-Vergonville, and master of requests. At a very early age she exhibite...
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GUYON
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GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Baron Louis Bernard, a celebrated chemist, known also as an advocate of eminence, and less advantageously, in his political character, as a regicide, was the son of Antony Guyton de Morveau and Margaret de Saulle his wife, and born at Dijon, on the 4th of January 1737. His father was of a respectabl...
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GUYTON DE MORVEAU
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GUZELHISAR, a city of Asia Minor, built upon the site of the ancient Magnesia. It is situated on a hill about three miles in compass, level at the top, and having a steep declivity around. The modern city is at least four miles in circumference, and surrounded by very slight walls: the streets are broader and better la...
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GUZELHISAR
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GUZNOGUR, an Afghan district, in the province of Cabul, situated between the thirty-fourth and thirtyfifth degrees of north latitude. Its interior is but imperfectly known. It is bounded on the north by Caffaristan, and on the west by the Chuganserai river.
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GUZNOGUR
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GYBING, the act of shifting a boom-sail from one side af the mast to the other. In order to understand this operation more clearly, it is accessary to remark, that by a boom-sail is meant any sail, the lowest part of which is extended by a boom, and the fore-end hooked to its respective mast, so as to swing occasional...
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GYBING
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GYGES, in fabulous history, a Lydian, to whom Candaules, king of the country, showed his wife naked. The queen was so incensed at this instance ofimprudence and infirmity in her husband, that she ordered Gyges either to prepare for death himself, or to put Candaules to death. He chose the latter; and having married the...
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GYGES
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GYMNASIARCH, in Antiquity, the director of the gymnasium. This functionary had two deputies; the one called xystarch, who presided over the athletae, and had the charge of wrestling; and the other gymnastes, who had the direction of all other exercises.
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GYMNASIARCH
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GYMNASIUM, in Grecian antiquity, a place fitted for performing exercises of the body. The word is Greek, being formed from γυμνός, naked; because the youth anciently put off their clothes, to practise with the more freedom. Gymnasia, according to Potter, were first used at Lacedaemon, but were afterwards common in all...
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GYMNASIUM
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GYMNASTICS, in the general acceptation of the term, denotes every exercise which tends to develope and invigorate the bodily powers; such as walking, running, riding, fencing, rowing, skating, dancing, and many others. In a narrower sense gymnastics includes those manly and healthful games, which have been encouraged b...
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GYMNASTICS
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GYMNOSOPHISTS, a set of Indian philosophers, famous in antiquity. The word is formed from the Greek, γ>μvο6οφusrrις, a sophist or philosopher who goes naked. This name was applied to the Indian philosophers, whom the excessive heat of the country obliged to go naked; as that of Peripatetics was given to those who phil...
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GYMNOSOPHISTS
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GYNAECEUM, amongst the ancients, the apartment of the women, a separate room in the inner part of the house, where they employed themselves in spinning, weaving, and needle-work.
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GYNAECEUM
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GYNAECOCRACY denotes the government of women, ar that state where women are capable of the supreme command.
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GYNAECOCRACY
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GYNAECOCRATUMENI, an ancient people of Sarmatia Europaea, inhabiting the eastern banks of the river Tanais, near its opening into the Palus Maeotis, and so called, because they had no women among them, or rather, perhaps, because they were under the dominion of women. The word is formed from γυvη, woman, and κgαrouμs∣∕...
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GYNAECOCRATUMENI
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GYONGIOS, a large market-town of Hungary, in the circle of the Hither Theis, with a Catholic university, and 800 inhabitants, who trade largely in wine, fruit, corn, and the other internal products. Long. 20. 17. E. Lat. 47. 47. N.
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47 47' N 20 17' E
GYONGIOS
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GYPSIES, or Egyptians, a strange kind of commonwealth of wandering impostors and jugglers, who made their first appearance in Germany about the beginning of the sixteenth century. Munster, it is true, who is followed and relied upon by Spelman, fixes the time of their first appearance in the year 1417; but as he owns t...
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GYPSIES
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H the eighth letter and sixth consonant in our alphabet; though some grammarians conceive it to be only an aspiration, or breathing. But nothing can be more ridiculous than to dispute its being a distinct sound, and formed in a particular manner by the organs of speech, at least in our language: witness the words eat a...
