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kp-eb0711-015104-1058 | HARO, a small town of Spain, in Old Castille, on the Ebro, surrounded with walls. Long. 2. 23. W. Lat. 42. 40. N.
Haro, Harou, or Harol, in the Norman customs. C7α- [7:11:152]mour de haro is a cry or formula of invoking the assistance of justice against the violence of some offender, who upon hearing the word haro is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015201-1071 | HARP, a musical instrument of the stringed kind, of a triangular figure, and held upright between the legs of the performer.
Papias and Du Cange conceive the harp to have taken its name from the Arpii, a people of Italy, who were supposed to have been the first who invented it, and from whom it was borrowed by other n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015202-1071 | HARPAGINES, in Antiquity, were hooks of iron, hanging on the top of a pole, which being secured with chains to the masts of ships, and then let down with great velocity into the enemy’s vessels, caught them up into the air. By way of defence against these machines, they covered their ships with hides, which broke and b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015203-1071 | HARPAGUS, one of the ablest and most confidential ministers of Astyages, king of Media, whose history is given with considerable detail by Herodotus. When Astyages, warned by an oracle, feared deposition by the hands of his grandson, Harpagus was employed to destroy the infant Cyrus, and thereby remove all his fears. B... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015204-1071 | HARPALUS, a Greek astronomer, the place of whose birth, and the exact period when he flourished, it is impossible to determine. He must have lived at least before the time of Meton, 433 b. c. Harpalus is known for an attempt to fix the cycle which the sun and moon require to run before they reach the point from which t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015205-1071 | HARPIES, in Latin Harpyiae, ancient goddesses, who [7:11:153]seem to have presided over the winds and tempests, generally considered as the daughters of Thaumas and Electra (A pollod. i. 2, 6), or of Typhon (Val. Flac. iv. 515), and originally two in number, Aëllo and Ocypete, to whom was added Celaeno, or, according t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015301-1084 | HARPINGS, the fore-parts of the wales which encompass the bow of a ship, and are fastened to the stem, being thicker than the after-part of the wales, in order to reinforce the ship in this place, where she sustains the greatest shock of resistance in plunging into the sea, or dividing it, under a great pressure of sai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015302-1084 | HARPOCRATES, in Mythology, the son of Isis and Osiris, an Egyptian deity, whose distinguishing attribute it is, that he is represented with his fingers applied to his mouth* denoting that he is the god of silence. The statue of this idol was fixed in the entrance of most of the Egyptian temples, and he was commonly exh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015303-1084 | HARPOCRATION, a grammarian of Alexandria, in Egypt, respecting whose personal history we are entirely ignorant, and even the period during which he flourished is not clearly ascertained. Some have considered him to be the Greek instructor of the Emperor Lucius Verus, mentioned by Julius Capitolinus (Life of Verus, c. 2... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015304-1084 | HARPONULLY, a district in the south of India, bounded on the north by the Toombuddra river, and situated between the 14th and 16th degrees of north latitude. It is a fertile country, and not so hilly as some of the ad-jacentdistricts; and it possesses the strong fortressof Ouch-imadroog. The rajah of this district was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015305-1084 | HARPOON, or Harping-Iron, a spear or javelin used to strike the whales in the Greenland fishery. See Whale Fishery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015306-1084 | HARPISCHORD, the most harmonious of all the musical instruments of the stringed kind. It is played on after the manner of the organ, and is furnished with one set, sometimes with two sets of keys. The touching or striking of these keys moves a kind of little jacks, which also move a double row of chords or strings of b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015307-1084 | HARPSTED, a town of the kingdom of Hanover, the capital of a bailiwick or the same name, in the province of Hoya. It is situated on the river Dehne, and contains 152 houses, with 1030 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015308-1084 | HARQUEBUSS, a piece of fire-arms of the length of a musket, and cocked by means of a wheel. It carried a ball that weighed one ounce seven eighths. There was also a larger sort, called the great harquebuss, used for the defence of strong places, which carried a ball of about three ounces and a half. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015309-1084 | HARRIER, a kind of hound, endowed with an acute sense of smelling, and very bold in the pursuit of game. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015310-1084 | HARRINGTON, a small sea-port of the county of Cumberland,in Allerdale ward, above Derwent, 311 miles from London, and three from Workington. It has a considerable trade in lime and coal with Ireland, and some ship-building and iron works. The population amounted in 1801 to 1357, in 1811 to 1621, in 1821 to 1845, and in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015401-1097 | HARRIOT, Thomas, an eminent mathematician, was born at Oxford in 1560. Having been instructed in grammar, he entered St Mary Hall as a commoner, and took his bachelor’s degree in 1579. He then distinguished himself by his skill in the mathematics, and became preceptor in that science to Sir Walter Raleigh. In 1585, he ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015402-1097 | HARRIS, James, an English gentleman distinguished by his writings on the subject of grammar, was born on the 20th of July 1709. He received his early educational Salisbury, whence he was removed to Oxford at the age of sixteen; and having passed the usual number of years as a gentleman commoner of W r adham College, he... