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STRATFORD, sometimes distinguished by the name Long Stratford, or Stratford le Bow. It is the first town in the county of Essex, on the road from London, and, being connected with Middlesex by a bridge, said to be the oldest in England, over the river Lea, may be considered a suburb of the metropolis. It is in the hund...
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STRATFORD
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STRATH, in the Scotish language, signifies a long narrow valley, along the centre of a river.
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STRATH
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STRATHAVEN, a town in Lanarkshire, Scotland, sixteen miles from Glasgow. It is pleasantly situated at the end of a ridge of small eminences, on the banks of the Pomilion, which runs through it, and divides it into two parts. The original part of the town is old, as is shown by its being erected into a borough of barony...
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STRATHAVEN
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STRATHMIGLO, a parish in Fifeshire, Scotland. In it is situated the borough of barony of the same name, erected into such in the year 1690, consisting principally of an irregular street, with lanes diverging from it at right angles, and having in the middle a town-house, with a neat tower and spire seventy feet in heig...
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STRATHMIGLO
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STRATHMORE, or the Great Strath, is that district of Scotland which stretches across from the town of Stonehaven in Kincardineshire, on the east coast, to the district of Cowal in Argyleshire, on the west coast. The chain of the Grampian Mountains bounds it on the north, and the Sidlaw, Ochill, and Menteith or Lennox r...
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STRATHMORE
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STRATHSPEY is the vale of the river Spey, which runs through part of the counties of Inverness and Elgin.
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STRATHSPEY
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STRATO, a philosopher of Lampsacus, disciple and successor in the school of Theophrastus, about 248 years before the Christian era He applied himself with uncommon industry to the study of nature; and after the must ' mature investigations, he supported that nature was inanimate, and that there was no god but nature. H...
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STRATO
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STRATON, a town of Cornwall, in the hundred of its own name, 224 miles from London. It has a market on Tuesday and another on Saturday, though both are little frequented. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 960, in 1811 to 1094, in 1821 to 1580, and in 1831 to 1613.
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STRATON
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STRAUBING, a town of the kingdom of Bavaria, in the circle of the Lower Danube, the capital of the bailiwick of the same name. It is finely situated on the bunks of the Danube, over which is a fine bridge. It contains seven churches, four hospitals, a gymnasium and several other schools, 760 houses, and 6800 inhabitant...
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STRAUBING
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STREATHAM, a town in the hundred of Brixton and county of Surrey, five miles from London, on the road to Croydon. The hamlet of Tooting is considered as a portion of it. Streatham is pleasantly situated, and contains many magnificent houses. Among others is one belonging to the duke of Bedford. The church is very neat,...
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STREATHAM
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STRENGTH OF MATERIALS, In Mechanics, is a subject of so much importance, that in a nation so eminent as this for invention and ingenuity in every species of manufacture, and in particular so distinguished for its improvements in machinery of every kind, it is somewhat singular that no writer has treated it in the detai...
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STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
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STRETCHING, in Navigation, is generally understood to imply the progression of a ship under a great surface of sail, when close-hauled.
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STRETCHING
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STRETTA (Ital.), a musical term, often applied to the last allegro of a finale, &c. in an opera. It signifies also a kind of peroration or winding up of a piece of music, particularly of a fugue. See Music .
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STRETTA
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STRETTO, or più Stretto (Ital.), indicates an acceleration of the time of a piece of music.
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STRETTO
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STRIATED Leaf, among botanists, one that has a number of longitudinal furrows on its surface.
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STRIATED
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STRIKE, a measure of capacity, containing four bushels. Also an instrument used in measuring corn.
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STRIKE
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STROMBOLI, the most northern island of the Lipari group, in the Mediterranean, being a part of the kingdom of Naples. It was known to the ancients by the name of Strongyle; a name implying a conical mountain with an irregular base. The mountain is bifurcated, upwards of 2000 feet in height, and about nine miles in circ...
