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kp-eb0713-059002-9093 | LUCKENWALDE, a city of the province of Brandenburg, in Prussia, situated on the river Nuthe. It contains 680 houses, and 4150 inhabitants, who are employed chiefly in making cloth, and other woollen goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059003-9093 | LUCKNOW, a city of Hindustan, in the province of Oude, situated on the south bank of the river Goomty, over which there are two bridges, one a very noble Gothic edifice of stone, and the other a platform laid upon boats, and merely connecting the King’s Park with the palace. The Goomty is navigable for boats of a commo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 51' N 80 55' E | LUCKNOW |
kp-eb0713-059101-9106 | LUCKPUT BUNDER, a town of Hindustan, province of Cutch, situated about thirty miles up the Lory River or Salt Creek, which communicates with the Gulf of Cutch, and is only navigable for small vessels. It is defended by a fort, which is situated on the brow of a hill. It is not estimated to contain more than 2000 inhabi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059102-9106 | LUCRETIA, the famous Roman matron, wife of Collatinus, and the cause of the revolution in Rome by which the constitution of the state was changed from a monarchy to a republic. This lady being ravished by Sextus, the eldest son of Tarquin king of Rome, stabbed herself, in the year 509 before Christ. The bloody poniard,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059103-9106 | LUCRETIUS, T. Carus, a celebrated Roman poet and philosopher, who was born b. c. 95 and died b. c. 55, according to Donatus (Vit. Virg.), or 52 b. c. according to Eusebius. We have no precise information respecting his parents, his education, or the circumstances of his life; and even whether he studied at Athens under... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059201-9119 | LUCULLUS, Lucius Licinius, a Roman general celebrated for his eloquence, his victories, and his riches. In his youth he made a figure at the bar; but,being afterwards sent as quaestor into Asia, and praetor into Africa, he governed those provinces with great moderation and justice. Scarcely was he known as a military m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059202-9119 | LUCUS, in general, denotes a wood or grove sacred to a deity; so called a lucendo, because a great number of lights were usually kept burning in honour of the god, a practice common with idolaters, as we learn from Scripture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059203-9119 | LUD, a British king mentioned in our old chronicles, and said to have reigned about the year of the world 3878. He is reported to have enlarged and walled round Troy- novant, or New Troy, where he kept his court, and made it his capital. The name of London is derived from Lulls town, and Ludgate from his being buried n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059204-9119 | LUDAMAR, a country of Central Africa, situated in latitude 16. 30. north, and longitude 6. 30. west, and bounded on the south by Kaarta and Bambara, on the east by Timbuctoo, and on the north by the Great Desert. The inhabitants are Moors, who live in a state of great barbarity and bigoted Mahommedanism. They entirely ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059205-9119 | LUDEHAUNAH, a town of Hindustan, situated on the north-west boundary of the province of Delhi, and on the south bank of the Sutlege river. It is one of the most remote military stations which the British possess in this quarter. The climate is cold for four months of the year, and in the summer season extremely hot, wi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 53' N 75 32' E | LUDEHAUNAH |
kp-eb0713-059206-9119 | LUDENSCHEID, a city of the Prussian government of Arensburg, in Westphalia, in the circle of Altena. It stands between two lofty hills, and contains a Lutheran and a Calvinist church, 280 houses, and 1820 inhabitants. It is a place celebrated for its hardware, especially for saws, scythes, hoops, and many other article... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059207-9119 | LUDGERSHALL, a market and borough town of the county of Wilts, in the hundred of Amesbury, seventy miles from London and fifteen from Salisbury. It is pleasantly situated on the borders of the forest of Chute. It formerly returned two members to the House of Commons, but has been deprived of that privilege by the refor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059208-9119 | LUDI, a term used for shows and public representations exhibited by the Romans for the entertainment of the people. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059209-9119 | LUDIUS, a celebrated painter, who lived in the reign [7:13:593]∣ Augustus Caesar, and excelled in grand compositions, [e was the first who painted the fronts of houses in the greets of Rome, which he beautified with a great variety ♯ landscapes and many other subjects. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059301-9132 | LUDLOW, Edmund, son of Sir Henry Ludlow, was tm at Maidenhead, and educated in Trinity College, Cκford. His father being opposed to the king’s interest, Hr Ludlow joined the same party, and was present at the l;ttle of Edgehill as a volunteer under the Earl of Essex, lbon the death of his father, he was∙chosen knight o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059302-9132 | LUDWIGSBURG, a city of the kingdom of Wirtemburg, in the circle of the Neckar, and the capital of a bailiwick of the same name. It is situated in a rich and beautiful district, one of the royal residences, and the seat of the financial boards of the kingdom, is well built, and contains 1000 houses, with 5426 inhabitant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 53' 15" N 9 1' 32" E | LUDWIGSBURG |
