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kp-eb0720-019401-0212
SHAWPOOR, a town of Hindustan, province of Gund-wanch, situated on the Rhair, a considerable river, which runs by the south side of the town, over a bed of rock, which impedes its navigation. It is a straggling town, with a small fort built of rubble-stone and mud. Long. 83. 23. E. Lat. 23. 34. N.
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23 34' N 83 23' E
SHAWPOOR
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SHEATHING, in the nautical language, is the casing of that part of a ship which is to be under water, with firboard an inch thick; first laying hair and tar mixed together under the boards, and then nailing them on, in order to prevent worms from eating the ship’s bottom. Ships of war are now generally sheathed with co...
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SHEATHING
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SHEATS, in a ship, are ropes bent to the clews of the sails, serving in the lower sails to haul aft the clews of the sail; but in topsails they serve to haul home the clew of the sail close to the yard-arm.
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SHEATS
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SHEAVE, in Mechanics, a solid cylindrical wheel, fixed in a channel, and moveable about an axis, being used to raise or increase the mechanical powers applied to remove any body.
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SHEAVE
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SHEBBEARE, John, a political writer, was born at Bideford, in Devonshire, in the year 1709. He received the rudiments of his education at the free grammar-school of Exeter. It has often been observed that the future life of a man may be gathered from his puerile character; and accordingly Shebbeare, while a boy at scho...
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SHEBBEARE
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SHEERGOTTA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, eighty miles south by west from Patna. Long. 84. 55. E. Lau 24. 32. N.
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SHEERGOTTA
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SHEERNESS, a town of the county of Kent, situated on the island of Sheppey. It stands at the point where the river Medway forms its junction with the Thames, on the right bank of the former river. It has been long a place of vast importance in a military point of view. The works having been suffered to fall into decay ...
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SHEERNESS
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SHEFFIELD, an ancient, large, and flourishing markettown in the west riding of the county of York, 160 miles north-north-west from London. It derives its name from the river Sheaf, which here flows into the Don. These rivers descend from the boldly swelling hills west of the town, and form, with their mountain-tributar...
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SHEFFIELD
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SHEICK, in the oriental customs, the person who has the care of the mosques in Egypt: his duty is the same as that of the imams at Constantinople. There are more or fewer of these to every mosque, according to its size or revenue. One of them is head over the rest, and answers to a parish priest with us, and has under ...
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SHEICK
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SHEIKPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, fifty miles south-east from Patna. Long. 85. 54. E. Lat. 25. 8. N.
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25 8' N 85 54' E
SHEIKPOOR
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SHEKARPOOR, a town in the province of Sewistan or Seistan, situated on the west side of the Indus. It is a large town, with seven gates. The Hindu merchants who visit this country leave their wives and relatives here for security. It is governed by a Mahommedan chief, who pays tribute both to the Afghans and Ameers of ...
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28 47' N 69 49' E
SHEKARPOOR
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SHEKEL, the name of a weight and coin current among the ancient Jews. Dr Arbuthnot makes the weight of the shekel equal to 9 pennyweights 2 4 / 7 grains troy weight, and the value equal to 2s. 3 3 / 8 d. sterling. The golden shekel was worth L.1. 16s. 6d.
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SHEKEL
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SHEKOABAD, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, thirty-five miles east-south-east from the city of Agra. Long. 78. 32. E. Lat. 27. 6. N.
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27 6' N 78 32' E
SHEKOABAD
kp-eb0720-019805-0216
SHELLAM, a town and district of the Upper Carnatic, in the south of India, between the 11th and 12th degrees of north latitude. The town is generally called the Great Shellam, to distinguish it from a smaller town. It is sixty miles west-north-west from Pondicherry. Long. 78. 33. E. Lat. 11.39. N.
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11 39' N 78 33' E
SHELLAM
kp-eb0720-019806-0216
SHELLIUM, a town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, sixty-five miles west from Madras. Long. 79. 27. E. Lat 13.8. N.
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13 8' N 79 27' E
SHELLIUM
kp-eb0720-019807-0216
SHELTON, a township and chapelry in the county of Stafford, in the hundred of North Pirehill, formerly a division of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent It is two miles east-north-east from Newcastle-under-Line, and is situated on the Trent and Mersey Canal, by which its trade is much facilitated. In this township are the p...
