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kp-eb0720-039502-0457 | SLINGING is used variously at sea, but chiefly for hoisting up casks or other heavy things with slings, that is, contrivances of ropes spliced into themselves at either end, with one eye big enough to receive the cask or whatever is to be slung. There are other slings, which are made longer, and with a small eye at eac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039503-0457 | SLIPPER Island, a small island in the Eastern sea. Long. 93. 30. E. Lat. 14. 8. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 8' N 93 30' E | SLIPPER |
kp-eb0720-039504-0457 | SLOANE, Sir Hans, eminently distinguished as a physician and a naturalist, was of Scotish extraction, his father, Alexander Sloane, having been at the head of that Scotish colony which King James I. settled in the north of Ireland,[7:20:396] where the son was born, at Killicagh, on the 19th of April 1660. At a very ear... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039801-0460 | SLOBODSK-Urraine, a province of European Russia, which extends in north latitude from 48° 35' to 51º 16', and in east longitude from 34º 10' to 38° 21', comprehending 26,217 square miles. It is an elevated plain, over which few hills are to be seen. It contains but few forests, and the soil is generally dry, but by no ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039802-0460 | SLOT, in the sportsman’s language, a term used to express the mark of the foot of a stag or other animal proper for the chace in the clay or earth, by which they are enabled to guess when the animal passed, and which way he went. The slot, or treading of the stag, is very nicely studied on this occasion. If the slot be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039803-0460 | SLOUGH, a market town of the county of Buckingham, in the hundred of Stoke. Though a town it is not a parish, one part being within the parish of Upton, and another part in the parish of Stoke Poggis. It is twenty miles from London and two from Eton, and is furnished with excellent inns, being on the great road to Bath... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039804-0460 | SLUICE, a frame of timber, stone, or other matter, serving to retain and raise the water of a river, and on occasion to let it pass.
Such is the sluice of a mill, which stops and collects the water of a rivulet, to let it fall at length in greater plenty upon the mill-wheel; such also are those used as vents or drains... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039805-0460 | SLUR, in Musical Notation, a curved line drawn over two or more notes, signifying, that these are to be performed in a smooth and connected manner (legato.) When the slur is applied to two notes of the same degree, this generally occurs in what is called a syncopation, i.e . where a note of the accented time of the mea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039806-0460 | SLUYS, a town of Dutch Flanders, opposite the island of Cadsand, with a good harbour, ten miles north of Bruges, containing 14,000 inhabitants. Long. 3. 25. E. Lat. 51. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 19' N 3 25' E | SLUYS |
kp-eb0720-039807-0460 | SLUZK, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of Minsk in West Russia, 715 miles from St. Petersburg. It is situated on a river which gives it its name, is the best city in the province, contains two Catholic, two Greek, a Lutheran, and a Reformed church, and 1000 houses, with 5800 inhabitant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039808-0460 | SMACK, a small vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop or hoy, used in the coasting or fishing trade, or as a tender in the king’s service. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039809-0460 | SMALAND, a province in the south of Sweden. See Calmar. [7:20:399] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039901-0461 | SMALKALD, a town of Germany, in Franconia, and in the county of Henneberg; famous for the confederacy entered into by the German Protestants against the emperor, commonly called the league of Smalkald. The design of it was to defend their religion and liberties. It is seated on the river Werra, twenty-five miles south-... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 40' N 10 53' E | SMALKALD |
kp-eb0720-039902-0461 | SMALL Key, a small island in the Eastern Sea. Long. 247. 16. W. Lat 10. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 37' N 247 16' W | SMALL |
kp-eb0720-039903-0461 | SMALT, a kind of glass of a dark blue colour, which when levigated appears of a most beautiful colour; and if it could be made sufficiently fine, would be an excellent succedaneum for ultramarine, as not only resisting all kinds of weather, but even the most violent fires. It is prepared by melting one part of calcinat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-039904-0461 | SMEATON, John, an eminent civil engineer, was born on the 18th of June 1724, at Austhorpe, near Leeds, in a house built by his grandfather, and where his family have resided ever since.