kp-eb0713-059303-9132 | LUDWIGSLUST, a town of the grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in the bailiwick of Grabow. It is the residence of the sovereign, who has a fine palace, with parks and pleasure-gardens around it. The palace is a large and highly-ornamented building, and contains a picture-gallery with some fine paintings. A new road, r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059304-9132 | LUFF, the order from the pilot to the steersman to put helm towards the lee-side of the ship, in order to make the ship sail nearer the direction of the wind. Hence, luff round, or luff a-lee, is the excess of this movement, by which it is intended to throw the ship’s head up in the wind in order to tack her. A ship is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059305-9132 | LUG-SAIL, a square sail, hoisted occasionally on the mast of a boat or small vessel, upon a yard which hangs nearly at right angles with the mast. These sails are more particularly used in the barca-longas navigated by the Spaniards in the Mediterranean. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059306-9132 | LUGANO, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the canton of Ticino, in Switzerland. It stands in a romantic situation on the lake of its own name, famous for the quantity and excellence of the fish caught in it, which in some degree supply Milan with that species of food. It is well built, and contains s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059401-9145 | LUGDUNUM, in Ancient Geography, the capital of the Segusiani, in Gallia Celtica, situated on an eminence at the conflux of the Arar and Rhodanus, as the Celtic term dun indicates. It was built by Manutius Plancus, ujider Augustus, while commanding in that part of Gaul, and thither he led a colony. Lugdunum is now Lyons... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059402-9145 | LUGO, a city of Spain, in the province of Galicia, on the river Tuy, which runs to the Mino. In this place there are some manufactories of linen and stockings, and some tanneries. Near it is the mountain village of Cerbrero, whose fields are covered with snow four months in the year, but whose pasture in summer is exce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059403-9145 | LUGOS, a town of the circle of Temesvar, in the province of Farther Theiss, in Hungary. It stands on the river Ternes. It is the place of assembly of the provincial states, has a Minorite monastery and a Greek church, and contains 900 houses, with 4587 inhabitants, who grow some excellent wine. Long. 21. 52. 30. E. Lat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 37' 50" N 21 52' 30" E | LUGOS |
kp-eb0713-059404-9145 | LUKE, St, the evangelist, and disciple of the apostles, was originally of Antioch, in Syria, and by profession a physician. He particularly attached himself to St Paul, and was his faithful companion in his travels and labours. He went with the apostle to Troas, in Macedonia, about the year 51; he wrote his gospel in A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059405-9145 | LUKIANOW, a circle of the province of Nishegorod, in Russia, extending from latitude 54. 31. to 54. 14. and from longitude 43.43. to 45.28. east. It is well supplied with the means of conveyance, by several rivers running into the Wolga, for its chief products, which consist of rye, hemp, and flax. It contains 185,000 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 54' N 44 20' E | LUKIANOW |
kp-eb0713-059406-9145 | LULLI, Jean Baptiste, one of the most celebrated musicians that has appeared in France since the revival of learning, was born at Florence. He was taken to France when very young, by a person of quality; and he carried the art of playing on the violin to the highest perfection. Louis XIV. appointed him superintendent o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059407-9145 | LULLY, Raymond, a writer on alchemy, surnamed the Enlightened Doctor, was born in the island of Majorca in 1225. He applied himself with indefatigable labour to the study of the Arabian philosophy, chemistry, physic, and divinity, and acquired great reputation by his works. He at length went to preach the gospel in Afr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059408-9145 | LUMGHANAT, an Afghan district in the province of Cabu], and situated principally on the banks of the Kamch River, but which formerly extended from the Indus to the Hindoo Koosh Mountains. The chief towns are, Jellalabad and Irjah. It was formerly a Hindu territory, and the natives had a peculiar dialect; but it is now ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059409-9145 | LUMINOUS, an epithet applied to anything that shines or emits light.
