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kp-eb0702-051605-6517 | ALIMENTS. See Dietetics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051606-6517 | ALIPILARIUS, or Alipilus, in Roman Antiquity, a servant belonging to the baths, whose business it was, by means of waxen plasters, and an instrument called volsella, to take off the hair from the arm-pits, and even arms, legs, &c. this being deemed a point of cleanliness. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051607-6517 | ALIPTERIUM, αλs∕wn^∕oy, in Antiquity, a place in the ancient palestrae, where the athletae were anointed before their exercises. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051608-6517 | ALIQUANT Part, in Arithmetic, is that number which cannot measure any other exactly without some remainder. Thus, 7 is an aliquant part of 16; for twice 7 wants two of 16, and three times 7 exceeds 16 by 5. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051609-6517 | ALIQUOT Part, is that part of a number or quantity which will exactly measure it without any remainder. Thus, 2 is an aliquot part of 4, 3 of 9, 4 of 16, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051610-6517 | ALISONTIA, or Alisuntia, in Ancient Geography, a river of Belgic Gaul, now Alsitz ; which, rising on the borders of Lorraine, and running through that duchy, waters the city of Luxemburg, and, swelled by other rivulets, falls into the Sour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051611-6517 | ALITES, in Roman Antiquity, a designation given to such birds as afforded matter of auguries by their flight. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051612-6517 | ALKADARH, a sect among the Mahometans who deny any eternal, fixed, divine decrees, and are assertors of free-wilR The word is formed from the Arabic alkadar, which signifies “decree.” The Alkadarii are a branch of Motazalites, and stand opposed to the Algiabarii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051613-6517 | ALKAHEST, or Alcahest, among alchemists, derived from a word which signifies spirit of salt or all spirit, was supposed to be a universal menstruum, capable of resolving all bodies into their principles. Van Helmont pretended he was possessed of such a menstruum. It is likewise used by some authors for all fixed salts ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051614-6517 | ALKALI, in Chemistry, denotes a particular class of salts. The word alkali is of Arabian origin, and was introduced into chemistry after it had been applied to a plant which still retains the name of kali. When this plant is burnt, the ashes washed in water, and the water evaporated to dryness, a white substance remain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051615-6517 | ALKALIMETER, a name given to a small instrument, invented by Μ. Descroizilles for ascertaining the value of the alkalies in commerce. There is an account of it in the 60th volume of the Annales de Chimie, which is translated in the 28th volume of Tilloch’s Philosophical Magazine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051616-6517 | ALKERMES, in Pharmacy, a compound cordial medicine, made in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes berries used in its composition. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051617-6517 | ALKMAAR. See Alemaer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051618-6517 | ALKORAN. See Alcoran. ALL-Hallow, or All-Saints, a festival celebrated on the first of November, in commemoration of all the saints in general. The number of saints being so excessively multiplied, it was found too burdensome to dedicate a feast-day to each. In reality, there are not days enough, scarce hours enough, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051701-6530 | ALLA, or Allah, the name by which the professors of Mahometanism call the Supreme Being. The term Alla is Arabie, derived from the verb alah, to adore. It is the same with the Hebrew Eloah, which signifies the Adorable Being. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051702-6530 | ALLΛGNA, a town in the province of Val Sesia, in the principality of Piedmont, in Italy. It has some rich copper mines, with gold mixed in the same ore. It is on the river Sesia, and contains 1600 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051703-6530 | ALLAHABAD, a large province of Hindostan, which is situated between the 24th and 26th degrees of N. lat. It is bounded on the north by the provinces of Oude and Agra, on the south by the Hindoo province of Gundwana, on the east by the provinces of Bahar and Gund-wana, and on the west by the provinces of Malwah and Agra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 27' N 81 50' E | ALLAHABAD |