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STROMBOLI
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STROMNESS, a town in the parish of the same name in the island of Pomona, Orkney, in long. 3. 38. W. and lat. 58. 58. N. The town is situated on the western side of the island, and was formerly an insignificant village, dependent on the borough of Kirkwall, which kept it completely under; but by a decision of the House...
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58 58' N 3 38' W
STROMNESS
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STROPHE, in ancient poetry, a certain number of verses, including a perfect sense, and making the first part of an ode.
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STROPHE
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STROUD, a town of the hundred of Shamwell, in the lathe of Aylesford and county of Kent, twenty-nine miles from London. It stands on the river Medway, over which is a bridge connecting it with Rochester, so as in appearance to make it merely a suburb to that city. It consists of a single long street. The church is a fi...
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STROUD
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STRYPE, John, a most industrious and meritorious labourer in the department of ecclesiastical and literary history, was born at Stepney on the first of November 1643. His father, John van Stryp, was a native of Brabant, and sought refuge in England on account of his religion. He was a merchant and silk-thrower. The son...
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STRYPE
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STUART, Gilbert, an eminent jurist and historian, was born at Edinburgh in the year 1742. His father, George Stuart, LL. D., had succeeded John Ker as professor of humanity during the preceding year. According to the tradition of the university, he was an excellent Latinist, but of his proficiency he has left no public...
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STUART
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STUD, in the manège, a collection of breeding horses and mares.
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STUD
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STUDY (Ital. Studio), a piece of instrumental music composed for the purpose of familiarizing the player with some of the difficulties of his instrument. Thus we have studies for the violin by Fiorillo, Kreuzer, Rode, Spohr, Paganini; and for the pianoforte by Clementi, Cramer, Kalkbretmer, and others.
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STUDY
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STUDDING-SAILS, certain light sails, extended, in moderate and steady breezes, beyond the skirts of the principal sails, where they appear as wings upon the yardarms.
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STUDDING-SAILS
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STUFF, in commerce, a genera] name for all kinds of fabrics of gold, silver, silk, wool, hair, cotton, or thread, manufactured on the loom; of which number are velvets, brocades, mohairs, satins, taffetas, cloths, serges, &c.
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STUFF
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STUHLWEISSENBURG, a city of the kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Farther Danube, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands in a marshy situation on the river Sarvitz, is the seat of a Catholic bishop, and of several inferior courts of judicature. Besides a cathedral, it has several Catholic churches...
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47 11' 34" N 18 10' 25" E
STUHLWEISSENBURG
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STUKELEY, William, an eminent antiquary, descended from an ancient family in Lincolnshire, was born at Holbech in that county, on the 7th of November 1687. From the free school of his native town he was removed to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was admitted on the 7th of November 1703. Having chosen the me...
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STUKELEY
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STUPOR, a numbness in any part of the body, whether occasioned by ligatures obstructing the blood’s motion, by the palsy, or the like.
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STUPOR
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STURM, John, better known by the name of Sturmius, a learned philologer and rhetorician, was born at Schleiden in Eissel, near Cologne, on the 1st of October 1507. He studied at first in his native country with the sons of Count von Manderscheid, whose receiver his father was. He afterwards pursued his study at Liege, ...
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STURM
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STURMINSTER-MARSHAL, a town of the hundred of Cogdean and county of Dorset, 104 miles from London. It has a large church, and had formerly a market, which has of late years been disused. It stands on the river Stour. The number of inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 604, in 1811 to 662, in 1821 to 715, and in 1831 to 803.
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STURMINSTER-MARSHAL
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STURMINSTER-NEWTON, a town in the hundred of the same name in the county of Dorset, 111 miles from London. It stands on the river Stour, and had once a considerable trade in making flannels, baize, and blankets; but of late it has declined. The buildings are indifferent, but it has a fine church, lately repaired. The m...
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STURMINSTER-NEWTON
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STUTTGART, the capital of the kingdom of Wirtemberg, stands in a beautiful valley, and is surrounded on every side with hills of very moderate elevation, which are clothed to the tops with vineyards. The valley is watered by a clear and rapid but not copious river, which meanders through the walks at the extremity of t...
