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kp-eb0711-017802-1409 | HAZLITT, William, a very distinguished writer on miscellaneous subjects, was a native of Shropshire, and the son of an Unitarian clergyman. The date of his birth has not been ascertained; but he received his education at the College at Hackney, belonging to the religious persuasion with which his father was connected. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017901-1422 | HEAD, the uppermost or foremost part of the body of an animal.
HEAD~Borow, or HEAn-Eσrouph, signifies the person who is the chief of the frank-pledge, and who had anciently the principal direction of those within his own pledge. He was also called burrow-head, burshoulder, now bors-holder, third-borrow, tything-man, c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017902-1422 | HEALFANG, Healsfang, or Halsfang, in our ancient customs, signifies collistrigium, or the punishment of the pillory. The word is compounded of two Saxon words, halp, neck, and pangen, to contain: Poena scilicet qua alicui collum stringatur. The healfang, however, cannot signify a pillory in the charter of Canutus, De P... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017903-1422 | HEALING, in its general sense, includes the whole process of curing or removing a disorder, and recovering health. In this sense medicine is defined the art of healing. In its more restricted sense, as used in surgery, healing denotes the uniting or consolidating the lips of a wound or ulcer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017904-1422 | HEALTH is a right disposition of the body, and of all its parts. The Greeks and Romans deified Health, representing it under the figure of a woman, whom they supposed to be the daughter of Aesculapius. We find the name of the Goddess Salus, or Health, on many medals of the Roman emperors, with different inscriptions; a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017905-1422 | HEARING, the act or faculty of perceiving sounds. Hearing is reckoned among our external senses. Its organ is the ear, and particularly the auditory nerve diffused through the same; and its object, certain motions or vibrations of the air. Hence hearing may be more scientifically defined a sensation, by which, from a d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017906-1422 | HEARSE, the name of a well-known carriage, used for conveying the dead to the grave. The word is also used by Shakspeare in his Henry VI. for a monument erected over a grave. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-017907-1422 | HEART. See Anatomy.
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kp-eb0711-018001-1435 | HEAT.
The term Heat, in common language, is applied both , to the sensation excited in us by the approximation of a warm body, and to the cause of that sensation. To obviate this ambiguity, chemists and other cultivators of physical science have employed the word caloric to designate the cause of heat; but as there ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-019801-1669 | HEAT, Animal. See Physiology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-019802-1669 | HEATH, James, an English historian, was born in 1629, at London, where his father, who was the king’s cutler, then lived. He was educated at Westminster school, and became a student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1616. In 1648 he was ejected by the parliamentary visitors, for his adherence to the royal cause; lived upon ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-019803-1669 | HEAVEN literally signifies the expanse of the firmament surrounding our earth, and extending every way to an immense distance.
Heaven, amongst Christian divines and philosophers, is considered as a place in which the omnipresent Deity condescends to afford a nearer and more immediate view of himself, and a more sensib... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-019804-1669 | HEBDOMADARY, Hebdomadarius, or Hebdoma-dius, a member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, to rehearse the anthems and prayers, and to perform the usual functions which the superiors perform at solemn feasts, and other extraordinary occasions. The word is formed from the Greek tChομaς, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-019805-1669 | HEBDOME, a solemnity of the ancient Greeks, in honour of Apollo, in which the Athenians sung hymns to his praise, and carried in their hands branches of laurel. The word signifies the seventh day, this solemnity being observed on the seventh day of every lunar month. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-019806-1669 | HEBE, the daughter of Jupiter and Juno (Apollodor. L 3), the goddess of youth, and cup-bearer of the gods, was succeeded in her office by Ganymede, considered by some only as another name of Hebe (Paus. ii. 13). She was, also called Dia (Strab. viii, 382), and was married to Hercules, when he was raised to the rank of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-019807-1669 | HEBER, the son of Salah, and father of Peleg, from whom the Hebrews derived their name, according to Josephus, Eusebius, Jerome, Bede, and most of the interpreters of the sacred writings; but Huet, bishop of Avranches, in his Evangelical Demonstration, has attempted to prove that the Hebrews took their name from the wo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-019901-1682 | HEBERDEN, William, a practical physician of great celebrity, was born in London in the year 1710. He was sent at a very early age, near the end of 1724, to St John’s College, Cambridge. He took his first degree in 1728, and obtained a fellowship about 1730; he became master of arts in 1732, and took his degree in physi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-019902-1682 | HEBREW, something relating to the Hebrew.
