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kp-eb0718-006303-3142 | PLUMOSE, something formed in the manner of a feather, with a stem and fibres issuing from it on each side: such are the antennae of certain moths, butterflies, and other insects. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006304-3142 | PLURAL, in Grammar, an epithet applied to that number of nouns and verbs which is used when we speak of more than one thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006305-3142 | PLUS, in Algebra, a character marked thus, +, used for the sign of addition. See Algebra. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006306-3142 | PLUSH, in commerce, a kind of stuff having a sort of velvet knap or shag on one side, composed regularly of a woof of a single woollen thread and a double warp; the one wool, of two threads twisted, the other goat’s or camel’s hair; though there are some plushes entirely of worsted, and others composed wholly of hair. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006307-3142 | PLUTARCH, one of the most celebrated writers of antiquity, was a native of Chaeroneia, in Boeotia. The exact date of his birth and death is unknown; but as he tells us that he studied philosophy under Ammonius at Delphi, when Nero made a tour through Greece, and as we know this circumstance to have taken place a. d. 66... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006401-3155 | PLUTO, in Pagan worship, the king of the infernal regions, was the son of Saturn and Ops, and the brother of Jupiter and Neptune. This deity, finding himself childless and unmarried, mounted his chariot to visit the world; and, arriving in Sicily, fell in love with Proserpine, whom he saw gathering flowers with her com... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006402-3155 | PLUTUS, in Pagan worship, the god of riches, is frequently confounded with Pluto. He was represented as appearing lam e when he approached, but provided with wings at his departure, to show the difficulty of amassing wealth and the uncertainty of its enjoyment. He was also represented blind, to show that he often besto... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006403-3155 | PLUVIUS, a surname of Jupiter. He was invoked by that name amongst the Romans whenever the earth was parched by continual heat, and in want of refreshing rains. He had an altar in the temple on the Capitol. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006404-3155 | PLYERS, in fortification, denotes a kind of balance used in raising or letting down a drawbridge. They consist of two timber levers, twice as long as the bridge they lift, joined together by other timbers, framed in the form of a St Andrew’s cross, to counterpoise them. They are supported by two upright jambs, on which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006405-3155 | PLYING, in nautical language, the act of making, or endeavouring to make, a progress against the direction of the wind. Hence a ship that advances well in her course in this manner of sailing, is said to be a good plyer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006406-3155 | PLYMOUTH, a town at the western extremity of die county of Devon, on the southern shore of England. It is a place which has grown to its present importance from the natural advantages of maritime access, and the capability of defence arising from local circumstances, which have been extended by liberal expenditure unde... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006801-3207 | PLYMPTON EARLS, or Plympton Maurice, a borough and market-town of the county of Devon, in the hundred of the same name, 217 miles from London and five from Plymouth. It is one of the stannary towns for stamping tin. It is governed by a mayor, recorder, and seven aldermen, and returned two members to parliament till 183... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006802-3207 | PLYNTERIA, a Grecian festival in honour of Aglauros, or rather of Minerva, who received from the daughter of Cecrops the name of Aglauros. The word is derived from πλυνί/r, lavare, because during the solemnity they undressed the statue of the goddess and washed it. The day on which it was observed the people looked upo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-006901-3220 | PNEUMATICS.
