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kp-eb0721-044709-0477 | UMBRELLA, a moveable canopy, made of silk or other cloth spread out upon ribs of whalebone, and supported by a staff, to protect a person from rain, or the scorching beams of the sun. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044710-0477 | UMMERAPOOR, a large city, and the present capital of the Birman empire. It stands on the banks of a romantic lake, seven miles long by one and a half broad, and at a short distance from the Irrawaddy river. When the lake is filled during the periodical rains, it leaves, with the river on the other side, a peninsula, on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044801-0478 | UMNABAD, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, thirty miles north-east from Poonah. Long. 74. 27. E. Lat. 18. 51. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044802-0478 | UMRUT, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, forty miles south by east from Surat. Long. 73. 18. E. Lat. 20. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044803-0478 | UNBIAK, one of the Fox Islands, in the North Pacific Ocean, about seventy-two miles in circumference. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044804-0478 | UNCIA, a Latin term, denoting the twelfth part of any thing, particularly the twelfth part of a pound, called in English an ounce, or the twelfth part of a foot, called an inch, | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044805-0478 | UNCTION, the act of anointing or rubbing with oil or other fatty matter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044806-0478 | UNCTION, in matters of religion, is used for the character conferred on sacred things by anointing them with oil. Unctions are very frequent among the Hebrews. They anointed both their kings and high priests at the ceremony of their inauguration. They also anointed the sacred vessels of the tabernacle and temple, to sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044807-0478 | UNDECAGON is a regular polygon of eleven sides. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044808-0478 | UNDECEMVIR, a magistrate among the ancient Athenians, who had ten colleagues or associates joined with him in the same commission. The functions of the undecemviri at Athens were much the same with those of the late prevôts de maréchaussée in France. They took care of the apprehending of criminals; secured them in the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044809-0478 | UNDES, an extensive district of Northern Hindustan, bordering on Little Tibet, intersected by the river Suttelege. The mountains of the country are composed of granite, and are said to be rich in gold. It is subject to the lama of Tibet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044810-0478 | UNDULATION, in Physics, a kind of tremulous motion or vibration observable in a liquid, by which it alternately rises and falls like the waves of the sea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044811-0478 | UNICORN, an animal famous among the ancients, and thought to be the same with the rhinoceros. Sparmann informs us that the figure of the unicon described by the ancients has been found delineated by the Snese Hottentots on the plain surface of a rock in Caftraria, and therefore conjectures that such an animal either do... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044812-0478 | UNIEH, a seaport of Asia Minor, on the coast of the Black Sea, situated on a bay, with a range of finely wooded mountains behind. It is mostly built of wood, and, like all eastern towns, is extremely filthy; forming a striking contrast with the beauty of the environs. The inhabitants consist of Turks, Greeks, and Armen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044813-0478 | UNION, a junction, coalition, or assemblage of two or more different things in one.
Union, or The Union, by way of eminence, is more particularly used to express the act by which the two separate kingdoms of Scotland and England were incorporated into one, under the title of the kingdom of Great Britain. This union, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044901-0479 | UNITARIANS. a name given to those who confine the glory and attribute of divinity to the One only great and supreme God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044902-0479 | UNITED Bretheren, or Unitras Fratrum, a society of Christians, whose chief residence is at Herrnhut, in Saxony. They arc commonly called Moravians, from their original country, and Herrnhuters, from their chief place of residence. Some account of this society has already been given under Herrnhut ; but as that account ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-045001-0480 | UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.
No single event in modern history has been of so much importance to mankind as the discovery of America. That great continent, which had been hid from the eyes of civilized nations for so many ages, comprises nearly one third of the habitable globe. In soil and climate it rivals the bes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-048101-0519 | UNIVERSAL, something that is common to many things; or it is one thing belonging to many or all things. UNIVERSALS. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-048102-0519 | UNIVERSE, a collective name, signifying the whole world; or the assemblage of heaven and earth, with all that they contain. See Astronomy and Geography.
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kp-eb0721-048201-0520 | UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS.
