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SIGNATURE, in Printing, is a letter put at the bottom of the first page at least, in each sheet, as a direction to the binder in folding, gathering, and collating them. The signatures consist of the capital letters of the alphabet, which change in every sheet; and if there be more sheets than letters in the alphabet,a ...
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SIGNATURE
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SIGNET, one of the king’s seals, made use of in sealing his private letters, and all grants that pass by bill signed under his Majesty’s hand. It is always in the custody of the Secretaries of State.
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SIGNET
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SILBERBERG, a town of the Prussian province of Silesia, in the circle of Frankenstein. It is an open town in a mining district in a narrow valley, surrounded with hills, on whose sides the streets are built, but the valley is 1350 feet above the level of the sea. The inhabitants are occupied in making cloth, and in exp...
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SILBERBERG
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SILESIA, a large tract of country, now divided between Austria and Prussia. In ancient times, it was inhabited by two rude tribes, called the Lygiern and the Quadi, who were subdued in the sixth century by the Sclavonians, by which it became subject to Poland. Their manners and language, as well as the Christian religi...
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SILESIA
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SILICERNIUM, amongst the Romans, was a feast of a private nature, provided for the dead some time after the funeral. It consisted of beans, lettuces, bread, eggs, and other things. These were laid upon the tomb, as a repast for the dead.
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SILICERNIUM
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SILIUS Italicus, Caius, a celebrated Roman poet, and author of an epic poem in seventeen books, which contains a history of the second Punic war, was born in the reign of Tiberius, and is supposed to have derived the name of Italicus from the place of his birth; but whether he was born at Italica in Spain, or at Corfin...
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SILIUS
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SILK. Under the head Silk-Worm , will be found an account of the first introduction of the insect, and the commencement of the manufacture in the western empire. From thence it spread into Sicily and Italy; and during the time that the French occupied Milan (1521 ), artizans were conveyed by Francis I. to Lyons, and un...
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SILK
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SILLA, a large town on the Niger, by which the travels of Mr. Park were bounded towards the east. He gives no particular description of the place, which his health and spirits permitted him not to survey, but assigns the reasons by which he was induced to proceed no farther. On his arrival, he was allowed to remain und...
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SILLA
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SILVERING, the covering of any thing with silver. It is usual to silver metals, wood, paper, and the like, which is performed either with fire, oil, or size. Metal-gilders silver by the fire; painter gilders all the other ways. To silver copper or brass. First cleanse the metal with aquafortis, by washing it lightly, ...
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SILVERING
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SIMEON of Durham, the contemporary of William of Malmsbury. He took great pains in collecting the muniments of our history, especially in the north of England, after they had been scattered by the Danes. From these he composed a history of the kings of England, from A. D. 616 to 1130, with some smaller historical piece...
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SIMEON
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SIMFEROPOL, called formerly Akhmetschet; a city of the province of Tauria in Russia, the capital of that province as well as of a circle of the same name. It stands on an elevated plain, surrounded on all sides by mountains, on the banks of the river Salair. It is divided into the new and the old city; the former is re...
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SIMFEROPOL
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SIMILE, or Similtude, in Rhetoric, a comparison of two things, which, though different in other respects, yet agree in some one. The difference between a simile and comparison consists in this, that the simile properly belongs to whatever we call the quality of a thing, and the comparison to the quantity.
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SIMILE
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SIMILOR, a name given to an alloy of red copper and zinc, made in the best proportions, to imitate silver and gold.
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SIMILOR
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SIMOGA, a fortified town of the south of India, in the province of Mysore, and district of Bednorr, situated on the Zunga or Zoom river. The fortifications are not strong, and are incapable of resisting a regular attack. It has a manufacture of cotton cloth in the neighbourhood. It contains the temple and convent of Ku...
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SIMOGA
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SIMON Maccabeus, a celebrated leader, and high-priest of the Jews, who, after rendering the most important services to his country, was at last treacherously murdered by his son-in-law. Simon Magus, or the Sorcerer, was a native of Gitton, a village of Samaria. According to the usual practice of the Asiatics of that a...
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SIMON
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SIMONIDES, the name of several poets celebrated in antiquity. But by the Marbles it appears that the eldest and most illustrious of them was born in the fifty-fitth Olympiad, 538 years before Christ, and that he died in his ninetieth year, which nearly agrees with the chronology of Eusebius. He was a native of Ceos, on...