According to the present usage of our language, this term is restricted to that part of natural philosophy which treats of mechanical properties of elastic fluids. The word, in its original meaning, expresses a quality of air, or more properly of breath. Under the article Physics we observed, that in a gre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013701-4104 | PO, Padus, Eridanus, one of the great rivers of Europe, which traverses the north of Italy from west to east. It has its source in Monte Viso, one of the Cottian Alps, flows north-east to Turin, passes that capital, holds an easterly course throughout the whole length of Lombardy, separating Austrian Italy from Parma, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013702-4104 | POBASSOO’S Island, a small island on the north coast of New Holland; forming, with Cotton’s Island, a secure shelter for shipping, which Captain Flinders called Malay Road. Long, of this road 136. 27. E. Lat. 11. 53. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013703-4104 | POCKLINGTON, a market-town of Yorkshire, in the east riding, and the wapentake of Harthill, 193 miles from London. It is situated on a small stream that falls into the river Derwent, and has a market, which is held on Saturday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1502, in 1811 to 1539, in 1821 to 1962, and in 1831 to 20... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013704-4104 | POCOCK’S Island is situated in the Eastern Seas. Long. 118. 12. E. Lat. 6.2. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 2' S 118 12' E | POCOCK’S |
kp-eb0718-013705-4104 | POCOCK’S Point, on the east coast of New Zealand, was formerly the north-west point of the Bay of Islands. It is four miles west of Cape Brett. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013706-4104 | POCOCKE, Dr Edward, a learned English divine, and the first oriental scholar of his time, was the eldest son of Edward Pococke; and born in November 1604, at Oxford, where he was also educated. In 1628 he was admitted probationer-fellow of his college, and about the same time he had prepared an edition of the second Ep... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013801-4117 | PODALIRIUS, son of Aesculapius and Epione, was one of the pupils of the centaur Chiron, under whom he made himself such a master of medicine, that during the Trojan war the Greeks invited him to their camp to check a pestilence which had baffled the skill of all their physicians. On his return Podalirius was shipwrecke... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013802-4117 | PODGORODKOI, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Oufa, on the Oural. It is ninety-two miles east of Orenburg. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013803-4117 | PODEM, a village of Asiatic Turkey, in Trebisond, thirty miles east of Trebisond. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013804-4117 | PODEMNO, a village of Tobolsk, in Asiatic Russia, forty-four miles east of Kemskoi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013805-4117 | PODENDA, a village of Asia Minor, at the junction of the Sihoun with the Adana, thirty-three miles north of Adana. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013806-4117 | PODOL, a town of Russia, in the province of Moskau, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 590 square miles, and contains 58,800 inhabitants. The town is situated on the river Pochra, 508 miles from St Petersburg, and contains only 1100 inhabitants, who carry on some silk manufactures. Long. 37. 2... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013807-4117 | PODOLIA, a province or government of the Russian empire, formerly a part of Poland, acquired by Russia at the first dismemberment of that unfortunate kingdom. It extends in north latitude from 47. 23. to 49. 44., and in east longitude from 26.16. to 30. 4L; and it is bounded on the north .by Volhynia, on the north-east... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013808-4117 | PODSTEPNOI, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Kolivan, on the Irtisch, two hundred miles south-east of Omsk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013809-4117 | PODSPUSKNOI, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Kolivan, 220 miles south-west of Kolivan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013810-4117 | POECILE was a famous porticoat Athens, which received its name from the variety(πo∕κ∕λog) of paintings which it contained. Zeno kept his school there; and there also the Stoics received their lessons; whence their name, from στοα, a porch. Amongst other things, the Poecile was adorned with a picture of the siege and sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-013901-4130 | POESTUM, of PaesTum, a celebrated city of Italy, now in ruins, but anciently a place of great opulence and magnitude. Its remains stand on a fertile plain, considerably to the south of the city of Salerno, being bounded on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and about a mile distant by five hills, amongst which the town of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-014001-4143 | POETRY.
The difficulty of giving a definition of poetry, which shall include all that essentially belongs to it, and exclude all that is foreign or accidental to it, has been long felt and admitted. The definition of the ancients, which makes poetry “an imitative art,” is obviously exposed to the double objection of b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-017401-4585 | POGGIO Bracciolini, a man of great parts and learning, who contributed much to the revival of letters in Europe, was born at the little town of Terranova, near Florence, in 1380. His first public employment was that of writer of the apostolic letters, which he held for ten years, after which he was made apostolic secre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-017402-4585 | POGGY Islands. See Nassau Isles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-017403-4585 | POGROMNAIA RECA, a small river of Asiatic Russia, in the district of Nertschinsk. It has on its banks a spring of mineral water, which is successfully employed in the cure of several diseases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-017404-4585 | POICTIERS. See Poitiers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-017405-4585 | POINT, a term used in various arts.
