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SPARTIANUS, Aelius, a Latin historian, who flourished in the reign of Diocletian, about the year 290. He is known as the author of the lives of Hadrian and Aelius Verus; and to him are likewise ascribed several other lives contained in the collection of “Historiae Augustae Scrip tores.” See Fabricii Bibliotheca Latina,...
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SPECIES, in Logic, a relative term, expressing an idea which is comprised under some general one called a genus. Species, in Algebra, are the letters, symbols, marks, or characters, which represent the quantities in any operation or equation. This short and advantageous way of notation was chiefly introduced by Vieta, ...
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SPECIES
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SPECIFIC, in Philosophy, that which is peculiar to any thing, and distinguishes it from all others. Species, in Medicine. By specifics is not meant such as infallibly and in all patients produce salutary effects. Such medicines are not to be expected, because the operations and effects of remedies are not formally inh...
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SPECIFIC
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SPECTACLES, in Dioptrics, an instrument consisting of two lenses set in silver, horn, &c. to assist the defects of the organ of sight. Old people, and others who have flat eyes, use convex spectacles, which cause the rays of light to converge so as to meet upon the retina; whereas myopes, or shortsighted people, use co...
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SPECTACLES
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SPECTRA, images presented to the eye after removing them from a bright object, or closing them. When any one has long and attentively looked at a bright object, as at the setting sun, on closing his eyes, or removing them, an im age, which resembles in form the object he was attending to, continues some time to be visi...
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SPECTRA
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SPECTRE, an apparition, or something supposed to be preternaturally visible to human sight, whether the ghosts of dead men or beings superior to man. See Apparitions.
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SPECTRE
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SPECULATIVE, something relating to the theory of some art or science, in contradistinction to practical.
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SPECULATIVE
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SPECULUM for reflecting telescopes. See Optics and TELESCOPE.
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SPECULUM
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SPEED, John, an English historian, was born at Faring ton in Cheshire, in the year 1542. He was by trade a tailor, and a freeman of the company of merchant tailors in the city of London. In 1606 he published his “Theatre of Great Britain,” which was afterwards reprinted in folio, under the title of “The Theatre of the ...
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SPELDHURST, a large parish in the hundred of Washlingstone and county of Kent, thirty-three miles distant from London. A great part of the township of Tunbridge[7:20:532] Wells is comprehended in it, to which circumstance it owes its increased inhabitants, who were, in 1801, 1618; in 1811, 1901; in i821, 2297; and in 1...
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SPELLING, in Grammar, that part of orthography which teaches the true manner of resolving words into their syllables. All words are either simple or compound, as use, disuse; done, undone; and the rules for dividing each must be such as are derived from the analogy of language in general, or from the established custo...
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SPELMAN, Sir Henry, an eminent antiquary, was descended from an ancient family, and born at Congham, near Lynn in Norfolk, about the year 1561. He was knighted by King James I. who had a particular esteem for him on account of his known capacity for business; and he employed him several times in Ireland in public affai...
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SPENCE, Joseph, an eminent writer, was born in the year 1698, but his family-history remains in obscurity. He was probably educated at Winchester, for he became a fellow of New College, Oxford, where he took the degree of A.M. in 1727. During the same year he published a small volume entitled “An Essay on Pope’s Odysse...
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SPENCE
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SPENCER, JoHN, a very learned theologian, was born at Boctonunder-Blean, in Kent, in the year 1630. From , the grammar school of Canterbury he was removed to Cor pus Christi College at Cambridge, where he was entered on the 25th of March 1645. Having taken the degree of A.B. in 1648, and of A.M. in 1652, he was chosen ...
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SPENSER, Edmund, one of the greatest of English poets, was born in East Smithfield, about the year 1533. There is no record in which the admirers of his genius may trace the incidents of his early years; but there is reason to suppose that they were clouded by poverty and depen dence. On the 20th of May 1519, he entere...
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SPERMACETI, a whitish, unctuous, flaky substance, prepared from oil, but chiefly from the brains of a species of whale called physeter macrocephalus.
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SPEUSIPPUS, an Athenian philosopher, the nephew and successor of Plato. Contrary to the practice of his mas ter, Speusippus required from his pupils a stated gratuity. He placed statues of the Graces in the school which Plato had built. On account of his infirm state of health, he was commonly carried to and from the A...