kp-eb0702-051801-6543 | ALLAIRE, a town of 2190 inhabitants, in the arrondissement of Vannes, and department of Morbihan, in France. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051802-6543 | ALLAN, David, a Scotish historical painter of considerable celebrity, was born at Alloa, on the 13th February 1744. At a very early age he showed such marks of genius as attracted the notice of some gentlemen living in the neighbourhood. In a remote part of the country, and deprived of the ordinary means of indulging h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051803-6543 | ALLANCHES, a town of France, in the department of the Mouths of the Rhone, and circle of Aix, six miles from Marseilles, containing 2350 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051804-6543 | ALLANTOIS, or Allantoides, a thin transparent bag investing the foetus of quadrupeds, as cows, goats, sheep, &c. filled with a urinous liquor conveyed to it from the bladder of the young animals by means of the urachus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051805-6543 | ALLATTUS, Leo, keeper of the Vatican library, a native of Seio, and a celebrated writer of the 17th century. He was of great service to the gentlemen of Port Royal in the controversy they had with Μ. Claude touching the belief of the Greeks with regard to the eucharist. No Latin was ever more devoted to the see of Rome... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051901-6556 | ALLECTUS, the prime minister and confidential friend of Carausius, emperor of Britain. In order to avoid the punishment due to the several enormous crimes with which he was chargeable, he fell upon the desperate expedient of murdering his master, and usurping the imperial dignity, which he maintained for three years. W... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051902-6556 | ALLEGANY Mountains, situated between the Atlantic ocean, the Mississippi River, and the Lakes, are a long and broad range of mountains, composed of several ridges, tending north-east and south-west, nearly parallel to the sea-coast, about 1100 miles in length, and from 110 to 150 miles in breadth. The ridges which comp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051903-6556 | ALLEGATA, a word anciently subscribed at the bottom of rescripts and constitutions of the emperors; as signata, or testata, was under other instruments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051904-6556 | ALLEGEAS, or Allegi As, a stuff manufactured in the East Indies. There are two sorts of them; some are of cotton, and others of several kinds of herbs, which are spun like flax and hemp. Their length and breadth are of eight ells, by five, six, or seven eighths; and of twelve ells, by three fourths or five eighths. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-051905-6556 | ALLEGIANCE, in Law, is the tie, or ligamen, which binds the subject to the king, in return for that protection which the king affords the subject. The thing itself, or substantial part of it, is founded in reason and the nature of government: the name and the form are derived to us from our Gothic ancestors. Under the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052001-6569 | ALLEGORY, in Composition, consists in choosing a secondary subject, having all its properties and circumstances resembling those, of the principal subject, and describing the former in such a manner as to represent the latter. The principal subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to discover it by reflection.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052101-6582 | ALLEGRI, Antonio, called Corregio, from the place of his birth, an eminent historical painter, was born in the year 1494. Being descended of poor parents, and educated in an obscure village, he enjoyed none of those advantages which contributed to form the other great painters of that illustrious age. He saw none of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052201-6595 | ALLEGRO, in Music, an Italian word, denoting that the part is to be played in a sprightly, brisk, lively, and gay manner.
Piu ALLEGRO signifies that the part it is joined to should be sung or played quicker; as Poco piu Allegro intimates that the part to which it refers ought to be played or sung only a little more br... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052202-6595 | ALLEIN, Joseph, the son of Tobias Allein, was born at Devizes, in Wiltshire, in 1633, and educated at Oxford. In 1655 he became assistant to Mr Newton, in Taunton Magdalen, in Somersetshire; but was deprived for nonconformity. He died in 1668, aged 35. He was a man of great learning, and greater charity; preserving, th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052301-6608 | ALLELUIAH, or Halleluiah, a word signifying Praise the Lord, to be met with either at the beginning or. end of some psalms; such as psalm cxlvi. and those that follow to the end. Alleluiah was sung upon solemn days of rejoicing, Tobit xiii. 12. St John in the Revelation (xix. 1, 3, 4, 6,) says, that he “heard a great v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052302-6608 | ALLEMAND, a sort of grave, solemn music, with good measure, and a slow movement. It is also a brisk kind of dance, very common in Germany and Switzerland.
