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kp-eb0719-007207-0082 | RAREE, a town of Hindustan, on the sea-coast of the province of Bejapoor, seventeen miles north by west from Goa. Long. 73. 30. E. Lat- 15. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007208-0082 | RAREFACTION, in Physics, the act by which a body is rendered rare; that is, brought to occupy more room, or appear under a larger bulk, without accession of any new matter. This is very frequently the effect of heat, as has long been universally known. In many cases, however, philosophers have attributed it to the acti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007209-0082 | RASAY, one of the Western Islands or Hebrides, is about thirteen miles in length and two in breadth. It has plenty of limestone and freestone, feeds great numbers of black cattle, but has neither deers, hares, nor rabbits. The only appearance of a'harbour in Rasay is at Clachan Bay, where the proprietor of the island r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007210-0082 | RAS EL KHYMA, a town of Arabia, OnthePersianGulf, situated on a sandy peninsula, the isthmus of which is defended by a battery, while the Sea-line is also fortified by batteries of one gun each at regular intervals. It has a suburb of bamboo huts, roofed with date-tree leaves. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007211-0082 | RASK, Erasmus, an eminent scholar and philologist, was born at Brendekild, in the island of Even, in the year 1784. He studied at the university of Copenhagen, and early distinguished himself by his singular talent for the acquisition of languages. In the year 1808, he was appointed assistant keeper of the University L... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007401-0084 | RASTADT, a city of the grand duchy of Baden, in Germany, the capital of a bailiwick of its own name. It is situated on the river Murg, just before that stream joins the Hhine. There is a fine palace of the prince, now used as a college or gymnasium, a nunnery, an hospital, 568 houses, and 4400 inhabitants. Peace was ma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007402-0084 | RASTALL, John, a printer and miscellaneous writer, s was born in London, probably about the end of the fifteenth century, and educated at Oxford. Returning from the university, he settled in the metropolis, and commenced printer,
“then esteemed,” says Wood, “a profession fit for any scholar or ingenious man.” He marri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007403-0084 | RASTRICK, a township of the parish of Halifax, in the west riding of Yorkshire and wapentake of Morley, 192 miles from London. It has risen into importance during the last thirty years, from the great extension of its woollen trade. The population amounted in 1801 to 2053, in 1811 to 2442, in 1821 to 2796, and in 1831 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007404-0084 | RAT,. See Mammalia.
Rsτ Island, the small detached part of the island of Lundy, off the north coast of Devon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007405-0084 | RATAFIA, a fine spirituous liquor, prepared from the kernels and other parts of several kinds of fruits, particularly cherries and apricos. Ratafia of cherries is prepared by bruising the cherries, and putting them into a vessel wherein brandy has long been kept; then adding to them the kernels of cherries, with strawb... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007406-0084 | RATCH or Rash, in clock-work, a sort of wheel having twelve fangs, which serve to lift up the detents every hour, and make the clock strike. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007407-0084 | RATCHETS, in a watch, are the small teeth at the bottom of the fusee or barrel, which stops it in winding up. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007408-0084 | RATES, in the navy, mean the orders or classes into which the ships of war are divided, according to their force and magnitude.
Ships of the first rate mount a hundred guns, having forty-two pounders on the lower deck, twenty-four pounders on the middle deck, twelve-pounders on the upper deck, and six-pounders on the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007501-0085 | RATEEN or Ratten, in commerce, a thick woollen stuff, quilled, and woven in a loom with four treddles, like serges and other stuffs that have the whale or quilling. There are some rateens dressed and prepared like cloths; others left simply in the hair, and others where the hair or knap is frized. Rateens are chiefly m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007502-0085 | RATHENAU, a city of Prussia, in the province of Potsdam, and circle of West Havell. It stands on the river Havell, is surrounded with walls, and has a good marketplace, in which there is a statue of the elector Frederick William, placed to commemorate a victory gained by him near this place over the Swedes in the year ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007503-0085 | RATIO, in Arithmetic and Geometry, is that relation of homogeneous things which determines the quantity of one from the quantity of another, without the intervention of a third.
