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kp-eb0718-072802-1839 | PUNCH, an instrument of iron or steel, used in several arts, for piercing or stamping holes in plates of metal,s, and other purposes, being so contrived as not only to perforate, but to cut out and take away the piece. The punch is a principal instrument of the metal-button makers, shoemakers, and other craftsmen.
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kp-eb0718-072901-1852 | PUNCHEON, Punchin, or Punchion, a little block or piece of steel, on one end of which is some figure, letter, or mark, engraved either en creux or in relief, and impressions of which are taken on metal or some other matter, by striking it with a hammer on the end not engraved. There are various kinds of these puncheons... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-072902-1852 | PUNCTUATION, in Grammar, the art of pointing, or of dividing a discourse into periods, by points expressing the pauses to be made therein.
The points used are four; the period, colon, semicoon, and comma, which are too well known to require any particular explanation. We shall only observe, in general, therefore, that... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-073001-1865 | PUNCTUM Saliens, in Anatomy, the first rudiments of the heart in the formation of the foetus, where a throbbing motion is perceived.
Punctum Stans, a phrase by which the schoolmen vainly attempt to bring within the reach of human comprehension the positive eternity of God. Those subtile reasoners seem to have discover... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-073002-1865 | PUNDA, or Pundy, a town of Hindustan, province of Bejapore, twenty-five miles south-east from Goa, and near the south-west extremity of the territories belonging to the Poonah Mahrattas. Long. 74. 3. E. Lat. 15. 20. N. There is another place of the same name in the Northern Circars. Long. 84. 40. E. Lat. 18. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-073003-1865 | PUNDERPOOR, or Pundepore, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore, situated on the left bank of the river Beemal. It is not very large, but is a prosperous and populous place. The streets are broad and well paved, and adorned with very handsome houses, almost all the principal members of the Mahratta empire ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-073004-1865 | PUNDUAH, or Purruah, a town of Bengal, and for a short period the capital of that province, but now in ruins. Long. 88. 9. E. Lat. 25. 9. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-073005-1865 | PUNGANOOR, a fortified town of Hindustan, in the province of Golcondah, and district of Balaghaut, ceded to the British by the nizam in 1799, and dependent on Madras. It is a hundred and seventeen miles west by north from Madras. Long. 78. 42. E. Lat. 13. 19. N.
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kp-eb0718-073101-1878 | PUNISHMENT In noticing the present state of the science of penal law, the course we shall adopt, as best suited to the narrow space within which our observations must be confined, is, in the first place, to give an outline of the theory of punishment, according to the opinions of some distinguished modern writers, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-073901-1982 | PUNJAB, or Five Waters, an extensive region of Hindustan, principally situated in the province of Lahore, but including Moultan. The province of Lahore is also frequently named the Punjab. This tract has no very definite boundary. On the east the boundary is properly the ridge of the Snowy Mountains, from which spring ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-073902-1982 | PUNO, a department and city of the republic of Southern Peru, in South America, lying to the eastward of Arequipa and to the south of Cuzco. The surface of the country is nearly all high table-land, being in few places less than 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. The climate is cold compared with that of the coast... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074001-1995 | PUNUGGA, a village of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Bootan. The mountains in the vicinity are the highest in Bootan. Long. 89. 23. E. Lat. 27. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074002-1995 | PURCELL, Henry, the most distinguished musical composer that England has produced. He was born in 1658, and died in 1695. At the early age of eighteen his genius and attainments procured him the appointment of organist of Westminster Abbey. His genius for composition was original and vigorous, as is evinced by his vari... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074003-1995 | PURCHAS, Samuel, an English divine, famous for compiling a valuable collection of voyages, was born in 1577, at Thacksted, in Essex. After studying at Cambridge, he obtained the vicaragè of Eastwood, in his native county; but leaving that cure to his brother, he settled in London, in order to carry on the great work in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074004-1995 | PURDHAUNGUR, a hill-fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore, taken by the Mahratta chief Savajee in 1668. Latitude not ascertained. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074005-1995 | PURDIE’S Isles, a ledge of rocks and small islets, situated on the southern coast of New Holland, opposite Point Bell, in long. 133. 5. E. lat. 32. 16. S. They form part of Nuyt’s Archipelago. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074006-1995 | PUREG, a village of Mekran, in Persia, on the site of Para, the ancient capital of Gedrosia, where Alexander terminated his march on his return from India. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074007-1995 | PURFLEW, a term in heraldry, expressing ermines, peans, or any of the furs, when they compose a bordure round a coat of arms. Thus it is said, he beareth gules, a bordure, purflew, vairy; meaning that the bordure is vairy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074008-1995 | PURGATION, the art of purging, scouring, or purifying a thing, by separating or carrying off any impurities that may be found therein. Thus, in pharmacy, purgation is the cleansing of a medicine by retrenching its superfluities; in chemistry, it is used for the several preparations of metals and minerals intended to cl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074009-1995 | PURGATORY, a place in which the just, who 'depart out of this life, arc supposed to expiate certain offences which do not merit eternal condemnation. Broughton has endeavoured to prove that this notion was held by Pagans, Jews, and Mahommedans, as well as by Christians; and it cannot be questioned that, in the days of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074101-2008 | PURIFICATION, in matters of religion, a ceremony which consists in cleansing any thing from a supposed pollution or defilement.
The Pagans, before they sacrificed, usually bathed or washed themselves in water; and they were particularly careful to wash their hands, because with these they were to touch the victims con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074102-2008 | PURIM, or the Feast of Lots, a solemn festival of the Jews, instituted in memory of the deliverance they received, by means of Mordecai and Esther, from Haman’s wicked attempt to destroy them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074103-2008 | PURITAN, a name formerly given in derision to the dissenters from the Church of England, on account of their profession to follow the pure word of God, in opposition to all traditions and human constitutions. It was likewise given in the primitive church to the Novatian schismatics, because they would never admit to co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074104-2008 | PURLINS, in building, those pieces of timber which lie across the rafters on the inside, to keep them from sinking in the middle of their length. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074105-2008 | PURNEAH, an extensive district of Bengal, forming the north-western division of that province, and situated about the twenty-sixth degree of north latitude. Its boundaries are, to the north the Morung Hills, in the Nepaul territories; on the south Monghir and Rajemahl; on the east Dinagepoor; and on the west Tirhoot an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074106-2008 | PURPURE, in Heraldry. The colour so called, which signifies purple, is an engraving represented by diagonal lines from the left to the right.
It may serve to denote an administrator of justice, a lawgiver, or a governor equal to a sovereign; and, according to Leigh, if it is compounded with
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kp-eb0718-074201-2021 | PURRAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, and district of Rajemahl. In 1353 it was a royal residence, the capital of Hyas, the second independent sovereign of Bengal, when it was taken by the Emperor Ferose. The city was much extended during the reign of Rajah Causa, the Hindu monarch of Bengal, who died ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 9' N 89 9' E | PURRAH |
kp-eb0718-074202-2021 | PURSER, an officer on board a ship of war, who receives the victuals from the victualler, sees that they be well stowed, and keeps an account of what he every day delivers to the steward. He also keeps a list of the ship’s company, and sets down exactly the day of each man’s admission, in order to regulate the quantity... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074203-2021 | PURVIEW, a term used by some lawyers for the body of an act of parliament, or that part which begins with the words “Be it enacted,” as contradistinguished from the preamble. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074204-2021 | PURULENT, in Medicine, something mixed with, or partaking of, pus or matter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074205-2021 | PUS, in Medicine, a white or yellowish matter, designed by nature for the healing and cementing of wounds and sores. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074206-2021 | PUSTULE, a pimple, or small eruption on the skin, full of pus, such as the eruptions of the small-pox. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074207-2021 | PUTEOLI, a town of Campania, so called either from its wells, there being many hot and cold springs thereabouts, or from the stench caused by sulphureous exhalations. It is now called Puzzuoli, and is pleasantly and advantageously situated for trade. In a very remote age the Cumeans made it their arsenal and dock-yard,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074208-2021 | PUTIWL, a city of Russia, in the government of Kursk, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands at the junction of the Putiwl with'the Gem, and is a very ancient place, surrounded with pallisades. It contains nineteen churches, 1276 houses, and 10,500 inhabitants, who are occupied in refining saltpetre, makin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074209-2021 | PUTNEY, a parish of the hundred of Brixton, in the county of Surrey. It is four miles from London, on the south bank of the Thames, over which there is a bridge that unites it to Fulham. It is situated on a gentle elevation, many of the houses in it commanding pleasant views on the river. It contains many houses of nob... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074210-2021 | PUTREFACTION is the natural process of decomposition, by which the elements of organic matter are made to enter into a different state of combination, and by which new products are formed.