The subject of this article may be conveniently divided into two parts; the first embracing Universities, and the second Schools. In treating of the former, it has been deemed the most satisfactory method to present a view of some of the oldest and most celebrated of the continental universit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053001-0568 | UNST. See Zetland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053002-0568 | UNTERWALDEN, one of the cantons of Switzerland, and one of the most ancient of the confederacy, having been established as an independent state in the year 1308. It is bounded on the north by Lucerne and the lake Lucerne, on the east by Uri, on the south by Berne, and on the west by Lucerne. The extent of it is 198 geo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053003-0568 | UPPINGHAM, a market-town in the county of Rutland, in the hundred of Martinsley, eighty-nine miles from London and seven from Oakham. It is a clean and well-built town, standing on an eminence, and consisting principally of one long street, with a hospital and a free school, both erected in 1584, and a fine Gothic pari... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053004-0568 | UPSALA, one of the provinces of the kingdom of Sweden. It has been formed out of the western part of the ancient province of Upland. It extends in north latitude from 59° 24' to 60° 39', and in east longitude from 16° 36' to 18° 17'. It comprehends 2112 square miles, with two cities, one market-town, and 8546 villages ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 59 51' 56" N 27 31' 40" E | UPSALA |
kp-eb0721-053005-0568 | UPTON-ON-SEVERN, a market-town of the county of Worcester, in the hundred of Pershore, 109 miles from London and ten from Worcester. It stands on the right bank of the Severn, over which is a stone bridge of six arches. The town is well built, and has a very neat church, erected in 1758. There is a weekly market on Thu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053006-0568 | URANIA, one of the nine Muses, was supposed to preside over astronomy. She is commonly represented in an azure robe, crowned with stars, and supporting a large globe with both hands.
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kp-eb0721-053101-0569 | URBINO and Pesaro, a delegation or province of the papal dominion in Italy, formed out of the ancient dukedom of Urbino. It is bounded on the north by Forli and the republic of St Marino, on the north-east by the Adriatic Sea, on the south-east by Ancona, on the southwest by Perugia, and on the west by Tuscany. It exte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 43' 36" N 12 31' 5" E | URBINO |
kp-eb0721-053102-0569 | URGUNGE, or Urghenz, an extensive tract of territory situated on the Lower Oxus, near its junction with the Aral, and between the lake and the Caspian. It is a wild and desolate tract, traversed by wandering and predatory hordes of Turkomans. The bulk of the population is collected in fortified towns, and is maintained... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053103-0569 | URI, a canton of Switzerland, one of the smallest of the whole confederacy. It is one of the oldest, having gained its independence in the year 1307. It is bounded on the north by the canton of Schwytz, on the east by those of Glarus and the Grisons, on the south by Ticino, and on the west by Berne and Unterwalden. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053104-0569 | URIM and Thummim, among the ancient Hebrews, denoted a certain oracular consultation by the high priest, dressed in his robes, and wearing his pectoral or breastplate. Various have been the sentiments of commentators concerning the Urim and Thummim. Josephus and several others maintain that it meant the precious stones... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053105-0569 | URN, a kind of vase, of a roundish form, but swelling in the middle, like the common pitchers; now seldom used but in the way of ornament over chimney pieces, in buffets, &c. The great use of urns among the ancients was to preserve the ashes of the dead after they were burnt; for which reason they were called cineraria... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053106-0569 | URSA, the name of two constellations in the northern hemisphere. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053107-0569 | URSULINES, an order of nuns, founded by St Angela of Brescia, in the year 1537, and so called from St Ursula, to w hom they were dedicated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053108-0569 | URUMEA. See Ouroomia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053109-0569 | USANCE is a determined time fixed for the payment of bills of exchange, reckoned either from the day of the bills being accepted, or from the day of their date; and thus [7:21:532]called because regulated by the usage and custom of the places on which they are drawn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053201-0570 | USE, in Law, the profit or benefit of lands and tenements, or a trust and confidence reposed in a person for the holding of lands, &c., that he to whose use the trust is made shall receive the profits. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053202-0570 | USHANT, an island on the coast of France, in the department of Finisterre and arrondissement of Brest. It is a lofty district, surrounded with steep rocks, but to navigators is an important point when approaching from the west. It is about eighteen miles in compass. It contains, besides the garrison, 1650 inhabitants, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053203-0570 | USHER, an officer or servant who has the care and direction of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like.