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SPEUSIPPUS
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SPEY, a river of Scotland, rises from a lake of the same name in Badenoch, and after a serpentine course of seventy six miles, passes by Rothes castle, and falls into the German ocean at Gamoch near Elgin.
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SPHERE is a solid contained under one uniform round surface, every point of which is equally distant from a cer tain point in the middle called its centre; and is formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter. Sphere, in Astronomy, that concave orb or expanse which invests our globe, and in which the hea...
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SPHERE
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SPHEROID, in Geometry, a solid approaching to the figure of a sphere. It is generated by the entire revolution of a semi-ellipsis about its axis. When the revolution is made round the largest axis, the spheroid is called prolate; and when round the shortest, oblate. This last is the figure of the earth, and probably of...
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SPHEROID
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SPHINCTER, in Anatomy, a term applied to a kind of circular muscles, or muscles in form of rings, which serve to close and draw up several orifices of the body, and prevent the excretion of the contents.
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SPHINCTER
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SPHINX, in fabulous history, a monster which had the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog, the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. It sprang from the union of Orthos with the Chimaera, or of Typhon with Echidna. The sphinx had been sent into the neighbourhood of Theb...
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SPHINX
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SPICE, any kind of aromatic drug that has hot and pun gent qualities; such as pepper, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves.
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SPICE
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SPILSBY, a market-town of Lincolnshire, in the hundred of Bolingbroke and the division of Lindsay, thirty-one miles from the city of Lincoln, and 132 from London. It[7:20:536] stands on an eminence, commanding an extensive view to wards the south. It is composed of four streets, uniting at the marketplace, which is a s...
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SPILSBY
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SPINAGE, or Spinach. See Horticulture.
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SPINAGE
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SPINDLE, in Geometry, a solid body generated by the revolution of some curve line about its base or double ordinate; in opposition to a conoid, which is generated by the rotation of the curve about its axis or absciss, perpendicular to its ordinate. The spindle is denominated cir cular, elliptic, hyperbolic, or parabol...
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SPINDLE
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SPINET, or Spinnet, (Ital. Spinetta), an old-fashioned musical instrument, of which the brass and steel wires were struck by quills fixed to the tongues of the jacks that were moved by finger-keys. It was the predecessor of the harpsichord and the pianoforte.
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SPINET
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SPINNING is the art of forming continuous threads by drawing out and twisting together filamentous materials. This was at first a manual art, and was practised in the earliest ages. The simple tool first made use of, consisted of a piece of wood, with its lower extremity of a conical form like a boy’s top, and its uppe...
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SPINOZA, Benedict, was born at Amsterdam the 24th November 1632. His father was a Jew of Portugal, and by profession a merchant. After being taught Latin by a physician, the son applied himself for many years to the study of theology, and afterwards devoted himself entirely to philosophy. He began very early to be diss...
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SPINOZA
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SPIRAL, in Geometry, a curved line of the circular kind, which in its progress recedes from its centre.
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SPIRAL
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SPIRE, or Speyer, a city of Bavaria, in the province of the Rhine, the capital of a canton of the same name. It contains no less than fifteen Catholic and two Lutheran churches, though not more than 740 houses with 3900 in habitants, having greatly declined from its former extent and celebrity. Here the reformers of Ge...
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SPIRE
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SPIRIT, in Metaphysics, an incorporeal being or intelligence; in which sense God is said to be a spirit, as are angels and the human soul. Spirit, in Chemistry and Pharmacy, a name applied to every volatile liquid which is not insipid like phlegm or water; and hence the distinction into acid, alkaline, and vinous spir...
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SPIRIT
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SPLICING, in the sea-language, is the untwisting the ends of two cables or ropes, and working the several strands into one another by a fidd, so that they become as strong as if they were but one rope.
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SPLICING
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SPLUGEN, a village of Switzerland, remarkable from its position as the highest inhabited part of the most ancient road across the Alps, leading into the Austrian part of Italy from the countries through which the river Rhine passes. It is in the canton of the Grisons, and in the bailiwick of Schams. It contains a good ...
