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kp-eb0720-015610-0174 | SERRAVALLE, a city of the delegation of Treviso, in the Austrian kingdom of Lombardy. It stands on the river Maschio, between two mountains; is the seat of a bishop, has a cathcdral and several churches and monasteries, and 5630 inhabitants employed in the silk and woollen manufactories, and some trade in corn, wine, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015611-0174 | SERRIS, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, eighty miles south-west by south from Patna. Long. 84. 18. E. Lat. 24. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015612-0174 | SERT, a town of Kurdistan, in Asiatic Turkey, the ancient capital of Tigranes, which was plundered by the Romans under Lucullus, but retained its consequence till after the Saracen invasion. It is now only a large village, containing about 3000 inhabitants, partly Mahommedans and partly Armenian Christians, for whose a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015613-0174 | SERVANDONI, John Nicholas, a celebrated architect, was born at Florence in 1695. He rendered himself famous by his exquisite taste in architecture, and by his genius for decorations, fetes, and building. He was employed and rewarded by most of the princes in Europe. In Portugal he was honoured with the order of Christ.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015701-0175 | SERVANT, a term of relation, signifying a person who owes and pays obedience for a certain time to another in quality of a master.
The first sort of servants acknowledged by the laws of England are menial servants, so called from being intra maenia, or domestics. The contract between them and their masters arises upon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015702-0175 | SERVETISTS, a name given to the modern Antitrinitarians, from their being supposed to be the followers of Michael Servetus, who, in the year 1553, was burned at Geneva, together with his books. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015703-0175 | SERVETUS, MicHael, a learned Spanish physician, was born at Villanueva in Aragon, in 1509. He was sent to the university of Toulouse to study the civil law. The Reformation, which had awakened the most polished nations of Europe, directed the attention of thinking men to the errors of the Romish church, and to the stud... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015801-0176 | SERVIA, a province of Turkey in Europe, bounded on the north by the rivers Danube and Save, which separate it from Hungary; on the east it is bounded by Bulgaria; on the west by Bosnia; and on the south by Albania and Macedonia. It is about 190 miles in length from east to west, ninety-five in breadth from north to sou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015802-0176 | SERVICE, Choral, in the Romish church, &c. consists of a certain order of antiphonies and psalms sung to what is called canto fermo in Italian, canto llano in Spanish, and plain chant in French. This kind of chant, in its simplest form, consists of slow sounds of equal duration, and without any embellishment, sung in u... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015803-0176 | SERVITES, a religious order in the church of Rome, founded about the year 1233, by seven Florentine merchants, who, with the approbation of the bishop of Florence, renounced the world, and lived together in a religious community on Mount Senar, two leagues from that city. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015804-0176 | SERVITOR, in the university of Oxford, a student who attends on another for his maintenance and learning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015805-0176 | SERVIUS, Maurus Honoratus, a celebrated grammarian and critic of antiquity, who flourished about the time of Arcadius and Honorius. He is now chiefly known by his Commentaries on Virgil. There is also extant a piece of Servius upon the feet of verses and the quantity of syllables, called Centimetrum. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015806-0176 | SERWEL, a small district in the province of Caubul, between the 34th and 35th degrees of north latitude. The country is but little known, it never having been explored by Europeans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015807-0176 | SESOSTRIS, Sesoosis, Sesoosis, the fifteenth sovereign of the eighteenth dynasty of the Egyptians, is called Rameses by Eusebius, and is said to have reigned during the sixteenth century before the Christian era. At his birth his father is said to have collected all the children born at the same time with him, and to h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015901-0177 | SESQUI, a Latin particle, signifying a whole and a half. When joined with altera, terza, quarta, &c. it is much used in the Italian music to express a kind of ratios, particularly several species of triples. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015902-0177 | SESQUIALTER, in Music, the ratio of 3: 2 in the numerical calculation of musical intervals. This, and many other old pedantic terms, such as super-particular and super-partient, &c., employed to express ratios very simple, and easily intelligible under other terms, had better be abandoned entirely in musical nomenclatu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015903-0177 | SESSION, in general, denotes each sitting or assembly of a council, or other body.
SesskjN of Parliament is the season or space from its meeting to its prorogation.