Hebrew Character. There are two kinds of Hebrew characters; the ancient, called also the square ; and the modern, or rabbinical character.
The Square Hebrew takes its denomination from the figure of its characters, which stand more square, and [7:11:200]have their angles more... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020101-1708 | HEBRIDES, the general name of some islands lying to the north-west of Scotland, of which kingdom they constitute a part. They are situated between the 55th and 59th degrees of latitude. The names of the largest are Lewis, Skye, Mull, Ilay, and Arran. Of these islands, generally, Mr Pennant gives the following history.
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kp-eb0711-020401-1747 | HEBRON, a town of Palestine, so named from a very remote antiquity. It is a place of great resort for pilgrims, both Mahommedan and Christian. Its situation is on a hill, near the plain of Mamre, which is fertile, and planted with excellent vineyards. Here Constantine built a church, of which the walls still remain. It... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020402-1747 | HEBRUS, now Maritza, a river of Thrace, rising in Mount Scomius (Thucyd. ii. 96), or Rhodope (Plin. iv. 11), and falling into the Aegean Sea near Aenos, forming at its mouth the Palus Stentoris (Herodot. vii. 58). It is joined on the left bank by the Artiscus (Bujuk-déré), by the Agrianes (Ergene), which receives the C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020403-1747 | HECATAEUS, an ancient historian of Miletus, in Asia Minor. The exact period of his birth and death is unknown, but the active part he took in the affairs of his country proves that he flourished about 500 b. c., at a time when the Ionians were attempting to throw off’ the yoke of the Persians, who were then governed by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020404-1747 | HECATE, daughter of Perses and Asterie, or of Night, an ancient symbol of the moon, appearing in the Orphic hymns as the first and oldest divinity. She is there called the Almighty Queen of Heaven, the bearer of the keys of the world. As the goddess of fortune, she was the protectress of merchants and highways (Trivia)... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020405-1747 | HECATESIA, a yearly festival observed by the Stratonicensians in honour of Hecate. The Athenians also paid particular worship to this goddess, who was deemed the patroness of families and of children. From this circumstance the statues of the goddess were erected before the doors of the houses; and at every new moon a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020501-1760 | HECATOMB, in Antiquity, a sacrifice of a hundred beasts of the same kind, at a hundred altars, and by a hundred priests or sacrificers. The word is formed from the Greek naτομZr ∖ , which properly signifies a sumptuous or magnificent sacrifice. Some, however, derive it from the Greek ixam , centum, an hundred, and ∕3ou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020502-1760 | HECATOMBAEON was the first month of the Athenian year, consisting of thirty days; beginning on the first new moon after the summer solstice, and consequently answering to the latter part of our June and the beginning of July. It had its name from the great number of hecatombs sacrificed in it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020503-1760 | HECATOMPOLIS, in Ancient Geography, a surname of the island of Crete, from its containing an hundred cities. The territory of Laconia also had anciently this name for the same reason; and the custom of these hundred cities was to sacrifice a hecatomb annually. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020504-1760 | HECHINGEN, a city, the capital of the principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, in Germany. It is the residence of the prince, and, besides his palace, contains 550 houses, and 2310 inhabitants, who depend chiefly on the court, but make a few woollen cloths. It has three churches and some monasteries. Long. 8. 52. 58. E.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020505-1760 | HECLA, a volcano of Iceland, situated in the southern part of the island. See Iceland or Island. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020506-1760 | HECTOR, the eldest son of Priam and Hecuba, and heir to the throne, was the most valiant defender of Troy. He was married to Andromache, daughter of Eetion, to whom he was tenderly attached, and bad by her Astyanax and Laodamas or Amphineus. He had the chief command of the troops during the Trojan war, and the valour w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020507-1760 | HECUBA, the daughter of Dymas (Hom. II. ii. 718), or of Cisseus (Eurip.), or of the river Sangarius and Metope (Apollodor. iii. 12, 5), married Priam, and had by him nineteen sons and a great number of daughters. Of the sons, the most celebrated were Hector, Paris, Deiphobus, Helenus, Polydorus, Troilus; and of the dau... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020508-1760 | HEDINGHAM Castle, a town of the county of Essex, in the hundred of Hinchford, forty-seven miles from London, whose inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1065, in 1811 to 1052, in 1821 to 1163, and in 1831 to 1220. Within half a mile of it is another town, Sible Hedingham, whose population amounted in 1801 to 1865, in 1811 to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020509-1760 | HEDON, or Heydon, a borough town of Holderness. in the east riding of Yorkshire, situated on a creek connected with the river Humber. It is governed by a mayoι and aldermen; and returned two members to parliament til the disfranchisement of 1832. The inhabitants amountee in 1801 to 592, in 1811 to 780, in 1821 to 902, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020510-1760 | HEDWIG, John, a botanist of eminence, was born aι Cronstadt, in Transylvania, in October 1730, being descended of a family originally Saxon. In his earlier yean he discovered a strong attachment to the study of botany in which he afterwards excelled. On the death of his fa ther, he was left with very little to support ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020601-1773 | HEGIRA, in Chronology, a celebrated epoch among the Mahommedans. The word is Arabic, formed from man, hagirah, flight, from Ί3Π, to fly, to quit one’s country, family, and friends. The event which gave occasion to this epoch was Mahommed’s flight from Mecca. The magistrates of that city, fearing that his impostures wou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020602-1773 | HEIDELBURG, a city of the duchy of Baden, in Germany, in the circle of the Neckar, and capital of the bailiwick which takes its name from the city. It is situated on the river Neckar, over which is a bridge 700 feet in length. It is in a most romantic situation, the interest of which is heightened by a number of antiqu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020603-1773 | HEIDENHEIM, a town of the kingdom of Wurtemberg, in the circle of Jaxt, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, which extends over 208 square miles, and contains 26,500 inhabitants. The town is situated on the river Brentz, and has 300 houses, with 2320 inhabitants, occupied in cotton manufactures, ironmongery, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020604-1773 | HEILBRON, a city of the kingdom of Wurtemberg, in the circle of the Neckar, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, situated on the river Neckar, over which is a covered wooden bridge. It is surrounded with high walls and ditches, contains three Lutheran and two Catholic churches, a council-house, an hospital, an ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020701-1786 | HEILIGENSTADT, a town of the province of Lower Ens, in Austria, a few miles distant from Vienna. It contains some manufactories of paper, silks, cotton twist, and oil refining. There is an hospital or school for the daughters of the officers of the army. The inhabitants are 2650.
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kp-eb0711-020702-1786 | HEILSBERG, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of East Prussia, situated on the river Alle. It is the residence of the Catholic bishop of Ermeland, contains two Catholic and one Lutheran church, with 348 houses, and 2850 inhabitants. Long. 20. 37. 50 E. Lat. 54. 3. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020703-1786 | HEINECCIUS, John Gottlieb (Theophilus), one of the most celebrated jurisconsults Germany has produced, was born at Eisenberg, in the principality of Altenburg, on the 21 st of September 1681. His father, who was regent of the school of that place, and a man of talents superior to his situation, made him early acquainte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-020704-1786 | HEINSIUS, Antony, grand pensionary of Holland by successive quinquennial re-elections, from the year 1689 until his death on the 3d of August 1720, at the age of seventy-nine, was one of the statesmen who, during this memorable period, exercised the greatest influence on the affairs of Europe. Marlborough, Prince Eugen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021001-1825 | HEIR, in Law, signifies the person who succeeds another by descent.