Point, in Grammar, is a character used to mark the divisions of discourse. A point proper is what is otherwise called a period or full stop. See Punctuation. Point, in Geometry, according to Euclid, is that which has neither parts nor magnitude.
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kp-eb0718-017406-4585 | POINT DE GALLE, a seaport and fortified town on the south-western point of Ceylon, reckoned the third in consequence in the island, whilst in point of trade it ranks next to Columbo. The petlah or native town is extensive, and enclosed with a wall, and the houses are superior to those at Trincomalee. It has a good and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 N 80 15' E | POINT DE GALLE |
kp-eb0718-017407-4585 | POINT GORDWAR, a low point of land which projects into the Bay of Bengal, at the mouth of the Godavery River. The sea breaks heavily over it. Long. 82. 17. E. Lat. 16. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 48' N 82 17' E | POINT GORDWAR |
kp-eb0718-017408-4585 | POINT PEDRO, a town on the northern extremity of the island of Ceylon. Long. 80. 25. E. Lat. 9. 52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-017409-4585 | POINTING, in Grammar, the art of dividing a discourse by points into periods and members of periods, in order to show the proper pauses to be made in reading, and to facilitate the pronouncing and understanding thereof. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-017410-4585 | POINTS, in Heraldry, are the several parts of an escutcheon, denoting the local positions of any figure.
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kp-eb0718-017411-4585 | POINTY, a town of Bengal, in the district of Mongier, delightfully situated on the south bank of the Ganges, in the view of the Rajemahl Hills, in a country abounding in game. Long. 87. 26. E. Lat. 25. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-017412-4585 | POISON, any substance which, acting on living bodies in small quantities, occasions serious disturbance of their functions, and may cause death. The science which treats of poisons is termed toxicoogy.
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kp-eb0718-018301-4702 | POITIERS, an arrondissement of the department of the Vienne, in France. It extends over 792 square miles, and comprehends ten cantons, divided into 101 communes, and containing 88,600 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, the seat of the departmental government and of the courts of law. It is an elevat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-018302-4702 | POLA, or Otewhei, one of the Navigators’ Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Long. 172. 20. W. Lat. 13. 52. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-018303-4702 | POLACRE, a ship with three masts, usually navigated in the Levant and other parts of the Mediterranean.
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kp-eb0718-018401-4715 | POLAND.
Poland, a country of Europe, was, in its largest extent, bounded on the north-west by the Baltic Sea, with the ports of Dantzig, Elbing, Liban, and Windau; on the north and east by Muscovy, and the rivers Dwina and Dnieper, forming part of the frontier of the two countries; on the south by the possessions of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-021501-5118 | POLAR SEAS.
The rapid progress which has been made within the last half century in physical science and geography, has thrown a deeper interest on whatever concerns the polar regions, than belongs to the mere commercial speculation in which originated the earliest attempts for discovering a passage through the North P... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-022501-5248 | POLARISATION OF LIGHT.^[1. This article was written by Μ. Arago of the French Institute, and obligingly translated by his friend the late Dr Thomas Young, for the Supplement to the previous editions of this work. Some additions were, with Μ. Arago’s permission, made by the translator. ] '
Until a very few years since,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-024601-5521 | POL DE LEON, a city of France, in the department of Finisterre, and arrondissement of Morlaix. It is situated on a hill near the sea, about a mile from its haven Pen-pont, which is accessible to small vessels. It is the see of a bishop, and has a cathedral and other churches, 1005 houses, and 6150 inhabitants, who make... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-024602-5521 | POLE, Reginald, cardinal, and archbishop of Canterbury, a younger son of Sir Richard Pole, Lord Montague, was born at Stoverton Castle, in Staffordshire, in the year 1500. At seven years of age he was sent to a Carthusian monasteryat Shene, near Richmond, in Surrey; and thence, when he was about twelve years old, remov... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-024701-5534 | POLEIN, in English antiquity, is a sort of shoe, sharp or piked at the point. This fashion took its rise in the time of William Rufus; and the pikes were so long that they were tied up to the knees with silver or golden chains. But they were forbidden by statute 4, Edward IV. cap. 7. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-024702-5534 | POLEMARCHUS, a magistrate at Athens, who had under his care all the strangers and sojourners in the city, over whom he had the same authority as the archon had over the citizens. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-024703-5534 | POLEMICAL, in matters of literature or theology, an appellation given to books of controversy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-024704-5534 | POLEMO, who succeeded Xenocrates in the direction of the academy, was an Athenian of distinguished birth, but in the earlier part of his life a man of loose morals. The manner in which he was reclaimed from the pursuit of infamous pleasures, and brought under the discipline of philosophy, affords a memorable example of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-024705-5534 | POLESINA, a delegation of Austrian Italy, in the province of Milan. It is bounded on the north by Padua, on the east by Venice, on the south by the papal states, and on the west by Mantua and Verona. It is 434 square miles in extent, and contains 135,200 inhabitants. It is a level district, without woods; but abounding... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-024706-5534 | POLETAE were ten magistrates of Athens, who, with three that had the management of the money allowed for public shows, were empowered to let out the tribute-money and other public revenues, and to sell confiscated estates; all which transactions were ratified by their president, or in his name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-024707-5534 | POLIANTHES, the Tuberose, a genus of plants belonging to the hexandria class; and in the natural method ranking under the tenth order, Coroìiariae.
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kp-eb0718-024801-5547 | POLICE.
The word Police has two meanings. According to the first, it is the science of regulating whatever belongs to the internal economy of a state; according to the second, or limited meaning, it is merely a system of preventive justice.
The first definition may appear so extensive, as to make it possible to confo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-025701-5664 | POLICY or Insurance, or Assurance, of ships, is a contract or convention, by which a person takes upon himself the risks of a sea-voyage; obliging himself to make good in part or in whole the losses and damages that may befall the vessel, its’equipåge, tackle, victualling, lading, &c. either from tempests, shipwrecks, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-025702-5664 | POLIGNA, Melchior de, a French cardinal, was born of an ancient and noble family at Piry, the capital of Velay, in 1662. He was sent by Louis XIV. as ambassador extraordinary to Poland, where, on the death of Sobieski, he formed a project of procuring the election of the prince of Conti; but failing in this, he returne... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-025703-5664 | POLIGNY, an arrondissement of the department of the Jura, in France, extending over 496 square miles. It comprehends seven cantons, divided into 161 communes, and contains 72,650 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the river Elantine. It is well built, and in a fertile district, in which so... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-025704-5664 | POLISHER, or Burnisher, amongst mechanics, an instrument for polishing and burnishing things proper to take a polish. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-025705-5664 | POLITENESS means elegance of manners, or good breeding. Lord Chesterfield denominates it the art of pleasing. It has also been called an artificial good nature; and indeed good nature is the foundation of true politeness, for without it art will make but a very indifferent figure, and generally defeat its own ends. Whe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-025706-5664 | POLITIAN, Angelo, was born at Monte Pulciano in Tuscany, in the year 1454. He studied the Greek language, of which he became a complete master, under Andronicus of Thessalonica. He is said to have written verses both in Greek and in Latin when he was not more than twelve years of age. He also studied the Platonic philo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-025707-5664 | POLITICAL, from τrο ∖ ις, a city, signifies any thing that relates to policy or civil government. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-025708-5664 | POLITICAL ARITHMETIC is the art of reasoning by figures upon matters relating to government; such as the revenues, number of people, extent and value of land, taxes, trade, &c. in any nation. These calculations are generally made with a view to ascertain the comparative strength, prosperity, and resources of any two or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-025801-5677 | POLITICAL ECONOMY.