Kirk- Session , the name of a petty ecclesiastical court in Scotland.
Sessions for weights and measures. In London, four justices, from among the mayor,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015904-0177 | SESTERCE, Sestertius, a silver coin in use among the ancient Romans, called also simply nummus, and sometimes nummus sestertius. The sestertius was the fourth part of the denarius, and originally contained two asses and a half. It was at first denoted by LLS, the two Ls signifying two librte, and the S half. But the li... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015905-0177 | SESTET, Italian Sestetto, a piece of vocal or instrumental music for six voices or six instruments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015906-0177 | SESTOS, a fortress of European Turkey, situated at the entrance of the Hellespont or Dardanelles, twenty-four miles south-west of Gallipoli. This place is famous for the loves of Hero and Leander, sung by the poet Musaeus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015907-0177 | SET, or Sets, a term used by the farmers and gardeners to express the young plants of the white thorn and other shrubs, with which they used to raise their quick or quickset hedges. The white thorn is the best of all trees for this purpose; and, under proper regulations, its sets seldom fail to answer the farmer’s utmo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015908-0177 | SETCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Koeitchoo. The inhabitants are extremely rude and ignorant. Long. 108. E. Lat. 27. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015909-0177 | SETCHING, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Quangsee, bordering on Yunan. Long. 105. 54. E. Lat. 24. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015910-0177 | SETCHUEN, a province of China, on the western frontier. It has on the north Chen-si, on the east and south Houquang and Yunan, and on the west Thibet. It is mountainous, but is fertilized by the great river Yang-tse-kiang. It produces the sugar-cane, silk, orange and lemon trees, and the best rhubarb in China; while in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016001-0178 | SETH, the third son of Adam, the father of Enoch, was born 3874 before Christ, and lived 912 years. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016002-0178 | SETHIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, Christian heretics, who were so called because they paid divine worship to Seth, whom they looked upon as Jesus Christ the son of God, but who was made by a third divinity, and substituted in the room of the two families of Abel and Cain, which had been destroyed by the deluge. Thes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016003-0178 | SETON, in Surgery, a few horse hairs, small threads, or large packthread, drawn through the skin, chiefly the neck, by means of a large needle or probe, with a view to restore or preserve health.
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kp-eb0720-016004-0178 | SETTEE, in sea-language, a vessel very common in the Mediterranean, with one deck and a long sharp prow. They carry some two masts, and some of them three, without top-masts. They have generally two masts, equipped with triangular sails, commonly called lateen sails. The least of them are of sixty tons burden. They ser... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016005-0178 | SETTING, in Astronomy, the withdrawing of a star or planet, or its sinking below the horizon. Astronomers and poets make three different kinds of setting of the stars, viz. the cosmical, acronycal, and heliacal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016006-0178 | Setting, in nautical language. To set the land or the sun by the compass, is to observe how the land bears on any point of the compass, or on what point of the compass the sun is; also, when two ships sail in sight of each other, to mark on what point the chased bears, is termed setting the chase by the compass. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016007-0178 | SETTLE, a town of the parish of Giggleswick, in the wapentake of Staincliff and Ewcross, in the west riding of the county of York, 253 miles from London. Its situation is very romantic, on the river Ribble, among the hills that separate the counties of York and Lancaster. There is a large market-place, well attended on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016008-0178 | SETUVAL, or Sτ Ubes, as it is called by the English and Dutch sailors that repair to it. This city is a seaport in the province of Estremadura, and the corregimento of its own name, in the kingdom of Portugal. The harbour is five leagues to the eastward of Cape Espichel. It has a shoal-bar, which extends outwards to th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016009-0178 | SEVASTOPOL, known formerly by the Turkish name Achtiar, an important naval arsenal and city belonging to Russia, in the peninsula of the Crimea. It is situated at the south-west point, has an extensive and commodious port, and its depth renders it secure at all seasons and during all winds. By a decree of 1804, it was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 35' N 33 29' E | SEVASTOPOL |