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SIMONIDES
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SIMONY, is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. It is so called from the resemblance it is said to bear to the sin of Simon Magus, though the purchasing of holy orders seems to appr o ach nearer to his offence. It was by the canon law a very grievous crime; and i...
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SIMONY
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SIMOOM, a hot wind which blows occasionally in the deserts of Africa, and probably in other widely extended countries parched in the same manner by a vertical sun. Its effects on the human body are dreadful. If inhaled in any quantity, it produces instant suffocation, or at least leaves the unhappy sufferer oppressed w...
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SIMOOM
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SIMPLON, a village in Switzerland, in the canton of the Vallais, only to be noticed from giving its name to the most magnificent of the roads over the Alps. This road, which leads from Switzerland into Piedmont, was constructed by Bonaparte betwixt the years 1801 and 1806, and has been long considered as one of the nob...
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SIMPLON
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SIMPSON, Thomas, professor of mathematics at the Royal Academy at Woolwich, fellow of the Royal Society, and member of the Royal Academy at Stockholm, was born at Market Bosworth in Leicestershire in 1710. His father, a stuff-weaver, taught him only to read English, and br o ught him up to his own business; but meeting...
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8 26' S 159 20' E
SIMPSON
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SIMSON, Dr. Robert, professor of mathematics in the university of Glasgow, was born in the year 1687, of a respectable family, which had held a small estate in the county of Lanark for some generations. He was, we think, the second son of the family. A younger brother was professor of medicine in the university of St. ...
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SIMSON
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SINAI, a celebrated mountain of Arabia, near the head of the Red sea, the place whence the divine law was given by Moses. It is surrounded by a vast and gloomy desert, the few inhabited spots of which are occupied by the Arabs, who live by plunder, and attack all passengers unless they form part of a large and well def...
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SINAI
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SINCLAIR’S Rocks, four small rocks off the south coast of New Holland, included by Capt. Hindens in Nuyt’s archipelago.
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SINCLAIR’S
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SINDANGAN Bay, on the north-west coast of Mindanao, extending from north to south about 100 miles. Long. 123. 52. Lat. 8. 15. N.
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SINDANGAN
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SINDE, an extensive kingdom of Hindustan, which extends from the district of Shikarpoor on the frontier of Cabul, and the island of Bukkor in the Indus, along the level plain, watered by that river to the sea; in length about two hundred and fifty miles by eighty miles in average breadth. The general boundaries are the...
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SINDE
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SINDOORG, a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the Nagpoor Rajah, in the province of Gundwana, eleven miles S. by E. from Ruttanpoor. Long. 82. 40. E. Lat. 22. 7. N.
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SINDOORG
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SINDKERA, a town of the Mahratta territories, in the province of Khandesh, 107 miles west from Boorhampoor. Long. 74. 40. E. Lat. 21. 11. N.
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21 11' N 74 40' E
SINDKERA
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SINE, or Right SINE of an Arch, in Trigonometry, is a right line drawn from one end of that arch, perpendicular to the radius drawn to the other end of the arch; being always equal to half the cord of twice the arch.
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SINE
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SINGAN, a city of China of the first rank, in the frontier province of Shan-si. It formed at one time the imperial residence, and is still a very large and fine city. It is the rendezvous of the troops appointed to defend the empire on the north-western side. Long. 108. 29. E. Lat. 35. 14. N.
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35 14' N 108 29' E
SINGAN
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SINGAPORE. The island of Singapore is situated at the extremity of the peninsula, in the straits of Singapore, through which lies the route of vessels to and from the China seas. The town stands in lat. 1. 17. 22. N., long. 103. 51. 45. E., on a point of land near the western part of a bay, and is easily distinguished ...
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1 17' 22" N 103 51' 45" E
SINGAPORE
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SINGBOOM, a district and town in the province of Orissa. The province is situated between the 22d and 23d degrees of north latitude, and bounded on three sidesby the districts of Chuta, Nagpoor, Michnapoor, and Mohurbunge; and on the south by that of Kunjeur. The town is possessed by Zemindars. Long. 85. 55. E. Lat. 22...
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22 37' N 85 55' E
SINGBOOM
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SINGHEA, or Singee, a town of Hindustan, province of Bahar, situated on the river Gunduck. Long. 85. 15. E. Lat. 25. 52. N.
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25 52' N 85 15' E
SINGHEA
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SINGHERICONDA, a town of the Northern Carnatic, twenty miles south from Ongole. Lat. 80. 2. E. Lat. 15. 14. N.