The strength of his understanding and the originality of his genius appeared at an early age. His playthings were not the playthings ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-040001-0462 | SMELL, a word which in most languages has two meanings, signifying either that sensation of mind of which we are conscious, in consequence of certain impressions made on the nostrils, and conveyed to the brain by the olfactory nerves; or that unknown virtue, or quality in bodies, which is the cause of our sensations of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-040002-0462 | SMELLIE, William, a learned and ingenious printer, was born at Edinburgh in the year 1740. His father, Alexander Smellie, who followed the occupation of a master-builder, is said to have been a classical scholar, and a writer of Latin verses. He belonged to the sect of reformed Presbyterians, more commonly described as... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-040301-0465 | SMELLING is the act by which we perceive smells, or become sensible of the presence of odorous bodies. The[7:20:404] sensations of smell are excited by certain effluvia, which, in the open air, are always issuing from the surfaces of most bodies, and striking on the extremities of the olfactory nerves, give them a pecu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-040601-0468 | SMELTING Iron by Hot-Blast. Since the article on the Manufacture or Irον was published in the usual order of the progress of this work, certain changes have been introduced in the process of making iron, of so extensive and important a character, that we cannot consider them in any other light than as effecting an enti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-041301-0479 | SMITH, Sir Thomas, was born at Walden in Essex, in the year 1512. At fourteen he was sent to Queen’s College, Cambridge, where he distinguished himself so much, that ne was made Henry the Eighth’s scholar, together with John Cheke. He was chosen a fellow of his college in 1531, and appointed two years afterwards to rea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-041401-0480 | SMITH, Adam was born at Kirkcaldy, on the 5th of June 1723. His father, who held the situation of comptroller of customs in that town, died a few months before his birth; so that the charge of his early education devolved wholly on his mother, the daughter of Mr. Douglas of Strathenry, in the county of Fife. His consti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-041901-0485 | SMITHERY, a smith’s shop; also the art of a smith, by which iron is wrought into any shape by means of fire, hammering, and filing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-041902-0485 | SMITING-Line, in a ship, is a small rope fastened to the mizen-yard-arm, below at the deck, and is always furled up with the mizen-sail, even to the upper end of the yard, and thence it comes down to the poop. Its use is to loosen the mizen-sail without striking down the yard, which is easily done, because the mizen-sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-041903-0485 | SMOAKY Cape, on the east coast of New Holland. Long. 153. 42. Lat. 30. 55. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-041904-0485 | SMOKE, a dense elastic vapour arising from burning bodies. As this vapour is extremely disagreeable, and often prejudicial to health, several contrivances have been devised for the purpose of enabling us to enjoy the benefit of a fire without being annoyed by smoke; hence the use of chimneys, which, when properly const... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-042501-0491 | SMOLENSKO, a circle or government of the eastern side of the Russian empire. It was formerly a part of Lithuania, and being gained by Russia in 1654, was then called White Russia. It is 10,980 square miles in extent, and contains 1,031,860 inhabitants, who are a mixture of Russians, Poles, and Jews. The city from which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-042502-0491 | SMOLLETT, Tobias, whose writings have conferred distinguished honour upon the literature of his country, was descended from a family of considerable antiquity and opulence in the county of Dunbarton. His grandfather, Sir James Smollett of Bonhill, married a daughter of Sir Aulay Macaulay of Ardincaple, and by that lady... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-042801-0494 | SMOOTH Island, on the east coast, of Van Diemen’s Land, in Norfolk Bay, about three-quarters of a mile long. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-042802-0494 | SMUGGLERS, persons who import or export prohibited goods without paying the duties appointed by the law. When we consider the nature, and still more the history of mankind, we must allow that the enacting of severe penal laws is not the way to prevent crimes. It is indeed much to be wished that there were no such thing... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-042901-0495 | SMYRNA, a large commercial city of Asia Minor, situated at the head of a long and winding gιιlph on the western coast of the Grecian Archipelago, and, with the exception of Constantinople, the most important sea-port of the Turkish empire. It has an imposing appearance from the sea; and its bay, besides numerous small ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 29' N 27 4' 45" E | SMYRNA |
kp-eb0720-043001-0496 | SNAFFLE, in the manege, is a very slender bit-mouth without any branches. It is much used in England, the true bridles being reserved for war. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043002-0496 | SNAITH, a town in the Wapentake of Osgoldeross, in the West Riding of the county of York, one hundred and seventy-four miles from London. It stands on the navigable river Aire, in a pleasant situation. The inhabitants were in 1801, 688; in 1811, 743; in 1821, 834; and in 1831, 885; but the inhabitants of the whole pari... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043003-0496 | SNAKE, in Zoology. See Serpents. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043004-0496 | SNARES, a cluster of seven craggy islands in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Vancouver. Long. 166. 20. E. Lat. 48. 3. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 3' S 166 20' E | SNARES |
kp-eb0720-043005-0496 | SNEEK, a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Friesland, the capital of a circle of the same name. It is situated on a canal connected with Leuwarden, a place of much activity, having many saw and oil mills, and some manufactories of pottery ware, and exporting much corn. It contains two churches, a stadthouse, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043006-0496 | SNEEZING, a convulsive motion of the muscles of the breast, by which the air is expelled from the nose with much vehemence and noise. It is caused by the irritation of the upper membrane of the nose, excited by acrid substances floating in the air, or by medicines called sternutatory.