The numbers, lines, or quantities, A and B, being proposed, their relation one to another may be considered under one or other of these two h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007504-0085 | RATION, in an army, a portion of ammunition, bread, drink, and forage, distributed to each soldier for his daily subsistence. The horse have rations of hay and oats when they cannot go out to forage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007505-0085 | RATIONALE, a solution or account of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, or phenomenon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007506-0085 | RATIOS, of musical intervals. See articles Mnsic and Temperament. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007507-0085 | RATISBON, or, as called by the Germans, Reosnb-
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burg, a city of the modern kingdom of Bavaria, the capital of the circle of that name. This city in ancient times, though under the protection of the elector of Bavaria, was considered as an imperial city, and the diets of the German empire were frequently held... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007601-0086 | RATLINES, or, as the sailors call them, ratlins, those lines which make the ladder-steps to go up the shrouds and pattocks, hence called the ratlins of the shrouds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007602-0086 | RATTIBOR, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the Prussian government of Oppeln, in Silesia. It stands on the left bank of the Oder, is surrounded with walls, and contains six Catholic and one Lutheran church, three hospitals, 4300 houses, and 4100 inhabitants. It has considerable trade in linen and wo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007603-0086 | RATTOLAW, a seaport of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and gulf of Cambay, is situated on a navigable river. It was ceded to the East India Company by the Guicowar, the Mahratta chief, in 1803. It is forty-four miles south-west from the city of Cambay. Long. 72. 15. E. Lat 22. 3. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007604-0086 | RAUJESHY, a district in Bengal, situated principally between the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the north by Dinagepoor and Mymunsingh; on the south by Birbhoom and Kishenagur; on the east by Dacca, Jelalpoor, and Mymunsingh; and on the west by Monghir and Birbhoom. It is the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007605-0086 | RAUKOKE, one of the Kurile Islands, which is small and lofty, with a rocky shore. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007606-0086 | RAUN, a town of some strength, situated upon the river Miza, and remarkable for a bloody skirmish between the Prussians and Austrians, in August 1744. The king of Prussia, intending to get possession of Beraun, sent thither six battalions, with eight cannon, and 800 hussars; but General Festititz being there with a gre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007607-0086 | RAVA, a town of Asiatic Turkey, situated on the Euphrates, about half-way between Kerkesich and Anna. It contains about 200 houses in the midst of extensive ruins; but many of these houses are uninhabited. On the opposite side of the river are the ruins of a castle, on the summit of a rock. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007608-0086 | RAVAILLIAC or Ravaillac, François, the assassin of Henry IV. of France, was a native of Angoulême, and, at the time of his execution, about thirty-two years of age. Ravaillac was the son of parents who lived upon alms. His father was one of those inferior retainers of the law to whom the vulgar give the name of pettifo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007701-0087 | RAVELIN, in Fortflcation, was anciently a flat bastion placed in the middle of a curtain; but it is now a detached work, composed only of two faces, which form a salient angle without any flanks, and are raised before the counterscarp of the place. See Fortification. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007702-0087 | RAVENNA, a delegation of the States of the Church, in Italy, in the northern part of the ancient Romagna. It is 935 square miles in extent, and contains four cities, eight market-towns, many villages, and 123,760 inhabitants. It is a level district on the sea-coast, with numerous saline lakes, but towards the west ther... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007703-0087 | RAVENSBURG, a city of the kingdom of Wirtemberg 1 in tile circle of the Danube, and the capital of a bailiwick of the same name. It stands on the river Schussen, and is surrounded with walls, defended by several ancient towers. It contains 870 houses, with 3760 inhabitants, one half Catholics and the other Protestants.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 46' 55" N 9 32' E | RAVENSBURG |
