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kp-eb0721-005407-0072 | SYNCHRONISM denotes the happening of several things at the same time. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005408-0072 | SYNCOPATION, in Music. See Slur. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005409-0072 | SYNCOPE, Fainting; a deep and sudden swooning, during which the vital functions are suspended.
Syncope, in Grammar, an elision or retrenchment of a letter or syllable out of the middle of a word, as caldus for calidus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005410-0072 | SYNDIC, an officer, in divers countries, intrusted with the affairs of a city or other community, who calls meetings, makes representations and solicitations to the ministry, magistracy, &c. according to the exigency of the case. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005411-0072 | SYNECDOCHE, in Rhetoric, a kind of trope frequent among orators and poets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005412-0072 | SYNECPHONESIS, in Grammar, a coalition, by which two syllables are pronounced as one; being much the same as Synaloepha and Synaeresis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005413-0072 | SYNOD, in Astronomy, a conjunction or concourse of two or more stars or planets, in the same optical place of the heavens.
Synod signifies also a meeting or assembly of ecclesiastical persons to consult on matters of religion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005414-0072 | SYNODALS, or Synodies, were pecuniary rents (commonly of two shillings), paid to the bishop, or archdeacon, at the time of their Easter visitation, by every parish priest. They were thus called, because usually paid in synods. For the same reason, they are sometimes also denominated sy-nodalica; but more usually, procu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005415-0072 | SYNODICAL, something belonging to a synod. Thus, synodical epistles are circular letters written by the synods to the absent prelates and churches; or even those general ones directed to all the faithful, to inform them of what had passed in the synod. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005416-0072 | SYNOECIA, in Grecian antiquity, a feast celebrated at Athens in memory of Theseus’s having united all the petty communities of Attica into one single commonwealth, the seat of which was at Athens, where all the assemblies were to be held. This feast was dedicated to Minerva; and, according to the scholiast on Thucydide... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005417-0072 | SYNONYMOUS is applied to a word or term that has the same import or signification with another. Several works have been composed for the express purpose of explaining synonymous words. In 1777 a work was published on the Latin synonymes at Paris by M. Gardin Dumesnil. The Abbé Girard published one on the synonymous ter... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005418-0072 | SYNTAX, in Grammar, the proper construction or due disposition of the words of a language into sentences and phrases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005419-0072 | SYNTHESIS, in Logic, denotes a branch of method, opposite to analysis. In the synthesis or synthetic method, we pursue the truth by reasons drawn from principles before established or assumed, and propositions formerly proved;[7:21:55] thus proceeding by a regular chain, till we come to the conclusion. Such is the meth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005501-0073 | SYRA, an island in the Grecian archipelago, classed among the Cyclades, anciently called Syros. The south-west point of the island is north-east from Serpho-Poulo about five leagues, and the summit of its high land, which is towards the east, is in longitude 24° 55' 13" east, and latitude 37° 28' 56" north. It is three... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005502-0073 | SYRACUSE, a celebrated city of Sicily, and once the capital of the island. According to Thucydides and Strabo, it was built by Archias, one of the Heraclidae, who came from Corinth into Sicily in the second year of the 11 th Olympiad, and derived its name from a neighbouring marsh named Sgraco. What form of government ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005901-0077 | SYRIA, a beautiful and extensive country of Asia, extending along the shore of the Mediterranean, is estimated to be 200 miles in length, and 100 in breadth. It is bounded on the west by the Mediterranean, and is divided from Asia Minor on the north by Mount Taurus and its branches; while on the east it has a vast and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006501-0083 | SYRIAM, a town of the Birman empire, in the province of Pegu, on the banks of the Appoo river, where were formerly situated several factories of the Europeans. The British factory was destroyed during the wars between the Birmans and the Peguers. Long. 96. 17. E. Lat. 16. 49. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 49' N 96 17' E | SYRIAM |
