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kp-eb0713-015301-3394 | LAWLESS Court, a court said to have been held annually on the King’s Hill at Rochford, in Essex, on the Wednesday morning after Michaelmas day, at cock-crowing, where they whispered, and had no candle, nor any pen and ink, but only a coal. Persons who owed suit or service, and did not appear, forfeited double their ren... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015302-3394 | LAWRENCE, Sir Thomas, a celebrated English painter, was born at Bristol, on the 13th of April 1769. His father, who kept an inn, first in Bristol, and afterwards in Devizes, made some pretensions to literary taste, and was in the habit of reciting poetry; an accomplishment which his son acquired at a very early age, as... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015501-3420 | LAY, a kind of ancient poem amongst the French, consisting of very short verses.
There were two sorts of lays, the great and the little. The first was a poem consisting of twelve couplets of verses, of different measures. The second was a poem consisting of sixteen or twenty verses, divided into four couplets. These l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015502-3420 | LAYERS, in Gardening, are tender shoots or twigs of trees, laid or buried in the ground, till, having struck root, they are separated from the parent tree, and become distinct plants. The propagating of trees by layers is done in the following manner: The branches of the trees are slit a little way, and laid under the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015503-3420 | LEAD, a metal of a white colour, inclining to blue, and the least ductile, the least elastic, and the least sonorous of all the metals, but possessing a considerable degree of specific gravity.
The lead mines of Great Britain have been wrought from a very remote era. Previously to 1289, however, it would seem that tho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015601-3433 | LEAF, a part of a plant extended into length and breadth in such a manner as to have one side distinguishable from the other. This is Miller’s definition. Linnaeus denominates leaves the organs of motion, or muscles of the plant. See Physiology, Vegetable. Leaf- Skeletons. One help for acquiring a knowledge of the anat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015602-3433 | LEAGUE, a measure of length, containing more or fewer geometrical paces, according to the different usages and customs of countries. A league at sea contains 3000 geometrical paces, or three English miles. The French league sometimes contains the same measure, and sometimes consists of 3500 paces; the mean or common le... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015603-3433 | LEAK, at sea, is a hole in the ship, through which the water comes in. A ship is said to spring a leak when she begins to leak, or to let in the water. The manner of stopping a leak is to put into it a plug wrapped in oakum and well tarred, or to insert a tarpawling clout, which keeps out the water, or to nail a piece ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015604-3433 | LEAKAGE, the state of a vessel that leaks, or lets in or out water or other liquid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015605-3433 | LEAKE, Richard, was born at Harwich in 1629, and was bred to the sea. At the Restoration, he was made master gunner of the Princess, a frigate of fifty guns, and [7:13:157] in the first Dutch war distinguished himself by his skill and bravery in two extraordinary actions; one against fifteen sail of Dutch men of war; a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015801-3459 | LEANDER, in poetical history, a young man of Abydos, in Asia. He used to swim across the Hellespont by night to visit Hero, his mistress, who set forth a light to guide him; but in a tempestuous winter night he was drowned; upon which Hero seeing him dead on the shore, cast herself headlong from the tower, and perished... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015802-3459 | LEAO, a mineral substance approaching to the nature of lapis lazuli, found in the East Indies, and of great use in the Chinese porcelain manufactures, as it affords the finest blue they are possessed of.
Leao, a river of Chinese Tartary, which traverses the greater part of the province of Cheng-yang or Leao-tong, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015803-3459 | LEAO-TONG, Gulf of, a considerable gulf, connected with that of Pe-tche-lee, and extending along the coast of the province of the same name in Chinese Tartary. It is 120 miles in length by eighty in breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015804-3459 | LEAP, in Music, is when the song does not proceed by conjoint degrees, as in the case where between each note there is an interval of a third, a fourth, a fifth, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015805-3459 | LEAPING, or Vaultiñg, was an exercise much used both amongst the Greeks and Romans. The former called it άλμα., and performed it with weights upon their heads and shoulders. Sometimes they carried the weights in their hands, which were of different figures, but generally oval, and made with holes or covered with thongs... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015806-3459 | LEAR, the name of a British king, said in old chronicles to have succeeded his father Bladud, about the year of the world 3160. The story of this king and his three daughters is well known, from Shakspeare’s tragedy founded upon it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015807-3459 | LEARCHUS, a celebrated Greek sculptor of Rhegium, in the south of Italy, who seems to have flourished at a very early period, before 620 b. c. He made a statue of Jupiter in bronze, which was seen at Sparta, and which was regarded as the most ancient work of its kind. It was not of one piece, but was made of pieces wor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015808-3459 | LEASE, from the French leiser, demittere, to let, in law, a demise, or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, unto another for life, a term of years, or at will, for a rent reserved. A lease is either written, called an indenture, deed-roll, or lease in writing; or by word of mouth, called lease parole. Lease a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015809-3459 | LEASH, amongst sportsmen, denotes three creatures of any kind, but chiefly greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares. The term leash also signifies a line to hold in a hunting dog; and a small long thong of leather, by which a falconer holds his hawk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015810-3459 | LEATHER, the skins of several sorts of beasts dressed and prepared for the use of various manufacturers, whose business it is to apply them to useful purposes.