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H
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HAARLEM, or Haerlem, a city of the Netherlands, the capital of the province, and of a circle of the same name. It lies about four miles from the sea-shore, on an extensive lake of fresh water, which it is now under consideration to drain and convert into meadows. It is a well-built town, with a fine market-place; but s...
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52 22' 16" N 4 29' 25" E
HAARLEM
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HABAKKUK, one of the twelve lesser prophets, whose prophecies are admitted into the canon of the Old Testament. The name is written in the Hebrew with π, heth, and signifies a wrestler. There is no precise time mentioned in Scripture when this Habakkuk lived; but from his predicting the ruin of the Jews by the Chaldaea...
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HABDALA, a ceremony of the Jews, observed on the evening of the Sabbath when every one of the family has returned home. Then they light a taper or lamp, with at least two wicks; upon which the master of the family takes a cup, with some wine, mixed with fragrant spices, and having repeated a passage or two of Scripture...
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HABEAS Corpus, the most celebrated writ in the English law. Of this there are various kinds made use of by the courts at Westminster, for removing prisoners from one court into another for the more easy administration of justice. The habeas corpus ad respondendum is issued when a man has a cause of action against one w...
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HABEAS
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HABELSCHWERT, a city of the Prussian province of Silesia, in the district of the same name, situated on the river Neisse. It is fortified, and stands in a very defensible situation. It contains 324 houses, and 3124 inhabitants, mostly manufacturers of linens and woollens. Long. 16. 36. 10. E. Lat. 50. 14. 45. N.
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HABELSCHWERT
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HABERDASHER, in commerce, a seller of hats and other wares.
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HABERGION, or Haubergeon, Habergetum, a [7:11:101]coat of mail, or ancient piece of defensive armour, in form of a coat, descending from the neck to the middle, and formed of little iron rings, or meshes, linked into each other. It is also written haberge, hauberge, haubere, haubert, hautber, hautbert, and hauberk. Spe...
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HABERGION
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HABIT, an aptitude or disposition either of mind or body, acquired by frequent repetition of the same act. Habit is also employed to signify a dress or garb, or the composition of garments, with which a person is covered. The principal part of the dress worn by the Jews and Greeks was the ∕ l ½αnov and the The 'ιμarιο...
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HABIT
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HABSAL, a circle of the Russian province of Esthonia, in the Gulf of Finland, extending over 1536 square miles, partly on the continent, but comprehending the islands Dagoe and Worms. It contains two towns, thirteen parishes, and 113 noble estates, with 41,500 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is situated in ...
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HABSAL
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HABSBURG, a small district of Switzerland, in the canton of Lucerne, on the lake of that name. It is only remarkable as the barony, once the family seat, of that house which has long given emperors to Germany, and now fills the throne of Austria. The chateau is a venerable heap of ruins, but of no great extent.
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HABSBURG
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HABUR, a small island in the Red Sea, six miles from the Arabian shore. Lat. 16. 45. N.
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HABUR
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HACKET, John, bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, was born in the year 1592. In 1623 he was made chaplain to James I. and prebendary of Lincoln; and soon afterwards he obtained the rectory of St Andrew’s, Holborn, with that of Cheam in Surrey, his patron observing, that he intended Holborn for wealth, and Cheam for heal...
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HACKET
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HACKNEY, a large parish of the hundred of Osulton, in the county of Middlesex. It is one of those villages which, from a collection of scattered hamlets and a few houses round the parish church, have, in the course of a century, so increased as to be more than equal to many continental cities, and even to several capit...
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HACKNEY
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HADDINGTON, a royal burgh of Scotland, and capital of the county of the same name. It is situated on the left bank of the river Tyne, on the great road between Edinburgh and London, about sixteen and a hall miles from the former capital. Haddington is a place of considerable antiquity, but the exact date of its origin ...
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HADDINGTON
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HADDINGTONSHIRE, or, as it is frequently called, East Lothian, a county in Scotland, situated between 55° 47' and 56° 5' north latitude, and between 2° 25' and 3° 2' west longitude from Greenwich. Its boundaries are the Frith of Forth and German Ocean on the north and east, Berwickshire on the south, and Edinburghshire...
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HADDINGTONSHIRE
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HADELN, a district of the kingdom of Hanover, extending over 232 square miles of rich marsh land, near the mouth of the Elbe. It contains two market-towns and twelve parishes, with 15,670 prosperous inhabitants. It is chiefly remarkable for the privileges it enjoys of a very slight fixed taxation, and a freedom from th...