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015501-1110 | HARRISON, William, a writer much esteemed and patronised by the literati of his time, was fellow of New College, Oxford. Whilst employed as tutor to the Duke of Queensberry’s son, he fortunately attracted the favour of Dr Swift, at whose solicitation Mr St John, afterwards Lord Bolingbroke, obtained for him the employm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015601-1123 | HARROW, a town in the county of Middlesex, in the hundred of Gore, ten miles from London. It is usually distinguished from its situation by the adjunct “on-the-Hill.” It commands extensive prospects on every side, over well cultivated and undulating districts. The church and spire at the highest point present a disting... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015602-1123 | HARROWGATE, a township within the parish of Knaresborough, in the wapentake of Claro, of the west riding of Yorkshire, 212 miles from London, and twenty-two from York. It is situated in a cold exposed heath, but is much visited in the summer season, on account of its mineral springs, some of which are chalybeate, and o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015603-1123 | HARROWTY, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, situated between the 25th and 26th degrees of north latitude, and intersected by the river Chumbul. The chief towns are Kotah and Boondee, each of which is the residence of a rajah of the Chohan tribe, and denominated half-rajpoots. The cultivators are Rajpo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015604-1123 | HARSEFELD, a town, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, in the province Hoya with Diepholz, in the kingdom of Hanover, having 146 houses and 1140 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015605-1123 | HART, a stag or male deer, in the sixth year. See Mammalia. Harts Horns, the horns of the common male deer. The scrapings or raspings of the horn of this animal are medicinal, and used in decoctions, ptisans, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015606-1123 | HARTBERG, a town of the Austrian province of Steyermark, in the circle of Gratz. It has a large woollen cloth manufactory, and an establishment for refining saltpetre. It contains 296 houses, and 1520 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015607-1123 | HARTE, Walter, the historian of Gustavus Adolphus, was born about the beginning of the eighteenth century. He received his education at Marlborough School, from which he was sent to Oxford, where he took his master’s degree on the 30th of June 1720. He early acquired an intimacy with Pope, and, in 1727, published a vol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015608-1123 | HARTLAND, a town of the county of Devon, in the hundred of the same name, 146 miles from London. It stands on a point of land projecting into the Bristol Channel, which forms one of the boundaries of the bay of Barnstaple. It has a market on Saturday, attended chiefly by persons from the adjoining county of Cornwall. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015609-1123 | HARTLEBURY, a town in the hundred of Oswaldslow, in the county of Worcester, 122 miles from London. It is situated at the junction of the river Stour with the Severn. It is chiefly remarkable from the palace of the Bishop of Worcester, altered from an ancient castle erected by Henry 1I1., and much beautified by success... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015610-1123 | HARTLEPOOL, a market-town and sea-port in the ward of Stockton, of the county of Durham. It is an incorporated town, with a mayor and aidermen; but the [7:11:157]trade is inconsiderable, consisting chiefly of the export of coals. It is frequented in the months of summer as a sea-bathing place. The population amounted i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015701-1136 | HARTLEY, or Hartley Pans, a sea-port town in the ward of Castle, in the county of Northumberland, a portion of the parish of Earsdon, 283 miles from London. It has a good harbour near it, and some valuable coal mines; and there are extensive establishments for making glass, salt, and copperas. It is the property of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015702-1136 | HARTLEY, David, an ingenious physician and philosopher, was the son of a clergyman at Armley, in Yorkshire, and born on the 30th of August 1705. After spending some time at a private school, he was admitted of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1720, became afterwards a fellow of that college, and took his master’s degree in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015703-1136 | HARUSPICES, an order of priests amongst the Romans. Their name is derived, according to Donatus (Ter. Phorm. iv. 5), from liaruga, a victim, though others have referred its origin to the word ara, an altar. Dionysius (ii. 22) explains it by the word inspector of the victims, and states that Romulus appointed three, one... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015704-1136 | HARVEST, probably derived from a Saxon word signifying herb feast, is that season of the year when the corn is ripe, and fit to be reaped and gathered into barns.