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SPLUGEN
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SPOILS, whatever is taken from the enemy in time of war. Among the ancient Greeks, the spoils were divided among the whole army, only the general’s share was the largest; but among the Romans, the spoils belonged to the republic.
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SPOILS
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SPOLANK, a village on the south coast of Java, near to which are hot mineral springs, which raise Fahrenheit’s thermometer to 122°. It is 104 miles south from Samarang.
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SPOLANK
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SPOLETO, one of the delegations into which the do minions of the church in Italy arc divided. It extends over 1401 square miles, contains six cities, fourteen towns, and 204 villages, with 102,053 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, at the foot of a hill, and on a brook which flows to the Maragia. It...
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SPOLETO
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SPONDEE, in ancient poetry, a foot consisting of two long syllables, as omnes.
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SPONDEE
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SPONGIA, Sponge; a genus of animals. It is fixed, flexible, and very torpid, growing in a variety of forms, com posed either of reticulated fibres, or masses of small spines interwoven together, and clothed with a living gelatinous flesh, full of small mouths or holes on its surface, by which it sucks in and throws out...
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SPONGIA
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SPONSORS are those persons who, in the office of baptism, answer or are sureties for the persons baptized.
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SPONSORS
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SPONTANEOUS, a term applied to such motions of the body and operations of the mind as we perform of our selves without any constraint.
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SPOONING, in the sea-language, is said of a ship which, being under sail in a storm at sea, is unable to bear it, and consequently forced to go right before the wind.
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SPOONING
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SPORADES, among ancient astronomers, a name given to such stars as were not included in any constellation.[7:20:548]
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SPORADES
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SPORADIC DISEASES, among physicians, are such as seize particular persons at any time or season, and in any place; in which sense they are distinguished from epidemical and endemical diseases.
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SPORADIC DISEASES
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SPOTSWOOD, John, archbishop of St. Andrews, was descended from the lairds of Spotswood in the county of Berwick, and was born in the year 1565, being the son of John Spotswood, minister of Calder, and one of the super intendents. He was educated in the university of Glasgow, and succeeded his father in the parsonage of...
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SPOTSWOOD
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SPRAT, Thomas, bishop of Rochester, was born in 1636 at Tallaton in Devonshire. He received his education at Oxford, and after the Restoration entered into holy orders. He became fellow of the Royal Society, chaplain to George duke of Buckingham, and chaplain in ordinary to King Charles II. In 1667 he published the His...
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SPRAT
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SPRAY, the sprinkling of the sea, which is driven from the top of a wave in stormy weather. It differs from spoon drift, as being only blown occasionaly from the broken sur face of a high wave; whereas the latter continues to fly horizontally along the sea, without intermission, during the excess of a tempest or hurric...
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SPRAY
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SPRING, in Natural History, a fountain or source of water rising out of the ground. Many have been the conjectures of philosophers concerning the origin of fountains, and great pains have been taken both by the members of the Royal Society and those of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, in order to ascertain the true ca...
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SPRING
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SPRIT, a small boom or pole which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally, from the mast to the upper hindmost corner of the sail, which it is used to extend and elevate; the lower end of the sprit rests in a sort of wreath or collar, called the smotter, which encircles the mast in that place.
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SPRIT
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SPURZHEIM, John Gaspar, the pupil and colleague of Dr. Gall in the elucidation of the structure and functions of the brain, was born near Treves, on the 31st of December 1776. His father, who cultivated a farm in that district, at first intended him for the church; but, after prosecuting his studies with this view, a c...
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SPURZHEIM
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SPY, a person hired to watch the actions, motions, &c. of another; particularly what passes in a camp. When a spy is discovered, he is generally treated without mercy.
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SPY
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SQUADRON, in military affairs, denotes a body of horse whose number of men is not fixed, but is usually from one hundred to two hundred. Squadron of Ships, either implies a detachment of ships employed on any particular expedition, or the third part of a naval armament.
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SQUADRON
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SQUADS, in a military sense, are certain divisions of a company into so many squads, generally into three or four. The use of forming companies into as many squads of inspection as it has serjeants and corporals, is proved by those regiments who have practised that method; as by it the ir regularity of the soldiers is ...