kp-eb0719-007704-0087 | RAVEY, the ancient Hydraotes, a celebrated river of Hindustan, and the third river of the Punjab. It rises in the eastern mountains of Cashmere, near a famous place of Hindu worship, not far from the sources of the Sutulege, the Chunaub, and the Beyah rivers. It afterwards runs in a south-westerly direction until it pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007705-0087 | RAVILPANDY, a large and populous town of Hindustan, in the district of the Punjab, situated about half way between the Indus and the Hydaspes rivers. The houses are flat-roofed, and the surrounding country is open and well cultivated. This place was visited by Mr Elphinstone in 1809. It belonged to Jewun Sing, a Sikh c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007706-0087 | RAVREE, a town of Hindustan, in the Western Ghauts, and province of Bejapoor. It was the first stronghold seized by Sevajee, the great founder of the Mahratta power. It is forty-five miles south-south-west from Poonah. Long. 73. 32. E. Lat. 18. 2. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 2' N 73 32' E | RAVREE |
kp-eb0719-007707-0087 | RAWAAD, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, in the Sikh territories, 120 miles north-west from the city of Lahore. Long. 72. 12. E. Lat. 33. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007708-0087 | RAWAK, Isle, a small island in the Eastern Seas, off the north coast of Waygiou, with which it forms a harbour. The channel is here a mile broad, with a depth of from ten to fifteen fathoms, and a mud bottom. Sago, in cakes, is sold here in large quantities. Fish and turtle may also be had. Long. 131. 15. E. Lat. O. 3.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007709-0087 | RAWANKRAD, a celebrated lake in the mountains of Thibet, on the north of the great Himalayah range. It is the source of the river Sutulege, and is connected with the lake Mansarowar. The lake is long and narrow, and is divided by an island. It derives its supplies from several small rivers that flow from the mountains,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007710-0087 | RAWCLIFFE, a town of the west riding of Yorkshire, in the parish of Snaith 1 and wapentake of Osgoldeross, 176 miles from London. It has some trade by the river Aire, which is navigable beyond it. The population amounted in 1801 to 920, in 1811 to 1143, in 1821 to 1496, and in 1831 to 1450. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007711-0087 | RAWICZ or Rawitsch, a city of the Prussian province of Posen, in the circle of Kobben. It is surrounded with walls, is well built and paved, and, including the suburbs, contains 1100 houses, with 8640 inhabitants, who are occupied in making linen, woollen, and cotton goods, mostly by machinery, and in tanning and curry... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007712-0087 | RAY, John, a celebrated naturalist, and the son of Mr Roger Ray, a blacksmith, was born at Black Notly, in Essex, in 1628. He received the rudiments of learning at the grammar-school of Braintree; and in 1644 was admitted into Catharine Hall, Cambridge, whence he afterwards removed to Trinity College in that university... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007801-0088 | RAYNAL, William Thomas, better known as the
Abbé Raynal 1 was born about the year 1712, and having received his education amongst the celebrated order of the Jesuits, became one of their number. Their value and excellence chiefly consisted in assigning to each member his j>roper employment. Amongst them Raynal acquire... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007802-0088 | RAYLEIGH, a town of the county of Essex, in the hundred of Rochford, thirty-five miles from London. It stands on a creek of the Thames called Hadley Bay, in consequence of which it has a good trade in corn. The popu[7:19:79]Iation amounted in 1801 to 897, in 1811 to 1131, in 1821 to 1203, and in 1831 to 1339. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007901-0089 | RAYPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the Sikh territories, and province of Lahore, on the banks of the Beyah and Hydaspes. It is celebrated as the birthplace of Nanac, the founder of the Sikhs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007902-0089 | RAYSINGPOOR, a small village of Hindustan, in the Gujerat peninsula, near the Gulf of Cutch. It is situated on the banks of the Phooljee river, and in its vicinity are gardens in which cardamums are raised. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007903-0089 | RAYUN, a town of Persia, in the province of Kerman, situated at the foot of lofty mountains, and surrounded by numerous gardens. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007904-0089 | RE, an island on the coast of France, in the department of La V endée, and the arrondissement of Rochelle. It stands about seven miles from the mainland, has a very irregular shape, is eleven miles in length, and in the widest part three miles in breadth. The chief town is St Martins, which has 3000 inhabitants, and is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007905-0089 | RE-ACTION, in Physiology, is the resistance made by all bodies to the action or impulse of others which endeavour to change their state, whether of motion or rest. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007906-0089 | READING, the art of delivering written language with propriety, force, and elegance.
