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kp-eb0721-034001-0360 | TORRICELLI, Evangelista, an illustrious Italian mathematician and philosopher, was born on the 15th of October 1608. It seems doubtful whether he was born at Modig-hana, a country-seat in Romagna, or at Piancaldoli, in the diocese of Imola. He was trained in Latin literature by his uncle, a monk of Faenza; and after cu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034002-0360 | TORRINGTON, Great, a town in the hundred of Fremington and county of Devon, 197 miles from London. It is situated on the side of a hill, in a bleak district, was once a borough, and had a castle, the ruins of which are still visible. There is a market on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1821 to 2538, and in 1831 t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034003-0360 | TORSHOK, a city of European Russia, in the province of Moscow and government of Twer. It is the capital of a circle of the same name, which comprehends forty-eight parishes, in which are 483 villages, with 78,800 inhabitants. The city is 334 miles from St Petersburg, stands on the river Twerza, and contains twenty-thre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 57 2' 9" N 34 58' 10" E | TORSHOK |
kp-eb0721-034004-0360 | TORTOLA, the principal of the Virgin Islands, is situated in long. 64° 39' west, and lat. 18° 20' north. It is about twelve miles long from east to west, and on an average four miles wide. It consists of one mountain mass, running along the middle of the island in abrupt and irregular forms, which, on the west side of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034005-0360 | TORTOISE-SHELL, the scales of the testaceous animal called a tortoise, used in inlaying, and in various other works. See Reptilia, genus Testudo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034006-0360 | TORTONA, a city of Italy, in the kingdom of Sardinia and province of Turin, the capital of a district of the same name. It stands at the foot of the Apennines, on the river Scrivia. It is strongly fortified, and is defended by a citadel. It contains a cathedral, four parish churches, eleven monasteries, and three nunne... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 56' N 8 39' E | TORTONA |
kp-eb0721-034007-0360 | TORTOSA, a city of Spain, which gives its name to the department on the south-west corner of the province of Catalonia. It stands on the bank of the river Ebro, about six leagues from its mouth. On that stream there is not any upward navigation, owing to the falls of water at Xerta, above the town. At Tortosa there is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 43' 55" N 0 55' E | TORTOSA |
kp-eb0721-034008-0360 | TORTURA, a small seaport of Palestine. In the times of Christianity it was erected into a bishopric, but has now dwindled into an inconsiderable village. It is fifteen miles south of Acre. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034009-0360 | TORTURE, a violent pain inflicted on persons to force them to confess the crimes laid to their charge, or as a punishment for crimes committed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034010-0360 | TOSANLU, a river of Asia Minor, the ancient Lycus, which rises in the mountains of Armenia, and after a course westward of about 200 miles, falls into the Jekil Irmak, about thirty miles north of Amasia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034011-0360 | TOSSIA, a town of Asia Minor, situated on the Kisil Irmak, and on the route from Amasia to Constantinople, in a fine valley, producing a considerable quantity of rice. Long. 34. 10. E. Lat. 40. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 20' N 34 10' E | TOSSIA |
kp-eb0721-034012-0360 | TOTNES, a town of the hundred of Coleridge, in the county of Devon, 195 miles from London. It stands on the side and the top of a steep hill, at whose foot the river Dart flows. It is about twelve miles from the sea, but the tide flows up to the bridge, by which the river is connected with the suburb. It is a place of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034013-0360 | TOTTENHAM, a large parish of the hundred of Edmonton, in the county of Middlesex, five miles from London. It is on the great north road by Ware. It is chiefly the residence of persons connected with the metropolis, and is a very pleasant retreat from the bustle of the city. It is divided into four wards, denominated Mi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034014-0360 | TOUCH NEEDLE, among assayers, refiners, &c., little bars of gold, silver, and copper, combined together, in all the different proportions and degrees of mixture; the use of which is to discover the degree of purity of any piece of gold or silver, by comparing the mark which it leaves on the touchstone with those of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034101-0361 | TOUCHSTONE, a black, smooth, glossy stone, used to examine the purity of metals. The ancients called it lapis Lydius, the Lydian stone, from the name of the country whence it was originally brought. Any piece of pebble or black flint will answer the purposes of the best lapis Lydius. Even a piece of glass made rough wi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034102-0361 | TOUL, an arrondissement of the department of the Meurthe, in France, extending over 463 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these into 119 communes; and in 1836 it contained 64,041 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, stands on a plain at the foot of hills covered with vines, and watered by the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 40' 32" N 5 48' 13" E | TOUL |