Allemand, a river which falls into the Mississippi from the south-east, about 43 miles south of the Natches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052303-6608 | ALLEMANNIC, in a general sense, denotes any thing belonging to the ancient Germans. Thus, we meet with Allemannic history, Allemannic language, Allemannic law, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052304-6608 | ALLEMOND, a town of Upper Dauphiny, in the circle of Grenoble, in France. In the mountains of Cha-lanches, near it, is a lead mine, with silver, which is worked, and by smelting has yielded, in somewhat less than the last 20 years, upwards of 300,000 ounces of silver. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052305-6608 | ALLEN, John, archbishop of Dublin in the reign of King Henry VIII., was educated in the university of Oxford; from whence removing to Cambridge, he there took the degree of bachelor of laws. He was sent by Dr Warham, archbishop of Canterbury, to the pope, about certain matters relating to the church. He continued at Ro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052306-6608 | ALLENDORF, a bailiwick in the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, containing one city and eight other places, with 4332 inhabitants. The city, of the same name, stands on the river Lumbde, and contains 1179 inhabitants. The chief employment is husbandry, assisted by some manufactures of hosiery. The bailiwick, though in th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052307-6608 | ALLENSTEIN, a circle in the department of Königsberg, and province of East Prussia, extending over 522 square miles, or 333,080 acres. It contains two cities, 19 large parishes, and 21,635 inhabitants. The district is full of small lakes and extensive woods. The soil is bad, and yields little more than rye, oats, potat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 45' 50" N 20 13' 37" E | ALLENSTEIN |
kp-eb0702-052401-6621 | ALLER, a river which runs through the duchy of Luneburg, and falls into the Weser a little below Verden.
Aller-<7oocZ, in our ancient writers. The word aller serves to make the expression of superlative signification. So aller-good is the greatest good. Sometimes it is written alder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052402-6621 | ALLERION, or Alerion, in Heraldry, a sort of eagle without beak or feet, having nothing perfect but the wings. They differ from martlets by having their wings expanded, whereas those of the martlets are close; and denote imperialists vanquished and disarmed: for which reason they are more common in French than in Germa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052403-6621 | ALLESTRY, Richard, D. D. was born at Upping-ton in Shropshire in 1619, and educated in the grammar school of Coventry, and afterwards at Christ Church in Oxford. His natural talents, which were uncommonly vigorous, he carefully improved by an unwearied application to study. Accordingly, his promotion was rapid. First h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052404-6621 | ALLEVARD, a town of Dauphiny in France, containing 2160 inhabitants, in the vicinity of which are several iron-mines extensively worked, some blast furnaces, and also some mineral springs of curative power. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052405-6621 | ALLEVEURE, a small brass Swedish coin, worth about ∣d. English money. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052406-6621 | ALLEY, William, bishop of Exeter in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was born at Great Wycomb in Buckinghamshire. From Eton School, in the year 1528, he removed to King’s College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of bachelor of arts. He also studied some time at Oxford; afterwards he married, was presented with a livin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052501-6634 | ALLEYN, Edward, a celebrated English actor in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James, and founder of the college of Dulwich in Surrey, was born at London, in the parish of St Botolph, on the 1st of September 1566, as appears from a memorandum of his own writing. Dr Füller says that he was bred a stage-player, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052601-6647 | ALLIA, a river, or rather rivulet, of Italy, in the Sabine territory, which joins the Tiber 11 miles from Rome; famous for the great slaughter of the Romans by the Gauls under Brennus, when 40,000 were killed or put to flight; hence Alliensis dies, an unlucky day (Virgil, Ovid, Lucan). | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052602-6647 | ALLIANCE, in the Civil and Canon Law, the relation contracted between two persons or two families by marriage.