The manufacture of leather is of great importance in every country; and in Great Britain it ranks third or fourth on the list, being inferior only to those of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015901-3472 | LEAVEN, a piece of sour dough, used to ferment and render light a much larger quantity of dough or paste.
Leaven was strictly forbidden by the law of Moses during the seven days of the passover; and the Jews, in obedience to this law, carefully purified their houses from all leaven, as soon as the vigil of the feast b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015902-3472 | LEAVES of Plants. See Leaf. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015903-3472 | LEBADEA, or Lebadia, an ancient town of Boeotia, on the borders of Phocis, situated between FIelicon and Chaeronea, near Coronaea. In it stood the oracle of Jupiter Trophonius, which whoever went to consult descended into a subterraneous gulf. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015904-3472 | LEBEDAN, a circle in the Russian province of Tambow, extending from north latitude 52. 37. to 53. 9. and in east longitude from 38. 33. to 40. 13. It contains 1210 square miles, and a population of 67,260 persons. It is chiefly watered by the Don, and is of somewhat more than moderate fertility. The capital is the city... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 5' N 39 3' E | LEBEDAN |
kp-eb0713-015905-3472 | LEBEDJAN, a circle of the Russian province of Ukraine, extending in north latitude from 50. 20. to 50. 60. and in east longitude from 34. 13. to 34. 59. It contains 1366 square miles, with a population of 136,000 persons, inhabiting two cities, and 218 villages. The capital is a city situated on the river Atschonaja, 9... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 30' N 34 35' E | LEBEDJAN |
kp-eb0713-015906-3472 | LEBRIJA, or Lebrixa, a town of Spain, in the province of Andalusia, about three leagues north of Xeres, and on the road by the plain from that city to Seville. It was a plain of great celebrity during the contests between Caesar and Pompey. It was the head-quarters of the latter, and the place where three Roman knights... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015907-3472 | LECCE, a city of the kingdom of Naples, the capital of the province of Otranto. It stands on an extensive and fertile plain between Bari and Otranto, is surrounded with walls, and is the most regular and one of the most beautiful cities of the south of Italy. The great square contains some magnificent edifices, adorned... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 38' N 18 30' E | LECCE |
kp-eb0713-015908-3472 | LE CROIFIC, a sea-port of France, in the department of the Lower Loire, and arrondissement of Savenay. It is situated on a tongue of land which forms the harbour, and has near it some extensive marshes, on which salt is made. It contains 320 houses, and 2450 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in the herring and Sard... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 17' N 2 37' W | LE CROIFIC |
kp-eb0713-015909-3472 | LECTI, beds or couches, were of two kinds amongst the Romans, as being destined to two different uses, viz. to lie upon at entertainments, and to repose upon for nightly rest. The first was called lecti tricliniares, the other lecti cubicularii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015910-3472 | LECTICA was a litter or vehicle in which the Romans were carried. It was of two kinds, covered and uncovered. The covered lectica is called by Pliny cubiculum viatorum, a traveller’s bed-chamber. And indeed we are informed that Augustus frequently ordered his servants to stop his litter that he might sleep upon the roa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015911-3472 | LECTICARII, amongst the Romans, servants who carried the lectica. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015912-3472 | LECTICARIUS was also an officer in the Greek church, whose business it was to bear off the bodies of those who had died, and to bury them. They were otherwise de-nominated decani and copiatoe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015913-3472 | LECTISTERNIUM, a solemn ceremony observed by the Romans in times of public danger, when an entertainment was prepared with great magnificence, and served up in the temples. The gods were invited to partake of the good cheer, and their statues were placed upon couches round the table, in the same manner as men used to s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015914-3472 | LECTORES, amongst the Romans, servants in great men’s houses, who were employed in reading whilst their masters were at supper. They were called by the Greeks Anagnostoe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-015915-3472 | LECTOURE, an arrondissement of the department of Gers, in France. It extends over 427 square miles, comprehends five cantons, divided into ninety-three communes, and contains 58,500 inhabitants-The capital, the city of the same name, is situated on a hill, at the foot of [7:13:160]which the Gers flows. It contains 940 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 56' 2" N 0 31' 48" E | LECTOURE |