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46 48' 32" N 9 5' 33" E
STUTTGART
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STYLE, a word of various significations, originally deduced from stylos, a kind of bodkin wherewith the ancients wrote on plates of lead, or on wax, &c. and which is still used to write on ivory leaves and paper prepared for that purpose. Style, in language, is the peculiar manner in which a man expresses his concepti...
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STYLE
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STYLITES, Pillar Saints, in Ecclesiastical History, an appellation given to a kind of solitaries, who stood motionless upon the tops of pillars raised for this exercise of their patience, and remained there for several years, amidst the admiration and applause of the stupid populace. Of these we find several mentioned ...
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STYLITES
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STYX, in Fabulous History, a river of hell, round which it flows nine times. The gods held the waters of the Styx in such veneration, that to swear by them was reckoned an oath altogether inviolable. If any of the gods had perjured themselves, Jupiter obliged them to drink the waters of the Styx, which lulled them for ...
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STYX
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SUAKIN. a seaport town of Nubia, situated on the western coast of the Red Sea, was formerly a place of great wealth and importance, but has long been in a declining state, and is now almost in ruins. Snakin looks better when seen at a distance than on a nearer view; the buildings all white-washed and on an elevated sit...
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19 48' N 37 33' E
SUAKIN
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SUΛN, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, district of Rotas. It is twenty-five miles south-east from Patna. Long. 86. 25. E. Lat. 25. 16. N.
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25 16' N 86 25' E
SUΛN
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SUAREZ, Francis, a renowned Jesuit, was born at Grenada on the 5th of January 1548. He belonged to a noble family, and was sent to prosecute the study of law in the university of Salamanca; but when he had finished his course, he was induced to change his destination, and assume the habit of St Ignatius. He at first ex...
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SUAREZ
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SUBAH, the general name of the viceroyships, or greater governments, into which the Mogul empire was divided, consisting of several provinces: the jurisdiction of a subahdar, the same as subahship, subaedaree, or nizamut.
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SUBAH
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SUBAHDAR, the viceroy, lord-lieutenant, or governor, holding a subah; the same as nabob or nazim. Also the black commander of a company of sepoys.
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SUBAHDAR
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SUBALTERN, a subordinate officer, or one who discharges his post under the command and subject to the direction of another; stich are lieutenants, sub-lieutenants, cornets, and ensigns, who serve under the captain.
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SUBALTERN
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SUBARKAN, a village of Diarbekir, in Asiatic Turkey, on the Euphrates, seventy-five miles east-south-east of Ker-kesich.
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SUBARKAN
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SUBBULGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra. It is surrounded by a high stone wall in good repair, with a number of bastions; but has few cannon mounted. On one side of the fort is a deep precipice. The country in the vicinity is well cultivated. It is sixty-five miles south-west from the city of Agra. Long...
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SUBBULGUR
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SUBDEACON, an inferior minister, who anciently attended at the altar, prepared the sacred vessels, delivered them to the deacons in time of divine service, attended the doors of the church during communion service, and went on the bishop’s embassies with his letters or messages to foreign churches. They were so subordi...
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SUBDEACON
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SUBDOMINANT, in Music. See Music.
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SUBDOMINANT
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SUBDUPLE Ratio is when any number or quantity is contained in another twice. Thus 3 is said to be subduple of 6 as 6 is duple of 3.
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SUBDUPLE
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SUBDUPLICATE Ratio of any two quantities, is the ratio of their square roots.[7:20:787]
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SUBDUPLICATE
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SUBJECT, in Music. See Music .
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SUBJECT
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SUBITO, in the Italian music, is used to signify that a tiling is to be performed quickly and hastily; thus we meet with volti subito, turn over the leaf quickly.
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SUBITO
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SUBLIMATE, a chemical preparation, consisting of quicksilver united with muriatic acid.
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SUBLIMATE
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SUBLIMATION, in Chemistry, the condensing and collecting, in a solid form, by means of vessels aptly constructed, the fumes of bodies raised from them by the application of a proper heat.