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SHELTON
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SHENSTONE, William, an admired English poet, the eldest son of a plain country gentleman, who farmed his own estate in Shropshire, was born in November 1714. He learned to read of an old dame, whom his poem of the School-Mistress has delivered to posterity; and he soon received such delight from books, that he was alwa...
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SHENSTONE
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SHEPOORY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, thirty-five miles north-west from Narwar. Long. 77. 10. E. Lat. 25. 25. N.[7:20:199]
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25 25' N 77 10' E
SHEPOORY
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SHEPPERTON, a village of the county of Middlesex, in the hundred of Spelthorne. It stands on the banks of the Thames, eighteen miles from London. The course of the river having been changed, a small part of the parish is now in the county of Surrey. There is a bridge here over the river, near to which are a number of p...
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SHEPPERTON
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SHEPPEY, Isle of, an island, being part of the county of Kent, situated at the mouth of the Thames and Medway, and separated from the mainland by an arm of the sea, called the Swale, which is navigable for vessels of 200 tons burden, extending about eleven miles in length. Nearly four fifths of the island consist of ri...
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SHEPPEY
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SHEPTON-MALLET, a town of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of Whitestone, 116 miles from London. It is situated on the Mendip Hills, in a district abundantly supplied with coal, to which it is principally indebted for its prosperity. It is a place of considerable woollen manufacture, chiefly of broad cloths and c...
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SHEPTON-MALLET
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SHER, a town in the Mahratta territories, in the province of Malwah, ninety miles north-east from Oojain. Long. 78. 55. E. Lat. 23. 58. N.
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23 58' N 78 55' E
SHER
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SHERBET, or Sherbit, a compound drink, first brought into England from Turkey and Persia, consisting of water, lemon-juice, and sugar, in which are dissolved perfumed cakes made of excellent Damascus fruit, containing an infusion of some drops of rose-water. Another kind of it is made of violets, honey, and juice of ra...
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SHERBET
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SHERBORNE, a town in the hundred of its name, in the county of Dorset, 117 miles from London. It was formerly a city, the see of a bishop, removed to Salisbury in the eleventh century. It is situated at the foot of a hill, with narrow and ill-built streets, and has no striking object except the old cathedral, now the p...
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SHERBORNE
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SHERBURN, a town of the west riding of the county of York, in the wapentake of Barkston Ash. It is situated on the great road from Doncaster to York, 185 miles from London. It was once a place of more importance than it is at present, having been the seat of an archbishop, of whose palace no vestige now remains; but t...
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SHERBURN
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SHEREGUR, a town of the Sikh territories, in the province of Mooltan, seventy miles south-south-west from Lahore. Long. 73. 24. E. Lat. 30. 55. N.
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30 55' N 73 24' E
SHEREGUR
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SHERIBON. See Cheribon.
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SHERIBON
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SHERIDAN, Thomas, D. D., the intimate friend of Dean Swift, is said by Shield, in Cibber’s Lives of the Poets, to have been born about 1684, in the county of Cavan, where, according to the same authority, his parents lived in no very elevated state. They are described as being unable to afford their son the advantages ...
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SHERIDAN
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Sheridan, Mrs. Frances, wife of Thomas Sheridan, A. M. was born in Ireland about the year 1724, but descended from a good English family which had removed thither. Her maiden name was Chamberlaine, and she was granddaughter of Sir Oliver Chamberlaine. The first literary performance by which she distinguished herself, w...
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Sheridan
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, a distinguished dramatist and politician, was born at Dublin in the month of September 1757, and baptized in St Mary’s Church on the fourth of the following month. His grandfather and father each attained a celebrity, by the friendship with which the former was honoured by Swift, and by the ...
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Sheridan
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SHERLOCK, William, a learned English divine in the seventeenth century, was born in 1641, and educated at Eton school, where he distinguished himself by the vigour of his genius and his application to study. From this he was removed to Cambridge, where he took his degrees. In 1669 he became rector of the parish of St G...
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SHERLOCK
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SHEKLOCK, Dr Thomas, bishop of London, was the son of the preceding, and was born in 1678. He was educated in Catharine Hall, Cambridge, where he took his degrees, and of which he became master. He was made master of the Temple when very young, on the resignation of his father; and it is remarkable, that this mastershi...
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SHEKLOCK
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SHERON, a village of Persia, in Irak, fifteen miles east from Kermanshaw.