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SINGHERICONDA
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SINGING, in a general sense, means the production of appreciable and varied sounds by the voice. In a more limited sense, it means different inflexions of the voice through intervals admitted in music, and consistent with the rules of melodic modulation. It is well known that these inflexions differ from those of the v...
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SINGING
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SINGROWLA, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, situated about the 24th degree of north latitude, and bounded on the east by the district of Palamow in Bahar. The country is in general very desolate.
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SINGROWLA
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SINGUMNERE, a district of Hindustan, belonging to the Mahratta Peshwa, in the province of Aurungabad, situated about the 20th degree of north latitude. It is a hilly, but a fertile district. The chief towns are Singumnere, Bat-towal, and Bejapoor. The capital is of the same name. Long. 74. 40. E. Lat. 19. 46. N.
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19 46' N 74 40' E
SINGUMNERE
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SINKEL, a town situated near the mouth of the Sinkel river, on the west coast of Sumatra. Long. 98.26. E. Lat. 2. 15. N. Camphor, benzoin, wax, and gold, are exported from this place. Vessels that frequent this port are exposed to great danger from piratical attacks. The river Sinkel is the longest on the western coast...
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2 15' N 98 26' E
SINKEL
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SINISTER, something on or towards the left hand. Hence some derive the word sinister a sinendo, because the gods, by such auguries, permit us to proceed in our designs. Sinister, is ordinarily used amongst us for unlucky; though, in the sacred rights of divination, the Romans used it in an opposite sense. Thus avis si...
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SINISTER
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SINISTRI, a set of ancient heretics, so called because they held the left hand in abhorrence, and made it a point of religion not to receive any thing therewith.
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SINISTRI
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SINKING Fund, a provision made by parliament, consisting of the surplusage of other funds, intended to be appropriated to the payment of the national debt; on the credit of which very large sums have been borrowed for public uses. See Funding System.
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SINKING
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SINOPLE, in Heraldry, denotes vert, or green colour in armories. Sinople is used to signify love, youth, beauty, rejoicing, and liberty; and hence it is that letters of grace, ambition, and legitimation, are always sealed with green wax.
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SINOPLE
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SINTCHEI, one of the remote Kurile islands in the Eastern ocean. Long. 155. 14. E. Lat. 50. 15. N.
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50 15' N 155 14' E
SINTCHEI
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SINUOSITY, a series of bends and turns in arches or other irregular figures, sometimes jutting out and sometimes falling in.
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SINUOSITY
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SINUS, in Anatomy, denotes a cavity in certain bones and other parts, the entrance of which is very narrow, and the bottom wider and more spacious.[7:20:369] Sinus , in Surgery, a little cavity or sacculus, frequently formed by a wound or ulcer, in which pus is collected.
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SINUS
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SION, a small town and port in the island of Bombay, situated about nine miles from the presidency, at the opposite extremity of the island, on the top of a small conical hill, where it commands the passage from Bombay to the neighbouring island of Salsette. A causeway was built by Mr. Duncan across a small arm of the ...
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SION
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SIPHANTO, an island in the Aegeian sea subject to Turkey, south-west from Paros, and north-east from Komili. It is forty-five square miles in extent, and generally mountainous. Its inhabitants are about 5000, chiefly Greek by religion, and wholly so by origin, who grow corn, capers, figs, oil, cotton, and vines. They h...
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SIPHANTO
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SI-PORAH, or Good Fortune Island, a woody island in the Eastern seas, inhabited by the same race of people as the Poggy or Napan islands, from which it lies north-west.
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SI-PORAH
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SIR, the title of a knight or baronet, which, for distinction’s sake, as it is now given indiscriminately to all men, is always prefixed to the knight’s Christian name, either in speaking or in writing to him. Sir Charles Hardy’s island, in the Southern Pacific Ocean, discovered by Captain Carteret in the year 1767. L...
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SIR
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SIRAF, a small sea-port of Persia, in Laristan, chiefly inhabited by Arabians. Thirty-eight miles south-west of Lar.
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SIRAF
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SIRCAR, or Circar, any office under the government in Hindustan. It is sometimes used for the state of govem-ment itself; likewise a province, or any number of pergunnahs placed under one head in the government books, for convenience in keeping accounts. In common usage, the under banyans of European gentlemen are, in ...