kp-eb0720-016010-0178 | SEVEN Islands, a cluster of very small isles, extending along the north coast of the island of Banca, from which they are separated by a navigable channel. Long. 105. 20. E. Lat. 1. 10. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016011-0178 | SEVENOAKS, a town of the county of Kent, in the lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, and hundred of Codsheath, twenty-three and a half miles from London. It is pleasantly situated on the side and top of a hill. It has a good grammarschool. There is a good market on Saturdays. Adjoining to the town is the magnificent castle and par... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016012-0178 | SEVEN Stars, a common denomination given to the cluster of stars in the neck of the sign Taurus, the bull, and properly called the Pleiades. They are so called from their number, seven, which appear to the naked eye, though some eyes can discover only six of them; but by the aid of telescopes there appears to be a grea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016101-0179 | SEVENTH, in Music, an interval called by the Greeks heptachordon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016102-0179 | SEVERN, a river of England, which rises near Plinlimmon Hill, in Montgomeryshire, and before it enters Shropshire receives about thirty streams, and passes down to Laudring, where it receives the Morda, that flows from Oswestrey. When it arrives at Monford, it receives the river Mon, passing on to Shrewsbury, which it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016103-0179 | SEVERNDROOG, a small rocky island of Hindustan, on the coast of the Concan, joined to the continent by a reef of rocks, which forms a safe bay for vessels on the south side. This place was taken by the Mahrattas from the king of Bejapore; but his admiral revolting from their authority, it became the head-quarters of a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 47' N 73 13' E | SEVERNDROOG |
kp-eb0720-016104-0179 | SEVERUS, Cornelius, an ancient Latin poet of the Augustan age, whose Aetna, together with a fragment De Morte Ciceronis, were published, with notes and a prose interpretation, by Le Clerc, Amsterdam, 1703, in 12mo. They were before inserted among the Caralecta l’irgilii, published by Scaliger, whose notes, with others,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016301-0181 | SEVIGNE, Marie de Rabutin, Marquise de, a French lady, was born in 1626. When only a year old she lost her father, who was killed in the descent of the English on the isle of Rhé, where he commanded a company of volunteers. In 1644 she married the Marquis of Sevigné, who was slain in a duel by the Chevalier d’Albret, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016302-0181 | SEVILLE, the largest, the richest, and most populous of the four kingdoms or provinces of Andalusia, in Spain. Its extent is 752 square miles, and its population amounts to 970,087 souls. It is bounded on the east by Granada and Cordova, on the north by Estremadura, on the west by Portugal, and on the south by the Medi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016501-0183 | SEVRES, Deux, a department of France, formed out of the ancient province of the Lower Poitou. It extends from 1. 37. east, to 0. 8. west longitude, and from 46. 0. to 47. 12. north latitude. It is bounded on the north by the department of the Maine and Loire, on the east by that of Vienne, on the south by the Charente,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016502-0183 | SEWAD, an extensive district in Afghanistan, situated about the thirty-fourth degree of north latitude, and partly bounded by the Indus. The country rises to a great elevation, consisting of snow-clad mountains, interspersed with fertile valleys producing all the finest fruits of Europe. It is about seventy miles in le... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016503-0183 | SEWALIC Mountains. This chain of mountains, which reaches a considerable elevation, divides the province of Delhi from Serinagur, in Northern Hindustan. It is through these mountains that the Ganges enters on the plains of Hindustan, at a place called Hurdwar. The hills, which rise with a moderate though unequal slope ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016504-0183 | SEWAN, a town of Hindustan, province of Bahar, sixty-six miles north-west from Patna. Long. 84. 25. E. Lat. 26. 11. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016505-0183 | SEWEE, a district in the province of Beloochistan, situated about the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and bounded on the east by a mountainous ridge of hard black rock.[7:20:166] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016601-0184 | SEWER, in the household, an officer who arranged on the table the dishes of a king or nobleman.
Sewer is also a passage or gutter made to carry water into the sea or a river, and thereby to preserve the land from inundations and other annoyances.
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kp-eb0720-016602-0184 | SEWISTAN. See Seistan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016603-0184 | SEWURI, an oriental kind of guitar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016604-0184 | SEX, the property by which any animal is male or female.
“The primary matter of which women are constituted appears to be more flexible, irritable, and elastic, than that of man. They are formed to maternal mildness and affection; all their organs are tender, yielding, easily wounded, sensible, and receptible.”
