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kp-eb0715-000601-9287 | MICHELDEAN, a town of the county of Gloucester, in the hundred of St Breavell, 119 miles from London. It is on the western side of the Severn, in the forest of Dean, which abounds in mines of coal, and in iron-works, that have consumed much of the wood that formerly covered it. The town consists principally of one long... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000602-9287 | MICHIGAN, one of the United States of North America, which, until 1835, was denominated a territory. It is situated between 41. 38. 58. and 46. 50. of north latitude, and 82. 15. and 87. 10. of west longitude, being bounded on the north by the Straits of Michilimackinac, on the south by Ohio and Indiana, on the west by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000901-9326 | MICKLE, William Julius, the translator of the Lusiad, was the son of Mr Alexander Mickle, a Scottish clergyman, who had formerly been a dissenting minister in London, an assistant to Dr Watts, and one of the translators of Bayle’s Dictionary. He was born in London about the year 1735, and educated by his father, after ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-001001-9339 | MICONE, an island of the Archipelago, in the Turkish province of Andros, which, with the small islands which surround it, contains forty-six square miles, and about 6000 inhabitants, living in one town of the same name, and in many detached rural hamlets. Although the soil is not good, and there is a scarcity of water,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 37 30' N 25 59' E | MICONE |
kp-eb0715-001002-9339 | MICROCOSM, a Greek term signifying a little world, and used by some for man, who is supposed to be an epitome of the universe or great world. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-001003-9339 | MICROGRAPHY, the description of objects viewed with the assistance of a microscope. See Microscopic Objects. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-001004-9339 | MICROMETER.
Micrometer, from μικοος, small, and μετξον, a measure, is the name of an instrument generally applied to telescopes and microscopes, for measuring small angular distances within the field of the former, or the size of small objects within that of the latter.
Previously to the invention of the telescope, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-002701-9560 | MICROSCOPE.
Microscope, from μικgος, a small object, and ακοτrεω, to see or examine, is the name of a well-known optical instrument for examining and magnifying minute objects, or the minute parts of large ones. Dr Goring has, in his various ingenious works on the microscope, used the word engiscope, from εγγυς, near,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-005801-9963 | MIDAS, in fabulous’history, a famous king of Phrygia. Bacchus, having been received by him with great magnificence, offered, out of gratitude, to grant him whatever he should ask. Midas desired that every thing which he touched should be changed into gold. Bacchus consented; and Midas, with extreme pleasure, found ever... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-005802-9963 | MIDDELBURG, a circle of the province of Zealand, in the Netherlands, consisting of the island of that name, which is separated by the £loe water from South Beveland; it is divided into six cantons, and contains 30,000 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, nearly .in the centre of the island; it was onc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 30' 6" N 3 32' 10" E | MIDDELBURG |
kp-eb0715-005803-9963 | MIDDELTON, a 'market-town of the county of Lancaster, in the hundred of Salford, 190 miles from London and seven from Manchester, on the road to Rochdale. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the different branches of the cotton manufacture. It is a parish of itself, and has a market, which is held on Saturday. The ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-005804-9963 | MID-HEAVEN, the cuiminating point of the ecliptic, or that in which it cuts the meridian. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-005805-9963 | MIDDLE Island lies off the south coast of New Holland, in longitude 123. 10. east, and latitude 34. 7. south. There is another small island of this name in the strait between the islands of Billiton and Banca, which it divides into two, namely, on the west, Gaspar’s Strait, and on the east, Clement’s Strait. It is also... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 5 55' S 105 43' E | MIDDLE |
kp-eb0715-005806-9963 | MIDDLEBURG, one of the Friendly Islands, in the South Sea. See Polynesia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-005807-9963 | MIDDLEBURGH, a small island, about ten miles in circumference, situated off the north-western extremity of Ceylon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-005808-9963 | MIDDLEHAM, a market-town of the north riding of the county of York, in the wapentake of Hang West, 232 miles from London. It has the remains of an ancient royal castle, where King Richard III. was born, and Edward IV. died. The church is large, and was formerly collegiate. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 728, in 18... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-005809-9963 | MIDDLESEX, an English county, and, though in extent one of the least, yet, as containing within it the metropolis of the British empire, with its numerous population, its extensive wealth, and its repositories of art and science, and being the theatre of the most interesting historical and political transactions, natur... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006101-0002 | MIDDLETON, Dr Conyers, a celebrated English divine, was the son of a clergyman in Yorkshire, and born at Richmond in 1683. He distinguished himself, whilst fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, by his controversy with his master Dr Bentley, relative to some mercenary conduct of the latter in that station. He had afterw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 2' S 181 W | MIDDLETON |