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SIRCAR
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SIRE, a title of honour formerly given to the king of France as a mark of sovereignty. Sire, was also anciently used in the same sense with sieur and seigneur, and applied to barons, gentlemen, and citizens.
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SIRE
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SIRENS, in fabulous history, certain celebrated song-stresses who were ranked amongst the demigods of antiquity. Hyginus places their birth amongst the consequences of the rape of Prosperine. Others make them daughters of the river Acheleüs and one of the muses. The number of the Sirens was three, and their names were ...
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SIRENS
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SIRGOOJAH, a town and district of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, the latter situated about the 23d degree of north latitude. The town is situated about twelve miles from the northern frontier of Palamow. Long. 83.50. E. Lat. 23. 5. N.
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23 5' N 83 50' E
SIRGOOJAH
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SIRHIND, a town and district in the province of Delhi, of which the latter occupies the north-western quarter, being situated between the 30th and 31st degrees of north 1a-titude. It is not fertile, being barren and sandy, and in many places destitute of water. Its vicinity to the capital was, however, in its favour, a...
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30 40' N 75 55' E
SIRHIND
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SIRINAGAR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, district of Bundelama, twelve miles north northeast from Chatterpoor. Long. 79. 55. E. Lat. 25. 6. N.
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25 6' N 79 55' E
SIRINAGAR
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SIROCCO, a periodical wind which generally blows in Italy and Dalmatia every year about Easter. It blows from the south-east by south. It is attended with heat, but not rain. Its ordinary period is twenty days, and it usually ceases at sunset.
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SIROCCO
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SIRSEY, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, twenty-five miles east south-east from Patna. Long.· 85. 35. E. Long. 25. 22. N.
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SIRSEY
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SIRVATON, a rock in the Eastern seas, near the north coast of Java. Long. 110. 49. E. Lat. 6. 36. S.
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6 36' S 110 49' E
SIRVATON
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SISTRUM, or Cistrum, a kind of ancient musical instrument used by the priests of Isis and Osiris. It is described by Spon as of an oval form; in manner of a racket, with three sticks traversing it breadthwise, which playing[7:20:370] freely by the agitation of the whole instrument, yielded a kind of sound which to them...
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SISTRUM
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SISTERS, two small islands in the great southern ocean, lying in the strait between Van Dieman’s Land and the south-west coast of New Holland.
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SISTERS
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SISTERON, an arrondisement of the department of the Lower Alps in France, 341½ square miles in extent. It is divided into five cantons, which are subdivided into fifty communes, containing in 1836, 26,643 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It stands on the river Durance, where the Baech falls into t...
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SISTERON
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SISYPHUS, in fabulous history, one of the descendants of Eolus, married Merope, one of the Pleiades, who bore him Glaucus. He resided at Epyra in Peloponnesus, and was a very crafty man. Others say, that he was a Trojan secretary, who was punished for discovering secrets of state; and others, that he was a notorious ro...
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SISYPHUS
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SITANG, a large river of the Birman empire, province of Pegu, which rises in a range of mountains about the 20th degree of north latitude, and passing the ancient city of Pegu, falls into the gulf of Murtaban.
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SITANG
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SITAR, an Indian musical instrument resembling the European guitar. Some writers maintain that the guitar, the lute, the violin, &c., are all of oriental origin. The Indian saringee is similar to the European violin.
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SITAR
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SITOPHYLAX, Σ ιτοφυλαξ , formed from σιτος, corn, and φυλαξ, keeper in antiquity, an Athenian magistrate, who had the superintendence of the corn, and was to take care that nobody bought more than was necessary for the provision of his family. By the Attic laws, particular persons were prohibited from buying more than ...
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SITOPHYLAX, Σ
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SITTINGBOURNE, a town in the hundred of Milton, in the lathe of Scray, in the county of Kent, forty miles from London. It depends chiefly on the trade arising from its being on the great road from London to Dover. The inhabitants were in 1801, 1317; in 1811, 1362; in 1821, 1537; and in 1831, 2182.
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SITTINGBOURNE
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SITTIVACCA, a small town in the island of Ceylon. It is separated from the king of Candy’s country by a large branch of the Malivaddy river. Long.80.13. E. Lat.7.2. N.
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7 2' N 80 13' E
SITTIVACCA
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SITUS, in Algebra and Geometry, denotes the situation of lines, surfaces, and the like. Worfius delivers some things in geometry, which are not deduced from common analysis, particularly matters depending on the situs of lines and figures. Leibnitz has even founded a particular kind of analysis upon it, called calculus...