Alliance is also used for a treaty entered into by sovereign princes and states, for their mutual safety and defence. In this sense, alliances may be distinguished into such as are offensive, whereby the cont... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052603-6647 | ALLIER, a department of France, on a river of the same name, which runs at the foot of a branch of the Cevennes Mountains. It extends over 365 square leagues, and contains a population of 254,550 persons. It is composed of a part of the ancient province of Bourbonnois, and of that of Moulins. It is divided into four ci... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052604-6647 | ALLIGATI, in Roman Antiquity, the basest kind of slaves, who were usually kept fettered. The Romans had three degrees or orders of slaves or servants; the first employed in the management of their estates, the second in the menial or lower functions of the family, the third, called alligati, above mentioned. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052605-6647 | ALLIGATION, the name of a method of solving all questions that relate to the mixture of one ingredient with another. Though writers on arithmetic generally make alligation a branch of that science, yet, as it is plainly nothing more than an application of the common properties of numbers^ in order to solve a few questi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052701-6660 | ALLIGATOR, or American crocodile, called Cayman by the Indians. See Reptilia, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052702-6660 | ALLIOTH, a star in the tail of the Greater Bear, much used for finding the latitude at sea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052703-6660 | ALLITERATION, an ornament of language chiefly used in poetry, and consisting in the repetition of the same letter at certain intervals. We do not remember to have ever seen any satisfactory account of alliteration in the writings of the critics. They seem to have passed it over in contemptuous silence, either as a fals... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052801-6673 | ALLIX, Peter, a French Protestant divine, was born at Alençon in France, in the year 1641. He became a learned divine of the English church, and a strenuous defender of the Protestant faith. At the time when the edict of Nantes tolerated and protected the Protestants of France, he entered upon his clerical profession, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052802-6673 | ALLOA, a sea-port town of Scotland, in the county of Clackmannan. It is situated on the north shore of the Frith of Forth, 27 miles from Edinburgh, 5 from Stirling by land and 19 by water, 32 from Perth, and 7 from Dollar. It has a safe and commodious harbour, having 16 feet of water in neap, and 22 in spring tides. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052803-6673 | ALLOCATION denotes the admitting or allowing of an article of an account, especially in the exchequer. Hence ALLOCATiONE Facienda is a writ directed to the lord treasurer, or barons of the exchequer, commanding them to allow an accountant such sums as he has lawfully expended in the execution of his office. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052804-6673 | ALLOCUTIO, an oration or speech of a general addressed to his soldiers, to animate them to fight, to appease sedition, or to keep them to their duty. A mount of earth was raised upon the occasion, as it were a kind of a tribunal of turf. From this the general pronounced his harangue to the army, which was ranged in sev... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052805-6673 | ALLODIUM, or Alleud, denotes lands which are the [7:2:529]absolute property of their owner, without being obliged to pay any service or acknowledgement whatever to a superior lord. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052901-6686 | ALLOS, a lake on the top of a lofty mountain in the department of the Lower Alps, in France. It is near the town of the same name, which contains 1400 inhabitants. The lake is about a league in circumference, and abounds in fish, especially in excellent trout. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052902-6686 | ALLOY, or Allay, properly signifies a proportion of a baser metal mixed with a finer one. The alloy of gold is estimated by carats, that of silver by pennyweights. In different nations different proportions of alloy are used; whence their moneys are said to be of different degrees of fineness or baseness, and are value... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052903-6686 | ALLSTEDT, a bailiwick in the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar, containing one city and 12 smaller places, with 5859 inhabitants. A city of 1847 inhabitants, of the same name, is the capital. It is situated on the Rhone, and has a ducal palace. The trade of the place consists in weaving cloth, and in preparing potash and salt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052904-6686 | ALLUM. See Alum. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052905-6686 | ALLUMINOR, from the French allumer, to lighten, is used for one who coloureth or painteth upon pâpér or parchment; and the reason is, because he gives light and ornament by his colours to the letters or other figures. Such ornaments are styled illuminations. The word is used in statute 1 Richard III. cap. 9. But now su... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052906-6686 | ALLUSION, in Rhetoric, a figure by which something is applied to, or understood of, another, on account of some similitude between them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052907-6686 | ALLUVION, in Law, denotes the gradual increase of land along the sea-shoré, or on banks of rivers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052908-6686 | ALMACANTARS. See Almucantars. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052909-6686 | ALMADA, a Portuguese town upon the Tagus, opposite Lisbon, in the province of Estremadura, with 1 monastery, 700 houses, and 3000 inhabitants. Not far from this place is one of the entrances to the Tagus, defended by the tower of St Sebastian. Lat. 38. 37. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052910-6686 | ALMADEN de Azogue, a town in Spain, in the province of New Castile. It is distinguished by the rich mines of quicksilver in its vicinity, which are wrought on account of the government, and furnish that indispensable mineral to the silver mines of Mexico but from the decrease in the quantity raised, a considerable defi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052911-6686 | ALMADIE, a kind of canoe or small vessel, about four fathoms long, commonly made of bark, and used by the negroes of Africa.
