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kp-eb0711-071802-8429 | HUGUENOTS, an appellation given by way of contempt to the Reformed or Protestant Calvinists of France. The name originated in the year 1560, though authors are not agreed as to the occasion thereof; but the following derivations have been suggested. One of the gates of the city of Tours is called the gate Fourgon, by c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-071901-8442 | HULK, an old ship of war, fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of ships of the royal navy, as occasion requires.
Hulk is also a name bestowed on any old vessel laid up as unfit for further service. It is probably derived from the cλxα3sg, or vessels of burthen, of the ancient Grecians. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-071902-8442 | HULL, a sea-port town of the east riding of the county of York, 234 miles from London byway of York, and 170 by way of Lincoln, and crossing the Humber from Barton. It is situated on a river of the same name, whose waters are received at the town into the Humber. The old part of the town, with the exception of the fine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072001-8455 | HULST, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Friesland and circle of Goes. It is strongly fortified, and, by means of a canal, is connected with Helle-Gat, which is joined to the West Scheldt at Ghent. It contains 400 houses, and (in 1830) 2124 inhabitants. Long. 4. 36. 25. E. Lat. 51. 16. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072002-8455 | HUMAN, in general, is an appellation given to whatever relates to mankind. Thus we say, the human soul, human body, human laws, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072003-8455 | HUMANITY, the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from all other beings.
Humanities, in the plural, signify grammar, rhetoric, and poetry, known by the name of literae humaniores. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072004-8455 | HUME, David, an illustrious philosopher and historian, was born in the south of Scotland, on the 26th of April, old style, in the year 1711. His father was a descendant of the family of the Earl of Home or Hume; and his mother, whose name was Falconer, was descended from that of Lord Halkerton, whose title came by succ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072201-8481 | HUMECTATION, formed of humour, moisture, moistening, in pharmacy, the preparing of a medicine by steeping it for a time in water, in order to soften and moisten it; or to cleanse it, or prevent its subtile parts from being dissipated in grinding, or the like.
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kp-eb0711-072202-8481 | HUMIDITY, that quality in bodies by which they are capable of wetting other bodies. This differs very much from fluidity, and seems to be merely a relative thing, depending on the congruity of the component particles of the liquor to the pores of such particular bodies as it is capable of adhering to, penetrating a lit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072203-8481 | HUMILIATI, a congregation of religious persons in the church of Rome, established by some Milanese gentlemen upon their release from prison, where they had been confined under the Emperor Conrad, or, as others say, under[7:11:723] Frederick I. in the year 1162. This order, which acquired great wealth, and had no less t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072301-8494 | HUMILIATION, the act of humbling or of abating a person’s pride, and bringing him lower in his opinion. In this sense humiliation is distinguished from mortification; for humiliation brings down the mind, but mortification subdues the flesh. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072302-8494 | HUMILITY is a virtue consisting in the moderate value which a person puts upon himself, and every thing relating to him. Or, more particularly, it consists in not attributing to ourselves any excellence or good which we have not; in not overrating any thing which we have or do; in not taking an immoderate delight in on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072303-8494 | HUMMOCK Island. There are two small islands of this name, in the Eastern Seas, one fifteen miles south of Mindanao, in long. 126. 37. E. and lat. 5. 24. N. The other, which is inaccessible except at one point, lies in long. 123. 40. E. and lat. 24. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072304-8494 | HUMOUR, from the Latin humor, in its original signification, stands for moisture in general; and hence it has been restricted to signify the moisture of animal bodies, or those fluids which circulate through them. As the temper of the mind has been supposed to depend upon the state of the fluids in the body, humour cam... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072305-8494 | HUMPHREY, Laurence, a learned English divine, was born at Newport-Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, about the year 1527. He received his school education at Cam bridge, and afterwards became a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his degree as master of arts in 1552. In 1555 he retired, with other Protestant refug... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072306-8494 | HUNDRED, Hundredum, or Centuria, a part or division of a county, and anciently so called from its containing an hundred families, or from its furnishing an hundred able men for the king’s wars. After Alfred’s dividing England into counties, and giving the government of each county to a sheriff, these counties were divi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072307-8494 | HUNFELD, a town of the province of Fulda, in Hesse-Cassel, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, which contains one town and thirty-two villages, with 7633 inhabitants. The town is situated on the river Haun, and has some considerable bleacheries, with 1730 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-072308-8494 | HUNGARY.