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kp-eb0718-074401-2047 | PUTTAN Somnant, a town of Hindustan, on the southwest coast of the Gujerat peninsula, and district of Puttan. Long. 70. 23. E. Lat. 20. 57. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 57' N 70 23' E | PUTTAN |
kp-eb0718-074402-2047 | PUTTY, in its popular sense, is a kind of paste compounded of whiting and linseed oil, beaten together to the consistence of a thick dough. It is used by glaziers for fastening in the squares of glass in sash-windows, and by painters for stopping up the crevices and clefts in timber and wainscots.
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kp-eb0718-074403-2047 | PUY, Le, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Loire, in France, extending over 779 square miles. It has fourteen cantons, 117 communes, and 122,450 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, distinguished by the addition en Belay, which is situated on the river Borne. It is the seat of the depar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074404-2047 | PUY de Dôme, a department in the south of France, formed out of the ancient province Lower Auvergne. It extends in north latitude from 45. 26. to 46.11. and in east longitude from 2. 17. to 3. 54. In extent it is 3389 square miles, and is divided into five arrondissements, and these into fifty cantons and 438 communes,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074405-2047 | PUZZULANA or Pozzolana Terra, is a grayish kind of earth employed in Italy for building under· water. The best is found about Puteoli, Baiae, and Cumae, in the kingdom of Naples, from the first of which places it derives its name. It is a volcanic product, composed of heterogeneous substances, thrown out from the burni... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074406-2047 | PYANEPSIA, in Antiquity, an Athenian festival celebrated on the seventh day of the month Pyanepsion, which, according to the generality of critics, was the same with our September.
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kp-eb0718-074501-2060 | PYCNOSTYLE, in the ancient architecture, is a building where the columns stand very close to each other, only one diameter and a half of the column being allowed for the intercolumniations. According to Mr Evelyn, the pyenostyle chiefly belonged to the composite order, and was used in the most magnificent buildings; as... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074502-2060 | PYGMALION, in fabulous history, a king of Cyprus, who, being disgusted at the dissolute lives of the women of his island, resolved to live in perpetual celibacy; and making a statue of ivory, he fell so passionately in love with it, that, the high festival of Venus being come, he fell down before the altar of that godd... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074503-2060 | PYGMY, a person not exceeding a cubit in height. This appellation was given by the ancients to a fabulous nation inhabiting Thrace, who brought forth young at five years of age, and were old at eight. They were celebrated for the bloody war which they waged with the cranes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074504-2060 | PYKAR, a broker in India, inferior to those called dallais, who transacts the business at first hand with the manufacturer, and sometimes carries goods about for sale. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074505-2060 | PYKE, a watchman in India, employed as a guard at night. Pyke is likewise a footman or runner on business. They are generally armed with a spear. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074506-2060 | PYLADES, was a son of Strophius, king of Phocis, by one of the sisters of Agamemnon. He was educated together with his cousin Orestes, with whom he formed the most inviolable friendship, and whom he assisted to revenge the murder of Agamemnon, by assassinating Clytemnestra and Aegysthus. He also accompanied him into Ta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074507-2060 | PYLOS, a city on the coast of MeSsenia, fifteen miles south of Cyparissia, is usually considered as the residence of Nestor, where he was visited by Telemachus. There were two other places of the same name, one in Elis, and another in Triphylia, which claimed this honour; but all the circumstances which the poet states... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074508-2060 | PYLSTART, an island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, about six miles in circumference, discovered by Tasman in 1643. Long. 175. 59. W. Lat. 22. 22. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074509-2060 | PYRAMID, in Geometry, is a solid standing upon a triangular, a square, or a polygonal basis, and terminating in a pointât the vertex; or it is a solid figure, consisting of several triangles, the bases of which are all in the same plane, and have one common vertex.