kp-eb0715-006102-0002 | MIDDLEWICH, a town of the county of Chester, in the hundred of Northwich, 166 miles from London. It is situated between the rivers Whecloch and Dane, which unite below the town and fall into the Wever; and it has also a canal communication with the Mersey at Runcorn. It has celebrated brine springs of great strength, f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006201-0015 | MIDHURST, a town of the county of Sussex, in the hundred of Westbourne and rape of Chichester, fifty-one miles from London. It is situated on the river Arun, and adjoining to it is the magnificent park of the Lords Montague, and the remains of the fine mansion, Cowany House. It is an ancient borough, and returned two m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006202-0015 | MIDIAN, or Madian, in Ancient Geography, a town on the south side of Arabia Petraea, which was so called from one of the sons of Abraham by Keturah. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006203-0015 | MIDNAPOOR, a district of Bengal,'in the province of Orissa, containing an area of 6102 square 'miles, and about a million and a half of inhabitants. The bulk of the people are Hindus, but there is a greater proportion of Mahommedans than in most other parts of India. Two thirds of this extensive district consists of a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 25' N 87 25' E | MIDNAPOOR |
kp-eb0715-006204-0015 | MIDSHIPMAN, a sort of naval cadet, appointed to second the orders of the superior officers, and to assist in the necessary business of the vessel, either on board or on shore. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006205-0015 | MIDWIFERY, the art of assisting women in parturition. In a more extended sense, it is understood to comprehend also the treatment of the diseases of women and children. It is obvious that the obstetrical art must have been almost coeval with mankind; but in Europe it continued in a very rude state till the seventeenth ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006206-0015 | MIEZA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Macedonia, [7:15:63]situated near Stagira, and in the olden time called Strymonium. Plutarch informs us, that in this place were shown the stone seats and shady walks of Aristotle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006301-0028 | MIGDOL, or Magdol, in Ancient Geography, a place in Lower Egypt, between Pihahiroth and the Red Sea. The term denotes a tower or fortress. It is probably, the Magdolum of Herodotus; at least the Septuagint render it by the same name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006302-0028 | MIGRATION, the passage' or removal of a thing out of one place into another. For the migration of birds, See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006303-0028 | MIGUEL, St, or St Michael, one of the Azore Islands, situated in long. 25. 45. W. lat. 38. 10. N. See Azores. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 10' N 25 45' W | MIGUEL |
kp-eb0715-006304-0028 | MIHEL, a town of the department of the Meuse, and arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc, in France, on the right bank of the Meuse, containing 5250 inhabitants, who produce very good wine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006305-0028 | MIKHAILOW, a circle of the Russian province of Riasan, extending from east longitude 38. 24. to 39. 4. and from north latitude 53. 52. to 54. 29. It is very productive in corn, hemp, flax, and cattle. The capital is the city of the same name situated on the river Prona, and containing 408 houses and 2300 inhabitants. L... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 12' N 38 42' E | MIKHAILOW |
kp-eb0715-006306-0028 | MILAN, called by the Italians Milano, and by the Germans Mailand or Mayland, is one of the governments into which the Austrian kingdom of Lombardy is divided. It was known as the duchy of Milan, till it came under the dominion of the imperial family of Austria. In the article Italy of this work, the history of the anci... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 27' 35" N 9 5' 45" E | MILAN |