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kp-eb0720-016605-0184 | SEXAGENARY, something relating to the number sixty. Thus sexagenary or sexagesimal arithmetic is a method of computation proceeding by sixties, such as that used in the division of a degree into sixty minutes, of the minute into sixty seconds, and of the second into sixty thirds. Sexagenary tables are also tables of pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016606-0184 | SEXAGESIMA, the second Sunday before Lent, or the next to Shrove Sunday; so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016607-0184 | SEXAGESIMALS, or Sessgesimal Fractions, fractions whose denominators proceed in a sexagecuple ratio; that is, a prime, or the first minute = 1 / 60 ; a second = 1 / 3600 ; a third = 1 / 216000 . Anciently there were no other than sexagesimals used in astronomy; and they are still retained in many cases, though decimal ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016608-0184 | SEXTANS, Sextant, a sixth part of certain things. The Romans having divided their as into twelve ounces or uncia, the sixth part of that, or two ounces, was the sextans.
Sextans was also a measure which contained two ounces of liquor, or two cyathi.
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kp-eb0720-016609-0184 | SEXTANT, in Mathematics, denotes the sixth part of a circle, or an arch comprehending sixty degrees.
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kp-eb0720-016610-0184 | SEXTILE, Sextilis, the position or aspect of two planets when at sixty degrees distance, or at the distance of two signs from one another. It is marked thus (*). | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016611-0184 | SEXTIUS, Quintus, a Pythagorean philosopher, who flourished in the time of Augustus. He seemed formed to rise in the republic; but he shrunk from civil honours, and declined accepting the rank of senator when it was offered him by Julius Caesar, that he might have time to apply to philosophy. It appears that he wished ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016701-0185 | SEXTON, a church-officer, thus called by corruption of the Latin, sacrista, or Saxon, segerstone, which denotes the same thing. His office is to take care of the vessels, vestments, and other things belonging to the church; and to attend the minister, church-warden, and others at church. He is usually chosen by the par... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016702-0185 | SEXTUPLE, in Music, denotes a mixed sort of triple, which is beaten in double time. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016703-0185 | SEXTUS Empiricus, a famous Pyrrhonian philosopher, who lived in the second century, under the reign of Antoninus. He was a physician of the sect of the Empirics, and is said to have been one of the preceptors of Antoninus the Philosopher. There are still extant his Pyrrhonian Institutions, and a large work against the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016704-0185 | SEXUALISTAE, among botanical writers, those who have established the classes of plants upon the differences of the sexes and parts of fructification in plants, according to the modern method. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016705-0185 | SEYNE, La, a city of France, in the department of the Var, and the arrondissement of Toulon. It is a port on a small bay or roadstead, about three miles from Toulon. It is well built, has good quays, and an establishment for building vessels. It contains 5230 inhabitants, many of whom are occupied in fishing for sardin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016706-0185 | SEYSUMAH, a town of the Mahratta territories, in Hindustan, province of Malwah, situated on the east side of the Chumbul. It is twenty miles south-west from Kotah. Long. 75. 37. E. Lat. 24. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 55' N 75 37' E | SEYSUMAH |
kp-eb0720-016707-0185 | SEZAWUL, a Hindu word, used in Bengal to express an officer employed at a monthly salary to collect the revenue. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016708-0185 | SHACK, in ancient customs, a liberty of winter-pasturage. In the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, the lord of the manor has shack, that is, a liberty of feeding his sheep at pleasure in his tenants’ lands during the six winter months. In Norfolk, shack also extends to the common for hogs, in all men’s grounds, from the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016709-0185 | SHACKLES, aboard a ship, are those oblong iron rings, bigger at one end than at the other, with which the ports are shut fast, by thrusting the wooden bar of the port through them. There is also a sort of shackles to lift up the hatches with, of a like figure, but smaller. They are fastened at the corners of the hatche... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016710-0185 | SHADOW, in Optics, a privation or diminution of light, by the interposition of an opaque body; or a plane where the light is either altogether obstructed, or greatly weakened, by the interposition of some opaque body between it and the luminary.