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SITUS
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SIUT, or Siout, a large town of Upper Egypt, situated on the western bank of the Nile, about half a mile from the river, with which it communicates by a canal, crossed by a bridge of three arches. The inhabitants are chiefly Copts, who are extensively employed in the manufacture of blue cloth, with which they carry on ...
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27 13' 14" N 31 13' 32" E
SIUT
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SIVA, a name given by the Hindus to the Supreme Being, when considered as the avenger or destroyer. Sir William Jones has shown that in several respects the character of Jupiter and Siva are the same. As Jupiter overthrew the Titans and giants, so did Siva overthrow the Daityas, or children of Ditti, who frequently reb...
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SIVA
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SIVANA Samudra, an island formed by the river Ca-veny, in the province of north Coimbetoor, about nine miles in length, by one in breadth. It is remarkable for an uncommon grand cataract near it; and it communicates with the continent by a bridge formerly magnificent, and three hundred yards in length, but is now in ru...
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SIVANA
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SIWAH, a considerable oasis of the Lybian desert, on the route from Egypt to Fezzan, and the most interesting island of the waste, as being the supposed site of the temple of Jupiter Ammon. It is situated in latitude 29° 12' north, and longitude 26° 5' east. Horneman represents it as fifty miles in circumference; but s...
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SIWAH
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SIX Islands, small islands in the eastern seas, near the north coast of Java. Long. 110. 49. E. Lat. 6. 36. S.
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6 36' S 110 49' E
SIX
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SIXTH, in Music. (See Interval. and Music .)
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SIXTH
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SIXTUS V., Pope, was born on the 13th of December 1521, in La Marca, a village in the seigniory of Montalto. His father, Francis Peretti, was a gardener, and his mother a servant maid. He was their eldest child, and was called Felix. At the age of nine he was hired out to an inhabitant of the village to keep sheep; but...
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SIXTUS V.
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SIZAR, or SIZER, in Latin Sizator, an appellation by which the lowest order of students in some universities are distinguished, is derived from the word size, which has a peculiar meaning. To size, in the language of the university, is to get any sort of victuals from the kitchens, which the students may want in their ...
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SIZAR
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SIZE, the name of an instrument used for finding the bigness of fine round pearls. It consists of thin pieces or leaves, about two inches in length, and half an inch in breadth, fastened together at one end by a rivet. In each of these are round holes drilled of different diameters. Those in the first leaf serve for me...
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SIZE
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SKATING, an exercise on ice, both graceful and healthy. Although the ancients were remarkable for their dexterity in most, of the athletic sports, yet skating seems to have been unknown to them. It may therefore be considered as a modern invention; and probably it derived its origin in Holland, where it was practised n...
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SKATING
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SKELETON, in Anatomy, the dried bones of any animal joined together by wires, or by the natural ligament dried, in such a manner as to show their position when the creature was alive. In the Philosophical Transactions we have an account of a human skeleton, all the bones of which were so united as to make but one arti...
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SKELETON
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SKENE, Sir John, a Scotish lawyer, was the second son of James Skene of Ramore, and of Janet the second daughter of Alexander Burnet of Leys. He thus derived his lineage from the ancient family of Skene of Skene. We may place his birth about the year 1540. He is said to have been partly educated at King’s College, Aber...
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SKENE
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SKEW Bridge. Square arches, or those which stand at right angles to their abutments, and exert their thrust in that direction, have been already treated at considerable length under the article Bridge. Till lately, any other form of arch was rarely to be met with. But there are cases of frequent occurrence, in which va...
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SKEW
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SKINNER, John, a poet and theologian, was born at Balfour in the parish of Birse and county of Aberdeen, on the third day of October 1721. His father, who bore the same name, was master of the parochial school, and had married Jane the widow of Donald Farquharson, Esq. of Balfour, grandfather to the late Dr. Farquharso...
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SKIPTON, commonly called Skipton in Craven. It is in the wapentake of Staincliffe, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 216 miles from London. It stands on the river Aire, in a wild and romantic district near two lofty mountains. Being on the canal from Leeds to Liverpool it has some trade with both these places, and of la...
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SKIPTON
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SKIROS, an island of Turkey, on the western side of the Archipelago, about twenty-three miles from the mainland. It is sixty-three square miles in extent, and contains 1800 Greek inhabitants, who grow oil and cotton, and feed cattle in the valleys between the rocky hills which cover the greater part of the surface. The...