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kp-eb0718-074601-2073 | PYRAMIDOID, a term which is occasionally employed to denote the parabolic spindle, or the solid formed by the rotation of a semiparabola about its base or greatest ordinate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074602-2073 | PYRENEAN Mountains, or Pyrenees, are the mountains which divide France from Spain, and are the most celebrated in Europe, excepting the Alps. They reach from the Mediterranean as far as the Atlantic Ocean, and are about 212 miles in length. They have different names, according to the different places where they stand. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074603-2073 | PYRENEES, Eastern. The eastern extremity of the Pyrenees gives its name to a department watered by the Agly, the Tet, and the Tech, which flow in an easterly direction towards the Mediterranean Sea. It possesses a warm and genial climate, very favourable to the culture of the vine; but the lands near the sea are marshy... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074701-2086 | PYRITES, a metallic substance, combined with sulphur; as iron pyrites, composed of sulphur and iron, and copper pyrites, of sulphur and copper. See Mineralogy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074702-2086 | PYRMONT, a city of the principality of Waldech, in Germany, and the capital of the district of the same name. It is a well-built place, containing 320 houses, and 2400 resident inhabitants. It is chiefly remarkable for its mineral springs, which are much frequented in'the summer months by invalids. It is situated at th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074703-2086 | PYROMANCY, a kind of divination by means of fire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-074704-2086 | PYROMETER.
Instruments for ascertaining the effects of a given change of temperature on the dimensions of solids are named pyrometers, from πυs, fire, and ∕zsrg=ω, 1 measure. The same name is also given to such instruments as are employed for the converse purpose of inferring from some of the various effects of heat, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-075601-2203 | PYROPHORUS, formed of ττυξ,fire, and <pε%ω, I bear, the name usually given to a chemical preparation which possesses the singular property of kindling spontaneously when exposed to the open air, or when breathed upon. There are various kinds of ρyrophorus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-075602-2203 | PYROTECHNY, from nug, fire, and riχνη, art. The usual modern meaning of the word is the art of making fireworks, and of disposing them to the best advantage when exhibited on occasions of rejoicing, or in theatres, gardens, and other places. A moment’s consideration will show how very comprehensive a term pyrotechny ma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-075801-2229 | PYROTICS, in Medicine, caustics or remedies either actually or potentially hot, and which accordingly will bum the. flesh, and raise an eschar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-075802-2229 | PYRRHICA, in Antiquity, a kind of exercise on horseback, or a feigned combat, for the exercise of the cavalry. It was so called from its inventor Pyrrhichus or Pyrrhus of Cydonia, who first taught the Cretans to march in measure and cadence to battle, and to observe the Pyrrhic pace. Others derive the name from Pyrrhus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-075803-2229 | PYRRHICIIIUS, in Greek and Latin poetry, a foot consisting of two syllables, both short, as Deus. Amongst the ancients this foot was also called periambus, and by some hegemona. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-075804-2229 | PYRRHO, the founder of a school of philosophy, was the son of Pleistarchus, a native of Elis, and flourished B. c. 336, in the time of Philip the Great. He was originally a painter, but subsequently devoted himself to the study of philosophy, having been the pupil of Anaxarchus, whom he attended to India. There he beca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-075901-2242 | PYRRHUS, the name of two kings of Epirus. See Epirus. ’ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-075902-2242 | PYTHAGORAS, a celebrated philosopher of antiquity, but one respecting the time and place of whose birth the learned are much divided. Eratosthenes asserts, that in the 48th Olympiad, about 588 years before Christ, when still very young, he was a victor at the Olympic games. Hence Dr Bentley^[1. Dissertation on the Epis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076101-2268 | PYTHAGOREANS, a sect of ancient philosophers, so called from their being the followers of Pythagoras. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076102-2268 | PYTHEAS, an ancient navigator, was a native of Marseilles, and is supposed to have lived some time about the age of Alexander the Great, 330 b. c. We have no information respecting the private circumstances of his life; but we know that he explored the northern seas of Europe, though the ancient geographers appear to h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076103-2268 | PYTHIA, the priestess of Apollo at Delphi, by whom he delivered oracles. She was so called from Pythius, a name of that god, which is said to have been given him on account of his victory over the serpent Python. The Pythia was at first required to be a young girl, but in later times a woman of about fifty years of age... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076104-2268 | PYTHIAN Games, in Grecian antiquity, sports instituted near Delphos in honour of Apollo, on account of his slaying the serpent Python. These games, at their first institution, were celebrated only once in nine years; but afterwards every fifth year, from the number of the Parnassian nymphs who came to congratulate Apol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076105-2268 | PYTHON, in fabulous history, is the name given to a monstrous serpent, produced by the earth after Deucalion’s deluge. Juno being exasperated at Latona, who was beloved by Jupiter, commanded this serpent to destroy her; but Latona flying from the pursuit of the monster, escaped to Delos, where she was delivered of Dian... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076201-2281 | Q or q, the sixteenth letter and twelfth consonant of our alphabet, but one not to be found either in the Greek, old Latin, or Saxon alphabets; and indeed some would entirely exclude it, pretending that k ought to be used wherever this occurs. But as it is formed by the voice in a different manner, it is undoubtedly a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076202-2281 | QUADI, a people of Germany, situated to the south-east of the mountains of Bohemia, on the banks of the Danube, and extending as far as the river Marus, running by Moravia, which country they occupied. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076203-2281 | QUADRAGESIMA, a denomination given to Lent, from its consisting of forty days. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076204-2281 | QUADRANGLE, in Geometry, the same with a quadrilateral figure, or one consisting of four sides and four angles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076205-2281 | QUADRANS, the quarter or fourth part of any thing, particularly the as, or pound.
Quadrans, in English money, the fourth part of a penny. Before the reign of Edward I. the smallest coin was a sterling or penny, marked with a cross, by the guidance of which a penny might be cut into halves for a halfpenny, or into quar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076206-2281 | QUADRANT, in Geometry, the arch of a circle, containing ninety degrees, or the fourth part of the entire periphery.
Quadrant also denotes a mathematical instrument, of great use in astronomy and navigation, for taking the altitudes of the sun and stars, as also for taking angles in surveying.
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kp-eb0718-076207-2281 | QUADRANTAL, in Antiquity, the name of a vessel in use amongst the Romans for the measuring of liquids. It was at first denominated amphora ; and afterwards quadran tal, from its form, which was square every way like a die. In capacity it contained eighty librae or pounds of water, which made forty-eight sextaries, two ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076208-2281 | QUADRAT, a mathematical instrument, called also a Geometrical Square, and Line of Shadows. It is frequently an additional member on the face of the common quadrant, as also on those of Gunter and Sutton.
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kp-eb0718-076209-2281 | QUADRATIC Equations, in Algebra, those in which the unknown quantity is of two dimensions, or raised to the second power. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076210-2281 | QUADRATRIX, in Geometry, a mechanical line, by means of which we can find right lines equal to the circumference of circles, or of other curves, and their several parts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076211-2281 | QUADRATURE, in Geometry, denotes the squaring, or reducing a figure to a square. Thus, the finding of a square which shall contain just as much surface or area as a circle, an ellipsis, or a triangle, is the quadrature of a circle, an ellipsis, or a triangle. The quadrature, especially amongst the ancient mathematician... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076212-2281 | QUADREL, in building, a kind of artificial stone, so called from its being perfectly square. The quadrels are made of a chalky earth. &c. and dried in the shade for two years. These were formerly in great request amongst the Italian architects. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076213-2281 | QUADRIGA, in Antiquity, a ear or chariot drawn by four horses. On the reverses of medals we frequently see the Emperor or Victory in a quadriga, holding the reins of [7:18:763]the horses; and hence these coins are amongst the curious called nummi quadrigati and victoriati. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076301-2294 | QUADRILATERAL, in Geometry., a figure, the perimeter of which consists of four sides and four angles, and which is also called a quadrangular figure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076302-2294 | QUADRILLE, a little troop or company of cavaliers, pompously dressed and mounted, for the performance of carousals, jousts, tournaments, and other gallant divertise-ments.