“We must not judge so unfavourably of eloquence or good reading,” says Fénélon, “as to reckon it only a frivolous art, that a declaimer uses to impose upon the weak imagination of the multitude, and to serve his own ends. It is a very... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008001-0090 | RE-AGGRAVATION, in the Roman ecclesiastical law, the last monitory, published after three admonitions, and before the final excommunication. Previous to fulminating the last excommunication, they publish an aggravation and a re-aggravation. Fevret observes, that in France the minister is not allowed to come to re-aggra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008002-0090 | REALISTS, a sect of scholastic philosophers formed in opposition to the Nominalists. Under the realists are included the Scotists, Thomists, and all excepting the followers of Ocham. Their distinguishing tenet is, that uni-versals are realities, and have an actual existence out of idea or imagination, or, as they expre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008003-0090 | REALITY, in the schools, a diminutive of res, thing, was first used by the Scotists, to denote a thing which may exist of itself; or which has a full and absolute being of itself, and is not considered as a part of any other. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008004-0090 | REALM, a country which gives its head or governor the denomination of a hing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008005-0090 | RE-ANIMATION, means the reviving or restoring to life those who are apparently dead. Sudden death is dreaded by every human being, and it is one of those evils against which the Church of England prays in her litany. Accidents, however, cannot always be prevented; but, after they have happened, it is often possible to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008006-0090 | REAR, a term frequently used in composition to denote something behind or backwards in respect of another. It is used in opposition to van. Rear of an Army signifies, in general, the hindmost part of an army, battalion, regiment, or squadron; and also the ground behind either.
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kp-eb0719-008007-0090 | REASON, a faculty or power of the mind. See the article Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008008-0090 | REASONING, Ratiocination, the exercise of that faculty of the mind which is called reason; or it is an act or operation of the mind, deducing some unknown proposition from other previous ones that are evident and known. See the article Logic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008009-0090 | REAUMUR, Rene Antoine Ferchaolt, Sieor de, a person distinguished for his laborious researches in natural science, was born at Rochelle in 1683, being descended of a family belonging to the law. After having finished his early studies in the place of his birth, he began a course of philosophy at Poitiers, and one of ci... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008101-0091 | REBATE or Rebatement, in Commerce, a term much used at Amsterdam for an abatement in the price of seve-
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kp-eb0719-008102-0091 | REBELLION, Rebellio, amongst the Romans, was where those who had been formerly overcome in battle, and yielded to their subjection, made a second resistance. But with us it is generally used for the taking up of arms traitorously against the king, whether by natural subjects or others when once subdued; and the word re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008103-0091 | REBUS, an enigmatical representation of some name or thing, by using figures or pictures instead of words or parts of words. Camden mentions an instance of this kind of wit in a gallant who expressed his love to a woman named Rose Hill, by painting in the border of his gown a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf, and a well; w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008104-0091 | RECANATI, a city of Italy, in the delegation of Macerata, in the papal dominions. It is situated on a mountain overlooking the Adriatic Sea. It is the seat of a bishop in union with the city of Loretto, and has a cathedral, eight parish churches, eight monasteries, and four nunneries. It is well built, and has a haven ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008105-0091 | RECENSIO, was an account taken by the censors, every lustrum, of all the Roman people. It was a general survey, at which the equites, as well as the rest of the people, were required to appear. New names were now put upon the censor’s list, and old ones cancelled. The recensio, in short, was a more solemn and accurate ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008106-0091 | RECHABITES, a kind of religious order amongst the ancient Jews, instituted by Jonadab the son of Rechab, comprehending only his own family and posterity. Their founder prescribed them three things: first, not to drink any wine; secondly, not to build any houses, but to dwell in tents; and, thirdly, not to sow any corn ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008107-0091 | RECHEAT, in hunting, a lesson which the huntsman plays on the horn, when the hounds have lost their game, to call them back from pursuing a counter scent. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008108-0091 | RECHERCHE, Archipelago, agroup of islands stretching about 126 miles along the south coast of New Holland, between the thirty-third and thirty-fourth degrees of south latitude. Several of them are naked rocks; and from the coast of New Holland the access is extremely difficult, owing to the rocks and shoals that are in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008201-0092 | RECIPROCAL, in general, is something that is mutual, or which ls returned equally on both sides, or affects both parties alike.