kp-eb0715-006501-0054 | MILAZZO, a parliamentary city of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples, on the sea-shore, near the termination of Cape Blanco. It is fortified, and though the situation is rather unhealthy, it contains a population of 8000 persons, who are chiefly occupied in the tunny fishery, and in the export of wine and oi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006502-0054 | MILBOURN-PORT, a town of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of Horethorne, 117 miles from London. It stands on a branch of the river Parret, and is a poor and scattered place, with small houses, chiefly built for election purposes. It formerly returned two members to the House of Commons, but has been disfranchised... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006503-0054 | MILDENHALL, a town of the county of Suffolk, in the hundred of Lachford, seventy-one miles from London. It is situated on a branch of the river Ouse, which is navigable for barges up to it, and is a source of its trade. There is a well-supplied market, which is held on Friday. The population amounted in 1801 to 2283, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006504-0054 | MILDEW is said to be a kind of thick, clammy, sweet juice, exhaled from, or falling upon, the leaves and blossoms of plants. By its thickness and clamminess it prevents perspiration, and hinders the growth of the plant. It sometimes rests upon the leaves of trees in the form of a fatty juice, and sometimes upon the ear... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006505-0054 | MILE, a measure of length or distance, containing eight furlongs. The English statute mile is eighty chains, or 1760 yards, or 5280 feet. See Weights and Measures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006506-0054 | MILETO, a city, the Miletus of antiquity, of the kingdom of Naples, in the province of Calabria Ulteriore. It stands on elevated ground, but is watered by three small streams. It is the seat of a bishop. By the earthquake in 1783, the castle, the cathedral, a parish church, two monasteries, and many dwellings, were thr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006601-0067 | MILETUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Crete, mentioned by Homer, but the situation of which has not been ascertained. It is said to have been the mother town of Miletus in Caria, whither a colony was led by Sarpedon, brother of Minos.
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kp-eb0715-006602-0067 | MILFORD, a town of North America, in Sussex county, in the Delaware state, is situated at the source of a small river, fifteen miles from Delaware Bay, and 150 southward of Philadelphia. This town, which contains about eighty houses, has been built, excepting one house, since the revolution. It is laid out with much ta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006603-0067 | MILHAU, an arrondissement of the department of Aveiron, in France, 806 miles in extent. It consists of nine cantons, divided into seventy-nine communes, and contains 51,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name situated on the right bank of the Tarn, where the Dourbie falls into that stream. The surroun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006604-0067 | MILILLO, a city of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples, and province of Noto, 140 miles from Palermo. It stands on a mountain near the' river Cantara, and is a healthy place, with 4000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006605-0067 | MILITARY, something belonging to or connected with the profession of a soldier.
Military Discipline, the training of soldiers, and the due enforcement of the laws and regulations instituted by authority for securing obedience and repressing all disorderly habits or tendencies. Next to the forming of troops, military d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006701-0080 | MILITELLO, a city of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples and province of Noto, 120 miles from Palermo. It is moderately healthy, being situated on a rocky mountain, and contains 8000 inhabitants. Near to it are some valuable salt lagunes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-006702-0080 | MILITIA, from the Latin miles, a soldier, in its original signification, means warfare, the qualification of soldiership, or the military body. In this last signification it became incorporated with the English language. It is now used to distinguish, from the regular forces, the body of citizens who may be annually ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-007101-0132 | MILK, a well-known fluid, prepared by nature in the breasts of women, and the udders of other animals, for the nourishment of their young.
According to Dr Cullen, milk is a connecting and intermediate substance between animals and vegetables. It seems to be immediately secreted from the chyle, both being a white liquo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-007601-0197 | MILKY WAY, or Via Lactea. See Astronomy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-007602-0197 | MILL, a machine for grinding corn and other kinds of grain. There are various kinds of mills, according to the different methods of applying the moving power, as watermills, wind-mills, mills worked by horses, and others. See Mechanics.
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kp-eb0715-007701-0210 | MILL, James, author of the History of British India, and various other valuable works, was born on the 6th of April 1773, in the parish of Logie Pert, in the county of Forfar, at a place situated about seven miles from Montrose. His father united the occupations of shoemaker and small farmer. He received the first part... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008001-0249 | MILLAR, James, M.D., whose name is well entitled to notice here, on account of his connection with this work, was horn in the town of Ayr, on the 4th of February 1762. He received the early part of his education in the Academy at Ayr, where he acquired considerable knowledge of the learned languages. He afterwards pass... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008101-0262 | MILLSTONE, the stone by which corn is ground.