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SQUADS
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SQUALL, a sudden and violent blast of wind, usually occasioned by the interruption and reverberation of the wind from high mountains. These are very frequent in the Mediterranean, particularly that part of it which is known by the name of the Levant, as produced by the repulsion and new direction which the wind meets w...
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SQUALL
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SQUARE, among Mechanics, an instrument consisting of two rules or branches, fastened perpendicularly at one end of their extremities, so as to form a right angle. It is of great use in the description and mensuration of right an gles, and laying down perpendiculars. Square- Rigged, an epithet applied to a ship whose y...
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SQUARE
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SQUARING, or Quadrature of the Circle, signifies the finding a square exactly equal to the area of a given circle. This problem, however, has not been, and probably cannot be, strictly resolved by the commonly admitted principles of geometry; mathematicians having hitherto been unable to do more than to find a square t...
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SQUARING
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SRAVANA BALGUTA, a village of Hindustan, in the northern province of Mysore, celebrated as the principal seat of the Jain worship, which at one time prevailed all over the south of India, but which has now greatly declined, from the influence of the Brahmins. There arc two hills adjoining the town, on one of which, nam...
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SRAVANA BALGUTA
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SRI MUTTRA, a considerable town of Hindustan, pro vince of Agra. It is situated on a naked rock of red gra nite, of which material all the houses are constructed. The streets are very narrow, and the working of the red stone into slabs furnishes employment to the greater part of the inhabitants. Long. 77. 20. E. Lat. 2...
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SRI MUTTRA
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SRI PERMATURA, a town of the south of India, in the province of the Carnatic, celebrated as the birthplace of Rama Anuja Acharya, the great Brahmin saint and re former, and the founder of a sect. He preached successfully against the doctrines of the Joins and the Boodhists. Long. 80. 2. E. Lat. 12. 59. N.
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SRI PERMATURA
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STABAT MATER, a musical composition upon the La tin text of a sacred cantata, beginning with these words. Pergolesi, Jomelli, and Haydn, have each set these words to music in an admirable manner.
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STABAT MATER
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STADE, a town of the kingdom of Hanover, in the pro vince of Bremen, of which province it is the capital. It stands on the river Schwinge, which falls into the Elbe about one mile below the town, whence large vessels must load and discharge by the aid of river craft. Stade, which was once fortified, contains the provin...
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STADE
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STADIUM, an ancient Greek measure, containing 125 geometrical paces, or 625 Roman feet, corresponding to our furlong. The Greeks usually measured distances by stadia, which they called σταδιασμος. Stadium also signified the course on which their races were run.
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STADIUM
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STADTHOLDER, formerly the principaI magistrate or governor of the Seven United Provinces. This office is now abolished, and that of king substituted.
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STADTHOLDER
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STAFF, an instrument ordinarily used to rest on in walking. The staff is also frequently used as a kind of natural weapon, both of offence and defence, and for several other purposes. Staff , a light pole erected in different parts of a ship, for hoisting the colours. Staff in Music, five lines, on which, with the in...
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STAFF
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STAFFA, one of the Hebrides or Western Islands of Scotland, remarkable for its basaltic pillars. It was visited by Sir Joseph Banks, who communicated the following ac count of it to Mr. Pennant: “The little island of Staffa lies on the west coast of Mull, about three leagues north-east from Iona, or Icolumbkill: its gr...
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STAFFA
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STAFFORD, the county town of Staffordshire, is 135 miles from London. It consists of two parishes, and returns two members to Parliament. It stands on the river Sow, and was once fortified. It is now well built. The principal buildings are the assize hall, the county jail, and the infirmary. It has a good free-school, ...
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STAFFORD
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STAFFORDSHIRE, an inland English county of an oblong form. Its greatest length from northeast to southwest is about sixty, and its greatest breadth about thirty eight, miles. It contains 1148 statute square miles, or 734,720 acres. It is bounded on the north by Cheshire, west by Shropshire, south by Worcester and Warwi...
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STAFFORDSHIRE
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STAGE, in the modern drama, the place of action and representation, included between the pit and the scenes, and answering to the proscenium or pulpitum of the an cients. See Playhouse and Τηεατrε.