This is the largest division of the dominions under the government of the imperial house of Austria. It is formed into three separate parts, politically distinguished as the kingdom of Hungary, the principality of Siebenbürgen, and the military districts of Carlstadt, Warasdin, and the Bannat. ’ Although the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-073101-8598 | HUNGER, an uneasy sensation occasioned by long abstinence from food when the body is in a healthy state. The following useful observations upon hunger or famine are extracted from a paper by Dr Percival in the second volume of the Manchester Transactions.
In a state of famine, life may be protracted, with less pain an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-073301-8624 | HUNGERFORD, a market-town of the county of Wilts, in the hundred of Kentbury, but a part of it is within the county of Berks. It is sixty-eight miles from London, on the road to Bath, and is watered by the river Kennet. It has some trade by the Kennet and Avon Canal, both with London and with Bristol. There is a market... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-073302-8624 | HUNINGEN, a town of the arrondissement of Altkirch, in the department of the Upper Rhine, in France. It is on the Rhine, and was strongly fortified till 1815; and being within two miles of the Swiss frontier, was deemed of military importance, as commanding the river. It contains about 1000 inhabitants. Long. 7. 30. E.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 42' N 7 30' E | HUNINGEN |
kp-eb0711-073303-8624 | HUNNS, a fierce and savage nation, who formerly inhabited that part of Sarmatia bordering on the Palus Maeotis and the Tanais, the ancient boundary between Europe and Asia. Their country, as described by Procopius, lay north of Mount Caucasus, which, extending from the Euxine to the Caspian Seas, separates Asiatic Sarm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-073401-8637 | HUNTER, a name given to a horse qualified to carry a person in the chase. See Horse.
Hunter, Dr William, a celebrated anatomist and physician, was born on the 23d of May 1718, at Kilbride, in the county of Lanark, in Scotland. He was the seventh child of John and Agnes Hunter, who resided on a small estate in that par... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-073701-8676 | HUNTER’S Isles, a cluster of small islands lying oft the north-west extremity of Van Diemen’s Land, and frequented by numerous sea-fowls and seals. Long. 145. E. Lat. 40. 30. S.
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... | 40 30' S 145 E | HUNTER’S |
kp-eb0711-073801-8689 | HUNTING.
Nature has prepared many advantages and pleasures for the use of mankind, and given them the taste to enjoy them, and the sagacity to improve them; but of all the out-of-door amusements that have occupied the modern world, at least the male part of it, nothing has better stood the test of time than the noble ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-075701-8936 | HUNTINGDON, a market-town, the capital of the county of that name, sixty-four miles from London by Buckden, and fifty-nine by Royston. It stands on a level plain on the river Ouse, which is navigable for barges to Bedford, and by which a supply of coals and other heavy articles is conveyed. It contains two parish churc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-075702-8936 | HUNTINGDONSHIRE, an inland county of England, and, except Rutlandshire, the smallest of the whole. It is bounded on the north-east and east by Cambridgeshire, on the north-west and west by Northamptonshire, and on the south by Bedfordshire. Its greatest breadth is twenty-three miles, and its greatest length thirty mile... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-075801-8949 | HUNTSPILL, a town of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of North Petherton, 155 miles from London. It stands on an estuary at the mouth of the river Parret, which there falls into the Bristol Channel. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1012, in 1811 to 1119, in 1821 to 1337, and in 1831 to 1503. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-075802-8949 | HURD, Richard, an eminent and learned English prelate, was born at Congreve, in the parish of Penkrich, Staffordshire, on the 13th of January 1720. He was the second son of John and Hannah Hurd, whom he describes as “plain, honest, and good people, farmers, but of a turn of mind that might have honoured any rank and an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076001-8975 | HURDA, a town and small fort of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, in the province of Khandesh, situated in a country generally open and well cultivated. Long. 77. 18. E. Lat. 22. 24. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 24' N 77 18' E | HURDA |
kp-eb0711-076002-8975 | HURDLE is the name of a sledge used to draw traitors to the place of execution. The Romans had a kind of military execution for mutineers, called putting to death under the hurdle. The manner of it was this: The criminal was laid at his length in shallow water, under an hurdle, upon which were heaped stones, and so pre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076003-8975 | HURDLES, in Fortification, are made of twigs of willows or osiers interwoven together, and sustained by long stakes. They are made in the figure of an oblong square, the length being five or six feet, and the breadth three and a half. The closer they are wattled together the better. They serve either to render the batt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076004-8975 | HURDWAR, or Haredwara, a town of Hindustan, province of Delhi, a great mart of commerce, and a celebrated place of Hindu pilgrimage, situated on the west side of the Ganges, where it issues from the northern hills. The town is not large, having only one street about fifteen feet in breadth, and one furlong and a half i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 29 57' N 78 2' E | HURDWAR |