The millstones which we find preserved from ancient times are all small, and very different from those which are now in use. Thoresby mentions two or three such found in England, amongst other Roman antiquities, which were but twenty inches broad; and there is reason to be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008102-0262 | MILLENARIANS, or Chiliasts, a name given to those in the primitive ages, who believed that the saints will reign with Christ on earth for a thousand years. See Millennium. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008103-0262 | MILLENER, or Milliner, one who sells ribands and dresses, particularly head-dresses for women, and who makes up those dresses. Of this word different etymologies have been given-It is not derived from the French, who cannot express the notion of milliner otherwise than by the circumlocution marchande or marchande des m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008104-0262 | MILLE Passus, or Millia Passuum, a very common expression amongst the ancient Romans for a measure of distance, commonly called a mile. Milliarium, rarely used. A Roman mile Hesychius made to consist of seven stadia; Plutarch, little short of eight; many others, as Strabo and Polybius, eight stadia and no more. The rea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008105-0262 | MILLENNIUM, a period of a thousand years; generally used with reference to the thousand years during which, according to the statement of the Apostle John in the 4th verse of the twentieth chapter of the Apocalypse, Christ is to reign with his saints upon earth.
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kp-eb0715-008401-0301 | MILLIARE, or Milliarium. See Mille Passus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008402-0301 | MILLIARIUM Aureum, was a gilded pillar in the orum of Rome, at which all the highways of Italy met, as one common centre. From this pillar the miles were counted, and at the end of every mile a stone was put down. The military column was erected by Augustus Caesar, and, as we are informed by travellers, is still to be ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008403-0301 | MILLOT, Claude-François-Xavier, a distinguished historian, was born in 1726 at Ornans, a small town of Franche-Comté, being descended from an old family connected with the profession of the law. When his studies were completed, he was admitted amongst the Jesuits; and after having taught classical learning in several t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008404-0301 | MILO, T. Annius, a native of Lanuvium, who attempted to obtain the consulship at Rome by means of intrigue and seditious tumults. Clodius the tribune opposed his views; yet Milo would have succeeded but for an event which has given a collateral celebrity to his name. As he was going into the country, attended by his wi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008501-0314 | MILO, or Melos, an island of European Turkey, in the Archipelago. It is about sixty-six square miles in extent. It is mountainous and volcanic, and though in ancient times reported to have been populous, is now so unhealthy, that the population of less than 700 persons can only be kept up by annual emigrations from the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008502-0314 | MILTIADES, son of Cypselus, an Athenian captain, who obtained a victory in a chariot race at the Olympic games. He led a colony of Athenians to the Chersonesus. The causes of this appointment are striking and singular. The Thracian Dolonci, harassed by a long war with the Absynthiaus, were directed by the oracle of Del... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-008503-0314 | MILTON, a town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of Toltintrough and lathe of Aylesford, twenty-three miles from London. It stands on the bank of the Thames, and forms the eastern part of the town of Gravesend. It is a thriving place, partly owing to being visited for bathing, as the river salts with the flood tide... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-010801-0613 | MILVERTON, a town of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of its own name, 152 miles from London, and three from Wellington. It was a borough, but lost its franchise many years ago. It was once a place where woollen cloths, serges, druggets, and other goods, were extensively made, but the trade bas greatly fallen off... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-010802-0613 | MIMI, Mimes, in the ancient comedy, were buffoons or mimics, who entertained the people by taking off certain characters, and using such gestures as suited the persons or subjects they represented. There were upon the Roman stage female performers of this kind, called mimae. The word is derived from μιμεομαι, I imitate... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-010803-0613 | MIMESIS, in Rhetoric i the imitating the voice and gestures of another person. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-010804-0613 | MIMNERMUS, an ancient poet and musician, flourished about the beginning of the sixth century before our era. He was a native of Smyrna, and contemporary of Solon. Athenaeus ascribes to him the invention of pentameter verse. His elegies, of which only a few fragments are preserved, were so much admired in antiquity, tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-010805-0613 | MINA, or Manch, a species of money which properly signifies one part or ounce. It is observed that this word occurs only in the books of Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Ezekiel. The prophet (xlv. 12) tells us, that the mina or maneb was valued at sixty shekels, which in gold are equivalent to L.54. 