HΕin-Apparent is a person so called in the lifetime of his ancestor, at whose death he is heir-at-law.
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kp-eb0711-021002-1825 | HEIRSHIP Moveables, in Scotch Law, the best of certain kinds of moveables, which the heir of line is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021003-1825 | HEISTER, Laurence, an eminent physician, surgeon, and anatomist, was born at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, in the year 1683. After being educated in the universities of Germany, he prosecuted the study of anatomy and surgery at Amsterdam in 1706; next year acted as surgeon in the Dutch camp in Brabant; and afterwards studied... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021004-1825 | HEITERSHEIM, a town of the duchy of Baden, Germany, and in the circle of Treisam. It is the capital of a bailiwick, in which are a town, nineteen villages, and 8940 inhabitants. The town is situated at the foot of the Black Forest, on a brook running to the Rhine. It has a fine castle, which was once the residence of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021005-1825 | HELAI, a village of Hindustan, in the province of Sinde, situated on the road from Tatta to Hyderabad, near the Indus, where this river is three fourths of a mile wide, and from four to five fathoms deep. Lat. 24. 52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021006-1825 | HELENA, St, an island in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Southern Africa. It belongs to no group of islands, but stands entirely alone in the ocean, about twelve hundred miles from larid. To the sea it presents, throughout its whole circumference, which is twenty-eight miles, only an immense wall of perpendicular ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021101-1838 | HELENUS, one of the sons of Priam, possessing the power of prophecy (Virg. Aen. iii. 295, 712), who distinguished himself by his valour during the Trojan war; but when Helen was given in marriage to Deiphobus, he determined to leave Troy, and retired to Chrysa, or Mount Ida. He was here discovered and taken prisoner by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021102-1838 | HELEPOLIS, in the ancient art of war, a machine for battering down the walls of a place besieged, the invention of which is ascribed to Demetrius Poliorcetes. Diodorus Siculus says, that each side of the Helcpolis was 405 cubits in breadth and ninety in height; that it had nine stages, and was carried on four strong so... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021103-1838 | HELIADES, the daughters of the Sun and Clymene, called also Phaëthontides, from their brother Phaëthon, whose fate they lamented so much that they were changed into poplar trees, and their tears into amber, upon the banks of the Po. (Ovid. Met. ii. 340; Amor. iii. 12, 38; Diodor. V. 23; Lucan, ii. 410.) According to Di... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021104-1838 | HELIAEA, in Grecian antiquity, was the greatest and most frequented court in Athens for the trial of civil affairs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021105-1838 | HELIASTAE, in Antiquity, the judges of the court of Helioea. They were so called, according to some authors, from a Greek word which signifies to assemble in a great number ; but, according to others, from another word which signifies the sun, because they held their assemblies sub dio. They composed not only the most ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021201-1851 | HELICOID Parabola, or the Parabolic Spiral, is a curve arising from the supposition that the common or Apollonian parabola is bent or twisted till the axis comes into the circumference of a circle, the ordinates still retaining their places and perpendicular positions with respect[7:11:213] to the circle, and all these... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021301-1864 | HELICON, in Ancient Geography, the name of a moun- - tain in the neighbourhood of Parnassus and Cy thaeron, sacred to Apollo and the muses, who are thence called Heliconides. It is situated in Livadia, and is now called Zagura or Zaguya. Helicon was one of the most fertile and woody mountains in Greece. On it the fruit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021302-1864 | HELIGOLAND, or Helgoland, a group of small islands in the North Sea, formerly belonging to Denmark, now to Great Britain, and situated about twenty-eight miles from the mouths of the Weser, the Elbe, and the Eyder. It consists of the principal island, subdivided into the Cliff and the Low Land; the smaller island calle... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021303-1864 | HELIOCENTRIC Latitude of a Planet, the inclination of a line drawn between the centre of the sun and the centre of a planet to the plane of the ecliptic.