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HADELN
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HADERSLEBEN, a city of Denmark, the capital of the bailiwick of the same name, in the province of Sleswick. The harbour has within a few years been nearly choked up, and cargoes are discharged by boats. It contains 400 houses, with about 3600 inhabitants. Long. 9. 25. E. Lat. 55. 15. N.
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55 15' N 9 25' E
HADERSLEBEN
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HADES, in the Scriptures, is used in a variety of senses. Sometimes it signifies the invisible regions of the dead, sometimes the place of the damned, and sometimes the grave. In the Greek authors it is in general used to signify the regions of the dead.
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HADES
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HADIDA, a town of Syria, on the Euphrates, consisting of 300 houses, surrounded with fruit gardens. It is about thirty miles south-east of Anna.
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HADIDA
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HADIE, a town of Yemen, in Arabia, situated on an eminence, sixteen miles east of Beit El Fakich.
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HADIE
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HADLEIGH, a market-town of the county of Suffolk, in the hundred of Cosford, sixty-five miles from London. It was formerly a borough and a trading place, but it has lost its charter; and the trade, which was chiefly in spinning, has given way to machinery. It has a market, which is held on Monday. The population amount...
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HADLEIGH
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HAERLEBEKE, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of West Flanders, and circle of Courtray. It stands on the right bank of the Lys, and on the chaussée from Cambray to Ghent. It contains 3280 inhabitants.
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HAERLEBEKE
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HAEMORRHAGY (compounded of αιμα, blood, and lr l γνω, fιγνυμι, or ģłjtfffw, to break, rend, or force asunder), in medicine, a flux of blood at any part of the body, arising either from a rupture of the vessels, as when they are too full or too much pressed, or from an erosion of the same, as when the blood is too sharp...
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HAEMORRHAGY
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HAEMORRHOIDAL, an appellation given by anatomists to the arteries and veins running to the intestinum rectum.
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HAEMORRHOIDAL
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HAEMORRHOIDS, or Piles, an haemorrhage or issue of blood from the haemorrhoidal vessels.
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HAEMORRHOIDS
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HAEMUS, Eminch Dag, or Balcan, a lofty chain of mountains separating Thrace from Moesia, and running from the sources of the Hebrus towards the east of the Black Sea. From its summit, it was said, the Euxine, the Adriatic, the Danube, and the Alps, could be seen at one view; and it was with the intention of beholding t...
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HAEMUS
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HAERETICO Comburendo, a writ which anciently lay against an heretic, who, having once been convicted of heresy by his bishop, and having abjured it, but afterwards falling into it again, or into some other, is thereupon committed to the secular power.
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HAERETICO
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HAFAR, a considerable river-canal in the province of Irak Arabi. It proceeds from the river Karoön, which, after its confluence with the Abzal at Bandikeel, and before its separation, contains a greater body of waters than either the Tigris or the Euphrates. On its arrival at [7:11:106]Sabla, a ruined village, thirty m...
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HAFAR
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HAGARENS, the descendants of Ishmael. They were also called Ishmaelites and Saracens, and lastly by the general name of Arabians. As to the Hagarens, they dwelt in Arabia Felix, according to Pliny. Strabo joins them with the Nabathaeans, and Chavlotaeans, whose habitation was rather in Arabia Deserta. But others think ...
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HAGARENS
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HAGEN, a town of Prussia, the capital of a circle of the same name in the Arensberg division of the province of Westphalia. It contains 329 houses, and 2540 inhabitants, who are employed in making hats, hosiery, linen goods, and small wares.
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HAGEN
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HAGENAU, a city of the department of the Lower Rhine, in the arrondissement of Strasbourg, in France. It is situated on the navigable river Motter, which near it joins the Rhine. It is fortified, but not strongly, and is well built. It contains 900 houses and 7694 inhabitants. There are many small manufactures carried ...
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HAGENAU
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HAGGAI, the tenth of the small prophets, was supposed to have been born at Babylon in the year of the world 3457, and to have returned thence with Zerubbabel. It was this prophet who by the command of God (Ezra, v. 1, 2, &c.) exhorted the Jews, after their return from the captivity, to finish the rebuilding of the temp...
