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kp-eb0711-011802-0629
HALLAMAS, in our old writers, the day of all-hallows, or all-saints, viz. the 1st of November. It is one of the cross quarters of the year, which was computed, in ancient writings, from Hallamas or Candlemas.
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HALLAMAS
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HALLE, a city, the capital of a district of the same name, in the province of Saxony in Prussia. It is situated on the river Saale, which divides above the town into several streams, and these form a number of islands, on which it is built, and which are connected by several bridges. It contains 2212 houses, and 21,570...
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HALLE
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HALLEIN, a city of the circle of Salzach or Salzburg, in the Austrian province of the Upper Ens. It is situated on the river Salza, and is celebrated for its extensive saltworks, which employ upwards of two thousand workmen, partly in drawing the rock-salt from the mines, and partly in the subsequent process of refinin...
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HALLEIN
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HALLELUJAH, a term of rejoicing, sometimes sung rehearsed at the end of verses on such occasions. The word is Hebrew, or rather it is composed of two Hebrew words; one of them ι⅛⅛rτ, hallelu, and the other rr, jah, an abridgment of the name of God mtr-, Jehovah. . The first signifies laudate, praise ye, and the other, ...
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HALLELUJAH
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HALLER, Albert Van, an eminent physician, was born at Berne, on the 16th of October 1708. He was the son of an advocate of considerable eminence in his profession. His father had a numerous family, and Albert was the youngest of five sons. From the first period of his education he showed a great genius for almost every...
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HALLER
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HALLEY, Dr Edmund, an eminent astronomer, was the only son of a soap-boiler in London, and was born in 1656. He first applied himself to the study of the languages and sciences, but at length gave himself up wholly to that of astronomy. In 1676 he went to the island of St Helena to complete the catalogue of fixed stars...
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HALLEY
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HALLIAR, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, extending along the eastern shore of the Gulf of Cutch. The general characteristic of this district is barrenness, with particular spots in a high state of cultivation. The ruler of the country has lately given orders to the zemindars to plant annually a cer...
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HALLIAR
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HALMOTE, or Halimote, is identical with what is now called a court-baron, the word implying a meeting of the tenants of the same hall or manor. The name is still retained at Luston, and other places in Herefordshire.
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HALMOTE
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HALMSTAD, a province in the south of Sweden, bounded by Gottenburg, Elfsborg, Jonkoping, and Krons-burg. It is mountainous in the eastern part, but to the west level and sandy. The soil is poor, stony, and ill cultivated, so that it is necessary to import one third of the corn required for food. The inhabitants subsist...
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56 39' 45" N 12 46' 40" E
HALMSTAD
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HALO, or Corona, in Natural History, a coloured circle appearing round the body of the sun, moon, or any of the large stars.
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HALO
kp-eb0711-012005-0655
HALSTEAD, a market-town of the county of Essex, in the hundred of Hinchford, forty-six miles from London. The river Colne runs at the bottom of the town, from which the streets gently rise. It has a good cornmarket on Friday, and once employed many persons in the woollen manufacture, which is now nearly extinct. There ...
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HALSTEAD
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HALTERISTAE, in Antiquity, a kind of players at discus, who were so denominated from a peculiar kind of discus, called by the Greeks αλrr^, and by the Latins halter. (See Discus.) Some conceive the discus to have been a leaden weight or ball which the vaulters bore in their hands, to secure and keep themselves the more...
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HALTERISTAE
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HALYMOTE, properly signifies a holy or ecclesiastical court. See Halmote.
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HALYMOTE
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HALYS, the largest river of Asia Minor, which, according to Herodotus (i. 72), rose in the mountains of Armenia, and after flowing through that part of Cappadocia called Cilicia, separated the Matieni from the Phrygians, and then the Syrians of Cappadocia from the Paphlagonians. Strabo (xii. 546) says that it rises in ...
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HALYS
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HALYWERCFOLK, in old writers, were persons who enjoyed land, by the pious service of repairing some church, or defending a sepulchre. This word also signified such persons in the diocese of Durham as held their lands by the tenure of defending the corpse of St Cuthbert, and who thence claimed the privilege of not being...