kp-eb0713-016001-3485 | LECTURERS, in England, are an order of preachers in parish churches, distinct from the rector, vicar, and curate. They are chosen by the vestry, or chief inhabitants of the parish, supported by voluntary subscriptions and legacies, and are usually the afternoon preachers in the Sunday service. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016002-3485 | LEDA, in fabulous history, a daughter of Thespius and Eurythemis, who married Tyndarus, king of Sparta. She was seen by Jupiter bathing in the river Eurotas when she was some few days advanced in her pregnancy, and the god, struck with her beauty, resolved to deceive her. He persuaded Venus to change herself into an ea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016003-3485 | LEDBURY, a market-town of Herefordshire, in the hundred of Radlow, 121 miles from London, not far from the foot of the Malvern Hills. It is situated on the river Leden, and on the side of a canal from Gloucester to Hereford. There are some remains of a woollen manufacture, which was formerly considerable. The market is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016004-3485 | LEDGER, the principal book in which merchants enter their accounts. See Book-keeping. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016005-3485 | LEE, an epithet used by seamen to distinguish that part of the hemisphere to which the wind is directed, from the other part whence it blows, and which is accordingly called to windward. This expression is chiefly used when the wind crosses the line of a ship’s course, so that all on one side of her is called to windwa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016006-3485 | LEE, Nathaniel, a dramatic poet of the eighteenth century, was the son of a clergyman, who gave him a liberal education. He received the rudiments of learning at Westminster School, from which he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. Coming to London, however, his inclination prompted him to appear on the stage; but he w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016007-3485 | LEECHES, in a ship, the borders or edges of a sail, which are either sloping or perpendicular.
The leeches of all sails, the tops and bottoms of which are parallel to the deck, or at right angles to the mast, are denominated from the ship’s side, and the sail to which they belong; as the starboard leech of the main-sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016008-3485 | LEEDS, in the west riding of Yorkshire, the metropolis of the woollen manufacture, is the fifth town in England in point of population and commercial activity, being only exceeded in these respects by London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The population of the parish and borough, which are co-extensive, amount... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016401-3537 | LEEFOGA, one of the smallest of the Hapace Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is not above seven miles long, and in some places not above two or three broad. There is a reef running to a considerable extent from the east end of it, on which, from being exposed to the trade-winds, the sea breaks with great violence... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 49' S 185 40' E | LEEFOGA |
kp-eb0713-016402-3537 | LEEK, a market-town and parish of the hundred of Totmonslow, in the county of Stafford, 154 miles from London. It is in the neighbourhood of coal mines, which have given rise to manufactures. The making of an inferior description of ribbons has been long a source of employment, and has latterly been extended by the rem... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016403-3537 | LEER, in glass-making. See Glass. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016404-3537 | LEER, a city of the province of East Friesland, in the kingdom of Hanover, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name. It is situated on the river Leda, near its junction with the Ems, and is a well-built town, containing three churches, a synagogue, 739 houses, and 5514 inhabitants. It is a place of active trade in c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016405-3537 | LEES, the grossest and most ponderous parts of liquors, which, being separated by fermentation, fall to the bottom. The word comes from the French lie; and that either from lirnus, mud, or from Lyceus, one of the surnames of Bacchus; or, according to Du Cange, from lia, a corrupt Latin word signifying the same thing. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016406-3537 | LEETAKOO, or Lattakoo, the capital of the Bos· huana territory, in Southern Africa. The old town of this name, when first visited in 1801, contained from 10,000 to 15,000 inhabitants, who had made some advancement in the arts of civilized life; but in consequence of a schism in one of the tribes, the inhabitants remove... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016407-3537 | LEEUWARDEN, a city, the capital of the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands, and of the circle of the same name in that province, which contains ten cantons, with 95,000 inhabitants. The city is situated on a canal which proceeds to Dockum, is well built, with clean, wide streets, intersected by several canals. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016408-3537 | LEGATE, a cardinal or bishop, whom the pope sends as his ambassador to sovereign princes. There are three kinds of legates, viz. legates a latere, legates de latere, and legates by office, or legati nati. Of these, the most considerable are the legates a latere ; the next are the legates de latere. Legates by office ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016409-3537 | LEGATUS, a military officer amongst the Romans, who acted as deputy of the commander-in-chief. The legati, at their first institution, were appointed not so much to command as to advise; and they were generally chosen by the consuls, with the approbation of the senate. As to [7:13:165]the number of the legati we have n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016501-3550 | LEGEND, any idle or marvellous story told concerning saints, and other persons.