HΑRVEST-Home denotes the feast which is often observed at the close of harvest, and also the song used on that occasion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015705-1136 | HARVEY, Dr William, an illustrious English physician, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born in Kent on the 2d of April 1569. After six years of study in Caius College, Cambridge, he travelled through France, Germany, and Italy, and was created a doctor of physic in the University of Padua, where he s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015801-1149 | HARVEY’S Isle, a low island in the Pacific Ocean, covered by the sea, and about twenty miles in circumference. It was discovered by Captain Cook in 1773. Long. 158. 54. W. Lat. 19. 18. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015802-1149 | HARWICH, a town in the hundred of Tendring, in the county of Essex, seventy-three miles from London. It is a seaport, situated at the junction of the river Stour and Orwell, which enter the German Ocean. It was once fortified, but the works were demolished in the civil wars of Charles I.; but towards the sea it is defe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015803-1149 | HARZGERODE, a city, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, in the duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg, in Germany. It is situated in a mountainous district, 1440 feet above the sea. It contains 350 houses, and 2430 inhabitants. It is surrounded with walls built of marble, with which kind of stone the streets are also paved.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015804-1149 | HASELMERE, a town of the county of Surrey, in the hundred of Godalming, forty-three miles from London. It is an ancient borough, and had the right of returning two members to the House of Commons till 1832, when it was disfranchised. It has a small market on Friday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 642, in 1811 to 7... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015805-1149 | HASLAH, a town of Hindustan, in the Sikk territories, and province of Lahore, 154 miles north-east from the city of Lahore. Long. 75. 32. E. Lat. 33. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015806-1149 | HASLINGDEN, a market-town of the county of Lancaster, in the hundred of Blackburn., 200 miles from Lon-ř don, and fourteen from Manchester. It forms part of the parish of Whalley, which is denominated a chapelry. It has water communication by a canal with Manchester, Leeds, ' and Liverpool; and makes cotton and linen g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015807-1149 | HASPARREN, a town of the arrondissement of Bayonne, in the department of the Lower Pyrenees, in France, is situated on the river Hilspide, and contains 525 houses, with 4156 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015808-1149 | HASSAN Keela, a strong castle of Armenia, situated on a high mountain. It is inhabited by 4000 Turks and 1000 Armenians, and its mineral waters are in great repute. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015809-1149 | HASSELQUIST, Frederick, a well-known traveller, was a native of East Gothland, and born in the year 1722. He prosecuted his medical and botanical studies at Upsal. Linnaeus having represented in his lectures the important advantages which might be gained by travelling through Palestine, which was at that time but littl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015810-1149 | HASSELT, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Limburg, and the capital of a circle of its own name. It is situated on the river Demer, is tolerably well built, and contains about 1000 houses and 6840 inhabitants. There is some trade in linen and woollen goods, and in madder and tobacco, which are extensively c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015811-1149 | HASSER, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Khandesh, and capital of a district of the same name, situated between the 21st and 22d degrees of north latitude. The land is fertile, and tolerably well watered by the Tuptee and Poornah. It is of a hilly surface, on which the native chiefs have erected for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015812-1149 | HASTA, or Hasta Pura, amongst medallists, signifies a kind of spear or javelin, not shod or headed with iron; or rather an ancient sceptre, somewhat longer than ordinary, and occasionally given to all the gods. The hasta is supposed to be a symbol of the goodness of the gods, [7:11:159]and of the conduct of providence,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015901-1162 | HASTEE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, belonging to the nizam, forty miles southeast from Jalnapoor. Long. 76. 53. E. Lat. 19. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-015902-1162 | HASTINGS, Warren, a man remarkable alike for his talents, his fortunes, and his history, was the son of a clergyman, and born in 1733, though in what place does not seem to have been ascertained. At a subsequent period it was alleged to his disparagement that his origin a was low, obscure, and vulgar;” but such an asse... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016401-1227 | HAT is a term of Saxon derivation, from haet, a cover for the head. It is sometimes called castor, from its being made of the fur of the castor or beaver. As a piece of dress, the period of its introduction is not certain, although it may with great probability be referred to the early distinctions of Roman Catholic di... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016701-1266 | HATCH, or Hatchway, a square or oblong opening in the deck of a ship. Of these there are several, forming .passages from one deck to another, and into the hold or lower apartments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016702-1266 | HATCHEL, or Hitchel, in the manufactory of flax or hemp, a tool, not unlike a card, for dressing and combing them into fine hairs. Hitch els consist of sharp-pointed iron pins, or teeth, set orderly in a board. Of these there are several sorts, some with finer and shorter teeth, others with coarser and longer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016703-1266 | HATCHES, in mining, a term used in Cornwall to express openings of the earth either into mines or in search of them. The fruitless openings are called essay-hatches ; the real mouths of the veins, tin-hatches ; and the places where they wind up the buckets of ore, wind-hatches. Hatches also denote flood-gates set in a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016704-1266 | HATCHET, a small light sort of axe, with a basil edge on its left side, and a short handle, being used with one hand. Hatchets are used by various artificers, and more particularly in hewing wood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016705-1266 | HATCHING, the maturating fecundated eggs, whether by the incubation and warmth of the parent bird, or by artificial heat, so as to produce young chickens alive. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016706-1266 | HATCHMENT, in Heraldry, the coat-of-arms of a person dead, usually placed on the front of a house, by which the rank of the deceased may be known; the whole being [7:11:168]distinguished in such a manner as to enable the beholder to know whether he was a bachelor, a married man, or a widower. There are similar distinct... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016801-1279 | HATFIELD, a market-town of the county of Hertford, in the hundred of Broadwater, twenty miles from London. It stands on the side of a hill. The church is remarkably neat; but the most remarkable object is the magnificent seat of the Marquis of Salisbury, with the beautiful park in which it stands. It was formerly the p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016802-1279 | HATHERLEIGH, a market-town of the county 'of Devon, in the hundred of Black Torrington, 200 miles from London. It stands on the small river Towridge, at its junction with the Ock. It is an ancient borough, governed by a port-reeve, and had till within a few years some manufactures of woollen goods, which have gradually... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016803-1279 | HATRAS, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, the chief mart for the cotton produced in the province of Agra. It is thirty-three miles north-by-east from the city of Agra. Long. 78. E. Lat. 27. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016804-1279 | HATTEMISTS, in Ecclesiastical History, the name of a modern Dutch sect, so called from Pontian Van Hattern, a minister in the province of Zealand towards the close of the seventeenth century, who being addicted to the sentiments of Spinoza, was on that account degraded from his pastoral office. The Verschorists and Hat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016805-1279 | HATTIA Isle, an island in the province of Bengal, situated at the mouth of the Ganges, between the latitudes of 22 and 23 degrees north; and supposed to have been formed by the mud washed down that river and the Brahmaputra. It is estimated to be fourteen miles in length by ten in breadth; it is low in the surface, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016806-1279 | HATTOCK, a shock of corn containing twelve sheaves, or, according to others, three sheaves laid together. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016807-1279 | HAUL, an expression peculiar to seamen, signifying to pull a single rope, without the assistance of blocks or other such mechanical powers. When a rope is otherwise pulled, as by the application of tackles, or connection with blocks, the term is changed into bowsing. To Haul the Wind is to direct the ship’s course near... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016808-1279 | HAUM, Halm, or Hawn, amongst farmers, denotes the stem or stalk of corn, peas, beans, or other grain, from the root to the ear. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016809-1279 | HAUNCH, or Hanch, the Hip, or that part of the body between the ribs and the thigh. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016810-1279 | HAURANCA Isle, one of the Amboyna Isles, in the Eastern Seas, about twenty-five miles in circumference. Long. 128. 