kp-eb0721-034103-0361 | TOULON, an arrondissement of the department of the Vur, in France, extending over 504 square miles. It comprehends seven cantons, divided into 128 communes, having 99,012 inhabitants in 1836. The capital, of the same name, is one of the most complete naval arsenals belonging to France in the Mediterranean Sea. It has t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 7' 16" N 5 50' 21" E | TOULON |
kp-eb0721-034104-0361 | TOULOUSE, an arrondissement of the department of Upper Garonne, in France. It extends over 619 square miles, and is subdivided into twelve cantons and 135 communes, with a population in 1836 amounting to 159,064.
Toulouse, a city of France, the ancient city of Tolosa, latterly the capital of the old province of Langue... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 35' 36" N 1 21' 16" E | TOULOUSE |
kp-eb0721-034201-0362 | TOURNAGHAUT, a celebrated pass of the south of India, leading from the western coast, called the Conean, into the interior of that country. It is more rugged and steep than that of Ambah. Long. 72. 25. E. Lat. 17. 47. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 47' N 72 25' E | TOURNAGHAUT |
kp-eb0721-034202-0362 | TOURNAMENT, a martial sport or exercise which the ancient cavaliers used to perform, to show their bravery and address. It is derived from the French word tourner, i. e. “to turn round,” because, to be expert in these exercises, much agility both of horse and man was requisite. The first tournaments were only courses o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034203-0362 | TOURNAY, an arrondissement of the province of Hennegau, in the Netherlands, comprehending eleven cantons, divided into 142 communes, containing 198,900 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It is the seat of a bishop, who has a fine cathedral with four towers; and under his direction there is an eccles... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 36' 20" N 3 56' 58" E | TOURNAY |
kp-eb0721-034204-0362 | TOURNEFORT, Joseph Ριττον de, a famous botanist, was born at Aix in Provence on the 5th of June 1656. He studied in the College of the Jesuits at Aix, and his father destined him for the church. He accordingly commenced his theological studies; but he felt a very early passion for the study of botany, and the death of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034205-0362 | TOURNIQUET, in Surgery, an instrument formed with screws, for compressing any part with rollers, &c. for the purpose of stopping haemorrbages. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034206-0362 | TOURNON, an arrondissement of the department of the Ardèche, in France, extending over 719 square miles. It comprehends eleven cantons and 124 communes, with 134,569 inhabitants in 1636. The capital is the city of the [7:21:343]same name, situated on the side of a hill rising from the right bank of the Rhone, where the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 6' N 4 40' E | TOURNON |
kp-eb0721-034301-0363 | TOURNUS, a city of France, in the department of the Saone and Loire, and arrondissement of Maçon. It is finely situated on a rising ground on the banks of the Saone, over which is a new bridge of fifteen arches. In 1836 it had a population of 5314 persons, who carry on considerable trade in wine, corn, and wood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034302-0363 | TOURS, a city of France, in the department of the Indre and Loire, of which, as well as of the arrondissement of its own name, it is the capital. The arrondissement is 1037 square miles in extent, and comprehends ten cantons and 127 communes, with 151,119 inhabitants in 1836. The city stands on a well-cultivated plain ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 23' 46" N 0 36' 27" E | TOURS |
kp-eb0721-034303-0363 | TOWCESTER, a town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Northampton, sixty miles from London. It stands on the banks of the river Weedon, and was formerly a place of great repute. It has now only a little trade in making lace, and what arises from its being on the great north-west road. There is a well-supp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034304-0363 | TOWNSHEND Island, on the east coast of New Holland, which Captain Cook thought to belong to the mainland; but it was ascertained to be an island by Captain Flinders. Long, of the cape, 159. 29. E. Lat. 22. 13. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034305-0363 | TOWYN, a town of North Wales, in the county of Merioneth, on a river of the same name, 217 miles from London and eleven from Barmouth. the country around it is very fertile, and the parish is very extensive. The annual value of the landed property in it was estimated, under the assessment of 1815 to the property-tax, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034306-0363 | TRADITION, something handed down from one generation to another without being written. Thus the Jews pretended, that besides their written law contained in the Old Testament, Moses had delivered an oral law, which had been conveyed down from father to son; and thus the Roman Catholics are said to value particular doctr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034307-0363 | TRAFALGAR, a cape on the coast of Spain, just without the Straits of Gibraltar, and opposite to Cape Esparto on the African shore. It was called by the ancients the promontory of Juno. It is in latitude 36° 10' 15" north, and longitude 6° 1' 30" west. It is not high, but may be known by its remarkable figure, being fla... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034308-0363 | TRAGEDY, a dramatic poem, representing some signal action performed by illustrious persons, which has frequently a fatal issue or termination. See Drama and Poetry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034309-0363 | TRAGI-COMEDY, a dramatic piece, partaking both of the nature of tragedy and comedy; in which a mixture of merry and serious events is admitted. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034310-0363 | TRAITOR’S Island, in the Pacific Ocean, discovered by Le Mair and Schonten in 1616. Long. 173. 48. W. Lat. 15. 55. N. There is also a cluster of islands of the same name on the coast of New Guinea. Long. 137. E. Lat. 1. 12. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034311-0363 | TRALEE, a borough and the chief town of the county of Kerry, distant from Dublin, by way of Limerick and Castle Island, 144 miles. It is situated upon the river Lee, which here falls into Tralee Bay, after passing through the flat and fertile tract of land which stretches along its shore. The town consists of two stree... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034312-0363 | TRALLIANUS, Alexander, or Alexander of Tralles, a medical writer, was a native of Tralles, a city of Lydia, and lived about the middle of the sixth century. He is the author of a work, divided into twelve books, in which he treats of distempers as they occur from head to foot. He was the first that opened the jugular v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034313-0363 | TRAMORE, a small, straggling, but handsome town, in the county of Waterford, eighty-three miles from Dublin. It is situated at the western extremity of the bay of the [7:21:344]same name, and contains many excellent private houses and villas. It is much frequented during the bathing season by the inhabitants of Waterfo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034401-0364 | TRANENT, a market-town in the county of Haddington, nine miles and a half from Edinburgh. It consists of one long street, through which the principal road to Berwick passes, and several minor by-streets, to none of which can be given the praise of being either handsome or clean. The houses are chiefly inhabited by coll... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034402-0364 | TRANI, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Bari, the capital of the district of the ancient Puglia. It stands on the sea-shore, is walled, and is defended by a castle. It is the seat of an archbishop, with a fine Gothic cathedral, said to have been erected by the Normans. It is well built of excellent stone,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034403-0364 | TRANQUEBAR, a small seaport of the south of India, in the province of the Carnatic and district of Tanjore, situated at one of the mouths of the Cavery river. It was formerly a village belonging to the rajah of Tanjore, from whom it was purchased by the Danes in 1616. Here they erected the fort of Dansborg, to which po... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034404-0364 | TRANSCENDENTAL, or Transcendant, something elevated, or raised above other things; which passes and transcends their nature. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034405-0364 | TRANSFUSION of Blood. an operation by which it has been imagined that the age of animals may be renewed. The method of transfusing Dr Lower gives us to the following effect. Take up the carotid artery of the dog, or other animal, whose blood is to be transfused into another of the same, or a different kind: separate it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034406-0364 | TRANSIENT Notes, or Passing Notes. See Music . TRANSITION, or Modulation, in Music. See Music . TRANSITIVE, in Grammar, an epithet applied to such verbs as signify an action which passes from the subject that does it, to or upon another subject which receives it. Under the head of verbs transitive come what we usually ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034407-0364 | TRANSLATION, the act of transferring or removing a thing from one place to another; as we say, the translation of a bishop’s see, a council, a seat of justice, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034408-0364 | TRANSLATION is also used for the version of a book or writing out of one language into another. The principles of translation have been clearly and accurately laid down by Dr Campbell of Aberdeen in his invaluable Preliminary Dissertations to his translation of the Gospels. The fundamental rules which he establishes ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034409-0364 | TRANSMIGRATION, the removal or translation of a whole people into another country, by the power of a conqueror.