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SKIROS
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SKYE, the largest of the western islands of Scotland, is situated between the outer range of the Hebrides, and the mainland of Scotland, from which it is separated by a narrow strait, varying from a gun-shot to three miles in breadth. It forms part of the county of Inverness, and is divided into seven parishes. The ext...
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SKYE
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SLACKEN, in Metallurgy, a term used by miners to express a spongy and semivitrified substance which is mixed with the ores of metals, to prevent their fusion. It is the scoria or scum separated from the surface of the former fusions of metals. To this is frequently added limestone, and sometimes a kind of coarse iron o...
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SLACKEN
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SLAVERY is a word, of which, though generally understood, it is not easy to give a proper definition. An excellent moral writer has defined it to be “an obligation to labour for the benefit of the master, without the contract or consent of the servant.” But may not he be properly called a slave, who has given up his fr...
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SLAVERY
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SLEAFORD, a town in the hundred of Fleswell, part of Kesleven of the county of Lincoln, 116 miles from London. It was once the residence of the bishops of Lincoln. It has a fine ancient Gothic church, adorned with many monuments. It has a good market on Fridays. The inhabitants were, in 1801, 1596; in 1811, 1904; in 18...
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SLEAFORD
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SLEBEZE, a small island in the straits of Sunda. Long. 105. 24. E. Lat. 5.54. S.
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SLEBEZE
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SLEDGE, a kind of carriage without wheels, for the conveyance of weighty things, as stones, bells, and the like. The sledge for carrying criminals, condemned for high treason, to execution, is called a hurdle. The Dutch have a kind of sledge on which they can carry a vessel of any burden by land. It consists of a plank...
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SLEDGE
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SLEEP, that state of the body, in which, though the vital functions continue, the senses are not affected by the ordinary impressions of external objects. See Dreams, Phisiology, and Somnambulism.
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SLEEP
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SLEEPERS, in Natural History, a name given to those animals which sleep all winter, such as bears, marmots, dormice, bats, hedgehogs, swallows, and the like. These do not feed in winter, have no sensible evacuations, breathe little or none at all, and most of the viscera cease from their functions. Some of these animal...
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SLEEPERS
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SLEIDAN, John, an excellent German historian, born of obscure parents, in 1506, at Sleidan, a small town on the confines of the duchy of Juliers. After studying some time in his own country, together with his townsman, the learned John Sturmius, he went to France, and in[7:20:391] 1525 entered into the service of the c...
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SLEIDAN
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SLESWICK, or Schleswig, a province in the kingdom of Denmark, in that division usually denominated the Duchies, including, with this province, Holstein and Lauenberg, all of which are inhabited by people of German origin, who speak that language, and are regulated by different laws from the rest of Denmark. This provin...
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SLESWICK
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SLEUT-Hound, the ancient Scots name of the bloodhound. The word is derived from the Saxon slot, the impression that a deer leaves of its foot in the mire, and hound, a dog; so they derive their name from following the track.
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SLEUT-Hound
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SLICH, in Metallurgy, the ore of any metal, particularly of gold, when it has been pounded and prepared for further working. The manner of preparing the slich at Chremnitz in Hungary, is this. They lay a foundation of wood three yards deep; upon this they place the ore, and over this there are twenty-four beams, armed...
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SLICH
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SLICKENBURG, a small island near the north-west coast of Borneo. Long. 112. 31. E. Lat. 3. 59. N.
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3 59' N 112 31' E
SLICKENBURG
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SLIDING-RULE, a mathematical instrument, serving to work questions in gauging, measuring, and the like, without the use of compasses; merely by the sliding of the parts of the instrument one by another, the lines and divisions of which give the answer by inspection. This instrument is variously contrived and applied by...
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SLIDING-RULE
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SLIGO, a maritime county in the province of Connaught in Ireland, is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by Leitrim, on the south-east by Roscommon, and on the south and west by Mayo. It extends from 53º 54' to 54º 28' north latitude, and from 8° 10' to 9° 10' west longitude; being thirty-eight mile...
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SLIGO
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SLING, an instrument serving for casting stones with great violence. The inhabitants of the Balearic islands were famous in antiquity for the dexterous management of the sling. It is said they used three kinds of slings, some longer, and others shorter, which they used according as their enemies were either nearer or m...
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