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SHERON
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SHERRIFF of Mecca, the title of the descendants of Mahommed by Hassan Ibn Ali. These are divided into several branches, of which the family of Ali Bunemi, consisting at least of three hundred individuals, enjoy the sole right to the throne of Mecca. The Ali Bunemi are again subdivided into two subordinate branches, Dar...
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SHERRIFF
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SHETLAND. See Zetuand.
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SHETLAND
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SHEVAGUNGA, a polygar town and district of Southern India, in the province of the Carnatic, and district of Little Marawar. This country, according to the custom of the Nairs, was ruled by females until about sixty years ago, when the government was usurped by two brothers of low caste. They were expelled by the nabob ...
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SHEVAGUNGA
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SHEVAGURRY, a town of the south of India, in the district of Tinnevelly, a hundred miles north from Cape Comorin. Long. 77. 32. E. Lat. 9. 23. N.
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9 23' N 77 32' E
SHEVAGURRY
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SHEVELPATORE, a town of the south of India, in the province of the Carnatic, 110 miles north from Cape Comorin. Long. 77. 43. E. Lat. 9. 81. N.
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9 81' N 77 43' E
SHEVELPATORE
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SHIELD, an ancient weapon of defence, in the form of a light buckler, borne on the arm to fend off lances, darts, and other weapons. The form of the shield is represented by the escutcheon in coats of arms. The shield was that part of the ancient armour on which the persons of distinction in the field of battle always ...
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13 19' N 136 23' E
SHIELD
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SHIELDS, North, a township of the parish of Tynemouth, in the county of Northumberland, 233 miles from London and eight from Newcastle, situated on the north bank of the Tyne. It has gradually grown from a dirty fishing village to a town of great extent and wealth, from the coal trade. The population amounted in 1831 t...
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SHIELDS
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SHIFFNAL, a town of the hundred of Brimstrey, in the county of Salop, 143 miles from London. It is a small place, of no trade except that arising from its being on the great post-road from London to Holyhead. There is a market on Friday. The population amounted in 1821 to 4411, and in 1831 to 4779.
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SHIJASHROTAN, one of the Kurile Islands, at the eastern extremity of Asiatic Russia, in the ocean south of Kamtschatka. Long. 154. 39. E. Lat. 49. 15. N.
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SHILLING, an English silver coin, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound. Freherus derives the Saxon seilling, whence our shilling, from a corruption of siliqua; proving the derivation by several texts of law, and, among others, by the twenty-sixth law, De annuis legatis. Skinner deduces it from the S...
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SHILLING
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SHILOH is a term famous among interpreters and commentators upon Scripture. It is found (Gen. xlix. 10) to denote the Messiah. The patriarch Jacob foretells his coming in these words: “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of t...
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SHILOH
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SHINAAS, a small seaport on the Persian Gulf, situated between the town of Sinja and Cape Bastana.
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SHINAAS
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SHINGLES, in building, small pieces of wood, or quartered oaken boards sawn to a certain scantling, or, as is more usual, cleft to about an inch, thick at one end, and made like wedges, four or five inches in breadth and eight or nine inches in length. Shingles are used instead of tiles or slates, especially for churc...
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SHINGLES
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SHIP, a general name for all large vessels, particularly those equipped with three masts and a bowsprit; the masts being composed of a lower mast, top-mast, and top-gallantmast, and each of these being provided with yards, sails, and the like. Ships, in general, are either employed for war or merchandise.[7:20:208]
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SHIP
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SHIP-BUILDING. Introductory Observations. That profound thinker, Sir Walter Raleigh, has left this aphorism on record, “Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.” The time has passed by in which the comm...
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SHIP-BUILDING
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SHIPSTON-on-Stour, a town of the hundred of Oswaldslow, in the county of Worcester, but detached from it, and surrounded by Gloucestershire. It is eighty-three miles from London, has little trade except what arises from its great sheep-fairs. It has a large market on Friday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1293, in ...
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SHIPSTON-on-Stour
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SHIRAZ, or Shirauz, a large city of Persia, the capital of the province of Fars, and, at different periods, of the whole kingdom. According to Fraser, the city of Shiraz is situated in the midst of a brown, barren plain, without a village, or any living thing, to relieve it. There were, when he visited the place, only ...
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29 36' N 52 44' E
SHIRAZ
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SHIRE is a Saxon word signifying a division; but a county, comitatus, of the same import, is plainly derived from comes, the count of the Franks; that is, the earl or alderman, as the Saxons called him, of the shire, to whom the government of it was intrusted. This he usually exercised by his deputy, still called in La...