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HALYWERCFOLK
kp-eb0711-012104-0668
HAM, or Cham, in Ancient Geography, the country of the Zuzims (Gen. xiv. 5), the situation of which is not known. Ham, the youngest son of Noah, was the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan, each of whom had the several countries peopled by them. With respect to Ham, it is believed that he had all Africa for his ...
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HAM
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HAMADAN, or Amadan, a city of Persia, in the province of Irak, which stands upon the site of the ancient Ecbatana. It was taken and destroyed by Timour or Tamerlane, and has never recovered its former splendour. The wall, with the citadel, was entirely pulled down by order of the conqueror, and has never since been reb...
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HAMADAN
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HAMADRYADES (formed of aμa, together, and δgvaς, dryad, from δgυς, oak), in Antiquity, certain fabulous deities revered amongst the ancient heathens, and believed to preside over woods and forests, and to be enclosed under the bark of oaks. The Hamadryades were supposed to live and die with the trees which they were at...
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HAMADRYADES
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HAMAH, a flourishing town of Syria, situated on the Orontes, and generally supposed by some to be the ancient Apamea; but, according to Dr Pococke, the ancient Epiphania. The celebrated Arabic historian Abulfeda was formerly prince of Hamah. The sheiks of the town still enjoy high consideration, and inhabit a splendid ...
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HAMAH
kp-eb0711-012201-0681
HAMAXOB Π, Hamaxobians, in the ancient geography, a people who had no houses, but lived in carriages. The word is formed from aμaζpο, a carriage or chariot, and ∕3∕βς, life. The Hamaxobii, called also Hamaxobitae, were an ancient people of Sarmatia Europaea, who inhabited the southern part of Muscovy, and instead of ho...
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HAMAXOB Π
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HAMBLEDON, or Hambledown, a town in the county of Hants, in the division of Portsdown, sixty-four miles from London. It has a small market for corn, which is held on Mondays. As it is at the foot of the Southdown hills, the climate is considered as favourable for pulmonary patients. The· population amounted in 1801 to ...
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HAMBLEDON
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HAMBURG, a republican state in Germany, consisting of the city of that name, and of the territory around it, though some portions are encompassed by the dominions of Denmark and of Hanover. It has also, in union with the state of Lubeck, the bailiwick of Bergedorf, with the town of that name, containing 2000 inhabitant...
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HAMBURG
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HAMEL, John Baptiste du, a very learned philosopher and writer, born at Vire in Normandy in 1624, was the son of an advocate esteemed for his knowledge, probity, and conciliating spirit. He commenced his studies at Caen, and completed them at Paris. His progress in philosophy was rapid, and at eighteen he wrote a treat...
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HAMEL
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HAMELN, a city of the kingdom of Hanover, in the province of Kalenberg. It stands on the river Weser, where that stream receives the water of the Hamel. It is surrounded by walls scarcely defensible; and the citadel of Fort George was destroyed by the French in 1806. It contains 674 houses, and 5454 inhabitants. There ...
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HAMELN
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HAMESECKEN, or Hamesucken. Burglary, or nocturnal housebreaking, was, by the ancient English law, called Hamesecken, as it is in Scotland to this day.
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HAMESECKEN
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HAMI, a region of Central Asia, in Mongolia, situated in the heart of the great desert of Cobi, and on the great caravan route to China, to whose jurisdiction it is subject. The soil is barren, and it contains only one city and a few villages. It produces, however, melons of an exquisite flavour. The inhabitants are Mo...
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HAMI
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HAMILCAR Barcas, a Carthaginian general, the father of Hannibal, of a family which pretended to trace its descent to the ancient kings of Tyre, and which, from the warlike nature of its policy, was a favourite with the people. It was the eighteenth year of the first Punic war (247 b. c.), when Hamilcar was appointed to...