Almadie is also the name of a kind of long boats, fitted out at Calicut, which are 80 feet in length and six or seven in breadth. They are exceedingly swift, and are otherwise called cathuri. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052912-6686 | ALMAGEST, in matters of literature, is particularly used for a collection or book' composed by Ptolemy, containing various problems of the ancients both in geometry and astronomy. j Almagest is also the title of other collections of this kind. Thus, Riccioli has published a book of astronomy, which he calls the ŤVéw Al... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052913-6686 | ALMAGRA, a fine, deep red ochre, with some admixture of purple, very heavy, and of a dense yet friable structure, and rough, dusty surface. It adheres very firmly to the tongue, melts freely and easily in the mouth, is of an austere and strongly astringent taste, and stains the skin in touching. It is the Sil Atticum o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-052914-6686 | ALMAGRO, a fortress of Spain, the capital of one of the districts of La Mancha. It was built by the archbishop Roderic of Toledo, who finished it in 1214, and put a considerable garrison into it to restrain the incursions of the Moors. This was hardly done when the fortress was besieged by an army of 5000 horse and foo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053101-6712 | ALMAJORA, a Spanish town on the sea-shore, in the province of Valencia, with 4500 inhabitants. Lat. 39. 53. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053102-6712 | ALMAMON, or Mamon, also named Abdallah, caliph of Bagdad, was born A. n. 785. His elder brother Al Amin succeeded to the caliphate on the death of his father, and Almamon at that time was governor of Chorasan. As by the will of the father it was provided that his three sons should succeed to the caliphate in order, Alm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053103-6712 | ALMANACK, a book or table, containing a calendar of days and months, the rising and setting of the sun, the age of the moon, the eclipses of both luminaries, &c.— Authors are divided with regard to the etymology of the word; some deriving it from the Arabic particle al, and manach, to count; some from almanach, new-yea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053301-6738 | ALMANSA, a small city of Murcia, in Spain, to the north of the river Segura. A pyramid erected near it commemorates the decisive battle fought here in 1707, when the French and Spaniards gained a complete victory over the united forces of England and Portugal. It now contains 4000 inhabitants. 15 miles north-north-west... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053302-6738 | ALMANSOR the Victorious, the second caliph of the house of Al Abbas, succeeded his brother Abul Abbas Al Saffah in the year 753, of the Hegira 136, and in the following year was inaugurated at Al Hashemiyah. Although Al Saffah had declared him presumptive heir of the crown, and he had been proclaimed caliph in the impe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053303-6738 | ALMARAZ, a town of Spain, in the province of Old Castile. It is on the north bank of the Tagus, where the road from Badajos divides into two branches, the one proceeding towards Madrid, the other towards Plasencia and Ciudad Rodrigo. The destruction of the bridge over the Tagus was one of the most brilliant actions of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053304-6738 | ALMARIC, the name of a tenet broached in France by one Almaric, in the year 1209. It consisted in affirming that every Christian was actually a member of Christ, and that without this faith no one could be saved. His followers went farther, and affirmed that the power of the Father lasted only during the continuance of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053305-6738 | ALMAZAN, a Spanish town upon the Douro, in the province of Soria. It contains four monasteries, one hospital, and 2000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053306-6738 | ALMAZARRON, a town of Murcia in Spain, on the coast of the Mediterranean. In its vicinity is found a fine red earth without any mixture of sand, called alma-gri, which is very much valued by the polishers of mirrors, and is mixed with all the snuff in the royal manufactory of Seville. This production is supposed by Bow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053307-6738 | ALME, or Alma, singing and dancing girls in Egypt, who, like the Italian lmprovisatori, can occasionally pour forth “unpremeditated verse.” They are called Alme i from having received a better education than other women. They form a celebrated society in that country. To be received into it, according to Μ. Savary, it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053401-6751 | ALMEHRAB, in the Mahometan customs, a niche in their mosques, pointing towards the kebla or temple of Mecca, to which they are obliged to bow in praying. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053402-6751 | ALMEIDA, a strong fortress of Portugal, in the province of Beira. It is situated between the rivers Coa and the Duas Casas, which forms a branch of the Agueda. The capture of it by the duke of Wellington, after it had fallen into the hands of the French, was deemed one of the most brilliant exploits of the peninsular w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053403-6751 | ALMEISAR, a celebrated game among the ancient Arabs, performed by a kind of casting of lots with arrows, strictly forbidden by the law of Mahomet, on account of the frequent quarrels occasioned by it. The manner of the game was thus: A young camel being brought and killed, was divided into a number of parts. The advent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053404-6751 | ALMELO, an arrondissement containing six cantons and 57,241 inhabitants, in the province of Overyssel, in the Netherlands.