The subordinate parts of the science of political economy have been treated in separate articles of this work, with the fulness which their importance seemed to require. The present article, therefore, will be principally confined to an attempt to define the objects and limits of the science—to trac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030801-6327 | POLL, a word used in ancient writings for the head. Hence to poll is either to vote, or to enter down the names of those persons who give their , votes at an election.
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kp-eb0718-030802-6327 | POLLARD, or Crocard, the name given to a sort of base money current in Ireland in the time of Edward I. (See Simon’s History of Irish Coins, p. 15.) | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030803-6327 | POLLEN, the fecundating or fertilizing dust contained within the antherae or tops of the stamina, and dispersed upon the female organ when ripe, for the purposes of impregnation. (See Botany.) | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030804-6327 | POLLICIS Pressio, and Pollicis Versio, were used at the combats of gladiators as signals of life or death to the vanquished combatant; in other words, to the victor to spare or take the life of his antagonist. The pollicis pressio, by which the people granted life to the prostrate gladiator, was no more than a clenchin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030805-6327 | POLLIO, Caius Asinius, a celebrated Latin poet and orator, was of consular dignity, and composed some tragedies which were much esteemed, but are now unfortunately lost. He was the first who opened at Rome a library for the use of the public. Being the friend of Mark Antony, he was prevented from complying with the sol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030806-6327 | POLLOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the Carn ∣t∣< , . S' - venty-seven miles south-west from Madras. Long. 79.15. E. Lat. 12. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030807-6327 | POLLUX, the son of Tyndareus king of Amyclae, and of Leda, according to the tradition followed by Homer, was by late writers, along with his sister Helen, made the child of Jupiter, who gained the affections of Lydia in the form of a swan. He was the brother of Castor and Clytemnestra, and was born in the island Pephno... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030808-6327 | POLO, a small island, one of the Philippines, off the western coast of Luzon, about the fifteenth degree of north latitude. It is twenty-five miles in length by three in average breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030809-6327 | POLOONSHAH, a small town and district of Hindustan, in the province of Hyderabad, tributary to the nizam. It is situated in a rich and luxuriant valley, and has a fort 300 yards square, with a large round tower at each angle. It is seventy miles north-west from Rajahmundry. Long. 81. 10. E. Lat. 17. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030810-6327 | POLTROON, or Poltron, a coward or dastard, wanting the courage requisite to perform anything great or noble. The word is borrowed from the French, who, according to Salmasius, derived it a pollice truncato ; because anciently those who wished to avoid going to the wars cut off their thumb. But Ménage, with more probabi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030811-6327 | POLYAENUS, the name of many famous men recorded by the ancient writers. Amongst them was Julius Polyaenus, of whom we have some Greek epigrams extant in the first book of the Anthologia. The Polyaenus whom it most concerns us to know about, is the author of the eight books of [7:18:309]the Stratagems of Illustrious Com... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030901-6340 | POLYANTHEA, a collection of common-places arranged in alphabetical order, for the use of orators, preachers, and others. The word is formed from the Greek πολύ;, τMwcΛ,and ανάος, flower, and has mnch the same meaning with anthology or florilege. The first author of the Polyanthea was Dominie Nanni di Mirabellio, whose ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-030902-6340 | POLYBIUS, a celebrated Greek historian, was the son of Lycortas, a native of Megalopolis, in Arcadia, who succeeded Philopoemen in the chief direction of the Aehaean league. His father, therefore, must have been one of the most distinguished men of his time; and we find him accordingly taking part in the principal tran... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031001-6353 | POLYCARP, one of the most ancient Fathers of the Christian church, was born towards the end of the reign of Nero, probably at Smyrna, where he was educated at the expense of Calista, a noble matron distinguished alike by her piety and charity. He was unquestionably a disciple of St John the Evangelist, and he conversed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031101-6366 | POLYCHORD, from the Greek τroaυχοξδος, a bow instrument resembling the double-bass, but smaller. It had ten strings, and a compass from C the second space in the bass clef, to C the third space in the treble clef. Its fingerboard could be lengthened or shortened at pleasure, in order to tune the instrument. It was inve... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031102-6366 | POLYCLETUS, a celebrated statuary and architect, who is said to have been a native of Sicyon, and a disciple of Ageladas. He was the fellow-disciple of Myron. But it seems doubtful whether he was born at Sicyon, since Plato, who was his contemporary, calls him in his dialogue entitled Protagoras, a native of Argos, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031103-6366 | POLYCROTA, in the naval architecture of the ancients, a word used to express such of their galleys as had three, four,five, ormore tiersof benches, seated at different heights. TRey were distinguished by this term from the monocrota, or those which had only single rows of oars. The number of rows of benches in the poly... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031104-6366 | POLYDORE Virgil. Sec Virgil. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031105-6366 | POLYDORUS, a son of Priam by Hecuba, or, according to others, by Laothe, the daughter of Altes, king of Pedasus. Being young and inexperienced when Troy was besieged by the Greeks, his father removed him to the court of Polymnestor, king of Thrace, to whose care he intrusted the greater part of his treasures, until his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031106-6366 | POLYGAMIA (noXu¢, many, and γαμος, marriage) is a term expressing an intercommunication of sexes, and is applied by Linnaeus both to plants and to flowers. A polygamous plant is that which bears both hermaphrodite flowers, and male or female, or both. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031107-6366 | POLYGAMY, a plurality of wives or husbands, in the possession of one man or woman at the same time.
Polygamy is so universally esteemed unlawful, and even unnatural, throughout Europe, and in all Christian countries, that we have generally reasoned upon this conviction. Both religion and reason appear at first sight a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031401-6405 | POLYGARS ’ Territory. This is a district in the Southern Carnatic, and it is situated between the tenth and eleventh degrees of north latitude. To the north it is bounded by Trichinopoly, to the south by Mara was and Madura, to the east it has Tanjore and the sea, and to the west Dindigul. The Polygars, amongst whom th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031402-6405 | POLYGLOTT, amongst divines and critics, denotes a Bible printed in several languages. See Bibliography. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031403-6405 | POLYGNOTUS, a famous painter of Thasos, flourished about 422 years before the Christian era, and was the son and scholar of Aglaophon. He adorned one of the public porticos of Athens with his paintings, in which he had represented the most striking events of the Trojan war. The Athenians were so pleased with him, that ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031404-6405 | POLYGON, in Geometry, a figure with many sides, or one the perimeter of which consists of more than four sides at least; such are the pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, and others. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031405-6405 | POLYGRAPHY, Polygraphia, or Polygraphice, the art of writing in various unusual manners or ciphers; as also that of deciphering the same. The word is formed from the Greek πoλυ, signifying much, and γ%a<ρr l , scriptura, writing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031406-6405 | POLYHYMNIA, in the Pagan mythology, one of the nine muses, thus named from the Greek words τολυ, much, and μνεια, memory. She presided over history, or rather rhetoric, and is represented with a crown of pearls and a white robe; her right hand in action as if haranguing, and holding in her left a caduceus, or sceptre, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031407-6405 | POLYHEDRON, in Geometry, denotes a body or solid comprehended under many sides or planes.
Polyhedron, in Optics, is a multiplying glass or lens, consisting of several plane surfaces disposed into a convex form. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-031408-6405 | POLYMATHY denotes the knowledge of many arts and sciences. The word is derived from the Greek, πoλ⅛ multum, and μανόανω, disco.
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kp-eb0718-031501-6418 | POLYNESIA.
Polynesia is a name given by several early writers on geography, but first, we believe, by De Barros, to the numerous islands scattered over the Pacific Ocean, or, as it was usually called, the Great South Sea. It is the name which is now applied by most modern geographers to the sixth great division of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-032901-6600 | POLYPHEMUS, a celebrated Cyclops, and king of all the Cyclops in Sicily, was the son of Neptune and Thoosa, the daughter of Phorcys. He is said to have been a monster of great strength, very tall, and with only one eye in the middle of the forehead. He ate human flesh, and kept his flocks on the coasts of Sicily, when ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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