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SHIRE
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SHIRT, a loose garment, commonly of linen or cotton, worn next the body. Shirts were not worn by the Jews, G reeks, or Romans, but their place was supplied by thin tunicae of wool. The want of linen among the ancients made frequent washings and ablutions necessary.
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SHIRT
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SHIRVAN, or Schirvan, a province in the north of Persia, now claimed by Russia. It is the largest and most imp o rtant division of the Southern Caucasus. It ex[7:20:299]tends along the Caspian, 200 miles from the mouth of the Cyrus, to the little river Rubas; and forms a large triangular peninsula, the point of which s...
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SHIRVAN
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SHOAD, among miners, denotes a train of metallic stones, serving to direct them in the discovery of mines. SHOAD-Stones, a term used by the miners of Cornwall and other parts of this kingdom, to express such loose masses of stone as are usually found about the entrances into mines, sometimes running in a straight cour...
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SHOAD
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SHOAL, in the sea-language, denotes a place where the water is shallow; and likewise a great quantity of fishes, such as a shoal of herrings.
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SHOAL
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SHOAL-WATER BAY, on the east coast of New Hoi-land, visited by Captain Flinders in 1802. Long. of Aken’s island at its entrance, 150. 15. E. Lat. 22. 21. S.
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SHOE, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, near the coast of Waygoo. Long. 130. 53. E. Lat. 0. 1. S. Shoe, a covering for the foot, usually of leather. Shoes among the Jews were made of leather, linen, rush, or wood; those of soldiers were sometimes of brass or iron. They were tied with thongs, which passed under the ...
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0 1' S 130 53' E
SHOE
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SHOKET, a village of Syria, in the pachalic of Damascus, on the Orontes, 140 miles north of Damascus.
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SHOKET
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SHOLAPOOR, a town and district of Hindustan, province of Bejapoor, situated in about the 18th degree of latitude. The town is 125 miles south-east from Poorat. Long. 75. 40. E. Lat. 17. 43. N.
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SHOLAPOOR
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SHOLAVANDEN, a town of Southern India, district of Madura, ten miles north-west from the town of Madura. Long. 78. 10. E. Lat. 9. 50. N.
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SHOLAVANDEN
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SHOOTING. The pursuit and destruction of wild animals for security, food, clothing, or pastime, have been amongst the occupations of men in all ages, since the primeval brueré overspread the earth, And wild in woods the noble savage ran. Before the more refined arts are introduced into any country, the chase is a nec...
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SHOOTING
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SHORE, a place which is washed by the sea, or by some large river. Count Marsigli divides the sea-shore into three portions; the first of which is that tract of land which the sea just reaches in storms and high tides, but which it never covers; the second part of the shore is that which is covered in high tides and s...
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SHORE
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SHOREHAM, a town of the county of Sussex, in the rape of Brember and hundred of Fishergate, fifty-six miles from London. It stands on the river Adar, about a mile from the sea, and has a bridge over that river, It has a custom-house, which presides over that at Brighton. The harbour is not deep, but useful as shelter, ...
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SHOREHAM
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SHORT, James, an eminent optician, was born in Edinburgh, on the 22d of June in the year 1710. At ten years of age, having lost his father and mother, and being left in a state of indigence, he was received into Heriot’s Hospital, where he soon displayed his mechanical genius, in constructing for himself little chests,...
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SHORT
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SHOT, a denomination given to all sorts of balls for firearms; those for cannon being of iron, and those for guns and pistols of lead.[7:20:319] case Shot formerly consisted of all kinds of old iron, nails, musket-balls, and stones, which were used as above. Shot of a cable, on ship-board, is the splicing of two cable...
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SHOT
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SHOUMSHU or Choumchoo, one of the Kurile islands, the nearest to Asia, thirty-six miles in length and twenty in breadth. It contains mines, which yield a small quantity of silver. There are large lakes abounding with fish, and the natives have an herb from which they extract brandy. There are only forty-four male inhab...
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SHOUMSHU
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SHOVEL, Sir Cloudesly, a distinguished British admiral, was born about the year 1650, of parents in the lower rank of life. He was first put apprentice to a shoemaker; but disliking this profession, he a few years afterwards abandoned it, and went to sea. He was at first a cabin-boy with Sir Christopher Mynns, but havi...