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kp-eb0720-043101-0497 | SNIGGLING, a method of fishing for eels, chiefly used in the day time, when they are found to hide themselves near wears, mills, or flood-gates. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043102-0497 | SNIPE. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043103-0497 | SNOW, a well-known meteor, formed by the freezing of the vapour of water in the atmosphere. It differs from hail and hoar-frost, in being as it were crystallized, which they are not. This appears in examining a flake of snow by a magnifying glass; when the whole of it will appear to be composed of fine shining spicula ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043201-0498 | SNOWDON, one of the highest mountains in Wales. It is within the county of Carnarvon, but extends to the borders of Merionethshire. The highest point of the range is 3571 feet above the level of the sea. The snow begins to fall on it in November, and is seldom melted till the middle of June. It is easily accessible in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043202-0498 | SNYDERS, Francis, a Flemish painter, born at Antwerp in 1579, and bred under his countryman Henry Van Balen. His genius first displayed itself in painting fruit; he afterwards attempted animals, huntings, &c., in which he exceeded all his predecessors. He also painted kitchens, &c, and gave dignity to subjects that see... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043203-0498 | SOAGHIM, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, province of Malwah, sixty miles west from Ooojain. Long. 74.50. E. Lat. 23. 12. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043204-0498 | SOANE River has its rise on the east of the table land of Omercuntire, in the province of Gundwana. It flows through Pindarah, where, being joined by numerous other streams from the north-east side of this mountainous territory, it proceeds in a northerly course to the Ganges, which it joins in the province of Bahar, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043205-0498 | SOANK, a small river of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, whence it flows in a southerly direction, and being joined by the small river Borkee, their united streams form the Braminy Noddy river. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043206-0498 | SOAP, a composition of caustic, fixed alkaline salt, and oil, sometimes hard and dry, sometimes soft and liquid; much used in washing, whitening linens, and by dyers and fullers. Soap may be made by several methods, which however all depend upon the same principle. The soap which is used in medicine is made without hea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043301-0499 | SOCAGE, in its most general and extensive signification, seems to denote a tenure by any certain and determinate service. And in this sense it is by our ancient writers constantly put in opposition to chivalry or knight-service, where the tenure was precarious and uncertain. The service must therefore be certain, in or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043302-0499 | SOCIETY, a number of rational and moral beings, united for their common preservation and happiness. There are shoals of fishes, herds of quadrupeds, and flocks of birds. We call crows and beavers, and several other species of animals, gregarious; but it is hardly good English to say that they are social. It is only hum... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043401-0500 | SOCIETIES, associations voluntarily formed by a number of individuals for promoting knowledge, industry, or virtue. They may therefore be divided into three classes; societies for promoting science and literature, societies for encouraging and promoting arts and manufactures, and societies for diffusing religion and mo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043402-0500 | SOCINIANS, in church history, a sect of Christian heretics, so called from their founder Faustus Socinus. They maintain, “that Jesus Christ was a mere man, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that the Holy Ghost is no distinct person, but that the Father is truly and properly God. They own,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043501-0501 | SOCINUS, Laelius, the first author of the sect of the Socinians, was born at Sienna in Tuscany in 1525. Being designed by his father for the law, he began very early to search for the foundation of that science in the word of God; and by that study discovered that the Romish religion taught many things contrary to reve... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-043502-0501 | SOCOTARA, an bland of the Indian Ocean, about forty leagues to the eastward of Cape Guardafui. It is mountainous, with a bold shore and excellent harbours, and the inhabitants are in general civil to strangers. The principal produce is aloes. The town has a handsome appearance, the houses being built of stone, and some... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 39' N 53 33' E | SOCOTARA |