Quadrille, a game played by four persons, with forty cards, which are the remains of a pack after the four tens, nines, and eighths ¾re discarded. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076401-2307 | QUADRIPARTITION, the dividing by four, or into four equal parts. Hence comes the term quadripartite, the fourth part, or something divided into four. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076402-2307 | QUADRUPEDS, in Zoology, those animals which have four limbs or legs proceeding from the trunk of their body. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076403-2307 | QUADRUPLE, fourfold, or something taken four times, or multiplied by four, on which account it is the converse of quadripartition. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-076404-2307 | QUAIL. See Ornithology.
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kp-eb0718-076501-2320 | QUAKERS.
Quakers, a body of Protestant Dissenters, so named by the public at large, but styled by themselves, “The Society of Friends.” This society was founded by George Fox, in the year 1647. The Friends are remarkable for differing from the community in religious doctrines, mode of worship, and social customs, more... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-077301-2424 | QUALITY is a word which, as used in philosophical disquisitions, cannot be explained by any periphrasis. That which is expressed by it must be brought into the immediate view of the senses or intellect, and the name properly applied, or he who is a stranger to the .word will never be made to comprehend its meaning. Ari... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-077401-2437 | QUALLA MOORBA, a river and port situated on the western coast of Malacca. The river is a large one; but the entrance into it is interrupted by a heavy surge, which breaks during the south-west monsoon, and has raised a dangerous sand-bank at the mouth, which extends three miles out to sea. This river is, however, frequ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-077402-2437 | QUANG-PING, a city of China, of the first rank, in the southern part of Petchelee, agreeably situated in a fertile and well-watered territory. Long. 114.29. E. Lat. 36.47. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-077403-2437 | QUANGSEE, a province of China, situated on the southwestern frontier, and bordering on Tonquin. The country is flat in the eastern districts, which are fertile, and yield rice not only for internal consumption, but also for export to the neighbouring provinces. The remaining part of the province consists of lofty mount... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-077404-2437 | QUANGTONG, a large and populous province in the south of China, bounded on the east and south by the China Sea. Along the sea-coast the country is flat and extremely fertile, producing every species of grain, of which it yields two crops in the year. The northern frontier, by which it is separated from the province of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-077501-2450 | QUANTITY, as explained by the great English lexicorapher, is that property of any thing which may be increased or diminished. This interpretation of the word is certainly just, and for the purposes of common conversation it is sufficiently determinate; but the man of science may expect to find in a work like ours a def... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-078001-2515 | QUARANTINE is a trial which ships must undergo when suspected of pestilential infection. It may be ordered by the king, with advice of the privy-council, at such times, and under such regulations, as he judges proper. Ships ordered on quarantine must repair to the place appointed, and continue there during the time pre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-078002-2515 | QUARLES, Francis, the son of James Quarles, clerk to the board of green cloth, and purveyor to Queen Elizabeth, was born in 1592. He was educated at Cambridge, became a member of Lincoln’s Inn, and was for some time cup-bearer to the queen of Bohemia, and chronologer to the city of London. It was probably on the ruin o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-078101-2528 | QUARNARO, the collective name of some islands situated on the coast of Austrian Dalmatia, in a gulf near to Istria, which is secure as a harbour. The whole of these •islands are fertile and well cultivated. The largest of them, Arbe, contains 3000 inhabitants; the next in size, Pago, has 4000. One important product, sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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