Transmigration is particularly used for the passage of the soul out of one body into another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034410-0364 | TRANSMUTATION, the act of changing one substance into another.
TRANSMUTATION, in alchemy, denotes the act of chang [7:21:345]ing inferior metals into gold or silver. This is also called the grand operation effected with the philosopher’s stone. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034501-0365 | TRANSOMS, in a ship, certain beams or timbers extended across the stern-post of a ship, to fortify her after-part, and give it the figure most suitable to the service for which she is calculated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034502-0365 | TRANSPARENCY, in Physics, a quality in certain bodies, by which they give passage to the rays of light: in contradistinction to opacity, or that quality of bodies which renders them impervious to the rays of light. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034503-0365 | TRANSPOSIT ΙΟΝ, in Grammar, a disturbing or dislocating the words of a discourse, or a changing their natural order of construction, to please the ear, by rendering the contexture more smooth, easy, and harmonious.
Transposition, in Music, the removal of a piece of music, either in writing or in performing it, into a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034504-0365 | TRANSUBSTANTIATION, in Theology, the conversion or change of the substance of the bread and wine in the eucharist, into the body and blood of Jesus Christ; which the Romish church supposes to be wrought by the consecration of the priest. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034505-0365 | TRANSVERSE, something that goes across another from corner to corner. Thus bends and bars in heraldry are transverse pieces or bearings; the diagonals of a parallelogram or a square are transverse lines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034506-0365 | TRANSYLVANIA, an extensive province of the Austrian empire, on the eastern side towards the Turkish dominions. In the German language it is called Siebenbürgen, from the seven towers or fortresses by which it was formerly protected against attacks from the Ottoman power. Its Latin name, Transylvania, was derived from i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034601-0366 | TRAPANI, a city of the island of Sicily, in the province of Mazzara, the capital of an intendancy of the same name. It stands on a long and low isthmus, on the seashore, in a healthy spot. It is surrounded with walls, and defended by a strong castle. Trapani contains forty-two churches and monasteries, several hospital... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034602-0366 | TRAPEZIUM, in Geometry, a plane figure contained under four unequal right lines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034603-0366 | TRAS los Montes, one of the provinces into which the kingdom of Portugal is divided. It receives the name from its situation beyond the mountain which divides it from the province of Beyra, in the same kingdom. On the northern frontier it is bounded by Galicia, and on the eastern by Leon in Spain. Its extent is 455 squ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034604-0366 | TRAU, a city of the Austrian province of Dalmatia, in the circle of Spalatro. It stands on an island, and is connected by a bridge on one side with the mainland, and by another on the opposite side with the island Bua. It is about eight leagues south of Sabenico and the country around it is highly fertile, producing ab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034605-0366 | TRAVALLA, a seaport on the west coast of the island of Celebes, containing 200 inhabitants, and carrying on an inconsiderable trade. Lat. 1. 10. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034606-0366 | TRAVANCORE, a province situated at the south-west extremity of Hindustan, between the eighth and tenth degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the north by the territories of the Cochin rajah; on the south and west by the sea; and on the east by a range of woody mountains, by which it is divided from the British di... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034701-0367 | TRAVERSE, or Transverse, in general denotes something that goes athwart another; that is, crosses and cuts it obliquely.