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SUBLIMATION
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SUBMULTIPLE, in Geometry, &c. A submultiple number or quantity is that which is contained a certain number of times in another, and which, therefore, repeated a certain number of times, becomes exactly equal thereto. Thus 3 is a submultiple of 21. In this sense a submultiple coincides with an aliquot part. Submultiple...
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SUBMULTIPLE
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SUBPOENA, in Law, a writ by which persons are called into chancery, in cases where the common law has provided an ordinary remedy; and the name of it proceeds from the words therein, which charge the party called to appear at the day and place affirmed, “sub pcεna centum librarum,” &c.
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SUBPOENA
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SUBREPTITIOUS, or Surreptitious, a term applied to a letter, license, patent, or other act, fraudulently obtained of a superior, by concealing some truth which, had it been known, would have prevented the concession or grant.
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SUBREPTITIOUS
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SUBROGATION, or Subrogation, in the civil law, the act of substituting a person in the place, and entitling him to the rights, of another. In its general sense, subrogation implies a succession of any kind, whether of a person to a person, or of a person to a thing.
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SUBROGATION
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SUBROY, a small town of Hindustan, province of Cutch, on the Gulf of Cutch, from which place it is distant twenty-three miles to the north. This town stands on a rising ground on the road from Luckput Bunder to Mundavie, and is defended by a castle. It is populous and flourishing, and the surrounding country is tolerab...
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SUBROY
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SUBSTRACTION, or Subtraction, in Arithmetic, the second rule, or rather operation, in arithmetic, whereby we deduct a less number from a greater, to learn their precise difference.
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SUBSTRACTION
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SUBTANGENT of a Curve, the line that determines the intersection of a tangent with the axis, or that determines the point wherein the tangent cuts the axis prolonged.
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SUBTANGENT
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SUBTENSE, formed from sub, under, and tendo, I stretch, in Geometry, a right line which is opposite to an angle, and drawn between the two extremities of the arc which measures that angle.
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SUBTENSE
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SUBUNREEKA, a river of Hindustan, which has its source in the province of Bahar, district of Chuta Nagpeor, whence it flows in a south-easterly direction, and after a winding course of 250 miles falls into the Bay of Bengal. It is fordable except in the rainy season. It was the first river of Bengal into which European...
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SUBUNREEKA
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SUCCADANA, a town on the west coast of the island of Borneo. It is situated on the principal or southern outlet of a large river, which is navigable 150 miles for prows. It is celebrated for very large diamonds, and also for the best camphire; and is a considerable mart for opium, the sale of which is monopolized by th...
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SUCCADANA
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SUCCULA, in Mechanics, an axis or cylinder with staves in it to move it round, but without any tympanum or pc-ritrochium.
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SUCCULA
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SUCKLING, Sir John, an English poet and dramatist, was the son of Sir John Suckling, comptroller of the household to King Charles I. anti was born in the year 1608-9. He is supposed to have been born at Twickenham, as it appears from the parish-register that he was baptized there on the 10th of February. He discovered ...
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SUCKLING
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SUCKUT, a small town and district of Hindustan, province of Lahore, intersected by the Beyah river, belonging to the Sikhs. Long. 75. 45. E. Lot. 32. 41. N.
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SUCKUT
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SUCTASGUR, a town and fortress of Hindustan, province of Allahabad. The fortifications were formerly more considerable, and defended the passes of the western hills. They are now neglected. It is the capital of a small district, which was included in the collectorship of Benares. It is fourteen miles south of the fortr...
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SUCTASGUR
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SUDASHYGUR, a fortress of Hindustan, on the western shore of the province of Canara. It is situated on a high point of land, and being remarkably white, is a conspicuous point from the sea. It commands the entrance of the Aliga river.
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SUDASHYGUR
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SUDATORY, a name given by the ancient Romans to their hot or sweating-rooms; sometimes also called Laconica.