kp-eb0720-043503-0501 | SOCRATES. The name of Socrates is familiar to every one among his earliest classical recollections. Who has not heard of the Athenian sage, the great moralist of heathenism, and his persecution and constancy even to death? There is no name indeed which stands forth more conspicuously in the history of the philosophy, o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047001-0536 | Socrates was also the name of an ecclesiastical historian of the fifth century, born at Constantinople in the beginning of the reign of Theodosius: he professed the law and pleaded at the bar, whence he obtained the name of Scholasticus. He wrote an ecclesiastical history from the year 309, when Eusebius ended, down to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047002-0536 | SODA, the name given by the French chemists to the mineral alkali, which is found native in many parts of the world. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047003-0536 | SODERAH, a town of the province of Lahore, in the Seik territories, situated on the east side of the Chinaub, forty-eight miles N.N.W. from the city of Lahore-Long. 73. 30. E. Lat. 32. 27. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047004-0536 | SODOM, formerly a town of Palestine in Asia, famous in Scripture for the wickedness of its inhabitants, and their destruction by fire from heaven on account of that wickedness. The place where it stood is now covered by the waters of the Dead Sea, or the lake Asphaltites. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047005-0536 | SODOR, a name always conjoined with Man, in mentioning the bishop of Man’s diocese. Concerning the origin and application of this word, very different opinions have been formed by the learned. Buchanan (lib. i. cap. 34.) says, that before his time the name of Sailor was given to a town in the isle of Man. In Gough’s ed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047101-0537 | SOEST, a city of Prussian Westphalia, in the government of Minden, the capital of a circIe of the same name, which extends over 240 square miles, and has a population of 33,400 persons. It is situated on the Tosterbache, and is surrounded with old and Iofty walls. In 1834 it had 1200 houses in narrow and crooked street... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047102-0537 | SOFALA, or Sephala, a kingdom of Africa, lying on the east coast near Zanguebar. The name Sofala denotes, in the Hebrew and Arabic languages, low country. It has been celebrated by the Arabian geographers for its golden treasures, but it is from the interior that this precious metal is brought. The soil is fertile, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 20' S 35 40' E | SOFALA |
kp-eb0720-047103-0537 | SOFFITA, or Soffit, in Architecture, any timber ceiling formed of cross beams of flying comices, the square compartments or pannels of which are enriched with sculpture, painting, or gilding; such are those in the palaces of Italy, and in the apartments of Luxembourg at Paris.
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kp-eb0720-047104-0537 | SOFIA, a city of Turkey in Europe, the ancient Sardica. It is situated in Romelia, and is the capital of a province of its own name. It is on an extensive plain, between the two rivers Iscar and Rissava. It is surrounded with walls flanked by towers, and defended by a citadel. It is the seat of a Greek and of a Catholi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047105-0537 | SOHAGEPOOR, a town and small district of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana. The province is situated between the 23° and 24° of N. lat. It is a barren, mountainous, and unproductive country, possessed by various savage chiefs. The town is situated eighty miles S. by E. from Rewah. Long. 81. 45. E. Lat. 23. 29- N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047106-0537 | SOHAM, a town of the hundred of Staplac, in the county of Cambridge, seventy-one miles from London. It is usually called Monks-Soham, to distinguish it from some villages of the same name near it, and from having been formerly the seat of a large Benedictine monastery. It has a charity school and a market on Saturday. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047107-0537 | SOHAUL, a town of Hindustan, province of Allahabad, thirty-five miles S.E. from Callinger. Long. 80. 52. E. Lat. 24. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047108-0537 | SOHNPOOR, a town of the province of Gundwana, in Hindustan, possessed by independent chiefs, situated on the Mahanuddy river, 127 miles S.E. from Ruttunpoor. Long. 83. 45. E. Lat. 20. 47. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047109-0537 | SOIGNES, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Hennegan, and arrondisement of Mons. It stands on the river Senne, which rises at the distance of about six miles. The population amounts to 4800 persons, who are chiefly employed in obtaining stone from some valuable quarries. Lat. 50. 