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HAMILCAR
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HAMILTON, a town of Scotland, in the county of Lanark. It is pleasantly situated upon the banks of the Clyde and Avon, near their confluence, in the midst of a highly fertile and cultivated district. The town originated in the fifteenth century,' under the protecting influence of the lords of Hamilton, who constituted ...
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HAMILTON
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HAMLET, Hamel, or Hampsel (from the Saxon ham, domus, and the German let, membrum), signifies a little village, or part of a village or parish. According to Spelman, there is a difference between villam integram, villam dimidiam, and hamletam, which, according to Stow, means the seat of a freeholder. Several county-tow...
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HAMLET
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HAMMER, a well-known tool used by mechanics, consisting of an iron head fixed crosswise upon a handle of wood. There are several sorts of hammers used by blacksmiths; as, first, the hand-hammer, which is of such weight that it may be wielded or governed with one hand at the anvil; second, the up-hand sledge, used with ...
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HAMMER
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HAMMERING, the act of beating or extending and fashioning a body under the hammer. When this operation is performed on iron heated for the purpose, it is usually called forging. Hammering, in coining. A piece of money or a medal is said to be hammered when struck, and the impression given, with a hammer, and not with a...
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HAMMERING
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HAMMERSMITH, a large village, a part of the parish of Fulham, in the hundred of Ossulton, in the county of Middlesex. It is about three or four miles from the capital; but from thence to the end of it are continued streets, which make it a kind of prolongation of the metropolis. It stands on the Thames, on whose banks,...
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HAMMERSMITH
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HAMMOCK, or Hamac, a kind of hanging bed, suspended between two trees, posts, hooks, or the like, and much used throughout the West Indies, as also on board of ships.
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HAMMOCK
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HAMMOND, Henry, one of the most learned English divines of the seventeenth century, was born in 1605. He studied at Oxford, in 1629 entered into holy orders, and in 1633 was inducted into the rectory of Penshurst in Kent. In 1643 he was made archdeacon of Chichester; and in the beginning of 1645 he was appointed one of...
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8 46' S 157 5' E
HAMMOND
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HAMPDEN, John, a celebrated patriot, descended of the ancient family of Hampden in Buckinghamshire, was born in 1594. On leaving the university he entered the inns of court, where he made considerable progress in the study of the law. He was chosen to serve in the parliament which assembled at Westminster on the 5th of...
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HAMPDEN
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HAMPSHIRE, or, as it is sometimes called, the county of Southampton, or of Hants, a shire of England, on the British Channel. It is bounded on the east by Surrey and Sussex, on the north by Berkshire, on the west by Wiltshire and Dorsetshire, and on the south by the sea. Its extreme length is fifty-five miles, but, owi...
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HAMPSHIRE
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HAMPSTEAD, a large parish of the hundred of Ossulton, in the county of Middlesex, four miles from London. It stands on one of those hills which command a view of the metropolis from the north. From its situation the air is deemed remarkably pure, and convalescents in great numbers repair to it to recruit their strength...
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HAMPSTEAD
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HAMPTON, a village of the hundred of Spelthorne, in the county of Middlesex, twelve miles from London. It is situated on the north bank of the Thames, opposite to where the river Mole pours its stream into that river. It is the residence of many families of distinction, but chiefly remarkable for the royal palace of Ha...
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HAMPTON
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HANAPER, or Hamper, an office in chancery, under the direction of a master, his deputy and clerks, and answering, in some measure, to the Jiscus among the Romans. Hanaper, Clerk of the, sometimes styled warden of the hanaper, an officer who receives all monies due to the king for seals of charters, patents, commission...
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HANAU, one of the provinces of the principality of Hesse-Cassel. It was anciently a sovereignty of two branches, which, becoming extinct in 1736, devolved on the then landgrave of Hesse. It extends over 452 square miles, and comprehends sixteen cities and towns, 101 villages and hamlets, with 9608 houses, and 61,700 in...
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HANAU
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HANCES, Hanches, Haunches, or Hanses, in Architecture, certain small intermediate parts of arches between the crown and the spring at the bottom, being probably about one third of the arch, and placed nearer to the bottom than the top, which are likewise denominated the spandrels.