15s. of English money, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-010806-0613 | MINAGNGHINIM, an instrument of music amongst the Hebrews. It was a square table of wood, fitted with a handle; and over this table was stretched an iron chain, or hempen cord, passing through balls of wood or brass, which struck against the table when the instrument was shaken, and occasioned a clear sound, that might ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-010807-0613 | MINAS GERAES, an important interior province of . Brazil, in South America. On the south it is separated from the provinces of Rio and St Paulo by a mountain chain called the Serra Mantiqueira; on the north the rivers Verde and Carynhenha divide it from Bahia and Pernambuco; on the east it is bounded by part of Bahia, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-011101-0652 | MINCHA, in the Jewish customs, offerings of meal, cakes, or biscuits, made in the temple of the Lord. The Seventy-two have sometimes preserved this word in their translation; but instead of mincha they read manaa, which doubtless was the received pronunciation in their time. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-011102-0652 | MINCHINHAMPTON, of a town of the county of Gloucester, in the hundred of Longtree, a hundred miles from London. Some parts of the parish are very romantic, especially one called the Golden Vale. The clothing trade forms the chief occupation. Near to it are several elegant seats. The celebrated Roger Bacon was an inhabi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-011103-0652 | MINDANAO. See Magindanao. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-011104-0652 | MINDEN, one of the governments into which the Prussian province of Westphalia is divided. It has been formed out of the ancient principalities of Minden, Paderborn, and Corvey, and the smaller sovereignties of Reckenberg, Rheda, and Rittberg. It is divided into thirteen circles, extends over 2068 square miles, comprehe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-011105-0652 | MINDORO Isle, one of the Philippine Isles, a hundred and ten miles in length, by about twenty-five in average breadth, and situated due south from the southwest extremity of the island of Lucos. The interior is mountainous, but sloping towards the sea-coast; the whole covered with trees, and making a beautiful appearan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-011201-0665 | MINERALOGY.
Mineralogy is that department of Natural History which makes us acquainted with all the properties and relations of minerals. It is divided into two grand branches, viz. Mineralogy properly so called, and Geology. Mineralogy treats of the properties and relations of Simple Minerals ; while Geology consider... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-024101-2342 | MINERVA, or Pallas, in Pagan worship, the goddess of science and of wisdom, who sprung completely armed from Jupiter’s brain. She disputed with Neptune the honour of giving a name to the city of Athens, upon which it was agreed, that whosoever produced what was most useful to mankind should have the advantage. In conse... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-024102-2342 | MINERVALIA, in Roman antiquity, festivals celebrated in honour of Minerva, in the month of March; at which time the scholars were indulged with a vacation, and usually made a present to their masters, called from this festival Minerval. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-024103-2342 | MINERVINO, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the province of Bari, on the declivity of the Apennines. It is the seat of a bishop, and has a cathedral and three other churches, with about 6000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-024104-2342 | MINES.
MINES (in Greek Miraλλα, and in Latin Fodinae Metallicae or Metalli Fodincε) are pits dug deep in the earth, whence are drawn the metals, the demi-metals, and other mineral substances, such as coal, rock-salt, alum, and the like. The excavations from which stones are obtained, however deep these may be, are den... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-026801-2693 | MINGRELIA, a large country of Asia, extending about 140 miles in length along the Black Sea, which bounds it on the west, and stretching into the interior about forty or fifty miles. It is situated on the southern side of the Caucasus, between the Caspian and the Black Sea, and is bounded on the north by Georgia, on th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-026802-2693 | MINFIO, a great river in Spain, which, taking its rise in Galicia, divides that province from Portugal, and falls into the Atlantic at Caminha. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-026803-2693 | MINIATURE, in a general sense, signifies representation in a small compass, or diminished form. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-026804-2693 | MINIATURE PAINTING, adelicatekind of painting, consisting of little points or dots, usually done on vellum, ivory, or paper, with very thin, simple water colours. The word comes from the Latin minium, red lead, that being a colour much used in this kind of painting. The French frequently call it mignature, from mignon,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-027501-2784 | MINIM, in Music, is a note equal to two crotchets, or half a semibreve. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-027502-2784 | MINIMS, a religious order in the church of Rome, founded by St Francis de Paulo, towards the close of the fifteenth century. Their habit is a coarse black woollen stuff, with a woollen girdle of the same colour, tied in five knots. They are not permitted to quit their habit and girdle by day or by night. Formerly they ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-027503-2784 | MINIMUM, in the higher geometry, the least quantity attainable in a given question. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-027504-2784 | MINING, the art of working mines, or of extracting minerals and mineral ores from the bowels of the earth.