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SHOVEL
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SHOUT, Clamour, in antiquity, was frequently used on ecclesiastical, civil, and military occasions, as a sign of approbation, and sometimes of indignation. Thus as Cicero, in an assembly of the people, was exposing the arrogance of Antony, who had had the impudence to cause himself to be inscribed the patron of the Rom...
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SHOUT
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SHREWSBURY, a town in the liberty of the same name, and the capital of the county of Shropshire, 156 miles from London. It is situated on a peninsula formed by the river Severn, which nearly surrounds it, and over which are two stone bridges. It comprehends three parishes, with a church to each, which were formerly col...
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SHREWSBURY
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SHUGAWULPOOR, a large town of Hindustan, in the province of Malwah, situated on the north-east bank of the river Jummary. It consists of a fortified town or citadel, and extensive suburbs, in which are some good houses, and an extensive bazaar. It is a considerable market for shipped muslins, 65 miles E.N.E. from Oojai...
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23 24' N 76 45' E
SHUGAWULPOOR
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SHUKASKU, a large village of Irak in Arabia, on the western bank of the Euphrates. It is a flourishing place, and carries on a brisk trade with Bussora, the Euphrates being navigable to this place by means of large boats. It[7:20:320] is surrounded by rich pastures, on which are reared numerous horses.
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SHUKASKU
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SHUMSABAD, a small town of the Sikh territorial province of Lahore, situated on the east side of the Jhylum river, 100 miles N.W. by W. from Lahore. Long. 72.15. E. Lat. 32. 16. N.
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32 16' N 72 15' E
SHUMSABAD
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SHUNDRABANDY, a town of Southern India, in the district of Tinnevelly, 40 miles S.W. from Madura. Long. 77. 45. E. Lat 3. 35. N.
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3 35' N 77 45' E
SHUNDRABANDY
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SHUS, a large mass of ruins in the province of Khuzis-tan, in Persia, extending twelve miles from the Kerah to the Ahzal. They occupy an immense extent of ground, and are supposed, by Major Rennel and Colonel Kinneir, to be the ancient capital of Susa.
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SHUS
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SHUSTER, the principal district of the province of Khuzistan, in Persia, and composing a separate government. It constitutes the finest portion of Susiana, being watered by four noble rivers, and a multitude of smaller streams, by which means the land is fertilised, and rendered productive. But the bounties of nature a...
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32 N 48 59' E
SHUSTER
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SHROPSHIRE, or Salop, a county of England. (See Salop.) SHROVE-Tuesday, is the Tuesday after Quinquagesima Sunday, or the day immediately preceding the first of Lent, being so called from the Saxon word to shrive, which signifies to confess. Hence Shrove-Tuesday signifies Confession-Tuesday, on which day all the people...
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SHROPSHIRE
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SHROVE-Tuesday, is the Tuesday after Quinquagesima Sunday, or the day immediately preceding the first of Lent, being so called from the Saxon word to shrive, which signifies to confess. Hence Shrove-Tuesday signifies Confession-Tuesday, on which day all the people in every parish throughout England, during the Catholic...
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SHROVE-Tuesday
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SHROUDS, a range of large ropes extending from the mast-heads to the right and left side of the ship, to support the masts, and enable them to carry sail. The shrouds as well as the sails are denominated from the masts to which they belong. Thus there are the main, fore, and mizen shrouds; the main-top-mast, fore-top-...
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SHROUDS
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SHRUB, frutex, a little, low, dwarfish tree, or a woody vegetable, of' a size less than a tree, and which, instead of one single stem, frequently puts forth from the same root several sets or stems.
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SHRUB
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SHUTTLE, in the manufactures, an instrument used by weavers, which guides the thread it contains, either of woollen, silk, flax, or other matter, so as to make it form the woofs of stuffs, cloths, linens, ribands, and other fabrics, by throwing the shuttle alternately from left to right, and from right to left, across ...
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SIAK, is a river and a large district of Sumatra. The district extends about 450 miles along the north-east coast. This district has a considerable trade, which is carried on by vessels from the coast of Coromandel, which supply cargoes of piece goods, and also raw silk, opium, and other articles, which they provide at...
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SIAM, an extensive kingdom of India beyond the Ganges, situated principally between the 10th and 15th degrees of north latitude, in the heart of the great peninsula between India and China. It is bounded on the north by unknown tracts, that extend as far as Thibet and China; on the south it has the Gulf of Siam and the...