. Reciprocal, in Mathematics, is applied to quantities which, multiplied together, make unity. Thus - and x, y and -, are reciprocal quantities. Likewise - is said to be y % reciprocal of x, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008202-0092 | RECITATIVO or Recitative, in Music, a kind of singing, that differs but little from ordinary pronunciation; such as that in which the several parts of the liturgy are rehearsed in cathedrals; or that in which the actors commonly deliver themselves on the theatre at the opera, when they are to express some action or pas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008203-0092 | RECKLINGHAUSEN, a city of the Prussian province fo Westphalia, in the government of Munster, and the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 265 square miles, and contains 38,300 inhabitants. The city contains two churches, a convent, 420 houses, and 2500 inhabitants, but has very little trade. Long. l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008204-0092 | RECKONING, or a Ship’s Reckoning, in Navigation, is the account by which at any time it may be known where the ship is, and on what course or courses she is to steer, in order to gain her port; and that account, when taken from the log-board, is called the dead reckoning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008205-0092 | RECLAIMING or Reclaming, in our ancient customs, a lord’s pursuing, prosecuting, and recalling his vassal, who had gone to live in another place without his permission.
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kp-eb0719-008206-0092 | RECOGNIZANCE, in Law, is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before some court of record or magistrate, duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008207-0092 | RECOIL or Rebound, the starting backwards of a firearm after an explosion. Mersenne tells us, that a cannon twelve feet in length, weighing 6400lbs. gives a ball of 24lbs. an uniform velocity of 640 feet per second. Putting, therefore, W = 6400, ia = 14, V = 640, and ν = the velocity with which the cannon recoils; beca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008208-0092 | RECOLLECTION, a mode of thinking, by which ideas sought after by the mind are found and brought to view. See the article Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008209-0092 | RECONNOITRE, in military affairs, implies to view and examine the state of things, in order to make a report thereon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008210-0092 | RECORDE, Robert, a physician and mathematician, was descended of a respectable family in Wales, and lived in the time of Henry VIII. Edward VI. and Mary of England. The time of his birth is not exactly known, but it must have been about the beginning of the sixteenth century; for he was entered of the university of Oxf... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008211-0092 | RECORDER, a person whom the mayor and other magistrates of a city or corporation associate to themselves for their better direction in matters of justice and proceedings in law; on which account this person is generally a counsellor, or other person well skilled in the law. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008212-0092 | RECOVERY, in English law, a species of assurance by matter of record, concerning the original of which it must be remarked, that common recoveries were invented by the ecclesiastics to elude the statutes of mortmain; and afterwards they were encouraged by the finesse of the courts of law in 12 Edward IV., in order to p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008213-0092 | RECREATION, Island, a fertile island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, discovered by Roggewein in the year 1722. It is about twelve leagues in circuit. The inhabitants are warlike and robust. Long. 148. W. Lat. 18. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008214-0092 | RECTANGLE, in Geometry, is the same with a right-angled parallelogram. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008215-0092 | RECTIFICATION, in Chemistry, is nothing but the repetition several times of a distillation or sublimation, in order to render the substance purer, finer, and freer from aqueous and earthy parts.