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kp-eb0713-016502-3550 | LEGERDEMAIN, a denomination given to certain deceptive performances, which either depend altogether on dexterity and address, or derive but a small degree of aid from philosophical principles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016503-3550 | LEGER Line, in Music, one added to the staff of five lines, when the ascending or descending notes run very high or very low. There are sometimes many of these lines both above and below the staff. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016504-3550 | LEGHORN, properly Livorno, a commercial city of the duchy of Tuscany, in Italy. It stands on the sea-shore, near the island of Melora, which, by its castle, defends the entrance of the harbour. It is surrounded by strong walls on every side; but towards the land these are thought to be untenable, from being commanded b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-016505-3550 | LEGION, in Roman antiquity, a body of foot, which consisted of different numbers at different periods of time. The word comes from the Latin legere, to choose; because, when the legions were raised, they made choice of such of the youth as were of the proper age to bear arms.
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kp-eb0713-016601-3563 | LEGISLATION.
The word Legislation is used in two senses; the one ancient, the other comparatively modern. In its ancient and most ordinary acceptation, it comprehends the science of law, as law ought to be; explaining the principles from which law should be universally derived, and also the rule to be observed in the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-020201-4031 | LEGISLATOR, a lawgiver, or person who establishes the polity and laws of a state. Such was Moses amongst the Jews, Lycurgus among the Lacedemonians, and many others. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-020202-4031 | LEGITIMATION, an act by which illegitimate children are rendered legitimate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-020203-4031 | LEGNAGO, a city of Italy, in the Austrian delegation of Verona. It is the capital of a district, and is strongly fortified. It is situated on the river Etsch or Adige, between which and the Tartaro is a marshy plain, on which a great extent of land produces excellent crops of rice. It is a well-built city, containing s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-020204-4031 | LEGUMEN, a species of seed-vessel which has two valves or external openings, enclosing a number of seeds which are fastened along one suture only. In this last circumstance the seed-vessel in question differs from that termed by botanists siliqua, in which the enclosed seeds are fastened alternately to both the sutures... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-020205-4031 | LEGUMINOUS, an appellation given to all plants the fruit of which is a legumen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-020206-4031 | LEIBNITZ, Godfrey William, Baron de, a philosopher and mathematician of the first order, and the most universal scholar of modern times, was born at Leipsig on the third of July 1646. At the age of six he lost his father, Frederick Leibnitz, professor of law, and secretary to the university. After this event his mother... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-020801-4109 | LEICESTER, a town, the capital of the county of the same name, ninety-eight miles north of London. It is situated on the river Soar; but, by means chiefly of canals, has the means of conveyance to every part of the kingdom. It is an ancient town, said to have been built by King Lear, and was a place of strength when En... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-020901-4122 | LEICESTERSHIRE, an English inland county. It is bounded on the north by Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, on the west by the latter county and Warwickshire, on the south by Northamptonshire, and on the east by Rutlandshire and Lincolnshire. It is of a triangular form, and few of its limits are marked by nature, as the ri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-021001-4135 | LEIGH, a town and port, with a custom-house, of the hundred of Rochford, in the county of Essex, thirty-nine miles from London. Here much corn is shipped for the supply of the metropolis. The population amounted in 1801 to 570, in 1811 to 702, in 1821 to 905, and in 1831 to 1254.