Luminous Emanations have been observed from human bodies, as also from those of brutes. The light arising from currying a horse, or from rubbing a cat’s back, are well known. Instances of a similar kind have been observed on combing a woman’s head. B... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059410-9145 | LUMEZZANO, two towns of Italy, in the delegation of Brescia, part of the Austrian government of Milan. One of them, with the addition of St Apollonia, is situated on a hill, and contains 1386 inhabitants; the other, called De Pieve, is situated in the valley of Trompia, and contains 1310 inhabitants. Both are celebrate... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059411-9145 | LUNA, in the jargon of the alchemists, signifies silver, which was so called from the supposed influence of the moon upon that metal.
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kp-eb0713-059412-9145 | LUNAR, something relating to the moon.
Lunar Month. See Month. Lunar Year consists of 354 days, or twelve synodical months. See Calendar and Year. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059413-9145 | LUNAWARA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Gudara, where, in 1803, a treaty was concluded with the rajah by the British government, which freed him from the tribute he had before paid to Scindia. Long. 73. 46. E. Lat. 23. 5. N. It is sixty-five miles east-north-east∕fom Ahmedabad. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 5' N 73 46' E | LUNAWARA |
kp-eb0713-059414-9145 | LUND, a city of Sweden, in the province of Malmoe, near the river Hoje-An. It is without walls, and is the seat of a bishop, of a theological seminary, and of a university. There is a respectable cathedral, besides three other churches; and it contains about 400 houses, with 3640 inhabitants. The university has great r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059501-9158 | LUNDY, an island in the mouth of the Bristol Channel, aout eleven miles from the coast of Devonshire. It is août five miles in length and two in breadth, and is sur-rμnded by rocks, except at one part, which is so narrow a to admit of not more than one person at a time reaching in It has living on it but one family, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 20' N 4 9' W | LUNDY |
kp-eb0713-059502-9158 | LUNE, Lunula, in Geometry, a plane in the form of a csscent or half-moon, terminated by the circumference of tra circles, which intersect each other within. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059503-9158 | LUNEBURG, one of the provinces of the present king- <⅛n of Hanover. It was formerly the duchy of that name, epeted by the emperor of Germany, in the year 1235, and “length came to the Hanoverian branch of the family of Înswick. It extends along the left bank of the river Elbe, by which it is divided from the Prussian a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059504-9158 | LUNEL la Bille, a city of France, in the departing of the Hérault and arrondissement of Montpellier. Its situated on a canal, connecting the river Bedairie with th lake of Magicio. It contains 650 houses, and 45,000 ⅛ιbitants, who produce Muscatel wine of a very cele-bited flavour. Long. 4. 3. E. Lat. 43. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059505-9158 | LUNEVILLE, an arrondissement of the department of be Meurthe, in France. It extends over 672 square m£s, is divided into seven cantons and 209 communes, arç contains 71,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of,he same name, at the influx of the Bézouse into the Mirthe. The situation is very fine, and the country amn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059506-9158 | LUNENSE Marmor, in the natural history of the ancients, the name of that species of white marble now known amongst us by the name of Carrara marble, and distinguished from the statuary kind by its greater hardness and inferior splendour. It has ever been greatly esteemed in building and ornamental works, and is so stil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059507-9158 | LUNETTE, in Fortification, an enveloped counterguard, or elevation of earth, made beyond the second ditch, opposite to the places of arms, and differing from the ravelins only in situation. Lunettes are usually made in ditches full of water, and serve the same purpose as fausse-brayes, namely, to dispute the passage of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059508-9158 | LUNGS. See Anatomy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059509-9158 | LUNISOLAR Year, in Chronology, the space of 532 common years; found by multiplying the cycle of the sun by that of the moon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059510-9158 | LUPERCALIA, feasts instituted in ancient Rome, in honour of