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kp-eb0720-016711-0185 | SHADOWRAH, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, province of Malwah, forty miles north by west from Seronge. Long. 77. 47. E. Lat. 24. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016712-0185 | SHADWEL, Thomas, descended of an ancient family in Staffordshire, was born in 1640, and educated at Caius College, Cambridge. He was then placed in the Middle Temple to study the laws; and having spent some time there, he travelled abroad. Upon his return home, he became acquainted with the most celebrated persons of w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016713-0185 | SHADWELL, a large village of the county of Middlesex, in the hundred of Ossulston, touching on the city of London, but lower down on the same bank of the Thames, two miles and a half from St Paul’s church. It is within the bills of mortality, and is a parish of itself. The population consists chiefly of sea-faring peop... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016801-0186 | SHAFRAS, or Suffras, Gregory Savarof, an Armenian merchant, remarkable only as the person who sold the large and celebrated diamond which is now set in the imperial sceptre of Russia. Shah Nadir, an lndian prince, had two principal diamonds in his throne, one of them denominated the Sun of the Sea, and the other the Mo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016802-0186 | SHAFTESBURY, a town in the hundred of Rudland, in the county of Dorset, 101 miles from London. It stands on a hill, is not well supplied with water, and the houses are generally of an humble character. It contains three parishes, with their respective churches. It is an ancient town, supposed to have been founded by Al... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016803-0186 | SHAGREEN, or Chagreen, in commerce, a kind of grained leather prepared of the skin of a species of squalus, and much used in covering cases, books, and other articles. The best is that which is brought from Constantinople, and is of a brownish colour; the white is the worst. It is extremely hard, yet, when steeped in w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016804-0186 | SHAHABAD, an extensive town and district of Hindustan, province of Bahar, most advantageously situated between the rivers Soane and Ganges. It is fertile and tolerably well cultivated, and produces barley, wheat, tobacco, and some pease of a small kind. It is estimated to contain more than a million of inhabitants, in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016805-0186 | SHAHJEHANPOOR, a considerable town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, province of Malwah, situated on the banks of the Sagormutty river, forty miles north-northeast from Oojain. Long. 76.18. E. Lat 23. 28. N. There is another town of the same name, in the province of Delhi, district of Bareilly, situated on the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016806-0186 | SHAHNOOR, Sanore, Sevanore, or Savanoor, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, fifty miles south-south-east from Darwar, and capital of a district of the same name. It was formerly a fortified town, and contained a palace and many good buildings, the greater part of which are now in ruins. It is a place of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016807-0186 | SHAHPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, in the Nagpoor rajah’s territories, seventy miles north by west from Ellichpoor. Long. 78. 23. E. Lat. 22. 19. N. There is another Shahpoor in the province of Berar, sixty-five miles north-cast from Jalnapoor. Long. 78. 1. E. Lat. 19. 49. N. Also one in the Sikh ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016808-0186 | SHAIRGHUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, twenty-six miles north from Bareilly. Long. 79. 21. E. Lat. 28. 40. N.[7:20:169] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-016901-0187 | SHAKSPEARE^[1. ' Mr. Campbell, the latest editor of Shakspeare’s dramatic works, observes that “the poet’s name has been variously written Shax-peare, Shackspeare, Shakspeare, and Shakspere; ’ to which varieties might be added Shagspere, from the Worcester Marriage License, published in 1836. But the fact is, that by c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018801-0206 | SHALLOP, Shalloop, or Sloop, is a light vessel, with only a small main-mast and fore-mast, and lug-sails, to haul up and let down on occasion. Shallops are commonly good sailers, and are therefore often used as tenders upon men-of-war. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018802-0206 | SHAMANS are wizards or conjurers, in high repute among several idolatrous nations inhabiting different parts of Russia. By their enchantments they pretend to cure diseases, to divert misfortunes, and to foretell futurity. They are great observers of dreams, by the interpretation of which they judge of good or bad fortu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018803-0206 | SHAMBLES, among miners, a sort of niches or landing places, left at such distances in the adits of the mines, that the shovel-men may conveniently throw up the ore from shamble to shamble, till it comes to the top of the mine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018804-0206 | SHAMLY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of