kp-eb0711-076005-8975 | HURON, a vast lake of North America, situated between the 80th and 84th degrees of west longitude, and between the 43d and 46th degrees of north latitude; from which the country contiguous to it is called the country of the Hurons, a people whose language is spoken over a great extent of America. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076006-8975 | HURREEPORE, in Hindustan, the capital of a district of the same name belonging to the Sikhs, which is situated between the 32d and 33d degrees of north latitude, and is intersected by the Beyah river. The town is situated in the province of Lahore, 100 miles eastnorth-east from the city of Lahore. Long. 75. 31. E. Lat.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 19' N 75 31' E | HURREEPORE |
kp-eb0711-076007-8975 | HURRIAL, a town of Bengal, district of Rajesky, where the East India Company have a commercial residency for the purchase of cloths. The adjoining country is under water during the rainy season, and the town can only at that time be approached in boats. Long. 89. 17. E. Lat. 24. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 19' N 89 17' E | HURRIAL |
kp-eb0711-076008-8975 | HURRICANE, a general name for any violent storm of wind, but commonly applied to those storms which happen in the warmer climates, and greatly exceed the most violent storms known in Europe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076009-8975 | HURST, Hyrst, or Herst, are derived from the Saxon hyrst, meaning a wood, or grove of trees. There are many places in Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire, which begin and end with this syllable; and the reason may be, because the great wood called Andreswald extended through these counties. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076010-8975 | HUSBANDRY, as defined by some, includes not only agriculture, but several other branches connected with it, such as the rearing of cattle, the management of the dairy, making butter and cheese, raising flax, timber, and so forth. See Agriculture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076011-8975 | HUSKISSON, Right Honourable William, a distinguished statesman, was born at Birch Moreton, in Worcestershire, ou the 11th of March 1770. After receiving a liberal education, he was sent to Paris for instruction in physic, the profession to which he was originally destined. Whilst in the French capital, however, circums... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076101-8988 | HUSSARS, a term which originally signified the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia, a species of light horse, which acted as irregular troops, and in that capacity were found highly serviceable. Hussars were first introduced into the French service in 1692, when they were formed on the model of the Hungarian cavalr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076102-8988 | HUSSEINPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi and district of Bareily, sixty-five miles east from Delhi. Long. 78. 13. E. Lat. 28. 44. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076103-8988 | HUSSENABAD, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Khandesh, and belonging to the Mahrattas. It is situated on the south side of the Nerbuddah, sixty miles south from Bilsah. Long. 77. 53. E. Lat. 23. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076104-8988 | HUSSITES, in Ecclesiastical History, a party of reformers, the followers of John Huss. The person from whom the Hussites take their name was born in a little village in Bohemia, called Huss, and lived at Prague in the highest reputation, both on account of the sanctity of his manners and the purity of his doctrine. He ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076201-9001 | HUSTINGS (from the Saxon word hustinge, meaning concilium or curia), a court held in Guildhall before the lord mayor and aidermen of London. This court is very ancient, as appears by the laws of Edward the Confessor. Some other cities have likewise had a court bearing the same name, as Winchester and York. But this ter... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076202-9001 | HUSTNAPORE, or Hustinagara, formerly one of the most ancient and famous cities of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, and for ages the capital of a powerful Hindu dynasty, of which the remote history is involved in obscurity. It was founded by Rajah Hasti, and is much celebrated in the Hindu mythological poems. This c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076203-9001 | HUSUM, a city of Denmark, in the province of Sleswick, the capital of a bailiwick of its own name, at the mouth of the river Hever. It contains several public buildings, 800 houses, and 3700 inhabitants, and was, during one period of the revolutionary war, from being neutral, converted into a place of great trade in co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076204-9001 | HUSZK, a market-town of the circle of Marmaros, in the province of Hither Theiss, in Hungary, composed of two parts, Koszeg and Boryana, containing a Catholic, a Unitarian, and a Reformed church, and 4200 inhabitants. Long. 23. 42. 42. E. Lat. 43. 9. II. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076205-9001 | HUTCHESON, Dr Francis, an eminent philosopher, was the son of a dissenting minister in the north of Ireland, and was born on the 8th of August 1694. He early discovered a superior capacity; ∙and having gone through a school education, began his course of philosophy at an academy, whence he removed to the university of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076301-9014 | HUTCHINSON, John, a philosophical writer, whose notions have made no inconsiderable noise in the world, was born in 1674. He served the Duke of Somerset in the capacity of steward, and in the course of his travels from place to place employed himself in collecting fossils. We are even told that the large and noble coll... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076302-9014 | HUTTANY, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and province of Bejapoor. It is large and populous, and has an extensive commerce with Bombay, Surat, Rachore, &c. It possesses a small stone citadel, and is enclosed with a rampart and a ditch. It has also a large and excellent place of accommodation for trave... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076303-9014 | HUTTON, Dr James, physician and naturalist, was the son of Mr William Hutton, a respectable merchant in Edinburgh. He was born on the 3d of June 1726, and having lost his father while he was very young, the charge of his education devolved on his mother, who determined that it should be very liberal. Having finished hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076401-9027 | HUY, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of Liege, the capital of a circle of the same name. It has a very strong fortress, commanding the passage over the river Meuse, to which the great road leads. It is surrounded with vineyards, and is the seat of some manufactures, and it contains 800 houses, with 5647 inha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076402-9027 | HUYGENS de Zuylichem, Christian, lord of Zeeł-hem, was the second sou of Constantine Huygens, secretary and counsellor to the princes of Orange, and born at the Flague on the 14th of April 1629. He was one of those rare men who, from the most subtile theories, know how to deduce the most useful applications, and wjioιn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076601-9053 | HUYSUM, the name of several Dutch painters. The most celebrated of these was John, whose subjects were flowers, fruit, and landscapes. He was born at Amsterdam in 1682, and was a disciple of Justus van Huysum, his father. He set out in his profession with a most commendable principle, not so much to paint for the acqui... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076602-9053 | HYACINTHUS, a son of Amyclas and of Diomede (Apollodor. iii. 10, 3), or of Pierus and of Clio (i. 3, 3), beloved by Apollo and. Zephyrus. He gave the preference to the former, and whilst they were amusing themselves at quoit, Zephyrus in revenge blew the quoit which Apollo had thrown, on the forehead of Hyacinthus, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076603-9053 | HYADES, nymphs, daughters of Atlas and Aethra (Ovid), of Erechtheus, king of Athens (Eurip.), of Hyas and Bacotia (Hygin.) Their number and names are uncertain, but generally they are either seven or six, and they are called, Cisseis, Nysa, Erato, Eriphia, Bromie, Poly-hymno; or, if they are seven, Ambrosia, Eudora, Ph... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076604-9053 | HYBLA, in Ancient Geography, called also Megara, which last name it took from the Megareans, who led thither a colony. In Strabo’s time Megara was extinct; but the name Hybla remained on account of the excellent honey which takes its name from this place. It was situated upon the east coast of Sicily, between Syracuse ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076605-9053 | HYBRIDA Planta, a monstrous production of two different species of plants, analogous to a mule amongst animals. The seeds of hybrid plants will not propagate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076606-9053 | HYBRISTIUA (of vβξtς, injuria), in Antiquity, a solemn feast held amongst the Greeks, with sacrifices and other ceremonies, at which the men attended in the apparel of women, and the women in that of men, to do honour to Venus in quality either of a god or a goddess, or both. But, according to the account given by othe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-076607-9053 | HYDE, Edward (afterwards Earl of Clarendon), was born at Dinton, in the county of Wilts, on the 18th of Ie-bruary 1609. He was the third son of Henry Hyde, the descendant of a family of that name, which had resided from a remote period at Norbury, in Cheshire. Edward, after receiving his first education under his fathe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-077001-9105 | HYDERABAD, an extensive province of Hindustan, in the Deccan, which is situated principally between the 16th and 19th degrees of north latitude. The name is now-applied generally to all the territories of the nizam, so that it is exceedingly difficult to ascertain its exact limits. This territory composed a considerabl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-077201-9131 | HYDERBUNGE, a populous village of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, dependent on Attack, and situated at a short distance from the Indus. Long. 71. 25. E. Lat. 33. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 33 20' N 71 25' E | HYDERBUNGE |