the god Pan. The word comes from Lupercal, the name of a place under the Palatine Mount, where the sacrifices were performed. The Lupercalia were celebrated on the 15th of the kalends of March, that is, on the 15th of February, or, as Ovid observes, on the 3d ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059511-9158 | LUPERCI, a name given to the priests of the god Pan. The luperci were the most ancient order of priests in Rome; they were divided into two colleges or companies, the one called Fabii and the other Quintilii. To these Caesar added a third, which he called Julii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059512-9158 | LURCHER, a kind of hunting-dog, much like a mongrel greyhound, with pricked ears, a shagged coat, and generally of a yellowish-white colour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059513-9158 | LURE, in falconry, a device of leather, in the shape of two wings, stuck with feathers, and baited with a piece of flesh, to call back a hawk when at a considerable distance Lure, an arrondissement of the department of the Up per Saone, in France, extending over 881 square miles. It is divided into ten cantons, and the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059514-9158 | LURGAN, a town in the county of Armagh and province of Ulster, in Ireland, sixty-six miles from Dublin. It is a flourishing town, agreeably situated in the midst of a much improved country; and the inhabitants are extensively engaged in the linen manufacture. It stands on a gentle eminence, about two miles from Lough N... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059515-9158 | LUS, a city of France, the capital of a canton in the department of the Upper Pyrenees. It stands in a romantic situation in the pleasing valley of Bastan, at the foot of the Pic de Leyrey, and on the Gave de Barrĕges, and contains about 2200 inhabitants. Near to it is the mineral spring of St Sauveur, which is frequen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059601-9171 | LUSATIA. See Lausatia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059602-9171 | LUSITANIA, in Ancient Geography, one of the divisions of Spain, extending to the north of the Tagus, quite to the sea of Cantabria, at least to the Promontorium Celticum. But Augustus, by a new regulation, made the Anas its boundary to the south, and the Durius to the north; thus constituting only a part of the modern ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059603-9171 | LUSTRAL, an epithet given by the ancients to the water used in their ceremonies for sprinkling and purifying the people. From them the Catholics have borrowed the holy water used in their churches.
Lustral Day {Dies Lustricus), that on which the lustrations were performed for a child, and its name given, which was usu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059604-9171 | LUSTRATION, in Antiquity, sacrifices or ceremonies by which the ancients purified their cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by any crime or impurity. Some of these lustrations were public and others private. There were several ways of performing lustration, viz. by fire, by sulphur, by water, and by air, the las... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059605-9171 | LUSTRUM, in Roman antiquity, a general muster and review of all the citizens and their goods, which was performed every fifth year by the censors, who afterwards made a solemn lustration. This custom was first instituted by Servius Tullius, about 180 years after the foundation of Rome. In the "course of time the lustra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059606-9171 | LUTE, or Loting, amongst chemists, a mixed, tenacious, ductile substance, which grows solid by drying, and, being applied to the juncture of vessels, stops them up so as to prevent the air from getting in or out.
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kp-eb0713-059607-9171 | LUTETIA Parisiorum, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Parisii, in Gallia Celtica, situated on an island in the Sequana or Seine. It received its name, as some suppose, from the quantity of clay, lutum, which is found in its neighbourhood. Julius Caesar fortified and embellished it, from which circumstance some author... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-059608-9171 | LUTHER, Martin, the famous author of the Reformation, was a native of Eisleben, in Saxony, and born in 1483. Though his parents were poor, he received a learned education, during the progress of which, he gave many indications of uncommon vigour and acuteness of genius. As his mind was naturally susceptiblç of serious ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060101-9236 | LUTHERANISM, the opinions and doctrines of Martin Luther in regard to religion.