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HAGGAI
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HAGIOGRAPHA, a name given to part of the books of Scripture, called by the Jews Ketuvim. The word is compounded of άγιος, holy, and ygap«, I write. The name is very ancient. St Jerome makes frequent mention of it, and, before him, St Epiphanius called these books simply Έξαφνα. The Jews divide the sacred writings into ...
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HAGIOGRAPHA
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HAGUE, a large city, formerly denominated a village, in the province of Holland, in the Netherlands, about ten miles from Leyden, and thirty from Amsterdam, and three miles from the sea-shore. It is the chief seat of government, the residence of the king, and the place of assembly for the states-general and the several...
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HAGUE
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HAIL, in Meteorology, a meteor generally defined frozen rain, but differing from it in this, that the hailstones are not formed of single pieces of ice, but of many little spherules agglutinated together. Neither are these spherules all of the same consistence; some of them being hard and solid like perfect ice, others...
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HAIL
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HAILSHAM, a market-town of the county of Sussex, in the rape of Pevensey, and hundred of Dill, fifty-seven miles from London, with a small market, which is held on Wednesday. The population amounted in 1801 to 897, in 1811 to 1029, in 1821 to 1278, and in 1831 to 1445.
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HAILSHAM
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HAINAN, or Hainam, a large island in the China Sea, situated at the southern extremity of that empire, and subject to its authority. It lies between the eighteenth and twentieth degrees of north latitude, and is about 196 miles in length by seventy in average breadth. Although placed so near the tract of ships bound to...
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HAINAN
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HAINBURG, a city of Austria, on the river Danube. It was burnt down in 1827, but has been since rebuilt. It is the seat of the greatest imperial tobacco and snuff manufactory in the empire. The town-house is remarkable for a Roman altar and a Roman tower, wlych commands a vast and fine prospect over the surrounding cou...
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HAINBURG
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HAIR, small filaments issuing out of the pores of the skins of animals, and serving most of them as a tegument or covering. Though the external surface of the body is the natural place of hairs, we have instances of these being found also on the internal surface. Amatus Lusitanus mentions a person who had hair upon hi...
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HAIR
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HAJYGUNGE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, pleasantly situated on the south bank of the Ganges, which is here a mile broad, and in the rainy season runs with great rapidity. It is twenty-nine miles southwest of Dacca. Long. 89. 53. E. Lat. 23. 31. N. The name Hajji is the Arabic for pilgrim, and is pref...
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23 31' N 89 53' E
HAJYGUNGE
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HAJYKAN, a large district within the Afghan territories, situated along the western bank of the Indus, between the 29th and 31st degrees of north latitude. It is chiefly a stripe of land, bounded by the Indus on the east, and a ridge of mountains on the west. Under a regular government it might be rendered fertile and ...
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HAJYKAN
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HAJYPOOR, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, situated principally between the 25th and 26th degrees of north latitude. It is fertile and well cultivated, and produces a quantity of opium and saltpetre; the greater part of the company’s investment being manufactured[7:11:109] in this country, and in the ...
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HAKE, the English name of a fish, common in the English and some other seas, and called by authors the mer-lucius, or lucius marinus. This fish was used of old dried and salted. Hence the proverb in Kent, As dry as a hake.
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HAKE
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HAKLUYT, Richard, a celebrated naval historian, descended from an ancient family at Eton or Yetton, in Herefordshire, is supposed to have been born in London about the year 1553. He was educated at Westminster School; and thence, in 1570, he removed to Christ Church College, Oxford, where he applied himself particularl...
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HAKLUYT
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HAL, or Halle, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of South Brabant. It is situated on the river Senne, ten miles from Brussels; and has extensive breweries, distilleries, salt-refineries, paper-mills, and tanneries, with 700 houses, and 4612 inhabitants.
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HALBERSTADT, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, of the province of Saxony, in Prussia, and situated on the river Holzemmte. It is walled, and contains nine churches, six hospitals, 1861 houses, and 14,670 inhabitants, with some establishments for education. It was formerly a manufacturing place, but has ...
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HALBERSTADT
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HALBERT, or Halbard, in war, a well-known weapon, formerly carried by the serjeants of foot and dragoons. It was a sort of spear, the shaft of which was about five feet long, and made of ash or other wood. Its head was armed with a steel point, not unlike the point of a two-edged sword. Besides this sharp point, which ...