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STAGE
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STAHL, George Ernest, an eminent German chemist, was born at Anspach, on the 21st of October 1660, and chosen professor of medicine at Halle, when a university was found ed in that city in 1694. The excellency of his lectures while he filled that chair, the importance of his various publications, and his extensive prac...
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STAHL
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STAINDROP, a town of Darlington ward in the county of Durham, 246 miles from London. It had once a market, which of late years has been disused. Near to it is the splendid mansion of the Duke of Cleveland, Raby Castle, built by John de Neville in 1378. The inhabitants of the town were, in 1801, 1156; in 1811, 1087; in ...
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STAINDROP
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STAINES, a town in the hundred of Spelthorne and county of Middlesex, seventeen miles from London. It is on the left bank of the Thames, over which a stone bridge has recently been erected. Just above the bridge is the termination of the boundary of the London corporation on the river, marked by a stone, formerly by st...
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STAINES
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STAIRCASE, in Architecture, an ascent inclosed be tween walls, or a balustrade consisting of stairs or steps, with landing places and rails, serving to make a communication between the several storeys of a house. See Architecture.
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STAIRCASE
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STALACTITES, in Mineralogy, crystalline spars forra ed into oblong, conical, round, or irregular bodies, composed of various crusts, and usually found hanging in form of icicles from the roofs of grottoes, &c.
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STALACTITES
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STALBRIDGE, a town of the hundred of Brownshall and the division of Sherborne, in the county of Dorset, 112 miles from London. It has some trade in making stockings, and much good stone is found near to it The market is on Tuesday, but thinly attended. The inhabi tants were, in 1801, 1254; in 1811, 1421; in 1821, 1571;...
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STALBRIDGE
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STALE, among sportsmen, a living fowl put in a place to allure and bring others where they may be token. For want of these, a bird shot, his entrails taken out, and dried in an oven in his feathers, with a stick thrust through to keep it in a convenient posture, may serve as well as a live fowl.
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STALE
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STAMFORD, a town of Lincolnshire, in the hundreds of Ness and of Kesteven. It is eighty-five miles from Lon don, on the river Willand, which divides Lincolnshire from Northamptonshire; and one of the parishes of the town, St. Martin’s, is in the latter county, and called the outparish. There are five parish churches, s...
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STAMFORD
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STAMINA, in Botany, are those upright filaments which, on opening a flower, we find within the corolla surrounding the pistillum. According to Linnaeus, they are the male organs of generation, whose office it is to prepare the pollen. Each stamen consists of two distinct parts, viz. the filamentum and the anthera. Sta...
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STAMINA
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STAMPHALIA, one of the islands of Greece, in the Archipelago, about twenty-seven square miles in extent. The surface consists of a single bare mountain, from which numerous springs issue, that render the lower parts capable of cultivation, and some spots are highly fertile. It contains about 800 inhabitants, who raise ...
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STAMPHALIA
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STANCHIONS, a sort of small pillars of wood or iron, used for various purposes in a ship, as to support the decks, the quarter-rails, the nettings, the awnings, &c. The first of those are two ranges of small columns fixed under the beams, throughout the ship’s length between decks; one range being on the starboard and ...
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STANCHIONS
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STANDON, a town in the hundred of Braughen and county of Hertford, twenty-seven miles from London. It is on the river Kib, on the ancient Roman road, called Er mine Street. The parish church has an ancient altar, raised nearly ten feet above the level of the floor. On Friday there is a market, tolerably well attended. ...
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STANDON
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STANDRA, a village of Asiatic Turkey, on the western coast of Anatolia. Long. 27. 18. E. Lat. 36. 54. W.
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STANDRA
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STANHOPE, Phillip Dormer, the fourth Earl. of Chesterfield, was born at London, on the 22d of September 1694. He was the son of Philip, the third earl, by his wife, Lady Elizabeth Savile, daughter of George, marquis of Halifax. At the age of eighteen he was sent to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he studied assiduously,...
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STANISLAS Leckzinski, king of Poland, was born at[7:20:562] Lemberg, the capital of Red Russia, on the 20th of October 1677. His father was a Polish nobleman, distinguished by his rank and the important offices which he held, but still more by his firmness and courage. In 1704 Stanislas was sent ambassador, by the Asse...