kp-eb0721-006502-0083 | SYRINGE, a well-known instrument, serving to imbibe or suck in a quantity of fluid, and to squirt or expel the same with violence. The word is formed from the Greek συϑιγξ , a pipe. A syringe is only a single pump, and the water ascends in it on the same principle as in the common sucking-pump. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006503-0083 | SYSTEM, in general, denotes an assemblage or chain of principles and conclusions, or the whole of any doctrine, the several parts of which are bound together, and follow or depend on each other; in which sense we say a system of philosophy, a system of divinity, &c. The word is formed from the Greek συστημα, compositio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006504-0083 | SYSTYLE, in Architecture, that manner of placing columns where the space between the two shafts consists of two diameters or four modules. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006505-0083 | SYZYGY, Syzygia, in Astronomy, a term equally used for the conjunction and opposition of a planet with the sun. The word is formed from the Greek συζυγι α, which properly signifies conjunctio. On the phenomena and circumstances of the syzygies a great part of the lunar theory depends. See Astronomy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006506-0083 | SZARVAS, a large town of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, of the circle of the Farther Theiss, and the district of Bekesch. It stands on the river Koros. It is chiefly inhabited by the Saxon race, who have there a Lutheran church, and several institutions for education, chiefly on subjects relating to the knowledge and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006507-0083 | SZEGEDIN, a large city of the kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Farther Theiss, and circle of Song-rab, of which it is the capital. It stands on the river Theiss, where that stream is joined by the Maros. It is well built and strongly fortified, is the scat of a Greek propope, of a Piarist college, and of a Ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 15' 15" N 20 4' 57" E | SZEGEDIN |
kp-eb0721-006601-0084 | SZIGETH, a town of the kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Farther Theiss, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands at the influx of the river Itza to the Theiss. It contains a Catholic college, and churches for that sect, one for the Lutherans and one for the Unitarians, with 6850 inhabitants. The gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006602-0084 | T, or t, the nineteenth letter and sixteenth consonant of our alphabet; the sound of which is formed by a strong expulsion of the breath through the mouth, upon a sudden drawing back of the tongue from the fore-part of the palate, with the lips at the same time open. The proper sound of t is expressed in most words beg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006603-0084 | TA, a city and fortress of China, of the second rank, in Sechuen. Long. 107. 15. E. Lat. 36. 55. N. Also the name of a river which falls into the Eastern Seas. Long. 121. 34. E. Lat 36. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006604-0084 | TAAWIRY. There are two islands of this name, situated within the reef of the island of Otaheite. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006605-0084 | TAB, a river of Persia, the ancient Arosis, which, rising in the mountains of Fars, divides that province from Khusistan, and falls into the Persian Gulf near Endian. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006606-0084 | ΤΑΒΑ Islands, four small islands in the Eastern Seas, near the east coast of Borneo. Long. 118. 12. E. Lat. 2. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 2 6' N 118 12' E | ΤΑΒΑ |
kp-eb0721-006607-0084 | TABABELLA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Malwah, thirty-two miles west from Oojain. Long. 75. 20. E. Lat. 23. 16. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 16' N 75 20' E | TABABELLA |