kp-eb0711-077202-9131 | HYDERGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the nabob of Oude’s territories, thirty-two miles south-east from Lucknow. Long. 81. 23. E. Lat. 26. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-077203-9131 | HYDERSHY, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the nizam, in the province of Hyderabad, sixty miles east from the city of Hyderabad. Long. 79. 35. E. Lat. 17. 24. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-077204-9131 | HYDRA, in fabulous history, a serpent in the marsh of Lerna, in Peloponnesus, represented by the poets with many heads, one of which being cut off, another immediately succeeded in its place, unless the wound was instantly cauterized. Hercules attacked this monster; and having caused Iolaus to hew down wood for flaming... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-077205-9131 | HYDRAGOGUES, amongst physicians, remedies which evacuate a large quantity of water in dropsies. The word is formed from uδωg, water, and aγuv, to draw or lead ; but the application of the term proceeds upon a mistaken supposition that every purgative had some particular humour which it would evacuate, and which could n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-077206-9131 | HYDRARGYRUM, a name given to mercury or quicksilver. The word is formed from uδωg, aqua, water, and agyugsj, argentum, silver, water of silver, on account of its resembling liquid or melted silver. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-077207-9131 | HYDRAULICS, the science of the motion of fluids, and the construction of all kinds of machines relating thereto. See Hydrodynamics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-077208-9131 | HYDRENTEROCELE, in Surgery, a species of hernia, in which the intestines descend into the scrotum, together with a quantity of water. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-077209-9131 | HYDROCEPHALUS, a preternatural distension of the head by a stagnation and extravasation of the lymph, which, when collected in the inside of the cranium, is termed internal, as that collected on the outside is termed external. See Medicine, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-000101-7815 | HYDRODYNAMICS.
1. HYDRODYNAMICS, from ⅛ ξ , “water,” and -*J- ‰of,μtζ, “power,” is properly that science which treats of the power of water, whether it acts by pressure or by impulse. In its more enlarged acceptation, however, it treats of the pressure, equilibrium, cohesion, and motion of fluids, and of the machines ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011001-9232 | HYDROGRAPHICAL Charts or Maps, usually called sea-charts, are projections of some part of the sea or coast, for the use of navigation. In these are laid down all the rhumbs or points of the compass, the meridians, parallels, &c. with the coasts, capes, islands, rocks, shoals, shallows, &c. in their proper places and pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011002-9232 | HYDROGRAPHY, the art of measuring and describing the sea, rivers, canals, lakes, and the like. With regard to the sea, it gives an account of its tides, countertides, soundings, bays, gulfs, creeks, as also of the rocks, shelves, sands, shallows, promontories, and harbours; the distance and bearing of one port from ano... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011003-9232 | HYDROMEL, honey diluted in nearly an equal weight of water. When this liquor has not fermented, it is called simple hydromel; and when it has undergone the spirituous fermentation, it is called the vinous hydromel or mead. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011004-9232 | HYDROMETER, an instrument for measuring the gravity, density, &c. of water and other fluids. For an account of different hydrometers, see the article Hydrodynamics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011005-9232 | HYDROPHANES, or Oculus Mundi, a kind of precious stone, which becomes transparent in water. It was much esteemed by the ancients. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011006-9232 | HYDROPHOBIA, literally an aversion to or dread of water, a terrible symptom of the rabies canina, and which has likewise been found to take place in violent inflammations of the stomach, as well as in hysterical fits. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011007-9232 | HYDROPHYLACIA, a word used by Kircher and some others to express those great reservoirs of water which, as he supposed, were placed in the Alps and other mountains for the supply of the rivers which run through the lower countries. The formation of these reservoirs he considers as one of the great uses of mountains in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011008-9232 | HYDROSCOPE, an instrument ancientlyused for measuring time. The hydroscope was a kind of water-clock, consisting of a cylindrical tube, conical at the bottom. The cylinder was graduated, or marked with divisions, to which the top of the water becoming successively continuous, as it trickled out at the vertex of the con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011009-9232 | HYDROSTATICS is that branch of physics which treats of the weight, pressure, and equilibrium of fluids. See Hydrodynamics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011010-9232 | HYDROTHORAX, a collection of water in the chest. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011011-9232 | HYDRUNTUM, in Ancient Geography, a noble and commodious port of Calabria, from which there was a shorter passage to Apollonia. It was famous for its antiquity, and for the fidelity and bravery of its inhabitants. It is now Otranto, a city of Naples, situated at the entrance of the Gulf of Venice. Long. 19. 15. E. Lat. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011012-9232 | HYEMANTES, in the primitive church, were offenders who had been guilty of so great enormities, that they were not allowed to enter the porch of the churches with the other penitents, but were obliged to stand without, exposed to all the inclemency of the weather. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011013-9232 | HYGEIA, in Mythology. See Health. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011014-9232 | HYGIEINE, 'Ty∕s∕vjj, formed from bγιτ i ς, sound or healthy, that branch of medicine which relates to health, and discovers proper means for the preservation of that state.