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STANISLAWOW, a circle of the Austrian principality of Gallicia, extending over 1495 square miles. It comprises five cities, thirteen market towns, and 264 villages, with 186,400 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, between two branches of the river Wistrica. It is well built, and contains Catholic, Gr...
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STANLEY, Thomas, a very learned writer, was the son of Sir Thomas Stanley of Laytonstone in Essex, and Cumberlow in Hertfordshire, by his second wife Mary, the daughter of Sir William Hammond of St. Alban’s-court. He was descended from a natural son of Edward earl of Derby. He was born in the year 1625, and received a ...
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STANNARIES, the mines and works where tin is dug and purified; as in Cornwall, Devonshire, &c.
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STANNARY Courts, in Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners. They are held before the lord-warden and his substitutes, by virtue of a privilege granted to the workers in the tin mines there, to sue and be sued only in their own courts, that they may not be drawn from their business,...
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STANOVOI, a chain of mountains in Astatic Russia, forming a part of the great northern chain which crosses the breadth of that continent. It is of considerable height, and continues uninterrupted, though with some diminution of magnitude, to Cape Tchontchi, at the northeastern extremity of Asia; and the Aleutian and Fo...
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STANSTEAD, a town in the hundred of Braughen, and county of Hertford, sixteen miles from London. It stands in a valley near the river Lea, two miles from Hoddesdon. ln this parish is the Ryehouse, remarkable for the suppos ed plot in the reign of Charles the Second, for the assassination of that monarch. The population...
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STANZA, in Poetry., a number of lines regularly ad justed to each other; so much of a poem as contains every variation of measure or relation of rhyme used in that poem.
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STAPLE primarily signifies a public place or market, whither merchants, &c. are obliged to bring their goods to be bought by the people. The merchants of England were formerly obliged to carry their wool, cloth, lead, and other like staple commodities of this realm, in order to expose them by wholesale; and these stapl...
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STAPLE
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STAR, in Astronomy, a general name for all the heavenly bodies, which, like so many brilliant studs, are dispersed throughout the whole heavens. The stars are distinguished, from the phenomena of their motion, &c., into fixed, and erratic or wandering stars. These last are again distinguished into the greater luminarie...
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STARAJA-RUSSA, a city of Russia in the province of Moscow and government of Novogorod, the capital of a circle of the same name. It is 206 miles from Petersburg, on the river Polesta. lt is an ill-built place, containing 1048 houses, many of them of wood, and 6200 inhabitants. There is a copious brine spring, from whic...
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STARCH, a fecula or sediment, found at the bottom of vessels in which wheat has been steeped in water. Of this fecula, after separating the bran from it, by passing it through sieves, they form a kind of loaves, which being dried in the sun or an oven, is afterwards cut into little pieces, and so sold. The best starch ...
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STARGARD, a city of the Prussian province of Pomerania in the government of Stettin, the capital of the circle of Saalzig. It stands on the navigable river Ihna, in a fertile district, is surrounded with walls, and contains 1164 houses, with 9050 inhabitants, who are employed in making linen and woollen goods, hosiery,...
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STARITZA, a town of Russia, in the province of Mos cow and government of Twer. It is the capital of a circle of the same name, containing seventy-seven parishes, with 83,800 inhabitants. It is 378 miles from Petersburg, and stands on the river Wolga, where the river Staritza joins that stream. It contains six churches,...
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STARK, William, was born at Manchester in the month of July 1740; but the family from which he sprang was Scotish, and respectable for its antiquity. One of his uncles, John Stark, was minister of Lecropt in Perthshire; and it was under the care of this gentleman that he receiv ed the rudiments of his education, which,...
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STARKENBURG, a province of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, in Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, in contact with Nassau on the north, with Hesse Casel on the north east, with Bavaria on the east, with Baden on the south, and on the west with the Darmstadt dominions to the west of the Rhine. It ...
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STARLINGS, or Sterlings, the name given to the strong pieces of timber which were driven into the bed of the river to protect the piles, on the top of which were laid the flat beams upon which were built the bases of the stone piers that support the arches of London bridge. In general, starlings are large piles placed ...
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STATES, or Estates, a term applied to several orders or classes of people assembled to consult of matters for the public good.
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