kp-eb0721-006608-0084 | TABAS, a city of Persia, in the province of Khorassan. It is situated on the road from Herat to Yezd, 337 miles from the former, and 150 from the latter. It stands within a range of mountains, and contains 20,000 inhabitants. Tabas is also the name of a village in Anatolia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006609-0084 | TABBY, in commerce, a kind of rich silk which has undergone the operation of tabbying. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006610-0084 | TABBYING, the passing a silk or stuff under a calender, the rolls of which are made of iron or copper variously engraven, which bearing unequally on the stuff, renders the surface of it unequal, so as to reflect the rays of light differently, and to exhibit a representation of waves. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006611-0084 | TABELLIO, in the Roman law, an officer or scrivener, much the same with our notaries public, who are often called tabelliones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006612-0084 | TABERNA, a city of Spain, in the province of Valencia, about six miles north-east from the capital, on the great road leading to Catalonia. It is on the sea-shore, in a district of great richness and fertility, and contains about 4500 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006613-0084 | TABERNACLE, among the Hebrews, a kind of building, in the form of a tent, set up, by express command of God, for the performance of religious worship, sacrifices, &c. during the journeying of the Israelites in the wilderness; and, after their settlement in the land of Canaan, used for the same purpose till the building... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006614-0084 | Tabernacles, Feast of, a solemn festival of the Hebrews, observed after harvest, on the fifteenth day of the month Tisri, instituted to commemorate the goodness of [7:21:67]God, who protected the Israelites in the wilderness, and made them dwell in booths, when they came out of Egypt. On the first day of the feast they... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006701-0085 | TABLAS Isle, one of the Philippines, situated due north of Luzon, thirty miles in length by three in average breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006702-0085 | TABLATURE (Ital. Talndatura, or Intavolatura), an old species of musical notation by means of letters of the alphabet applied to a staff of four or more lines and their spaces, and most usually employed in music written for the guitar, or for instruments of the lute kind. It has long been disused, and is now generally ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006703-0085 | TABLE, a moveable piece of furniture, usually made of wood or stone, and supported on pillars or the like, for the commodious reception of things placed upon it | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006704-0085 | TABLE Island, a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, so called by Captain Wilson. Long. 181. 54. W. Lat. 18. 54. S. This is also the name of several small islands in the Eastern Seas. Table Point is the southern extremity of Bali Island, in the Eastern Seas. Long. 115. 11. E. Lat. 8. 45. S.; also the eastern bounda... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006705-0085 | TABOO, a word used by the South Sea islanders, and nearly of the same import as prohibited or interdicted. It applies equally to persons and things, and is also expressive of any thing sacred, devoted, or eminent | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006706-0085 | TABOR, a celebrated mountain of Palestine, situated to the south-west of Lake Tiberias, over which, and all the surrounding country, it commands an extensive prospect about two leagues south-east from Nazareth, and nearly the same distance from Jordan. In shape it resembles a truncated cone. It is entirely calcareous, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006707-0085 | Tabor, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, the capital of the circle of the same name, which extends over 1137 square miles, and contains 171,270 inhabitants. The city is situated on a hill near the river Luschnitz. It contains a very curious collegiate church, a monastery of Augustins, and 430 houses, with 3430... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006708-0085 | TABRIZ, or Tabreez, a city of Persia, and capital of the province of Azerbijan, and for a considerable time the residence of Abbas Mirza, the heir-apparent of the Persian crown. It is seated in an immense plain at the foot of a mountain, on the banks of a small river whose waters are applied to the cultivation of the l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006801-0086 | TACHYGRAPHY, from ταχυs , swift, and γϑαφω , I write, or the art of writing short-hand. See Stenography. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006802-0086 | TACITUS, Caius Cornelius, a celebrated Roman historian, and one of the greatest men of his time, appears to have been born about the fifty-seventh year of the Christian era. He early applied himself to the labours of the bar, in which he gained very considerable reputation. He was a man of equestrian rank, and was prom... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006901-0087 | TACK, a rope used to confine the foremost lower corners of the courses and stay-sails in a fixed position, when the wind crosses the ship’s course obliquely. The same name is also given to the rope employed to pull out the lower corner of a studding-sail or driver to the extremity of its boom. The main-sail and fore-sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006902-0087 | TACOULUM, a town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, forty miles west from Madras. Long. 79. 50. E. Lat. 13. 4. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 4' N 79 50' E | TACOULUM |
kp-eb0721-006903-0087 | TACTICS, in the art of war, is the method of disposing forces to the best advantage in order of battle, and of performing the several military motions and evolutions. See War. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006904-0087 | TADCASTER, a town in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, in the west riding of the county of York, 185 miles from London. It stands on the river Wharfe, over which is a fine bridge, built from the ruins of its ancient castle, called by the Romans Calcaria, from the abundance of limestone found near it. It is a well-built to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006905-0087 | TADMOR. See Palmyra. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006906-0087 | TAFFETY, or Taffeta, a fine smooth silken stuff, remarkably glossy. There are taffeties of all colours, some plain, and others striped with gold, silver, &c., others chequered, others flowered, according to the fancy of the workmen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006907-0087 | TAGAL, a Dutch settlement on the north coast of Java, where there is a resident to receive the contributions of the chief. It is prettily situated on a broad river, and has a church and a small fort. Long. 108. 55. E. Lat. 6. 44. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006908-0087 | TAGALAZ, one of the Fox Islands, in the North Pacific Ocean. Long. 185. 26. E. Lat. 53. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006909-0087 | TAGANROG, a fortified city of South Russia, in Europe, in the circle of Rostow and province of Caterinoslaw, about 1300 miles from St Petersburg. It is built on an elevated tongue of land, on the Sea of Azoph, which forms a small bay, where the small vessels can be secured. From the favourable situation for trade, it h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006910-0087 | TAGAPOLA, a small island among the Philippines, twenty-five miles west of the island of Samar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006911-0087 | TAGLIACOZZI, Gasparo, a renowned surgeon, was born at Bologna in the year 1546. He studied in that university under Cardan, and took his doctor’s degree at the age of twenty-four. He was appointed professor of surgery, and afterwards of anatomy; and after having acquired much reputation, he died at Bologna on the 7th o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006912-0087 | TAGOLANDA, a small island, about twenty miles in circumference, situated off the north-eastern extremity of Celebes. It is populous, and plentifully supplied with provisions. Long. 125. 5. E. Lat. 2. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 2 10' N 125 5' E | TAGOLANDA |
kp-eb0721-006913-0087 | TAGUS, or Tajo, the largest river of Spain; which, taking its rise on the confines of Aragon, runs south-west through the provinces of New Castille and Estremadura; and passing by the cities of Aranjuez, Toledo, and Alcantara, and then crossing Portugal, forms the harbour of Lisbon, at which city it is about three mile... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006914-0087 | TAGYPEEL, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the north-east coast of Borneo. Long. 117. 54. E. Lat. 6. 29. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 29' N 117 54' E | TAGYPEEL |
kp-eb0721-006915-0087 | TAHEJ, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Cutch, of which it was formerly the capital; but it has now dwindled into a small village. Long. 76. 27. E. Lat. 23. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-006916-0087 | TAHMOR, a town of Hindustan, province of Oude. Long. 81. 10. E. Lat. 27. 4L N.
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kp-eb0721-007001-0088 | TAHNESIR, an ancient town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, in the Sikh territories, ninety miles north by west from the city of Delhi. Long. 76. 30. E. Lat. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 N 76 30' E | TAHNESIR |