T raverse, in Navigation, implies a compound course, or an assemblage of various courses, lying at different angles with the meridian.
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kp-eb0721-034702-0367 | TRAVESTY, a name given to a humorous translation of any author. The word is derived from the French travestir, to disguise. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034703-0367 | TREACHEROUS Bay, a dangerous bay in the Eastern Seas, in Gaspar’s Strait. It is on the east coast of the island of Billiton, and is full of banks and shoals, many of which are only seen at low water. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034704-0367 | TREASON, a general appellation to denote not only offences against the king and government, but also that accumulation of guilt which arises whenever a superior reposes a confidence in a subject or inferior, between whom and himself there subsists a natural, a civil, or even a spiritual relation; and the inferior so ab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034705-0367 | TREASURE, in general, denotes a store or stock of money in reserve. , Treasure- Trove, in Law, derived from the French word trouver, to find, called in Latin thesaurus inventus, is where any money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, is found hidden in the earth or any private place, the owner thereof being unknow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034706-0367 | TREASURER, an officer to whom the treasure of a prince or corporation is committed to be kept and duly disposed of, in payment of officers and other expenses.
The lord high treasurer of Great Britain, or first commissioner of the treasury, when in commission, has under his charge and government all the king’s revenue ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034801-0368 | TREASURY, the place where the revenues of a state are received, preserved, and disbursed. In England the treasury is a part of the exchequer, by some called the lower etchequer. Lords of the Treasury. In lieu of one single director and administrator of the sovereign’s revenues under the title of lord high treasurer, it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034802-0368 | TREATY, a covenant between two or more nations; or the several articles or conditions stipulated and agreed upon by two sovereign powers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034803-0368 | TREBISOND, a considerable trading city of Asia Minor, on the coast of the Black Sea. It is of an oblong shape, and occupies a slope gently rising from the sea. The houses are mostly built of stone and lime. They are roofed with small red tiles, and are mean in their outward appearance and comfortless within. It carries... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034804-0368 | TREBLE and Treble Clef, in Music. See Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034805-0368 | TREDGOLD, Thomas, an able engineer, was born at Brandon, near Durham, where he received the small share of learning which is usually bestowed upon a youth destined to a mechanical trade. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a carpenter in his native village, whom he served for six years. He afterwards came to S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034806-0368 | TREE. See Planting , Timber, and Vegetable Physiology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034807-0368 | TREGONEY , an ancient decayed borough and markettown of the hundred of Powder, in the county of Cornwall, 253 miles from London. It is situated on the river Fal, and contains places of worship for the established church, and for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. It formerly returned two members to parliament. There... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034808-0368 | TREMAN, a town in the Carnatic, situated on the north bank of the Coleroon, twenty miles north-north-east from Travancore. Long. 79. 20. E. Lat. 11. 1. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034809-0368 | TRENCHES, in fortification, are ditches cut by the besiegers, that they may approach the more securely to the place attacked; whence they are also called lines of approach. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034810-0368 | TRENT, a city of the Austrian province of Tyrol. It was formerly the capital of an independent ecclesiastical state. The extent was small, but the bishop was a member of the German empire. In the year 1803 it was secularized and united to the Austrian dominions, being incorporated with the province of Tyrol. It afterwa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034901-0369 | TRESTLE Trees, in ship-building, two strong bars of timber fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the lower mast-head, to support the frame of the top and the weight of the topmast. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034902-0369 | TRESSURE, in Heraldry, a diminutive of an orle, usually held to be half the breadth thereof. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034903-0369 | TRET, in Commerce, an allowance made for the waste or the dirt that may be mixed with any commodity; which is commonly four pounds in every 104 pounds weight. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034904-0369 | TREVANNION’S Island, one of the group called Queen Charlotte’s Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Captain Carteret in 1767. Long. 163. 