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SIBERIA, a vast tract of territory comprehending the northern regions of Asia, which has been partly described under Russia; so that it will only be necessary in this place to supply some particulars which have not been so fully detailed in the former article. Siberia may be considered as a gradually descending plain f...
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SIBYLS, in pagan antiquity, certain women said to have been endowed with a prophetical spirit, and who delivered oracles, showing the fates and revolutions of kingdoms. Their number is unknown. Plato speaks of one, others of two, Pliny of three, Aelian of four, and Varro of ten; an opinion which is universally adopted ...
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SICERA, a name given to any inebriating liquor by the Hellenistic Jews. St. Chrysostom, Theodoret, and Theophilus of Antioch, who were Syrians, and who therefore ought to know the signification and nature of sicera, assure us, that it properly signifies palm-wine.
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SICILIANA, the name of an ancient dance in 6 / 8 time, slow in movement, and simple and touching in its melody.
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SICILY, a large island in the Mediterranean Sea, adjoining to the southern extremity of Italy, and extending from latitude 36° 25' to latitude 38° 25', and from longitude 12° 50' to longitude 15° 40' east from London. Its greatest length is 210 miles, its breadth 133, its circumference 600. For a description of the isl...
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SIDDONS, Mrs. (whose maiden name was Sarah Kemble,) the greatest actress that ever trode the stage, was born at Brecon, in South Wales, on the 5th of July 1755. Roger Kemble, her father, was manager of a provincial company of players, and amongst this class of persons he seems to have held a highly respectable rank. Sa...
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SIDMOUTH, a town of the hundred of East Budleigh, in the county of Devon, 159 miles from London, The population was, in 1821, 2747; and in 1831, 3126.
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SIDNEY, Sir Philip, was born, as is supposed, at Penshurst in Kent, in the year 1544. His father was Sir Henry Sidney, an Irish gentleman, and his mother, Mary, the eldest daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. He was sent, when very young, to Christ-Church College at Oxford, but left the university at sevent...
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SIDON, in Ancient Geography a city of Phoenicia in Asia, famous in Scripture for its riches, arising from the extensive commerce carried on by its inhabitants. Heavy judgments were denounced against the Sidonianson account of their wickedness, which were accomplished in the time[7:20:330] of Ochus king of Persia. That ...
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SIDUS,Georgium, in Astronomy, a new primary planet, discovered by Dr. Herschel in the year 1781. By most foreign, and even by some British philosophers, it is known by the name of Herschel, in honour of the discoverer. As the other planets are distinguished by marks or characters, the planet Herschel is distinguished b...
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SIEBENBURGEN. See Transylvania.
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SIEBENBURGEN
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SIENNA or Siena, a district of Italy, still called a duchy, though now a part of the grand duchy of Tuscany. It is mostly situated on the Apennines, and was an independent state, till it was subdued and united with Tuscany in 1557. The capital is the city of that name, on the great road from Florence to Rome. It is sur...
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SIERRA LEONE, a colony of Great Britain, situated on the western coast of Africa. Lat.8.10. Long. 12. 30. It is a peninsula, bounded on the north by the river called sierra Leone, on the south and west by the sea at Calmont creek, and on the east by a line up the Calmont to the Watslod creek, and down this last to the ...
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SIERRA-MORENA, a range of remarkable mountains in the south of Spain. These mountains begin in the vicinity of Alcaraz, on the eastern borders of La Mancha, and extend between that province, Estremadura, and Alentejo, which it leaves to the north, and enters the kingdoms of Jaen, Cordova, Seville, and Algarve, and term...
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SIEUR, a title of respect amongst the French, like that of master amongst us. It is much used by lawyers, as also by superiors in their letters to inferiors.
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SIFANTO, or Siphanto, an island of the Archipelago, west of Paros, north-east of Milo, and south-west of Ser-phanto. The air is so good here, that many of the inhabitants live to the age of a hundred and twenty; and their water, fruits, wild fowl, and poultry, are excellent, but more especially the grapes. It abounds w...
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SIGHING, an effort of nature, by which the lungs are put into greater motion, and more dilated, so that the blood passes more freely, and in greater quantity, to the left auricle, and thence to the ventricle. Hence we learn how sighing increases the force of the blood, and proportionally cheers and relieves nature, whe...
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SIGNALS, Naval. When we read at our fire-side the account of an engagement, or other interesting operation of an army, our attention is generally so much engaged by the results, that we give but little to the movements which led to them, and produced them; and we seldom form to ourselves any distinct notion of the cond...
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