Lutheranism has undergone some alterations since the time of its founder. Luther rejected the epistle of St James, as inconsistent with the doctrine of St Paul relating to justification; and he also set aside the Apocalypse, both of which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060102-9236 | LUTHERANS, the Christians who follow the opinions of Martin Luther, one of the principal reformers of the church in the sixteenth century.
The Lutherans, of all Protestants, are those who differ the least from the Catholic church; as £they iaffirm that the body and blood of Christ are materially present in the sacrame... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060103-9236 | LUTHERN, in Architecture, a kind of window over the cornice, in the roof of a building, standing perpendicularly over the naked of a wall, and serving to illuminate the upper story. Lutherns are of various forms; as square, semicircular, round, and so forth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060104-9236 | LUTON, a town of Bedfordshire, in the hundred of Flitt, thirty-one miles from London, and situated on the river Lea. There is a good market-house and a church, with a singular steeple formed of flints and freestone. Near it is the fine seat of the Marquis of Bute. It has some trade in thread-lace and straw-plait. The i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060105-9236 | LUTTERWORTH, a market-town of the county of Leicester, in the hundred of Guthlaxton, eighty-nine miles from London, and near the ancient Roman Watling Street Road. It is not a place of much trade, but is distinguished as the residence of Wickliffe, the father of English Protestantism, who was priest of this place, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060201-9249 | LUXATION, is when any bone is moved out of its place of articulation, so as to impede or destroy its proper office or motion. See Surgery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060202-9249 | LUXEMBURG, a grand duchy of Germany, under the government of the house of Orange Nassau. Before the French revolution, it comprehended the two duchies of Luxemburg and Bouillon; but on being conquered by France, it was divided by that power between the department of the Ardennes and that of the Forests. In consequence ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 37' N 6 4' E | LUXEMBURG |
kp-eb0713-060203-9249 | LUXEUIL, a city in the department of the Upper Saone, and arrondissement, of Lure, in France. It is situated in a woody valley on the banks of the Breuchin, and is celebrated for its warm baths, as well as for a spring strongly impregnated with iron, all of which are much visited by invalids. About a quarter of a mile ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060204-9249 | LUXURIANS Flos, a luxuriant or double flower, some of the parts of which are increased in number, to the diminution or entire exclusion of others.
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kp-eb0713-060205-9249 | LUXURY, voluptuousness, or an extravagant indulgence in diet, in dress, and in equipage.
Luxury, amongst the Romans, prevailed to such a degree that several laws were made to suppress, or at least restrict it. The extravagance of the table commenced about [7:13:603]the time of the battle of Actium, and continued in gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060401-9275 | LUZIN, a circle of the Russian province Witebsk, extending in north latitude from 55. 55. to 57. 15. and in east longitude from 27. 1. to 27. 29. It contains one city and 1227 villages, with 32,300 inhabitants. The capital is a small town of the same name, situated on the river Welika, 390 miles from St Petersburg. Lon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060402-9275 | LUZK, a circle of the province of Volhynia, in Russia, extending in north latitude from 50. 33. to 51. 34. and in east longitude from 25. 4. to 25. 37. The northern part is marshy, the southern very fertile. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the river Styr, 1126 miles from St Petersburg. It contains o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060403-9275 | LUZON, Lucon, or Luconia, one of the Philippine islands, and the largest of the whole group, situated between the thirteenth and nineteenth degrees of north latitude, and extending from the 120th to the 124th degrees of east longitude. It is 400 miles in length, by 115 in average breadth. The greater part of this islan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060404-9275 | LYBIA, or Libya, a name anciently given to all that part of Africa lying between the borders of Egypt and the river Triton, and comprehending Cyrenaica, Marmarica, and the Regio Syrtica. See Ethiopia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060405-9275 | LYCAEUM, Auxε∕ov, in Antiquity, the name of a celebrated school or academy at Athens, where Aristotle explained his philosophy. The place was composed of portico - and trees planted in the quincunx form, where the