Heliocentric Place of a Planet, the place of the ecliptic in which the planet would appear to a spectator placed at the centre of the sun. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021304-1864 | HELIOCOMETES, a phenomenon sometimes observed about sunset, being a large luminous tail or column of light proceeding from the body of the sun, and dragging after it, not unlike the tail of a comet; and hence the name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021305-1864 | HELIODORUS of Phoenicia, bishop of Trica in Thessaly, better known by the romance he composed in his youth, entitled Aethiopica, in which are related the amours of Theagenes and Chariclea. Some say he was deposed by a synod because he would not consent to suppress this romance. The fable has a moral tendency, and parti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021306-1864 | HELIOMETER, formed of ifKιος, sun, and μiτ^ω, I measure, the name of an instrument, called also astrometer, invented by Μ. Bouguer in 1747, for measuring with particular exactness the diameters of the stars, and especially those of the sun and moon.
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kp-eb0711-021401-1877 | HELIOPOLIS, ruins at Matarich, giving name to the district Heliopoütes, which stretched into Arabia, a city of Egypt, near the apex of the Delta, and near the eastern bank of the Nile, twelve miles from Babylon of Egypt (Anton. Itin.}, sacred to the worship of the Sun (Macrob. Sat. i. 21; Herodot. ii. 59), whose priest... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021402-1877 | HELIOSCOPE, in Optics, a sort of telescope, peculiarly fitted for viewing the sun without affecting the eyes. As the sun may be viewed through coloured glasses without detriment to the eyes, if the object and eye-glasses of a telescope be made of coloured glass, as red or green, such a telescope will become an heliosco... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021403-1877 | HELIOSTATE, in Optics, an instrument invented by the learned s’Gravesande, who gave it this name from its fixing as it were the rays of the sun in an horizontal direction across a dark chamber all the time it is in use. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021404-1877 | HELIOTROPE (heliotropium), amongst the ancients, an instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and the equinoctial line. This name was also used generally for a sun-dial. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021405-1877 | HELIX, in Geometry, a spiral line. The word is Greek, iλ∕ξ, and literally signifies a wreath or winding, from iλ∕<wω, involvο. In architecture, some authors make a difference between the helix and the spiral. A staircase, according to Daviler, is in a helix, or is helical, when the stairs or steps wind round a cylindri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021406-1877 | HELL, the place of punishment after death. As all religions have supposed a future state of existence, so all have their hell or place of torment, in which the wicked are supposed to be punished. The hell of the ancient heathens was divided into two mansions, the one called Elysium, on the right hand, pleasant and deli... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021407-1877 | HELLANICUS, an ancient historian of Mitylene, in Lesbos, was son of Andromenes or Aristomenes, born b. c. 496, if we credit the statement of Aulus Gellius (xv. 23), that he was sixty-five years old b. c. 431, at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war. Herodotus was then fifty-three, and Thucydides forty years of age. A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021501-1890 | HELLAS, in Ancient Geography, an appellation comprehending, according to the more ancient Greeks and Romans, Achaia and Peloponnesus, but afterwards restricted to Achaia. It was bounded on the west by the river Achelous, on the north by Mounts Othrys and Oeta, on the east by the Aegean Sea, and on the south by the Saro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021502-1890 | HELLE, in fabulous history, a daughter of Athamas, king of Thebes, by Nephele. Helle fled from her father’s house with her brother Phryxus, to avoid the cruel oppression of her mother-in-law Ino. According to some accounts, she was carried through the air on a golden ram, which her mother had received from Neptune, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021503-1890 | HELLENISM, in matters of language, a phrase in the idiom, genius, or construction of the Greek tongue. This word is only used when speaking of the authors who, writing in a different language, express themselves in a phraseology peculiar to the Greek. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021504-1890 | HELLENISTIC Language, that used by the Grecian Jews who lived in Egypt and other parts where the Greek tongue prevailed. In this language the Septuagint was written, and also the books of the New Testament; and it was thus denominated, to show that it was Greek filled with Hebraisms and Syriacisms. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021505-1890 | HELLENISTS {Hellenist(P), a term occurring in the Greek text of the New Testament, and which in the English version is rendered Grecians. But the critics are divided as to the signification of the word. Oecumenius {Scholia ad Act. vi. 1) observes, that it is not to be understood as signifying those of the religion of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021506-1890 | HELLENODICAE, 'Ελλί^οδ/χαι, va Antiquity, the directors of the Olympian games. At first there was only one, but afterwards the number was increased to two, to three, and at length to nine. They assembled in a place called ’ Eλλ>jvoδ∕κα∕ov, in the Elean forum, where they were obliged to reside ten months before the cele... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021507-1890 | HELLESPONT, a narrow strait between Asia and Europe, connecting the Mediterranean with the Propontis. It received its name from Helle, who was drowned there in her voyage to Colchis. It is celebrated for the love and death of Leander, and for the bridge of boats which Xerxes built over it when he invaded Greece. It is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021508-1890 | HELLSTEDT, a town of Prussia, in the circle of Mansfeld and province of Saxony, with 540 houses and 3604 inhabitants; near to which are some mines of copper and of silver, which employ a part of the population in extracting these metals and converting them to use. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-021509-1890 | HELM, a long and flat piece of timber, or an assemblage of several pieces, suspended along the hind-part of a ship’s stern-post, where it turns upon hinges to the right or left, serving to direct the course of the vessel, as the tail of a fish guides the body. See Ship-Building.
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kp-eb0711-021510-1890 | HELMET, a piece of defensive armour worn by horsemen both in war and in tournaments. It anciently covered both the head and face, only leaving an aperture in the front secured by bars, which was called the visor.
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kp-eb0711-021601-1903 | HELMINTHOLOGY.^[1. From lλμms, a worm, and λa7a5, a discourse. ] The title of this article was formerly bestowed on a much larger group of animated beings than that to which we here restrict it. The Linnaean group of Vermes contained, in fact, the whole of the intestinal and other worms, the molluscous and testaceous t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022701-2046 | HELMOND, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant, on the river Aa, which flows through it in three branches. It is defended by a strong castle, and contains 500 houses, with 2492 inhabitants, who carry on considerable trade in linen yarn, linen cloth, and especially damask table-cloths and napkins. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022702-2046 | HELMONT, John Baptist Van, a famous Brabançon physician, and leader of distinction in the chemical school of medicine, was born at Brussels in the year 1577, and descended of a noble family. At Louvain and other places he studied medicine with so much avidity, that he had perused Hippocrates, Galen, and the Greek and A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022801-2059 | HELMSLEY, a town of the wapentake of Rydall, in the north riding of the county of York, and 218 miles from London. It is on the river Rye, in a beautiful valley. It is well built, and had formerly a strong castle, which was demolished by Cromwell. There is a good market, which is held on Saturday. Near it are the ruins... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022802-2059 | HELMSTEDT, a city of the duchy of Brunswick, in Germany, the capital of the circle of the same name. It stands near the river Elze, and is fortified. It contains two churches, an orphan-house, three hospitals, 659 houses, and 5420 inhabitants. It was formerly the scat of a university of great celebrity. There are manuf... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022803-2059 | HELMUND, Heermund, or Hirmund, a river of Khorassan, and the largest of any in that country, has its rise to the west of Cabul, in the hill called Kohi Baba. It runs south-west through the Hazara country, and passing southward, it crosses the great roads from Candahar to Herat at Greeshk, a distance of 260 miles, and i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022804-2059 | HELOISE, celebrated on account of her unfortunate affection for her tutor Abelard, and for her Latin letters to him after they had retired from the world. She died abbess of Paraclete in 1163. See Abelard. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022805-2059 | HELOS, in Ancient Geography, a maritime town of Laconia, situated between Trinasus and Acriae. In Pausanias’s time it was in ruins. This district was called Helo-tea, and the people Helotes, Helotae, Helei, and Heleatae, by Stephanus, and Ilotae by Livy. Being subdued by the Lacedaemonians, they were all reduced to a s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022806-2059 | HELOTS, in Grecian antiquity, the slaves of the Spartans. The freemen of Sparta were forbidden the exercise of any mean or mechanical employment, and therefore the whole care of supplying the city with necessaries devolved upon the Helots. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022807-2059 | HELSINGBORG, a city of Sweden, in the province of Malmoe. It stands at the entrance, and the narrowest part, of the Sound. It is a lively place of trade, being the principal entrance to Sweden from the Danish dominions. There is no harbour; but the vessels are moored to the mole, or bridge of boats. It contains 350 wel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022808-2059 | HELSINGFORS, a circle of the Russian government of Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia, extending over 6808 square miles, and comprehending three cities or towns, 6692 villages or farms, 21,952 families, and a population of 175,000 persons. The northern part is mountainous; but the southern is low and level, and produces s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022809-2059 | HELSTONE, a town in the county of Cornwall, in the hundred of Kerriar, 276 miles from London. It stands on the river Loe, which forms a harbour near the town. It is one of the chief markets for tin, and has a stannery for affixing a stamp to prove its purity. The tower of the church, ninety feet in height, is a conspic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022810-2059 | HELVETIC, something which has a relation to the inhabitants of the Swiss cantons, who were anciently called Helvetii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022811-2059 | HELVETII, a people of Belgica, in the neighbourhood of the Allobroges and the Provincia Romana. They were famed for bravery and a predilection for war. The Civitas Helvetia was divided into four pagi or cantons, situated to the south and west of the Rhine, by which they were divided from the Germans; and extending towa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022812-2059 | HELVETIUS, Claude Adrian, a man of letters, and celebrated French philosopher, was born at Paris about the beginning of 1715. After receiving the rudiments of his education in his father’s house, he was sent to the College of Louis-le-Grand, where he discovered greater indications of genius than any of his fellow-stude... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022901-2072 | HELVIDIANS, a sect of ancient heretics, denominated from their leader Helvidius, a disciple of Auxentius the Arian, whose distinguishing principle was, that Mary, the mother of Jesus, did not continue a virgin, but had other children by Joseph. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022902-2072 | HELVOETSLUYS, a town in the circle of Brill, in the province of Holland. It is a fortified naval station, with a good but small harbour, with docks and storehouses for equipping ships of war. It is the place of direct communication with England by the packets, which sail to and from Harwich twice in each week. The popu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 49' 29" N 4 7' 52" E | HELVOETSLUYS |
kp-eb0711-022903-2072 | HEMEROBAPTISTS, a sect amongst the ancient Jews, so called from their washing and bathing every day, in all seasons, and observing this custom with the greatest solemnity, as a religious rite necessary to salvation. Epiphanius, who mentions this as the fourth heresy amongst the Jews, observes, that in other points thes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022904-2072 | HEMERODROMI, compounded of ⅛μεαα, day, and δξομος, course, amongst the ancients, were sentinels or guards appointed for the security and preservation of cities and other places. They went out of the city every morning as soon as the gates were opened, and kept all day patrolling round the place; sometimes also making e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022905-2072 | HEMEROTROPHIS, in Antiquity, a measure of capacity, the same with the choenix. It was so called from its containing only one day’s food. The word is compounded of iιμfξα, a day, and τ1οφr ∣ , food. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022906-2072 | HEMI, a word employed in the composition of different terms. It signifies the same with semi or demi, viz. half; being an abbreviate of ⅛μufaς, which signifies the same thing. The Greeks retrenched the last syllable of the word ⅛μusυς in the composition of words; and, after their example, we have done so too in most of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022907-2072 | HEMIBOLON, a weight often mentioned by the ancient writers in medicine, and expressing the half of their obolus, or the twelfth part of a drachm, that is, five grains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-022908-2072 | HEMICYCLE, Hemicyclium, compounded of hμus ∖ iς, half, and κ∪κλog, circle ; a semicircle.
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