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HALBERT
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HALCYON, the ancient name of the alcedo or king’s fisher. Halcyon Days, in Antiquity, a name given to seven days before and as many after the winter solstice; because, at this season, the halcyon, invited by the calmness of the weather, laid its eggs in nests built in the rocks, close by the brink of the sea; and henc...
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HALCYON
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HALDE, John Baptist du, was born at Paris bn the 1st of February 1674, and having entered into the society of Jesus, he was at length appointed to succeed Father Legobien, who had been intrusted with the duty of collecting and arranging the letters which they received from different quarters of the globe. He was also f...
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HALDE
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HALDUBARRY, a town of Hindustan, in the district of Purneah, Bengal, situated on the east bank of the Mahanuddy river, fifty-five miles north-east from Purncah. Long. 87. 59. E. Lat. 26. 20. N.
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26 20' N 87 59' E
HALDUBARRY
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HALE, Sir Matthew, the lord chief justice of the King’s Bench in the reign of Charles II., was the son of [7:11:110]Robert Hale, Esq. a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, and was born in 1609. He was educated at Oxford, where he made considerable progress in learning; but he was afterwards diverted from his studies by the lev...
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HALE
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HALES, Stephen, a celebrated divine and philosopher, was born in the year 1677. He was the sixth son of Thomas Hales, the eldest son of Sir Robert Hales, created a baronet by King Charles II., and Mary, the heiress of Richard Langley of Abbotswood in Hertfordshire. In 1696 he was entered as a pensioner at Bennet Colleg...
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HALES
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HALESOWEN, a market-town of the county of Salop, . in the hundred of Brimstrey, but partly in the county of Worcester, 127 miles from London. The market is held on Monday, but it is thinly attended. There are in the town some inferior branches of the iron manufacture. It is chiefly remarkable for the grounds of the hou...
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HALESOWEN
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HALESWORTH, a town of the county of Suffolk, in the hundred of Blything. It is situated on the river Blyth, 101 miles from London, and has a good market for corn on Tuesday, and a navigable canal to the sea at Southwold, about nine miles distant. Near to it is a mineral spring frequented by patients afflicted with dise...
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HALESWORTH
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HALF-WAY-ISLAND, a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, in Torres Strait, about a mile in circumference, and surrounded with coral reefs. It suffers from a ward of fresh water. Long. 143. 18. E. Lat. 10. 8. S.
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HALF-WAY-ISLAND
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HALFPENNY, a copper coin, the value of which is expressed by its name, in reference to the penny.
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HALFPENNY
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HALI-BEIGH, first dragoman or interpreter at the Grand Signior’s court in the seventeenth century, was born of Christian parents in Poland; but having been taken by the Tartars when young, they sold him to the Turks, who brought him up in the Mahommedan religion in the seraglio. His name, in his native country, was Bob...
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HALICARNASSUS, a city of Caria, on the coast of Asia Minor, opposite to the island of Cos, founded by a colony of Troezenians (Strab.), who were joined by a party of Argeians under the command of Melas and Ar-vanias (Vitruv, ii. 8). We are told by Herodotus (i. 144), that it originally belonged to the Dorian confederac...
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HALICZ, a town of the circle Strey, in the Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, situated on the river Dniester. It contains a Catholic and a Greek church, and two synagogues, with 357 houses, and 3120 inhabitants, the greater part of whom are Jews of the Caramite sect. It has a considerable internal trade.
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HALICZ
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HALIEUTICS, Halieutica, , Aλιsυπ×α, formed from akiiυς, jlsherman, which again is derived from αλς, the sea, mean books treating of fishes, or the art of fishing. We have still extant the halieutics of Oppian.
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HALIEUTICS
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HALIFAX, a town and large parish in the wapentake of Morley, of the west riding of the county of York, 196 miles from London. The town is situated in a valley, through which the river Calder runs in its course to join the Aire at Wakefield. It is an ancient borough, and once had criminal jurisdiction even in capital of...
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HALIFAX
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HALL, a city of the Austrian province of Tyrol. It is situated on the river Inn, which is thus far navigable for large vessels. It has a provincial mint, and a mining college. Near to it is worked a large mine of rock-salt, [7:11:114]which, when melted and refined, yields annually about 300,000 quintals of salt. It con...
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HALLAGE, a fee or toll paid for cloth brought to be sold in Blackwell Hall, London.
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