43. E. Lat. 10. 43. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034905-0369 | TREVENNEN’S Island, the most southern of the Marquesas Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Long. 220. 21. E.' Lat. 9. 14. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034906-0369 | TREVES, a district in Prussia. See Trier. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034907-0369 | TREVIGLIO, a city of the north of Italy, in the Austrian kingdom of Milan and the delegation of Bergamo. It stands on the river Adda, in a district that is not very productive of any other article but silk, of which a great quantity is supplied and disposed of at an annual fair. Tre-viglio contains but one church, but ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034908-0369 | TREVISO, a delegation of the Austrian kingdom of Lombardy, which extends over 721 square miles, and contains 251,600 inhabitants, and yields abundance of corn, oil, wine, and silk. The capital is the city of the same name on the navigable river Sil, where the Rottinga and the Piave-Sella pour into it their streams. It ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034909-0369 | TREVOU, an arrondissement in the department of the Ain, in France, extending over 592 square miles. It contains seven cantons and ill communes, with 77,530 inhabitants in 1836. The capital, which is the city of the same name, stands on the left bank of the Saone, on a range of hills covered with the finest vineyards. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034910-0369 | TRIER, or Treves, a very ancient city of Germany, the Augusta Trevirorum of the Romans, who made it their head-quarters against the Germans, and the residence of some of their monarchs. Under the kings of the Franks it was afterwards a city of great consequence. It was subsequently the chief residence of the prince arc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034911-0369 | TRIAD, in Music, the common chord. See Music . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034912-0369 | TRIAL, in Law, the examination of a cause according to the laws of the land, before a proper judge; or it is the manner and order observed in the hearing and determining of causes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034913-0369 | TRIANGLE, in Geometry, a figure of three sides and three angles.
Triangle. See the article Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034914-0369 | TRIBE, a certain quantity or number of persons, when a division is made of a city or people into quarters or districts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034915-0369 | TRIBOLI, a town of Asia Minor, on the coast of the Black Sea, curiously built; the houses being scattered along the edges of the precipices and sides of the mountains. The town contains two handsome khans. The port is good, and vessels may ride securely in it in stormy weather. The surrounding hills, though they are un... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034916-0369 | TRIBRACHYS, in ancient poetry, a foot consisting of three short syllables; as, melius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034917-0369 | TRIBUNAL, in general, denotes the seat of a judge, called in our courts the bench. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034918-0369 | TRIBUNE, among the ancient Romans, a magistrate chosen out of the commons, to protect them against the oppressions of the great, and to defend the liberty of the people against the attempts of the senate and consuls. The tribunes of the people were first established in the year of Rome 259. The design of their creation... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034919-0369 | TRIBUTARY, one who pays tribute to another in order to live in peace with or share in his protection. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034920-0369 | TRIBUTE, a tax or impost which one prince or state is obliged to pay to another as a token of dependence, or in virtue of a treaty, and as a purchase of peace. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-034921-0369 | TRICHINOPOLY, a celebrated town and fortress in [7:21:350] the Southern Carnatic, advantageously situated on the south bank of the river Cavery, opposite to the island of Seringham, famous for its magnificent Hindu temples. This city was formerly the capital of a Hindu principality, until 1736, when Chunda Saheb, the p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 50' N 78 50' E | TRICHINOPOLY |
kp-eb0721-035001-0370 | TRICOLOR, a town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, forty-four miles west from Pondicherry. Long. 79. 20. E. Lat. 11. 59. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-035002-0370 | TRIDENT, a kind of sceptre which the painters and poets put into the hands of Neptune, in the form of a spear or fork with three teeth; whence the word. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-035003-0370 | TRIENNIAL, an epithet applied chiefly to offices or employments which last for three years. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-035004-0370 | TRIENS, in Antiquity, a copper money of the value of one third of an as, which on one side bore a Janus’s head, and on the other a water-rat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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