Almelo, a city, the capital of the circle of the same name in Holland. It contains 4662 inhabitants, subsisting chiefly by different branches of the linen manufacture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053405-6751 | ALMENE, in Commerce, a Weight of two pounds, used to weigh saffron in several parts of the continent of the East Indies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053406-6751 | ALMERIA, a city of Spain, in the province of Granada, in Andalusia. It is situated on a rocky promontory hear Cape de Gat, and from the strength of the port was deemed by the Moorish kings of Granada the most valuable of their fortresses and commercial ports; from whence their cruisers overawed the Catalans and Italian... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053407-6751 | ALMEYDA, Don Francis, was the son of the count d’Abrantes, a grandee of Portugal, who served with great distinction in the war of Ferdinand of Castile with Granada; and in consequence of his important services he became highly esteemed in the court of his sovereign. Without any solicitation on his part he was nominated... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053408-6751 | ALMIGGIM. See Almuggim. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053409-6751 | ALMISSA, a small but strong town at the mouth of the Cetina, in Dalmatia, famous for its piracies; 16 miles east of Spalatro. Long. 18. 14. E. Lat. 43. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053410-6751 | ALMOHEDES, the name of a dynasty, which, in the commencement of the twelfth century, succeeded that of the Almoravides in Barbary. It derived its name from an obscure founder called Al Mohedi, or Al Mohedes, and it rose into public notice in the 25th year of the reign of Al Abraham, or Brahem, who succeeded his father ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053501-6764 | ALMONBURY, a township of the wapentake of Ay-brig, in the west riding of the county of York. It is situated on the river Calder, and had formerly a cathedral and a strong castle. It is 186 miles distant from London, in a manufacturing district near Huddersfield. The population in 1801 was 3751; in 1811, 4613; and in 18... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053502-6764 | ALMOND, in Commerce, a measure by which the Portuguese sell their oil: 26 almonds make a pipe.
Almonds, in Anatomy, a name sometimes given to two glands, generally called the tonsils. Almonds, among lapidaries, signify pieces of rock-crystal, used in adorning branch-candlesticks, &c., on account of the resemblance the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053601-6777 | ALMONER, in its primitive sense, denotes an officer in religious houses, to whom belonged the management and distribution of the alms of the house. By the ancient canons, all monasteries were to spend at least a tenth part of their income in alms to the poor. The almoner of St Paul’s is to dispose of the moneys left fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053602-6777 | ALMORAH, a small but very curious and interesting town of Hindostan, the modern capital of the province of Kumaon. It is built on a ridge of the Himalaya Mountains, 5337 feet above the level of the sea, and consists chiefly of a single street, about three fourths of a mile long, and about 50 feet wide, which runs along... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053603-6777 | ALMORAVIDES, the name of an Arab tribe, who took possession of a district of Africa under the pretence of living in retirement, that their minds might not be distracted from the rigid observance of the precepts of the Koran. Hence they assumed the name of Morabites, which was changed by the Spaniards into that of Almo-... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053701-6790 | ALMS, a general term for what is given out of charity to the poor. In the early ages of Christianity, the alms of the charitable were divided into four parts; one of which was allotted to the bishop, another to the priests, and a third to the deacons and subdeacons, which formed their whole means of subsistence; the fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053702-6790 | ALMUCANTARS, in Astronomy, an Arabic word, denoting circles of the sphere passing through the centre of the sun or à star, parallel to the horizon, being the same as Parallels of Altitude. Almucantar’s Staff is an instrument usually made of pear-tree or box, having an arch of 15 degrees; used to take observations of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-053703-6790 | ALMUCIUM denotes a kind of cover for the head, worn chiefly by monks and ecclesiastics. It was of a square form, and seems to have given rise to the bonnets of the same shape still retained in universities and cathedrals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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