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HAND, a part or member of the body of man, forming the extremity of the arm. The mechanism of the hand is very curious, indeed excellently contrived to fit it for the various uses and occasions we have for it, and the great number of arts and manufactures it is to be employed in. It consists of a compages of nerves, an...
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HAND
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HANDEL, George Frederick, the most illustrious of all musical composers, was born at Halle, in Upper Saxony, on the 24th of February 1684. His father was an eminent physician of the same place, and upwards of sixty years old when this son, the issue of a second marriage, was born. From his very childhood Handel discove...
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HANDSPIKE, a wooden bar used as a lever to heave about the windlass, in order to draw up the anchor from the bottom, particularly in merchant ships. The handle is round and tapering, and the other end is square, to conform to the shape of the holes in the windlass. It is also employed as a lever on many other occasions...
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HANGTCHEOTOU, alargeand splendid city of China, in the province of Tchekiang, of which it is the capital. It is situated at the extremity of the great canal which extends southward from Pekin, on the banks of a great river called Tsien-tang, which passes by its walls, and affords extensive means of communication with t...
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HANGTCHEOTOU
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HANGCLIFF, a remarkable point of land on the east coast of the largest of the Zetland Islands. It is frequently the first land seen by ships in northern voyages. Captain Phipps determined its situation to be in long. 56. 30. W. and lat. 60. 9. N.
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HANGCLIFF
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HANGWELLE, a town and fortress of the island of Ceylon. It was attacked in 1803 by the king of Candy, who was repulsed by the British garrison. It is eighteen miles east from Columbo. Long. 80. 3. E. Lat. 7. 1. N.
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HANGWELLE
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HANLEY, a town of the county of Stafford, in the hundred of Pirehill. It is one of those large places which have grown up with rapidity of late years, from the great extension of the manufacture of earthenware and porcelain. It is only a part of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, but has churches, markets, post-office, an...
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HANLEY
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HANNIBAL, a Carthaginian general, son of Hamilcar Barcas, was born 247 b. c. in the eighteenth year of the first Punic war, the same year in which his father first took a prominent part in public affairs. His family was one of the most distinguished in Carthage, and, claiming to be descended from the ancient kings of T...
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HANNIBAL
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HANNO, a Carthaginian, celebrated for a voyage of discovery along the western coast of Africa, but at what period it was made is not known with any degree of certainty. The different writers who have examined the point have fixed him at various periods between 1000 and 300 b. c. ; but we are inclined to agree with Renn...
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HANNO
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HANOVER, a kingdom in Germany, formed out of the duchies which formerly belonged to several families of the [7:11:136]junior branch of the house of Brunswick. In the course of the revolutionary war, under the influence of France, the dukedoms of Bavaria, of Saxony, and of Wirtemburg had been raised to the rank of kingd...
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HANOVER
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HANSE, or Hans, an ancient name for a society or company of merchants, particularly that of certain cities in Germany, hence called Hanse-towns. The word hanse is obsolete High Dutch or Teutonic, and signifies alliance, confederacy, association. But some derive it from the two German words am-see, that is, on the sea, ...
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HANSE
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HANSOOT, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, twelve miles south-west from Broach. Long. 72. 59. E. Lat. 21. 32. N.
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HANSOOT
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HANSY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, and district of Hissar Ferosch, situated on the edge of the canal, now in ruins, cut from the river Jumna about the year 1353, by Sultan Feroy. It is a very ancient town, and contains the tomb of a Mahommedan saint called Sheikh Jemmal. It was taken by the Mahommeda...
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HANSY
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HANTCHAO, a small island in the Chinese Sea, not far from the coast of Cochin-China, at the entrance of the harbour of Turon. Lat. 16. 12. N.
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HANTCHAO
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HANTCHONG, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Chensi, situated in a fertile country, and surrounded by mountains and forests. It carries on a trade in honey, wax, musk, and cinnabar. Long. 106. 44. E. Lat. 32. 59. N.