Hygicine, more largely taken, is divided into three parts: prophyladice, which foresees and prevents diseases; synteritice, which is employed in p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011015-9232 | HYGINUS, Caius Julius, an ancient Latin writer, who flourished in the time of Augustus. Suetonius, in his work De Illustribus Grammaticis, says that he was by birth a Spaniard; but some think that he was a native of Alexandria in Egypt. He was originally a slave of Julius Caesar, who brought him to Rome; but having dis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-011101-9245 | HYGROMETRY.
The formation of steam or aqueous vapour, and its diffusion in space or in a gaseous medium, have already been considered under the article Evaporation. We now propose first to take a view of various methods and devices which have been employed to detect the presence of aqueous vapour, and to ascertain its... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013501-9557 | HYGROSCOPE. The same with Hygrometer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013502-9557 | HYLOZOISTS, formed from υλjj, matter, and ξ<*uj, life, the name of a sect of atheists amongst the ancient Greek philosophers, who maintained that matter had some natural perception, strictly so called, without animal sensation or reflection; but that this imperfect life occasioned that organization whence sensation and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013503-9557 | HYMENAEAL, something belonging to marriage, and so called from Hymen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013504-9557 | HYMENAEUS, or Hymen, the god of marriage amongst the Greeks, the son of Apollo and Calliope, or of Bacchus and Venus. Others have thought that he was an Athenian youth, who disguised himself in female attire, that he might accompany his mistress to Eleusis, when she went with others to offer up sacrifice. They were sei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013601-9570 | HYMENOPTERA, derived from vμτg, membrane, and ffrefoy, wing, in the Linnaean system of natural history, is an order of insects having four membranaceous wings, whilst the tails of the females are furnished with stings, which in some are used for instilling poison, and in others for merely piercing the bark and leaves o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013602-9570 | HYMETTUS, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Attica, near Athens, celebrated for its marble quarries, and for its excellent honey. Pliny says that the orator Crassus was the first who had columns executed from the marble of Hymettus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013603-9570 | HYMN, a song or ode in honour of God, or a poem, proper to be sung, composed in honour of some deity. The word is Greek, ú/xvo¢, hymn, formed from the verb io«, celebro, I celebrate. Isidore remarks on this word, that hymn is properly a song of joy, full of the praises of God, by which, according to him, it is distingu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013604-9570 | HYPALLAGE, amongst grammarians, a species of hyperbaton, consisting in a mutual permutation of one case for another. Thus Virgil says, Dare classibus austros, for dare classes austris ; and again, Nec dum illis labra admovi, for nec dum illa labris admovi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013605-9570 | HYPANTE, or Hyperpante, a name given by the Greeks to the feast of the presentation of Jesus in the temple. This word, which signifies lowly or humble meeting, was given to this feast from the meeting of old Simeon and Anna the prophetess in the temple, when Jesus was brought thither. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013606-9570 | HYPATIA, a learned and beautiful lady of antiquity, the daughter of Theon, a celebrated philosopher and mathematician, and president of the Alexandrian school, was born at Alexandria about the end of the fourth century. Her father, encouraged by her extraordinary genius, had her not only educated in all the ordinary ac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013607-9570 | HYPER, a Greek preposition frequently used in composition, where it denotes excess; its literal signification being above or beyond. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-013608-9570 | HYPERBATON, in Grammar, a figurative construction, inverting the natural and proper order of words and sentences. The several species of the hyperbaton are, the anastrophe, the hysteron-proteron, the hypallage, syn-chysis, tmesis, parenthesis, and the hyperbaton strictly so called.
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