40. E. Lat. 3. 40. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016811-1279 | HAURIANT, in Heraldry, a term peculiar to fishes, and signifying their standing upright, as if they were refreshing themselves by sucking in the air. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016812-1279 | HAUSRUCK, a circle in the Austrian province of the Upper Ens, extending over 360 square miles, containing two cities, eight market-towns, and 930 villages, with 12,378 houses, and 76,466 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016813-1279 | HAUTBOY, a wind musical instrument, shaped much like the lute, only that it spreads and widens towards the bottom, and is sounded through a reed. The treble is two feet long, and the tenor goes a fifth lower when blown open; it has only eight holes, but the bass, which is five feet long, has eleven. The word is French,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016814-1279 | HAUTE-FEUILLE, John, an ingenious mechanic, was born at Orleans in 1647. Though he embraced the condition of ecclesiastic, and ènjoyed several benefices, he applied almost his whole life to mechanics, in which he appears to have made great progress. He had a particular taste for clock-work, and made several discoveries... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016901-1292 | HAUTPOUL, a town of the arrondissement of Castries, in the department of the Tarn, in France. It stands on a steep rock on the river Molle, and contains 676 houses, with 3340 inhabitants, who manufacture cassimeres, flannels, and other thin woollen goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-016902-1292 | HAUY, Rene , Just, a celebrated mineralogist, was born at St Just, a small country town of France, in the department of the Oise, on the 28th of February 1743. He had a younger brother, who became celebrated as the inventor of a method of instructing the blind. Their father was a small linen manufacturer, and his means... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017101-1318 | HAVANNAH, or Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba, in the West Indies. It is situated on the north coast, and is one of the most flourishing cities of the New World, carrying on about two thirds of the commerce of the island, which is extensive. It possesses a noble harbour, which, though narrow at the entrance, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017102-1318 | HAVANT, a market-town of Hampshire, in the hundred of Bosmere and division of Portsdown, sixty-six miles from London, on the borders of Sussex, and opposite to the Isle of Hayling. Its church is a venerable remain of architecture. There is a good market for all kinds of grain on Saturday. The population amounted in 180... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017103-1318 | HAVELBERG, a town of Prussia, in the province of Brandenburg. It stands at the junction of the river Havel with the Elbe. It was once a city, and is now a place of much traffic by both the rivers, and as a kind of entrepôt for Berlin and Hamburg. It contains 2140 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017104-1318 | HAVERCAMP, Sigibert, one of the most celebrated philologists of the eighteenth century, was bornât Utrecht in 1683. In the prosecution of his studies he greatly distinguished himself, and, by the time he left the university, deserved to be classed amongst the learned men who then illustrated Holland. He was soon afterw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017201-1331 | HAVERFORDWEST, a town of the county of Pembroke, in South Wales, 264 miles from London. It is the capital of the county, where the assizes and elections are held. It is situated on the side of a hill overlooking the navigable river Dungleddy, on whose bank is a good wharf. In the upper part of the town the English lang... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017202-1331 | HAVERHILL, a market-town of the county of Suffolk, in the hundred of Resbridge, fifty-eight miles from London, situated on the borders of Essex. It was formerly a place of greater extent than it is at present, and had manufactures of checks and fustians, which have dwindled away. It has a market on Wednesday, which, ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017203-1331 | HAVRE, in Geography, a French term of the same signification with haven or harbour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017204-1331 | HAVRE-DE-GRACE, a city of the north of France, in the department of the Lower Seine, and the capital of an arrondissement of its own name. It is strongly fortified on both the land and sea sides, and has a citadel. It stands on the right bank of the river Seine, which is of the breadth of more than three miles. There i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017205-1331 | HAW, a sort of berry, the fruit of several species of mespilus, thence denominated hawthorns. Haw, amongst farriers, an excrescence resembling a gristle, growing under the nether eyelid and eye of a horse, which, if not timely removed, destroys it.