Usher of the Black Bod, the eldest of the gentlemen ushers, daily waiters at court, whose duty is to bear the rod before the queen at the feast of St George, and other solemnities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053204-0570 | USIDSCHA. or Usicza , a city of Turkey in Europe, in the province of Semendria. It is situated in a beautiful valley, watered by a small river, which divides it into two parts. It is surrounded by walls, has several Greek churches, and 6000 inhabitants, mostly of that nation, who carry on considerable trade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053205-0570 | USK, a market-town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Monmouth, 144 miles from London. It takes the name of the river on which it is built. On a hill near it are the ruins of its ancient castle. The church is of Norman construction, built in the form of a cathedral. The priory, to which it appertained, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053206-0570 | USMAN, a circle of the Russian government of Tarnbow, extending in north latitude from 51° 58' to 52° 23', and in east longitude from 89° 14' to 41° 24'. It is watered by the rivers Usman and Woronesh, is 1804 square miles in extent, and contains 54,600 inhabitants. Numerous herds of horned cattle are depastured in its... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053207-0570 | USTEE, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the Nagpoor Mahrattas, in the province of Berar, fifty miles east from Ellichpoor. Long. 75. 52. E. Lat. 21. 18. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053208-0570 | USTICA, one of the Lipari group of islands, in the Tyrrhenian Sea, belonging to the kingdom of Naples. It is the Ostcodes, or Island of Bones, of the ancients, and is about forty miles north by west from Palermo. It has in it the town of Santa Maria, with a haven of sufficient capacity for the feluccas that trade to it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053209-0570 | USTJUG-WELIKI, a circle of the Russian province Wologda, extending in north latitude from 59° 40' to 64° 40 ’, and in east longitude from 43° 19' to 48° 40'. It is bounded on the north by Solwytschegodsk, on the east by Ustsysolsk, on the south-east by Wiatka, on the south by Nikolsk, and on the west by Totma and Welsk... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053210-0570 | USTJUSHNA, a circle of the Russian government of Novogorod. It extends in north latitude from 58° 28' to 59° 55', and in east longitude from 34° 11' to 37° 15'. Only one tenth of the surface is used for agriculture and pasture; about three tenths consist of wood, and the rest is quite waste. It contains a city, a marke... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 58 53' N 36 26' E | USTJUSHNA |
kp-eb0721-053211-0570 | USTSYSOLSK, a circle of the Russian province of Wologda, extending in north latitude from 59° 30' to 64° 56’, and in east longitude from 47° 19' to 57° 34'. It comprehends the vast space of 66,814 square miles, with not more than 36,000 inhabitants. The soil is very sterile, yielding no other corn than a little barley.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053212-0570 | USUFRUCT, in the civil Law, the use or enjoyment of any lands or tenements, or the right of receiving the fruits and profits of an inheritance, or other thing, without a power of alienating or changing the property of it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053213-0570 | USURER, a person charged with a habit or act of usury. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053214-0570 | USURPATION, in Law, is an injurious using or enjoyment of a thing for continuance of time, that belongs of right to another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053215-0570 | USURY, an unlawful contract upon the loan of money, to receive the same again with exorbitant increase. By statute 37 Hen. VIII. c. 9, the rate of interest was fixed at ten per cent. per annum; which the statute 13 Eliz. c. 8, confirms, and ordains that all brokers shall be guilty of a proemunire who transact any contr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053301-0571 | UTICA, a town of ancient Africa Propria, on the Mediterranean. It was founded by a Tyrian colony, and was older than Carthage; its name, according to Bochart, denoting old. After the destruction of Carthage, it became the capital of all the Roman territories in Africa. According to Strabo, it stood on the same bay with... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053302-0571 | UTRECHT, one of the provinces of the kingdom of Holland. It extends in north latitude from 51° 58' to 52° 17', and in east longitude from 4° 41' to 5° 32'. It is bounded on the north by the province of Holland and by the Zuyder Zee, on the east by Gueldres, on the south by Gueldres and by Holland, and on the west by Ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053303-0571 | UTTOXETER, a market-town of the hundred of Tot-monslow, in the county of Stafford, 135 miles from London. It stands on a rising ground on the river Dove, in a district abounding with woods. It is moderately well built; and the church is distinguished by the loftiness of its spire. There is much trade in some branches o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053304-0571 | UVA, a lake of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tobolsk, about twenty-eight miles in circumference. It is sixty-eight miles south-east of Tobolsk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053305-0571 | UXBRIDGE, a market-town of the county of Middlesex, fifteen miles from London. It is a part of the parish of Hillingdon, in the hundred of Elthorne. It is tolerably built, well paved, and lighted. The river Colne here joins the Grand Junction Canal, and thus forms a water communication with the metropolis. There is an ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053306-0571 | UZ, or Uτz, the country and place of residence of Job. In the genealogy of the patriarchs, there are three persons called Uz, any of whom might give this district its name. The first was the grandson of Shem, by his son Aram (Gen. xxii. 23), who, according to Josephus, occupied the Trachonitis and Damascus, to the nort... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053401-0572 | V or v is properly a consonant, and as such is placed before all the vowels; as in vacant, venal, vibrate, &c. Though the letters v and u always had two sounds, they had only the form v till the beginning of the fourth century, when the other form was introduced, the inconvenience of expressing two different sounds by ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053402-0572 | VACCINATION, (from vacca, a cow), is the artificial production of a disease, originally obtained from the cow, (cow-pox), by bringing the matter of that disease in contact with the living fibre.