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HANTCHONG
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HANYANG, a city of China, of the first rank, situated at the confluence of the rivers Han and Yantse. Long. 113. 44. E. Lat. 63. 19. N.
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HANYANG
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HANWAY, Jonas, distinguished for his benevolent designs and useful writings, was born at Portsmouth, in Hampshire, on the 12th of August 1712. His father, Thomas Hanway, an officer in the naval service, and for some years store-keeper to the dockyard at that place, was deprived of his life by an accident, and left his ...
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HANWAY
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HAPPINESS, or Felicity, absolutely considered, denotes the durable possession of perfect good without any admixture of evil; or the enjoyment of pure pleasure unalloyed with pain; or a state in which all the wishes are satisfied. In these senses happiness is known only by name upon the earth. The epithet happy·, when a...
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HAPPINESS
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HAPUE, a cluster of four or more low islets amongst those called the Friendly Islands. They are about six or seven miles in length, and are joined together by reefs. They are fertile and well cultivated, and are situated in long. 185. 36. to 185. 45. E. lat. 19. 39. to 19. 53. S.
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HAPUE
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HAQUE, in our old writers, a little hand-gun, forbidden to be used for the destruction of game, by statute 33 Henry VIII. cap. 6, and 2 and 3 Edward VI. cap. 14. The half-haque, or demi-haque, comes also within the said acts.
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HAQUE
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HARAN, Charban, or Charrae, or Mesopotamia, a city celebrated for having been the place were Abra- [7:11:145]: ham first retreated after he left Ur, and where Terah, Abraham’s father, died and was buried. Thither likewise Jacob retired to Laban, when he fled from the indignation of his brother Esau. Lastly, atHaran or ...
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HARAN
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HARANGUE, a modern French term for a speech or oration made by an orator in public. Menage derives the word from the Italian arenga, which signifies the same thing, and is formed, according to Ferrari, from arringo i a joust, or place of jousting. Others derive it from the Latin αra, an altar, by reason of the first ha...
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HARANGUE
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HARBINGER, an officer of the king’s household, having four yeomen under him, who ride a day’s journey before the court when it travels, in order to provide lodgings and other necessaries.
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HARBINGER
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HARBINGER’S Reefs, some reefs which lie in Bass’s Strait, New Holland, and extend in patches nearly two leagues from the north end of King’s Island.
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HARBINGER’S
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HARBOROUGH Market, a town of the county of Leicester, within the hundred of Gastre, and eighty-three miles from London. It consists of one long and well-built street, in which is to be seen a great number of carriages passing between London and the northern parts of the kingdom. There was, till within a few years, a co...
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HARBOROUGH
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HARBOUR, a general name given to any sea-port or haven, and also to any place convenient for mooring shipping. The qualities requisite in a good harbour are, that the bottom be entirely free from rocks or shallows; that the opening be of sufficient extent to admit without difficulty the entrance or departure of large s...
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HARBOUR
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HARBURG, a city of the kingdom of Hanover, in the province of Luneburg, on the river Elbe. It stands opposite to the city of Hamburg, and was united to it by a bridge seven miles in length, as long as that city was occupied by the French. It has now hourly intercourse by steam and other boats. It contains 3760 inhabita...
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HARBURG
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HARCOURT, a market-town of the arrondissement of Bernay, in the department of the Eure, in France, containing 1398 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in cotton manufactures.
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HARCOURT
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HARDERWYK, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Gueldres, on the Zuyder Zee. It was formerly fortified, but the walls are decayed. There is a collegiate institution of education. In 1831 it contained 4831 inhabitants, who were chiefly employed in fishing, and trading in corn, especially oats, and in wood.
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HARDERWYK
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HARDHEIM, a town of the circle of Maine and Tauber, in the duchy of Baden, and bailiwick of Walldurn. It stands on the river Erfa, and contains 296 houses, and 1906 inhabitants, amongst whom are linen weavers, distillers, tanners, and curriers.