This includes the scientific knowledge necessary for opening and working mines, and preparing the ores for use; it requires an intimate acquaintance with mineralogy and geology, as well as the different processes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028101-2862 | MINNIN, a stringed instrument of music amongst the ancient Hebrews, having three or four chords to it. There is reason to question the antiquity of this instrument, both because it requires a hair bow, which was a kind of plectrum not known to the ancients, and because it so much resembles the modern viol. Kircher took... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028102-2862 | MINOR, a Latin term, literally denoting less, and used in opposition to major, greater.
Minor, in Law, denotes a person under age, or one who, by the laws of the country, has not yet arrived at the power of administering his own affairs, or the possession of his estate.
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kp-eb0715-028103-2862 | MINORCA, one of the Balearic Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea, now belonging to the crown of Spain. Its history is the same as that of the adjacent islands of the same group, till the year 1708, when, in the war of the Spanish succession, it was captured by a force consisting of a fleet of English ships, and a land ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028201-2875 | MINORS, or Friars Minor, an appellation which the Franciscans assume, out of humility, calling themselves fratres minores, or lesser brothers, and sometimes minorités. There, is, also an order of regular minors at Naples, which was established in the year 1588, and confirmed by Pope Sixtùs V. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028202-2875 | MINOS, in fabulous history, a king of Crete, who was the son of Jupiter and Europa. He flourished about 1432 years before the Christian era, and gave laws to his subjects, which remained in force in the age of the philosopher Plato, about a thousand years after the death of the legislator. His justice and moderation pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028203-2875 | MINOTAUR, in fabulous history, was a celebrated monster, half man and half bull. The minotaur was the fruit of Pasiphaë’s amour with a bull. Minos having refused to sacrifice a white bull to Neptune, an animal which he had received for that purpose from the god, this offended Neptune, and he made Pasiphaë, the wife of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028204-2875 | MINSK, a province of the Russian empire, in Europe, extending in north latitude from 51. 12. to 55. 49. and in east longitude from 25. 13. to 30. 45. It is bounded on the north by Witepsk, on the east by Mohilew, on the south-east by Tschernigow, on the south by Kiew and Volhynia, on the west by Grodno, and on the nort... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028205-2875 | MINSTER, a parish of the county of Kent, in the hundred of Ford and the lathe of Scray, forty-nine miles from London. The church was collegiate, supposed to have been part of a monastery founded by Sexburga, the wife of Ercombert, king of Kent, and eighteen stalls still remain in it. It is situated on the north side of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028206-2875 | MINSTREL, an ancient term applied equally to a singer and an instrumental performer.
The word minstrel is derived from the French menestrier, and was not in use in this country before the Norman conquest. It is remarkable that our old monkish historians do not use the words citharoedus, cantator, or the like, to expre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028401-2901 | MINT, the place or establishment in which the king’s money is coined. See Coining. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028402-2901 | MINTURNAE, a town of Campania, between Sinuessa and Formiae. It was in the marshes in this neighbourhood that Marius concealed himself in the mud, to avoid the partizans of Sylla. The people condemned him to death; but when the sound of his imperious voice had terrified the executioner, they showed themselves compassio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028403-2901 | MINUET, a very graceful kind of dance, consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance. It begins with a beat, and its motion is triple.
The invention of the minuet seems to be generally ascribed to the French, and particularly to the inhabitants of the province of Poitou. The word is said by Menage and Furetière t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028404-2901 | MINUTE, in Geometry, is the sixtieth part of a degree of a circle.
MINUTE of Time is the sixtieth part of an hour.
Minute, in Architecture, usually denotes the sixtieth, and sometimes the thirtieth, part of a module.
Minute is also used for a short memoir, or sketch of a thing taken in writing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-028405-2901 | MINYAE, a name given to the inhabitants of Orchomenos, in Boeotia, from Minyas, king of the country. Orchomenos the son of Minyas gave his name to the capital of the country; and the inhabitants retained their original appellation, in contradistinction to the Orchomenians of Arcadia. A colony of Orchomenians passed int... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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