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kp-eb0711-017206-1331 | HAWARDEN, or Harden, a market-town of the county of Flint and the hundred of Mold, in North Wales, 197 miles from London and seven from Chester. It has considerable manufactures of earthenware, made from a peculiarly-adapted clay, which abounds in the neighbourhood. This business, and that of an iron foundery, give the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017207-1331 | HAWGH, or Howgh, signifies a green plot in a valley, such as is seen in the north of England. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017208-1331 | HAWICK, a town of Scotland, in the county of Roxburgh, fifty-two miles from Edinburgh, on the Carlisle road, partly in the parish of Wilton, but chiefly in the parish of Hawick, is conveniently situated on the south bank of the Teviot, and transversely divided into two nearly equal portions by the confluent stream of S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017301-1344 | HAWK. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017302-1344 | HAWKERS were anciently fraudulent persons, who went from place to place buying and selling brass, pewter, and other merchandise, which should have been exposed in open market. In this sense the word is mentioned in 25 Henry VIII. cap. 6, and 33 of the same king, cap. 4. The appellation of hawkers seems to have arisen f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017303-1344 | HAWKESBURY, a river of New Holland, which falls into Broken Bay, on the east coast. It is a large river, having its rise among the Blue Mountains far into the interior, and affording an outlet to the waters of an extensive tract of country. The banks of this river are thickly planted on each side with settlements; and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017304-1344 | HAWKESWORTH, John, a celebrated English writer, was born about the year 1719; though, according to his epitaph, as we find it in the Gentleman' 's Magazine for August 1781, he must have been born in 1715. He was brought up to a mechanical profession, that of a watchmaker it is supposed. He was of the Presbyterian persu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017305-1344 | HAWKING, the exercise of taking wild-fowl by means of hawks. The method of reclaiming, manning, and bringing up a hawk to this exercise, is calle à falconry.
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kp-eb0711-017501-1370 | HAWKINS, Sir John, an industrious writer, was born at London in the year 1719, where his father was employed as a builder and surveyor. He received an education for the same profession, but afterwards became clerk to an attorney; and as his employment consisted chiefly in copying, he improved his mind in knowledge by r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017502-1370 | HAWKSHEAD, a market-town of the county of Lancaster, 277 miles from London, and thirteen from Lancaster. It is situated in the hundred of Lonsdale, at the extremity of the county, and at the head of the beautiful lake of Esthwaite. A market is held on Monday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1585, in 1811 to 1710, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017503-1370 | HAWSE, or Hause, is generally understood to imply the situation of the cables before the ship’s stem, when she is moored with two anchors out forward, viz. one on the starboard, and the other on the larboard bow. Hence it is usual to say, she has a clear hawse, or a foul hawse. This term also denotes any small distance... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017504-1370 | HAWSER, a large rope which holds a middle place between[7:11:176] the cable and tow-line, in any ship to which it belongs, being a size smaller than the former, and as much larger than the latter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017601-1383 | HAY, a market-town of South Wales, in the county of Brecon, 157 miles from London. It stands on a hill overlooking the valley in which the river Wye flows, where are remains of an ancient castle, which have been converted into a modern dwelling. There is a tolerable market held on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017602-1383 | HAYDN, Francis Joseph, a celebrated musical composer, was born.at Rohrau, a small town fifteen leagues distant from Vienna, in the year 1732. His father was a cartwright, and his mother, before her marriage, had been cook in the family of Count Harrach, the lord of the village. Haydn’s father had a fine tenor voice, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017701-1396 | HAYES, Charles, a very singular person, whose great erudition was so concealed by his modesty, that his name is known to few, though his publications are familiar to many. He was born in 1678, and became distinguished in 1704 by a Treatise of Fluxions, in folio, the only work to which he ever set his name. In 1710, he ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017702-1396 | HAYNAU, a town of the district of Liegnitz, in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the river Dreichsel. It contains two Catholic churches, one Lutheran, and 360 houses, with 2870 inhabitants, chiefly employed in woollen manufactures. Near to the town are some good veins of fuller’s earth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017703-1396 | HAYWARD, the person who keeps the common herd or cattle of a town. He is appointed by the lord’s court; and his office is to take care that the cattle neither break nor crop the hedges of enclosed grounds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017704-1396 | HAZAEL, an officer belonging to Benhadad, king of Syria, who caused that prince to be put to death, and reigned in his stead. He defeated Joram, Jehu, and Jehoahaz, kings of Israel; and, after his death, was succeeded by Benhadad his son, before Christ 852. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017705-1396 | HAZARD, a game on dice, without tables. It is played with only two dice; and as many may play at it as can stand round the largest round table.
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kp-eb0711-017801-1409 | HAZEBROUCK, an arrondissement of the department of the North, in France, extending over 275 square miles, divided into seven cantons, and those into fifty-three communes, with 100,936 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It is situated on the river Borre, and on a canal. It is an ill-built place, with... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 44' N 2 27' E | HAZEBROUCK |
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