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HARDHEIM
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HARDNESS, in bodies, a property directly opposite to fluidity, and by which they resist the impression of any other substance, sometimes in an extreme degree. Quist and others have constructed tables of the hardness of different substances. The method pursued in constructing these tables was by observing the order in w...
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HARDNESS
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HARDOUIN, John, a Jesuit, one of the most learned, and at the same time most singular men whose names are to be found in the history of letters, was born at Quimper, in 1646. He was the son of a bookseller; and this circumstance, in furnishing him with the means of instruction, no doubt contributed to develope that des...
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HARDOUIN
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HARDWICKE. See York.
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HARDWICKE
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HARE. See Mammalia. Hare, Dr Francis, an English bishop, the date ol whose birth is unknown, but who was bred at Eton School, and from that foundation became a member of King’s College, Cambridge, where he had the tuition of the Marquis of Blandford, only son of the illustrious Duke of Marlborough, who had appointed hi...
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HARE
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HAREWOOD, a market-town of the wapentake of Skyrack, in the west riding of Yorkshire, 204 miles fron [7:11:147]London. It is situated on the beautiful river Wharfe, and is chiefly remarkable for the magnificent castle, the ancient residence of the Lascelles family, on whose head the 'title of Earl of Harewood has been ...
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HAREWOOD
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HARFLEUR, a sea-port of the arrondissement of Havre de Grace, in the department of the Lower Seine, in France. It is situated on the river Lezgarde, at the end of a valley between two mountains which terminate on the Seine. It contains about 400 houses, and 1862 inhabitants. There are several establishments for refinin...
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HARFLEUR
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HARIHARA, a town and fortress of Southern Hindustan, in the Balaghaut ceded territories, and province of Bejapore, situated on the south-east bank of the Toombuddra river. In the fort there is a celebrated temple of Vishnu, and among the inhabitants there are many of low caste. In this vicinity the inhabitants are poor...
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HARIHARA
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HARIORPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Orissa, and the capital of the district of Mohurbunge. It is possessed by independent zemindars, and is fifty miles south-west from Midnapoor. Long. 86. 52. E. Lat. 21. 52. N.
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HARIOT, or Heriot, in Law, a due belonging to a lord at the death of his tenant, consisting of the best beast, either horse, or cow, or ox, which he had at the time of his death; and in some manors the best goods, piece of plate, &c. were called hariots. Hariot, Thomas. See Harriot.
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HARIOT
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HARLECH, a market-town of Merionethshire, in North Wales, within the hundred of Ardudwy. It is situated on the Irish Channel, with an ancient castle in good preservation, originally built by King Edward I., which was the last fortress that surrendered to the parliamentary forces in the civil wars of Charles I. There is...
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HARLECH
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HARLEIAN Collection, a most valuable collection of useful and curious manuscripts, commenced about the end of the seventeenth century, by Robert Harley of Brampton Bryan, in Herefordshire, afterwards Earl of Oxford, and Lord High Treasurer. He procured his first considerable collection in August 1705, and in less than ...
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HARLEIAN
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HARLEM Isle, an island of about four miles in circumference, lying off the north-west coast of the island of Ceylon, and affording excellent pasture for horses. Long. 79. 54. E. Lat. 9. 4L N.
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HARLEM
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HARLEQUIN, in the Italian comedy, a buffoon, dressed in parti-coloured clothes, and answering to our merry-andrew or jack-pudding. We have also introduced harlequin upon our stage, and this is one of the standing characters in the modern grotesque or pantomime entertainments. The term is said to have taken its origin f...
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HARLEQUIN
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HARLESTON, a town of Norfolk, in the hundred of Earsham, a portion of the parish of Redenhall. It is situated on the river Waveney, 100 miles from London, and there is a good corn market on Thursday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1459, in 1811 to 1538, in 1821 to 1641, and in 1831 to 1784.