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kp-eb0713-021002-4135 | LEIGHLIN, a decayed town of Ireland, situated in the county of Carlow, about forty-three miles from Dublin, near the river Barrow. It is a borough, and formerly returned two members to the Irish parliament. The patronage is in the bishop of the diocese, this being a bishopric united to Ferns. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-021003-4135 | LEIGHTON, Robert, a prelate of eminent talents and learning, and of the most exalted piety, was born in the year 1611. His father, Alexander Leighton, a descendant of the ancient family of Ulyshaven in Forfarshire, commenced his academical studies at St Andrews, and afterwards rep>aired to Leyden, where he took the deg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-021701-4226 | LEIGHTON BUZZARD, or Beaudesert, a markettown of the hundred of Manshead, in the county of Bedford, forty-one miles from London. It is situated on a branch of the river Ouse, and has a good market-place, with a cross in the centre. The only trade is some lacemaking, and some plaiting of straw. There is a good market, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-021702-4226 | LEINSTER, the eastern province of Ireland, bounded by Ulster on the north; by St George’s, or the Irish Channel, on the east and south; and by the provinces of Connaught and Munster on the west. The capital city of this province and of the kingdom is Dublin. It contains twelve counties, viz. Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Ki... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-021703-4226 | LEIPA, a city of the circle of Leutmcritz, in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia. It stands on the river Polzen, and has a gymnasium, 688 houses, and 4918 inhabitants. It is a manufacturing place, producing linen and woollen cloths, glass, and earthenware. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-021704-4226 | LEIPZIG, one of the circles into which the kingdom of Saxony is divided. It extends over 1195 square miles, comprehends twenty-three cities and towns, with 794 villages, and contains 216,564 inhabitants. It consists of two parts, Leipzig and Wurzen, which are again subdivided into bailiwicks. The city of the same name ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-021705-4226 | LEITH, a populous sea-port town in the county of Edinburgh, situated on the southern shore of the Frith of Forth, at the mouth of the Water of Leith, and distant about a mile and a half from the centre of the Scottish capital. The ancient name of the town, which is of considerable antiquity, having been for several cen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022101-4278 | LEITOMISCHEL, a city of the circle of Chrudim, in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia. It stands on the river Lauzna, and contains 634 houses, with 4653 inhabitants, who are occupied in making muslins and other cotton goods, and in distilleries. There is a college with six professors, and a gymnasium or public classical sc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022102-4278 | LEITRIM, a maritime county of the province of Connaught, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by tĥe Atlantic and the counties of Donegal and Fermanagh, on the cast by the counties of Fermanagh and Cavan, on the south by those of Longford and Roscommon, and on the west by Roscommon and Sligo. In shape it has been compar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022401-4325 | LEIXLIP, a post and fair town of Ireland, pleasantly situated in the county of Kildare and province of Leinster, about eight miles from Dublin. Near it are the ruins of the church and castle of Confy. The castle of Leixlip is beautifully situated on the banks of the river Liffey. It is a fine edifice, with large and pl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022402-4325 | LELAND, John, an eminent English antiquarian, was born in London about the year 1507. Having lost his parents when a child, he had the good fortune to find a friend and patron in a Mr Thomas Myles, who placed him in St Paul’s school, of which the grammarian William Lilly was master. From that school he was sent to Chri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022501-4348 | LELEGEIS, the ancient name of Miletus, from the Leleges, the first inhabitants of it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022502-4348 | LELEGES, anciently a people of Asia, of Greek origin; the name denoting “a collection of people.” They first occupied the islands; then passing over to the continent, they settled partly in Mysia, on the Sinus Adramyttenus, and partly in that part of Ionia next to Caria. There were also Leleges of Laconia. These went t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022503-4348 | LELY, Sir Peter, an eminent painter, was born in Westphalia in the year 1617. He was placed as a disciple with Peter Grebber at Haerlem; and in 1641 was induced, by the encouragement which Charles I. gave to the fine arts, to visit England. He became state-painter to Charles II., who knighted him; and being a gentleman... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022504-4348 | LEMBERG, a circle in the Austrian province of Gallicia, extending over 1090 square miles. It comprehends four cities, two market-towns, and 167 villages, with 18,551 houses, inhabited by 140,468 individuals, of whom 18,550 are Jews. The capital of the circle, as of the province, is a city of the same name, but recently... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022505-4348 | LEMERY, Nicholas, a celebrated chemist, born at Rouen, in Normandy, in 1645. After having made the tour of France, he, in 1672, commenced an acquaintance with Martyn, apothecary to the prince, and performed several courses of chemistry in the laboratory of this chemist; at the Hôtel de Condé, which were the means of ma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022506-4348 | LEMGO, a city of the principality of Lippe-Detmold, in Germany, the capital of the bailiwick of Brake. It is situated on the river Vega, and is the largest place in the dominion, containing the palace of the sovereign, the courts [7:13:226]of justice, the institutions for education, and 640 houses, with 3570 inhabitant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022601-4361 | LEMMA (from λαμCαvω, I assume), in Mathematics, denotes a previous proposition, laid down in order to clear the way for some following demonstration, and prefixed either to theorems, in order to render their demonstration less perplexed and intricate, or to problems, to make their resolution shorter and more easy. Thus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022602-4361 | LEMNIAN Earth, Terra Lemnia, a medicinal, astringent sort of Oar th, of a fatty consistence and reddish colour. It derives its name from the island of Lemnos, whence it is chiefly brought. Many form it into round cakes, and impress a seal upon it; and hence it is also called terra sigillata. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022603-4361 | LEMNIUS, Laevinus, a famous physician, born in Zealand in 1505. He practised physic with much applause; and, having taken holy orders, became canon of Ziric Zee, where he died in 1560. He left several works, the principal of which is entitled De occultis Naturae Miraculis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022604-4361 | LEMNOS, an island in the Archipelago, in the Turkish province of Lesbos or Midilly. It extends over 165 square miles, from north latitude 39. 46. to 40. 2. and from east longitude 24. 52. to 25. 33. It is very narrow in the middle, where there are two harbours on the opposite sides of the tongue of land which joins the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022605-4361 | LEMON Island, one of the Skelig Islands, situated off the coast of the county of Kerry, in the province of Munster, in Ireland. It is a round rock, always above water, and therefore nowise dangerous to ships. An incredible number of gannets and other birds breed here; and it is remarkable that gannets nestle nowhere on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022606-4361 | LEMONADE, a liquor prepared from water, sugar, and lemon or citron juice, and which is very cooling and grateful. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022607-4361 | LEMONNIER, Peter (Claude) Charles, a diligent and accurate astronomer, born at Paris, on the 23d of November 1715, was the son of Peter Lemonnier, of St Sever, in Normandy.
His father was a professor of philosophy in the College d’Harcourt, and member of the Academy of Sciences. He distinguished himself, as a teacher,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022801-4387 | LEMURES, in Antiquity, spirits or hobgoblins, restless ghosts of departed persons, who return to terrify and torment the living.
These are the same with larvoe, which, according to the ancients, wandered throughout the world frightening good people, and plaguing the bad. For this reason, lemuria or feasts were institu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022802-4387 | LEMURIA, or Lemuralia, afcast solemnized at Rome on the 9th of May, to pacify the manes of the dead, or in honour of the lemures. It was instituted by Romulus to appease the ghost of his murdered brother Remus, which he thought was continually pursuing him to revenge the crime. Sacrifices continued for three nights, th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022803-4387 | LENA, a large river of Asiatic Russia, which rises in the ridge of mountains to the north-west of Lake Baikal, and which flows almost from south-west to north-east, till near Yakoutsk. In this part of its course its tributaries are the Wilime and the Olekma; and, combined with the Obi and the Toungouska, it furnishes a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022804-4387 | LENAEA, a festival observed by the Greeks in honour of Bacchus, at which there was much feasting and jollity, accompanied with poetical contentions, and the exhibition of tragedies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022805-4387 | LENDINARA, a town of Italy, in the Austrian delegation of Polesinu. It is situated on the river Adigetto, is the capital of the district, and contains thirteen churches, and 5190 inhabitants, employed in various trades and manufactures.
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kp-eb0713-022806-4387 | LENFANT, James, a learned French writer, was born in 1661. After studying at Saumur, he went to Heidelberg, where he received imposition of hands for the ministry in 1684. He discharged the functions of this character with great reputation there, as chaplain of the electress dowager palatine, and pastor in ordinary to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022901-4400 | LENGLET, Nicholas du Fresno y, born at Beauvais, in France, 1674, was a prolific and useful French writer on a variety of subjects, historical, geographical, political, and philosophical. His chief productions are, a Method of Studying History, with a Catalogue of the Principal Historians of every Age and Country, publ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022902-4400 | LENGTH, the extent of any thing material from end to end. In duration, it is applied to any space of time, whether long or short. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022903-4400 | LENGTHENING, in ship-building, the operation of cutting a ship down across the middle, and adding a certain portion to her length. It is performed by sawing her planks asunder in different places of her length, on each side of the midship frame, to prevent her from being too much weakened in one place. The two ends are... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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