kp-eb0721-007002-0088 | TAHNOON, a district of Northern Hindustan, tributary to the Ghoorkali rajah of Nepaul. It has an irregularly mountainous surface, and is known to be but thinly inhabited. To the south it is bounded by the British territory of Terriani, at the foot of the Himalaya Mountains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007003-0088 | TAHNUM, a town of Northern Hindustan, tributary to the Ghoorkali rajah of Nepaul, about twenty-five miles north-west from Gorcah. Long. 84. 10. E. Lat. 28.41. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 28 41' N 84 10' E | TAHNUM |
kp-eb0721-007004-0088 | TAHOOROWAH, one of the smaller Sandwich Islands, situated about nine miles from the south-west part of Mo-wee. Long. 199. 30. E. Lat. 21. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 40' N 199 30' E | TAHOOROWAH |
kp-eb0721-007005-0088 | TAHRAH, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Cutch, situated about thirty miles from Luckput Bunder, on the road from that place to Mundavee, a seaport in the Gulf of Cutch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007006-0088 | TAHUK, or Tabur, a town of Hedsjas, in Arabia, the first conquest made by Mahommed. It is 176 miles south-south-east from Jerusalem. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007007-0088 | TAIF, or Tayf, a town of Arabia, in the Hedsjas, situated in a mountainous but fertile and well-cultivated district. It was visited by Burckhardt in 1814, who describes it at that time as nearly in a state of ruin, many of the buildings having been nearly destroyed by the Wahabys when they took Taif in 1802; and the to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007008-0088 | TAIL, the train of a beast, bird, or fish, which in land animals, it is said, serves to drive away flies, &c. and in birds and fishes to direct their course, and assist them in ascending or descending in the air or water. But the tail in all animals is of great use in directing their motions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007009-0088 | Tail, or Fee-tail, in Law, is a conditional estate or fee, opposed to fee-simple. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007010-0088 | TAILZIE, in Scotish Law, the same with entail, a deed settling an estate upon a series of heirs, and generally accompanied with conditions and limitations, making a perpetuity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007011-0088 | TAÏIBOORNY, a town of Hindustan, province of Aurangabad, now belonging to the British. Long. 75. 23. E. Lat. 18. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 0' N 75 23' E | TAÏIBOORNY |
kp-eb0721-007012-0088 | TAIMUR, a cape of Asiatic Russia, in the district of Turachansk, on the Frozen Ocean. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007013-0088 | TAIMURSKAIA, a gulf of the Frozen Ocean, on the coast of Asiatic Russia. Long. 94. 10. to 98. 10. E. Lat. 75. to 77. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007014-0088 | TAIN, a royal borough of Scotland, and the county town of Ross-shire. It is situated on the margin of the Firth of Dornoch, about a mile from the sea, in the neighbourhood of a fertile and well-cultivated country. The town is pleasant and prosperous. It is provided with an excellent academy, taught by a rector and two ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007015-0088 | TAI-PING, a city of China, of the first rank, in Kiang-nan, on the Yang-tse-kiang river, and at the junction of three of its tributaries. It is 525 miles south of Pekin. Long. 118. 14. E. Lat. 31. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 31 38' N 118 14' E | TAI-PING |
kp-eb0721-007016-0088 | Tai-Ping, a city of China, of the first rank, in Quang-see, near the confines of the kingdom of Tonquin. It is built on a point of land which is almost surrounded by a river. Long. 106. 34. E. Lat. 22. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 25' N 106 34' E | Tai-Ping |
kp-eb0721-007017-0088 | TAITONG, a city of China, of the first rank, in Shan-see, situated in a mountainous country, and exposed to the incursions of the Tartars. It is well fortified, and has a strong garrison. It is 155 miles west of Pekin. Long. 112. 44. E. Lat. 40. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 5' N 112 44' E | TAITONG |
kp-eb0721-007018-0088 | TAI-YUEN, a city of China, of the first rank, in Shan-see. It is populous, and strongly fortified. It is 230 miles west-south-west of Pekin. Long. 111. 56. E. Lat. 37.
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... | 37 54' N 111 56' E | TAI-YUEN |
kp-eb0721-007019-0088 | TAJGAUW, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, fortified, in 1792, by Purseram Bhow. It is seventeen miles north by west from Merritch. Long. 75.