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SUDATORY
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SUDBURY, a town in the hundred of Babergh and county of Suffolk, fifty-six miles from London. It stands on the river Stour, which divides it from Essex, and is navigable to the sea by Manningtree. The town comprises three parishes, with each a church, and is tolerably well built. It was one of the earliest seats of the...
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SUDBURY
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SUECA, a city of Spain, in the province of Valencia, and government of Alcira. It stands on the banks of the river Xucar, in a marshy soil, which, though not very favourable to health, is well adapted for the growth of rice, which is here cultivated to a great extent. In the town there is a church, with a monastery and...
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SUECA
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SUEN-HOA, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Pe-che-)ee, situated among the mountains near the great wall. It is a populous place, well built, and distinguished by the beauty of its streets. The district includes a considerable number of forts destined to defend the great northern barrier of the emp...
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SUEN-HOA
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SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius, a Latin historian, was the son of Suetonius Lenis, who became a military tribune in the reign of the emperor Otho. The son is supposed to have been born about the beginning of the reign of Vespasian. Having betaken himself to the practice of the law, he appears to have acquired reputation ...
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SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS
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SUEVI, a common name of the people situated between the Elbe and the Vistula, distinguished otherwise by particular names.
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SUEVI
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SUEVUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Germany, thought to be the same with the Viadrus or Oder, emptying itself at three mouths into the Baltic, the middlemost of which is called Swine or Swene, which last comes near the name Suevus.
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SUEVUS
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SUEZ, a seaport situated at the northern extremity of the gulf of the same name. It is so incommodious that small boats can with difficulty land at the quay even at high water The town is in a ruinous state, walled on the west and southwest; but the wall is rapidly falling to decay. The population only consists of abou...
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SUEZ
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SUFFOLK, an English maritime county, on the borders of the German Ocean. It is bounded on the east by the sea; on the south by Essex, from which it is divided by the river Stour; on the west by Cambridgeshire; and on the north by Norfolk. Its medium length from east to west is forty-seven miles, and its breadth from no...
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SUFFOLK
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SUFFRAGAN, an appellation given to simple bishops with regard to archbishops, ou whom they depend, and to whom appeals lie from the bishops’ courts. The same name is likewise given to a bishop who is occasionally appointed to assist the diocesan.
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SUFFRAGAN
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SUFFRAGE denotes a vote given in an assembly where something is deliberated on, or where a person is elected to an office or benefice.
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SUFFRAGE
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SUGAR, a solid sweet substance, obtained from the juice of the sugar-cane; or, according to chemists, an essential salt, capable of crystallization, of a sweet and agreeable flavour, and contained in a greater or less quantity in almost every species of vegetables, but most abundant in the sugar-cane. As the sugar-can...
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SUGAR
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SUGAT, a town of Asia Minor, in the pachalic of Bursa, supposed to be on the site of the ancient Tottarium. The houses arc generally built of mud and wood, two stories high, with projecting verandahs, and roofed with common red tile. It is remarkable for the tomb of Ali Osman, held in high respect by the natives.
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SUGAT
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SUGGOWLY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, district of Bettiah. It is situated on the Boora Gunduck river, and it carries on a considerable trade in timber, floated down from the northern hills. Long. 85. 5. £. Lat 26. 43. N.
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SUGGOWLY
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SUIATOI Nos, or Holy Cape, a cape of Asiatic Russia, in the province of Irkoutsk, between the rivers Yana and Indigirka, on the coast of the Frozen Ocean. Long. 39.30. E. Lat. 68. 30. N.
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SUIATOI
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SUICIDE, the crime of self-murder, or the person who commits it. We have often wished to see a history of crimes drawn up by a man of ability and research. In this history we would propose that the author should describe the crimes peculiar to different nations in the different stages of society, and the changes which ...
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SUICIDE
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SUIDAS, a Greek lexicorapher, is supposed by Fabricius to have lived during the latter part of the eleventh century; but other writers are disposed to believe that he must have belonged to a more recent period. His country and his personal history arc alike unknown. From authors of various denominations he compiled an ...