32. Long. 3 59. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047110-0537 | SOIL, the mould covering the surface of the earth, in which vegetables grow. It serves as a support for vegetables, and as a reservoir for receiving and communicating nourishment. See Agriculture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047111-0537 | SOISSONS, an arrondisement of the department of the Aisne in France, which extends over 456 square miles, and is divided into six cantons and 167 communes, containing 68,761 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, is situated in a fine valley on the river Aisne. It has a cathedral with two towers, only one o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047112-0537 | SOKOR ZOK, a town of Armenia, situated about midway between Bellis and Diarbekir, and governed by a powerful prince, who rules over many different tribes of Kurds and Turcomans. Population, 6000. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047113-0537 | SOLANDER’S Island, in the South Pacific, near the south coast of New Zealand, discovered by Captain Cook in 1770. It is of a craggy surface, of great height. Long. 192. 49. W. Lat. 46. 31. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047114-0537 | SOLDER, Sodder, or Soder, a metallic or mineral composition used in soldering or joining together other metals. Solders are made of gold, silver, copper, tin, bismuth, and lead. In the composition there must commonly be some of the metal that is to be soldered mixed with some higher and finer metals. Goldsmiths usually... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047201-0538 | SOLDIER, a military man enlisted to serve a prince or state in consideration of a certain daily pay. See Αrμυ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047202-0538 | SOLDIN, a town of the government of Frankfurt on the Oder in Prussia. It is the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 404 square miles, and contains 26,600 inhabitants. The town, which is near the Soldin lake, is surrounded with walls, and contains 434 houses, with 2860 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047203-0538 | SOLECISM in Grammar, a false manner of speaking, contrary to the rules of grammar, either in respect of declension, conjugation, or syntax. The word is Greek, σoλoικισμὸς, derived from the Soli, a people of Attica, who being transplanted to Cilicia, lost the purity of their ancient tongue, and became ridiculous to the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047204-0538 | SOLEURE. See Solothurn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047205-0538 | SOLFA, (Ital.) a musical exercise for the voice when learning to sing, in which the syllables do, re, mi,fα, sol, la, si, are applied to their respective notes in the exercise. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047206-0538 | SOLFAING, (Fr. Solfler, Ital. Solfeggiare,) means the performance of such an exercise; and also the singing of a piece of music at sight with these syllables. On this subject consult the large work on singing, published for the use of the French Conservatory of Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047207-0538 | SOLFATARA, a lake in the Campagna of Rome, near to Tivoli. It is of small extent, but is remarkable for containing several floating islets formed of matted sedge and herbage, with a soil of dust and sand blown from the adjacent country, and cemented by the bitumen and sulphur with which the water of the lake is impregn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047208-0538 | SOLFATERRA, a mountain of Italy in the kingdom of Naples and Terra di Lavorro. This mountain appears evidently to have been a volcano in ancient times; and the soil is yet so hot, that the workmen employed there in making alum need nothing else besides the heat of the ground for evaporating their liquids. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047209-0538 | SOLICITOR, a person employed to take care of and manage suits depending in the courts of law or equity. There is also a great officer of the law, next to the attorney-general, who is styled the king or queen’s solicitor-general; who holds his office by patent during the sovereign’s pleasure, assists the attorney in man... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047210-0538 | SOLID, in Philosophy, a bo<ly whose parts are so firmly connected together, as not easily to give way or slip from each other; in which sense solid stands opposed to fluid. Geometricians define a solid to be the third species of magnitude, or that which has three dimensions, viz. length, breadth, and thickness or depth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047211-0538 | SOLIDITY, that property of matter, or body, by which it excludes all other bodies from the place which itself possesses; and as it would be absurd to suppose that two bodies could possess one and the same place at the same time, it follows, that the softest bodies are equally solid with the hardest.