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HARLESTON
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HARLEY, Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, was the eldest son of Sir Edward Harley, and born in 1661. At the Revolution, Sir Edward and his son raised a troop of horse at their own expense; and after the accession of William and Mary he obtained a seat in parliament. His promotion was rapid. In 1702 he was chosen Spe...
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HARLEY
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HARLING. See Herling.
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HARLING
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HARLING, East, a town of Norfolk, in the hundred [7:11:148]of Guilteross, ninety-three miles from London, with a market on Thursdays. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 674, in 1811 to 752, in 1821 to 867, and in 1831 to 1031.
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HARLING
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HARLINGEN, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Friesland. It is strongly fortified, stands on the Zuyder Zee, at the mouth of the river Blies, and is surrounded by a fertile district. It has a good harbour, but large ships must be lightened before they can enter it. It contains five churches, a very fine admi...
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HARLINGEN
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HARLOT, a woman given to incontinency. The word is supposed by some to be the diminutive whorelet, but others derive it from Arietta, mistress to Robert duke of Normandy, and mother to William the Conqueror. Camden, however, derives it from Arlotha, concubine to William the Conqueror. Harlots were tolerated amongst Jew...
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HARLOT
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HARLOW, a town of the county of Essex, twenty-three miles from London, in the hundred of the same name. It had formerly a market, but of late years it has not been frequented. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1514, in 1811 to 1695, in 1821 to 1928, and in 1831 to 2101.
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HARLOW
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HARMATTAN, the name of a remarkable periodical wind which blows from the interior parts of Africa towards the Atlantic Ocean. Of this wind we have an account {Philosophical Transactions, vol. lxxi.) furnished by Mr Norris, a gentleman who had frequent opportunities of observing its singular properties and effects. On ...
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HARMODIUS and Aristogeiton, two Athenians, whose names are connected with one of the brightest and most celebrated deeds of Grecian story. The noble qualities of Pisistratus, and the mildness of his government, seem to have reconciled the Athenians to the loss of their independence, and enabled that prince to transmit ...
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HARMODIUS
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HARMONIA, in fabulous history, the wife of Cadmus, was, according to some, daughter of Jupiter and Electra, but according to others, of Mars and Venus. Her marriage was a remarkable event in Grecian fable, and rivalled in magnificence those of Perseus, Pirithous, and Peleus. The gods honoured it with their presence, an...
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HARMONIA
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HARMONIC signifies in general any thing belonging to harmony, though in our language the adjective is more properly written harmonical. In this case it may be applied to the harmonical divisions, or to a monochord, or, in a word, to consonances in general. As a substantive neuter, it imports all the concomitant or acce...
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HARMONIC
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HARMONICA. This word, when originally appropriated by Dr Franklin to that peculiar form or mode of musical glasses which he himself, after a number of happy experiments, had constituted, was written armonica. In this place, however, we have ventured to restore it to its native plenitude of sound. It is derived from the...
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HARMONICA
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HARMONY, according to the modern definition of the word, is a succession of chords, written according to the laws of fundamental progression and modulation. Harmony is a generic term when it signifies the doctrine of chords; but we also make use of the expression to indicate the effect of a combination of sounds on the...
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HARMONY
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HARMOSTES, or Harmosta, in Antiquity, a sort of magistrate amongst the Spartans. Of these there were several, whose business it was to look to the building of citadels, and repairing the forts and fortifications of the cities. The word is αg∕⅛otfrjjς, formed from aομοζω, apto, concino, to adapt or concert.
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HARMOSTES
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HARMOSYNIANS, ⅛∕wΛ≡, in Antiquity, were magistrates amongst the Spartans, who, after the death of Lycurgus, were appointed to enforce the observance of that law of the Spartan legislator which required married women to wear a veil when they appeared in the streets, by which they were distinguished from single females, ...
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HARMOSYNIANS
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HARNESS, a complete armour, or the whole equipage and accoutrements of a cavalier heavily armed. The word is formed from the 'French harnois, which some derive from the Greek aξmiuς, a lamb ’ s shin, because they anciently covered themselves therewith. Du Cange observes, that the word liarnesium is used in the corrupt ...
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