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SUIDAS
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SUIT, in Law, the same with action. The Romans, at an early period, introduced set forms for actions into their law, after the example of the Greeks; and made it a rule, that each injury should be redressed by its proper remedy only. “Actiones (say the Pandects) composite sunt, quibus inter se homines disceptarent, qua...
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SUIT
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SUKANA, or Sukna, a village of the Syrian desert, near which is a warm sulphureous spring, 140 miles south-southeast of Aleppo.
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SUKANA
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SUK el Harf, a town of Yemen, in Arabia, twenty-eight miles south-south-east of Saade.
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SUK
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SUKI, a town of Anatolia, in Asiatic Turkey, governed by an aga. It is twelve miles north-north-east of Milets.
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SUKI
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SULIAGO, or Suriago, a chain of small islands in the Pacific Ocean, extending about ninety miles in length by[7:20:800] twelve in breadth. Long. 125. 27. to 128. 30. E. Lat. 9. 24. to 10. 32. N. The largest, from which the others derive their name, is twenty miles in circumference, and is twenty miles north-north-east ...
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SULIAGO
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SULLY, Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of, was born at Rosny on the 13th of December 1560, and died at Villebon on the 22d of December 1640. His name is so conspicuous in the public annals of France, that a mere outline of his personal history would require an ample allotment of space. He participated in the fortunes of He...
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SULLY
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SULPHUR Island, an island in the North Pacific Ocean, discovered by Captain Gore in 1779, about five miles long. Long. 141. 12. E. Lat. 24. 48. N.
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SULPHUR
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SULPICIA, a Roman poetess, who lived under the reign of Domitian, and has been so much admired as to be termed the Roman Sappho. We have nothing, however, left of her writings but a satire, or rather the fragment of one, against Domitian, who published a decree for the banishment of philosophers from Rome. This satire ...
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SULPICIA
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SULPITIUS Severus, an ecclesiastical writer, was born in Aquitania about the year 363. His father was a man of superior rank. Having received a suitable education, the son applied himself to the practice of the law, and distinguished himself by his learning and eloquence. He married a rich wife, and was thus placed in ...
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SULPITIUS
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SULTAN, or Soldan, a title or appellation given to the emperor of the Turks.
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SULTAN
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SULTANHISSAR, a village of Anatolia, in Asiatic Turkey, situated near the remains of the ancient Greek city of Tralles, and twenty-three miles east of Scalanova. On the top of an adjacent hill are found traces of some ancient buildings, particularly a temple and a theatre, with fifty rows of seats. Some remains of a ma...
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SULTANHISSAR
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SULTANPORE, a town of Hindustan, province of Lahore, belonging to the Sikhs. Long. 74. 45. E. Lat. 31. 18. N. 2. A town in the province of Oude, pleasantly situated on the eastern bank of the Goompty river, seventy-eight miles south east from Lucknow. Long. 82. 3. E. Lat. 26. 18. N. 3. A town in the Afghan territories,...
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SULTANPORE
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SULZER, John George, a philosophical writer of distinction, was born at Winterthur, in the canton of Zurich, on the 16th of October 1720. He was the youngest of twenty-five children. At the age of sixteen, when he went to the university of Zürich, he had not the smallest notion of the sciences or of elegant literature,...
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SULZER
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SUMATRA, a large island in the Eastern Seas, the most western of that great chain of islands which extends in the eastern ocean from the coasts of New Holland and New Guinea to the coast of China on the east, and westward to the Malayan peninsula. The equator divides it into two parts almost equal. It may be estimated ...
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SUMATRA
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SUMAUN, a town of Hindustan, province of Agra. It is twenty-eight miles north-north-east from the town of Etaweh. Long. 79. 5. E. Lat. 27. 6. N.
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27 6' N 79 5' E
SUMAUN
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SUMBAWA, a large island in the Eastern Seas, about 180 miles in length by forty in average breadth. It is situated between the eighth and ninth degrees of south latitude, and is separated from Lombhook by the Straits of Allass. It is almost divided into two equal parts by a deep bay, which indents it in the middle. Thi...
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SUMBAWA