Delhi. It is about two miles in circumference, and contains many handsome houses, with a large bazaar, and the remains of a mint. The streets intersect each other at right angles, and have separate gates, which are shut at night. It is sixty miles north by east from Delh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018805-0206 | SHAMOIS, or Chamois a kind of leather, either dressed in oil or tanned, much esteemed for its softness and pliancy. It is prepared from the skin of the chamois, or shamois, a kind of wild goat, called also isard, inhabiting the mountains of Dauphiné, Savoy, Piedmont, and the Pyrenees. Besides the softness and warmth of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018806-0206 | SHANAVAZ, a town of the Afghan territories, in the province of Mooltan, seventy-eight miles east from the city of Mooltan. Long. 72. 39. E. Lat. 30. 4L N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018807-0206 | SHANDORAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, 120 miles from the city of Delhi. Long. 77. E. Lat. 30. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018808-0206 | SHANK’S Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, about[7:20:189] fifteen miles from east to west, and eighteen from north to south, discovered in 1802. Long. 163. E. Lat. 28. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018901-0207 | SHANNON, the largest river in Ireland, and one of the finest in the British dominions, not only on account of its running two hundred miles, but also of its great depth in most places, and the gentleness of its current, by which it might be made exceedingly serviceable to the improvement of the country, the communicati... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018902-0207 | SHAPOORAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer and district of Harowty. It is a large and well-built town, surrounded by a strong wall of stone and a ditch. It is sixty-five miles south by east from the city of Ajmeer. Long. 75. 9. E. Lat. 25. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018903-0207 | SHAPOUR, an ancient city of Persia, which existed prior to the era of Alexander, but of which the former magnificence is now only marked by masses of ruins. It is situated immediately under a range of mountains, on the banks of a small but rapid river, amid rocks and precipices, many of which are decorated with sculptu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-018904-0207 | SHARP, James, archbishop of St Andrews, was born of a good family in Banffshire in the year 1618. He devoted himself early to the church, and was educated for that purpose in the university of Aberdeen. When the solemn league and covenant was framed in 1638, the learned men in that seminary, and young Sharp in particul... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-019001-0208 | Sharp, Dr John, Archbishop of York, was descended from the Sharps of Little Norton, a family of Bradford Dale in Yorkshire; and was son of an eminent tradesman of Bradford, where he was born in 1644. He was educated at Cambridge, and in 1667 entered into orders. The same year he became domestic chaplain to Sir Heneage ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-019002-0208 | Sharp, Abraham, an eminent English mathematician and astronomer, was born at Little Horton, near Bradford, in the year 1651. He was put as apprentice to a merchant at Manchester; but so strongly was he inclined to the study of mathematics, that he soon found his situation both irksome and disagreeable. By the mutual co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-019003-0208 | Sharp, in Music. See Music . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-019004-0208 | SHASTER or Shastrah, the name of a sacred book, in high estimation among the idolaters of Hindustan, containing all the dogmas of the religion of the Brahmins, and all the ceremonies of their worship, and serving as a commentary on the Vedam.
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kp-eb0720-019201-0210 | SHAT-UL-ARAB, a large river, or rather canal, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris, before they enter the Persian Gulf. It forms a broad and splendid stream; and as far as Bassora, seventy miles from its mouth, it is navigable for vessels of 500 tons burden, It is generally supposed to fall into the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-019202-0210 | SHAW, Dr Thomas, known to the learned world by his Travels to Barbary and the Levant, was born at Kendal, in Westmoreland, about the year 1692. He was appointed chaplain to the English consul at Algiers, in which station he continued for several years; and thence took proper opportunities of travelling into different p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-019203-0210 | SHAWABAD, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, situated principally between the 25th and 26th degrees of north latitude. It has the Ganges on the north, Rotas and Bahar on the south, the district of Bahar on the east, and Chunar and Rotas on the west. This is a populous and fertile country, particularly i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-019204-0210 | SHAWLS, Figured. This article has, within less than forty years, become a very considerable branch of our manufactures. For a long period the district of Cashmere, a province of Hindustan, formerly subject to the king of Candahar, produced articles of this description in such perfection as to make them highly prized bo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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