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kp-eb0719-008301-0093 | RECTILINEAR, in Geometry, right-lined. Thus figures the perimeter of which consists of right lines, are said to be rectilinear. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008302-0093 | RECTOR, a term applied to several persons whose offices are very different. The rector of a parish is a clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and possesses all the tithes, &c. The same name is also given to the chief elective officer in several foreign universities, particularly in that of Paris, and also ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008303-0093 | RECTORY, is a parish-church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
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kp-eb0719-008304-0093 | RECUPERATORES, amongst the Romans, were commissioners appointed to take cognizance of private matters in dispute, between the subjects of the state and foreigners, and to take care that the former had justice done them. It came at last to be used for commissioners, to whom the praetor referred the determination of any ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008305-0093 | RECUSANTS, such persons as acknowledge the pope to be the supreme head of the church, and refuse to acknowledge the king’s supremacy. They are hence called Popish Recusants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008306-0093 | RED, one of the colours called simple or primary, being one of the shades into which the light naturally divides itself when refracted through a prism.
ItED-JiooA of the Exchequer, an ancient record or manuscript volume, in the keeping of the king’s remembrancer, and containing divers treatises relating to the times b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008307-0093 | RED POINT, a cape on the east coast of New Holland, with four projecting hillocks upon it, and which has the appearance of a double saddle. Long. 150. 56. E. Lat. 34. 33. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008308-0093 | RED RIVER, is one of the principal confluents of the Mississippi, in North America. Its source is situated at the base of a range of the Rocky Mountains, called the Caous Mountains, near Santa Fe, in Mexico A great number of streams descend this chain, and, flowing separately for some three or four hundred miles, at le... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008309-0093 | RED SEA,. This great inlet of the Indian Ocean, which divides Arabia from the opposite coast of Africa, extends in a north-west direction about 1400 miles from the Straits of Babelmandel, where it is not above thirty miles across to Suez, and only sixty miles distant from the Mediterranean, so that the maritime communi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008401-0094 | REDBURN, a town of the county of Hertford, in the hundred of Cashio, twenty-six miles from London, and on the great northern road. It consists of a single street, about a mile in length. The population amounted in 1801 to 1153, in 1811 to 1333, in 1821 to 1784, and in 1831 to 2047. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008402-0094 | REDDYGOODUM, a town of Hindustan, in the province of the Circars, and district of Condapilly. Long. 80. 4L E. Lat. 16. 53. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008403-0094 | REDEMPTION, in Law, a faculty or right of re-entering upon lands which have been sold and assigned, upon reimbursing the purchase-money with legal costs.
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kp-eb0719-008404-0094 | REDON, an arrondissement of the department of ∏le Vilaine, in France, which is 502 square miles in extent, and is divided into seven cantons, and these into forty-six communes, containing 76,884 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Vilaine. It is well built, has a fine exchange, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008405-0094 | REDOUBT, in Fortiflcation, a small square fort, without any defence but in front; it is used in trenches, lines of circumvallation, contravallation, and approach, and also for the lodging of corps-de-garde, and for defending passages. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008406-0094 | REDRUTH, a market-town and parish of the county of Cornwall, in the hundred of Penwith, 263 miles from London, and four from Truro. It is situated in the midst of one of the districts most rich in mineral ores, the working of which forms the chief occupation of the inhabitants. It has markets on Tuesday and Friday. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008407-0094 | REDUCTION, in the schools, signifies a manner of bringing a term or proposition which was before opposite to some other, to be equivalent to it.
Reduction, in Arithmetic, that rule by which numbers of different denominations are brought into one denomination.
in Algebra, is the clearing them from all superfluous quan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008408-0094 | REDUNDANT, in Music. What the French call
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“une accord superflue,” which we have translated a redundant chord, has by others been rendered a chord extremely sharp, as in the translation of Rameau’s Principles of . Composition. Their nature will be best understood by a few examples, and an account of the numbe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008501-0095 | REDUPLICATION, of sounds in musical harmony. See the article Music, under section Harmony. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008502-0095 | REE, Reis, or Res, a small Portuguese coin. See Jfo- KEY-Table. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-008503-0095 | REEF, a term in navigation. When there is a heavy gale of wind, the seamen commonly roll up part of the sail below, that by this means it may become the narrower, and not draw so much wind; and this contracting or taking up the sail they call a reef, or reefing the sail. So also, when a top-mast is sprung, as they call... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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