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kp-eb0720-047212-0538 | SOLILOQUY, a reasoning or discourse which a man holds with himself; or, more properly, according to one account, it is a discourse by way of answer to a question which a man proposes to himself. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047213-0538 | SOLIMAN II. emperor of the Turks, surnamed the Magnificent, was the only son of Selim I., whom he succeeded in 1520. He was educated in a manner very different from the Ottoman princes in general; for he was instructed in the maxims of politics and the secrets of government. He began his reign by restoring those person... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047214-0538 | SOLINGEN, a town of the Prussian government of Cleves, the capital of a circle of the same name. It has been long celebrated for the excellent temper of the sword blades and other cutting instruments fabricated in the town and district. The circle is small, including only forty-two square miles, but it contains 28,500 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047215-0538 | SOLIS, Αntonio de a Spanish writer, of an ancient and illustrious family, was born at Placentia, in Old Castile, on the 18th of July 1610. He was intended for the law; but his inclination toward poetry prevailed, and he cultivated it with great success. Philip IV. of Spain made him one of his secretaries; and after the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047301-0539 | SOLITARIES, a denomination of nuns of St. Peter of Alcantara, instituted in 1676. The design of the institution was to imitate the severe penitent life of that saint. Thus they were to keep a continual silence; never to open their mouths to a stranger; to employ their time wholly in spiritual exercises, and leave their... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047302-0539 | SOLITARY Island, in the South Pacific ocean, discovered by Mendana in 1595. It is low, and surrounded with rocks. Long. 178. 20. W. Lat. 10. 4. S.
Solitary Islands, a cluster of small islands near the east coast of New Holland. Lat. 30. 8. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047303-0539 | SOLO, or Saura-Corta, an inland town of Java, the capital of a district, and the residence of an emperor. It is large and populous, intersected with broad and shaded avenues or streets, running at right angles. The emperor’s palace is very spacious, and comprises several palaces in its area. The European town and port ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047304-0539 | SOLOFRA, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Ulteriore. It contains three churches and 6050 inhabitants, who are manufacturers of gold and silver articles, of leather and parchment, and are celebrated for their salted hams and bacon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047305-0539 | SOLLER, a town in Majorca, one of the Balearic islands in the Mediterranean, belonging to Spain. The valley in which it stands is productive of olives and oranges. It is situated in Lat. 39∙ 61., and contains 5614 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047306-0539 | SOLOMBO, GREAT, a small island in the Eastern seas, of a moderate height. Long. 114. 45. E. Lat. 5. 36. S. Little Solombo is near the north-east coast of Great So- 1ombo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047307-0539 | SOLOMON, the son of David king of Israel, renowned in Scripture for his wisdom, riches, and magnificent temple and other buildings. Towards the end of his life he sullied his former glory by his apostacy from God; from which cause vengeance was denounced against his house and nation. He died about 977 b c. Solomon's Is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047308-0539 | SOLON, one of the seven wise men of Greece, was born at Salamis, of Athenian parente, who were descended from Codrus. His father leaving little patrimony, he had recourse to merchandise for his subsistence. He had, however, a greater thirst after knowledge and fame than after riches, and made his mercantile voyages sub... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047401-0540 | SOLOON, a small island in the Eastern seas, twenty-five miles from the island of Samar. Long. 125. 42. E. Lat. 10. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047402-0540 | SOLOR Isle, an island in the Eastern seas, separated from the island of Floris by the straits of Floris. It is about thirty miles in length, by fifteen in average breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047403-0540 | SOLOTHURN, a canton of Switzerland. It is bounded on the north by France and by Basel, on the east by Basel and Zurich, and on the south and west by Berne. It extends over two hundred and fifty-eight square miles, comprising two cities, one market-town, and one hundred and thirty-seven villages, with 59,122 inhabitants... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047404-0540 | SOLOTONOSCHA, a town of Russia, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of Pultowa, 947 miles from Petersburg. It stands at the point where the Solontschia falls into the Dneiper. It contains three churches, two monasteries, eight hundred houses, and 5650 inhabitants, chiefly employed in agriculture. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-047405-0540 | SOLSTICE, in Astronomy, the time when the sun is in one of the solstitial points; that is, when he is at his greatest distance from the equator; thus called because he then appears to stand still, and not to change his distance from the equator for some time; an appearance owing to the obliquity of our sphere, and to w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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