55. E. Lat. 16. 47. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 47' N 75 55' E | TAJGAUW |
kp-eb0721-007020-0088 | TAKAKAKAN, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the east coast of Borneo. Long. 116. 51. E. Lat. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 N 116 51' E | TAKAKAKAN |
kp-eb0721-007021-0088 | TALALAP, one of the Philippine Islands, where the Spaniards, in 1730, built a church, and established a religious mission; but the whole party were soon after murdered by the natives, and the church was demolished. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007022-0088 | TALAVERA, usually distinguished by the addition to its name of de la Reyna, is the capital of a partido, which comprises within it almost the whole of the western side of the province of Toledo, in Spain. It is a place of great antiquity, containing many Roman monuments. When Spain was invaded by the Moors, it speedily... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 59' 50" N 5 1' 5" W | TALAVERA |
kp-eb0721-007101-0089 | TALENT signifies both a weight and a coin very common among the ancients, but very different among different nations. The common Attic talent of weight contains 60 Attic minae, or 6000 Attic drachmae; and weighed, according to Dr Arbuthnot, 59 lbs. 11 oz. 17 1 / 7 gr. English Troy weight. There was another Attic talent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007102-0089 | Talent, as a species of money, among the Hebrews, was sometimes used for a gold coin, the same with the shekel of gold, called also stater, and weighing only four drachms. The Hebrews reckoned by these talents as we do by pounds, &c. Thus a million of gold, or a million of talents of gold, among them, was a million of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007103-0089 | TALGARTH, a market and borough town of the county of Brecon, in South Wales. It is situated in a fertile district; and near to it is an extensive lake, well stocked with fresh-water fish. The population amounted in 1821 to 698, and in 1831 to 741. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | TALGARTH | |
kp-eb0721-007104-0089 | TALI, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Yunan, situated on a large lake. The mountains in the vicinity produce a species of marble, which is fashioned by the inhabitants into tables and other pieces of furniture. Long. 100. E. Lat. 25. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 45' N 100 E | TALI |
kp-eb0721-007105-0089 | TALIACOTIUS. See Taguacozzi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007106-0089 | TALIO (lex talionis), a species of punishment in the Mosaic law, by which an evil is returned similar to that committed against us by another; hence that expression, “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” This law was inserted in the twelve Tables of the Romans; but it was afterwards set aside, and a power was given to the pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007107-0089 | TALISMANS, magical figures cut or engraved with superstitious observations on the characterisms and configurations of the heavens, to which some astrologers have attributed wonderful virtues, particularly that of calling down celestial influences. The talismans of Samothrace, so famous of old, were pieces of iron forme... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007108-0089 | TALLY is a stick cut in two parts, on each of which is marked, with notches or otherwise, what is due between debtor and creditor; and this was the ancient way of keeping all accounts, one part being kept by the creditor, the other by the debtor. Hence the tallier of the exchequer, whom we now call the teller. But ther... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007109-0089 | TALMUD, a collection of Jewish traditions. There are two works which bear this name, the Talmud of Jerusalem, and the Talmud of Babylon. Each of these is composed of two parts; the Mishna, which is the text, and is common to both, and the Gemara or commentary. The Mishna, which comprehends all the laws, institutions, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007201-0090 | TALNERE, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and province of Khandesh, situated on the Tuptee river, ninety-two miles west from Boorhanpoor. It was conquered by Aurungzebe, and formed part of the possessions of Holcar, and was ceded by that chief to the British. But the governor refusing to deliver it up,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 13' N 75 E | TALNERE |
kp-eb0721-007202-0090 | TAMAHOO, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the west coast of Borneo. Long. 109. 21. E. Lat. 0. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 0 7' N 109 21' E | TAMAHOO |
kp-eb0721-007203-0090 | TAMAN, an island in the Russian province of Taurida, at the entrance of the Sea of Azoph from the Black Sea. Though properly a peninsula, it is made an island by the overflowings of the river Kuban, but which at some seasons are quite dried up. The strait of Taman is a narrow and dangerous passage leading to Taganrog, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 21' 30" N 36 35' E | TAMAN |
kp-eb0721-007204-0090 | TAMAR, a river of Van Diemen’s Land, which has more the appearance of a chain of lakes than of a regularly formed river. The waters are supposed by Captain Flinders to have forced a passage by long undermining to the sea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007205-0090 | TAMBAH, a town of Hindustan, province of Bejapoor, seventy miles south from Poonah. Long. 73. 35. E. Lat. 17. 28. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 28' N 73 35' E | TAMBAH |
kp-eb0721-007206-0090 | TAMBEKAN, a town of Hindustan, province of Nepaul, belonging to the Ghoorkali rajah of Nepaul, celebrated for the copper mines in its vicinity. Long. 85. 30. E. Lat. 27. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 25' N 85 30' E | TAMBEKAN |
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