philosophers disputed walking. Hence the philosophy of the Lycaeum is used to signify the philosophy of Ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060501-9288 | LYCAON, in fabulous history, the first king of Arcadia, son of Pelasgus and Meliboea. He built a town called Lycosura, upon the top of Mount Lycaeus, in honour of Jupiter. He had many wives, by whom he had a daughter called Callisto, and fifty sons. He lived about 1820 years before the Christian era, and was succeeded ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060502-9288 | LYCIA, a country of Asia Minor, bounded by the Mediterranean on the south, by Caria on the west, by Pamphylia on the east, and by Phrygia on the north. It was anciently called Milyas and Tremile, from the Milyae or Solymi, a people of Crete, who came to settle there. The country received the name of Lycia from Lycus, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060503-9288 | LYCODONTES, the petrified teeth of the lupus-piscis, or wolf-fish, frequently found in a fossil state. They are of different shapes; but the most common kind swell out in a semi-orbicular form, and are hollow within, somewhat resembling an acorn-cup. This hollow is found sometimes empty, and sometimes filled with the s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060504-9288 | LYCOMEDES, in fabulous history, a king of Scyros, an island in the Aegean Sea. He was son of Apollo and Parthenope, and was secretly intrusted with the care of young Achilles, whom his mother Thetis had disguised in woman’s clothes, in order to prevent him proceeding to the Trojan war, where she knew he must unavoidabl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060505-9288 | LYCON, a philosopher of the school of Aristotle, was a native of Loadicea, in Phrygia. He was born b. c. 300, and died, at the age of seventy-four, b. c. 226. Upon the death of Strato, Lycon became the head of the Aristotelian sect (b. c. 270), and taught the school at Athens which had been conducted successively by Ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060506-9288 | LYCOPHRON, a Greek poet, was a native of Chalcis, a city in the island of Euboea, and the son of Socles; but of his private history we are almost entirely ignorant. It is supposed that Lycophron began to be distinguished in the beginning of the reign of Philadelphus, b. c. 280, and continued to rise in reputation till ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060601-9301 | LYCURGIA, a festival observed by the Spartans, in memory of their lawgiver Lycurgus, whom they honoured with a temple and an annual sacrifice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060602-9301 | LYCURGUS, the celebrated legislator of the Spartans, was the son of Eunomes, king of Sparta. He travelled in Greece, the island of Crete, Egypt, and even proceeded to the Indies, to converse with the sages and learned men of those countries, and to learn their manners, customs, and laws. After the death of his brother ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060603-9301 | LYDD, a market-town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of Langport and lathe of Shepway, seventy-three miles from London. It is in a low situation, on Romney Marsh; and is a member of the Cinque Ports, near the sea. It has a small market, which is held on Thursday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1303, in 1811 to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060604-9301 | LYDGATE, John, surnamed the Monk of Bury, not, as Cibber conjectures, because he was a native of that place, for he was born about the year 1380, in the village of Lydgate, but because he was a monk of the Benedictine convent at St Edmund’s-Bury. After studying some time in the English universities, he travelled into F... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-060605-9301 | LYDIA, in Ancient Geography, a celebrated kingdom of Asia Minor. The ancient writers inform us, that Lydia was first called Maeonia or Meonia, from Meon, king of Phrygia and Lydia; and that it was known under no other denomination until the reign of Atys, when it began to be called Lydia, from his son Lydus. Bochart, f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061001-9353 | LYDIAT, Thomas, a learned English divine, was born in 1572, and educated at Oxford. About the year 1609, he became acquainted with Dr James Usher, afterwards archbishop of Armagh, who carried him to Ireland. He studied at Dublin College for about two years, after which he returned to England; and the rectory of Alkring... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061002-9353 | LYDIUS Lapis, in the natural history of the ancients, the name of the stone used by way of touchstone for the trial of gold and silver, and called by some Heraclius lapis. Both of these names were also applied by the ancients to the loadstone; and hence has arisen no small misunderstanding of'their works. Pliny has obs... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061003-9353 | LYDNEY, a town of the county of Gloucester, in the hundred of Blideslow, on the western side of the Severn, 123 miles from London. It was formerly a Roman station, and more extensive than at present. The market was held on Wednesday, but has of late years disappeared. In the neighbourhood are extensive iron and coal mi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061004-9353 | LYME-REGIS, a borough and market town of the county of Dorset, in the hundred of Whitchurch, 143 miles from London. It stands on the side of a steep hill, overlooking the sea, and has a small artificial harbour, called the Cobbe, secure for vessels of small tonnage. It has been i much frequented of late years for the p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061005-9353 | LYMINGTON, a market and borough town of the county of Hants, in the parish of Boldre, in the New Forest. It stands on a creek about half a mile from the sea. It is pleasantly situated on the brow and declivity of a gentle hill, looking towards the Isle of Wight; and many of the houses are highly respectable in appearan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061006-9353 | LYMPH, a fine colourless fluid, separated in the body from the mass of blood, and contained in peculiar vessels called lymphatics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061007-9353 | LYMPHAEA were artificial caves or grottoes amongst the Romans, furnished with a great many tubes, canals, and various hydraulic apparatus, through which the water gushed out unexpectedly upon the spectators whilst they were admiring the beautiful arrangement of the shell-work in the grotto. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061008-9353 | LYMPHATI was a name given by the Romans to such as were seized with madness. It is supposed to be used for Nymphaü, because the ancients imagined that every person who had the misfortune to see a nymph was instantly struck with frenzy. Lymphati may indeed signify madmen, as derived from lympha, water, over which elemen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061009-9353 | LYNCEUS, in fabulous history, one of the fifty sons of Aegeus, married Hypermnestra, one of the fifty daughters of Danaus.
Lynceus, in fabulous history, one of the Argonauts who accompanied Jason in the expedition to Colchis to obtain the golden fleece. He was of great use to the Argonauts, by enabling them to avoid t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061101-9366 | LYNCURIUM, a stone believed to be the same with the tourmaline. The name is derived from λ∙jγξ, lynx, and òufoy, urine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061102-9366 | LYNCURIUS Lapis, a stone which was supposed capable of producing mushrooms. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061103-9366 | LYNDHURST, a township and chapelry in the parish of Minstead, in the county of Hampshire. It is situated in one of the most beautiful parts of the New Forest, nine miles from Southampton, and eighty-six from London. The forest is about forty miles in compass, containing several towns and villages, with thirty-six churc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061104-9366 | LYNN-REGIS, a sea-port, market-town, and borough of the county of Norfolk, in the hundred of Freebridge, ninety-seven miles from London. It is situated on the right bank of the river Ouse, a⅛out eight miles from the sea. The harbour is capable of receiving 300 sail of vessels. From its situation at the mouth of a long ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061105-9366 | LYON King of Arms. This office is of great antiquity and respect in Scotland; and although the precise date of its institution is unknown, yet it must have been as early as the introduction of armorial figures as hereditary marks of gentility and distinction into this country, which was in the twelfth century. The rega... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061106-9366 | LYONET, Peter, an ingenious naturalist, and member of several learned societies, was born at Maestricht, and descended from a very ancient and respectable family of Lorraine. He had scarcely attained his seventh year when he displayed an uncommon strength and agility in all bodily exercises; but he was not less diligen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061201-9379 | LYONS, or Lyon, an arrondissement of the department of the Rhone, in France, 531 square miles in extent. It comprehends sixteen cantons, which are divided into 128 communes, and contains 225,670 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, built by the Romans before the Christian era, and at present, next to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061301-9392 | LYRA, in Astronomy, a constellation in the northern hemisphere. The number of its stars, in Ptolemy’s catalogue, is ten; in Tycho’s eleven; in Hevelius’s seventeen; and in the Britannic catalogue twenty-one. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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