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kp-eb0721-053701-0575 | VACS, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Upper Danube, the capital of a circle of the same name, but called by the Germans Waizen. It stands on the river Danube, on a fruitful plain. It is the seat of a biahop, has a cathedral and several other churches, two monasteries, a college, an orp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053702-0575 | VACUUM, in Philosophy, denotes a space void of all matter or body. It has been disputed whether there be in nature a perfect vacuum; but if bodies consist of material solid atoms. It is evident that there must be vacuities, or motion would be impossible. We can even produce something very near a vacuum in the receiver ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053703-0575 | VAGABOND, or Vagrant, one who wanders illegally, without a settled habitation. Such persons are cognizable by the laws. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053704-0575 | VAILLANT, Jean Foy, to whom, according to Voltaire, France was indebted for the science of medals, and Louis XIV. for one half of his cabinet, was born at Beauvais on the 24th of May 1632. At the age of three, he lost his father, and the charge of his education was undertaken by one of his maternal unclcs. This uncle, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053801-0576 | VAIR, or Vaire, a kind of fur, formerly used for lining the garments of great men. It is represented in engraving by the figures of little bells reversed, ranged in a line. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053802-0576 | VAIRY, in Heraldry, expresses a coat, or the bearings of a coat, when charged or chequered with vairs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053803-0576 | VALAISE, or Wallis, a canton of Switzerland, in the south-western part, a district comprehending a large portion of the Alps and the land between them and Italy. It extends in north latitude from 45° 55' to 46° 30', and in east longitude from 6° 35' to 8° 9', containing 1254 square geographical miles. It is bounded on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053804-0576 | VALANGIN, a market town, the capital of a county of the same name in the canton of Neufchâtel, in Switzerland. It stands on a narrow pass between mountains, on the river Seyon. It is the seat of a court of justice over a large district, with three towns in it, and it contains 5640 inhabitants. Near to it is a very larg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053805-0576 | VALCKENAER, Lewis Caspar, one of the ablest scholars of the eighteenth century, was born at Lecuwarden in Friesland, in the year 1715. He prosecuted his academical studies at Franeker and Leyden, and at an early age distinguished himself by his uncommon skill in ancient literature. The first appointment which his learn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-053901-0577 | VALDENSES, Waldenses, Vallenses, Valdesii, Vaudes, or Vaudois, a community of Christians in the Cottian Alps, well known under these names, whether used as a territorial or ecclesiastical distinction. They formerly peopled a continuous and extensive mountain tract of country both in France and Italy, in the provinces o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054401-0582 | VALDEPENNAS, a town of Spain, in the province of La Mancha and the partido of Ciudad Real, of which partido it is the capital. It is surrounded with walls, is well built, having a college, three churches, nine monasteries and five hospitals, with about 9000 inhabitants. It has some manufactures of gloves and woollen go... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054501-0583 | VALDO, or Waldo, Peter, frequently described as the Lyonese reformer of the twelfth century, appears in contemporary documents under the appellation of Valdes. In the earliest existing documents he is called Valdes (by W. Mapes,) and Valdesius (by the Chronicler of Laon), Valdesius, Valdius, Valdensis, Waldius, and Wal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054701-0585 | VALENCE, an arrondissement in the department of the Drome, in the south-east of France. It is thirty-five and a-half square miles in extent, is divided into ten cantons, distributed into 101 communes, and in 1836 contained 138,546 inhabitants. The capital of the same name stands on the left bank of the Rhone, is surrou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054801-0586 | VALENCIA, a province, or, as it is called from its ancient title, a kingdom of Spain. It extends over 643 square leagues, and its population amounts to 825,059 souls, being the most densely peopled part of the peninsula. It appears by authentic data taken in the year 1808, that in the course of forty years prior to tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054802-0586 | VALENCIENNES, a strongly fortified city of France, in the department of the North, and the arrondissement of Douay. It stands on the river Scheldt, where the Rhonelle falls into that stream. It has a powerful citadel and deep trenches. After a brave defence. It was captured by the duke of York in 1793. It is a place of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054803-0586 | VALENTINIANS, a sect of Christian heretics, who sprung up in the second century, and were so called from their leader Valentinus. The Valentinians were only a branch of the Gnostics, who realised or personified the Platonic ideas concerning the Deity, whom they called Pleroma or Plenitude. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054804-0586 | VALERIUS FLACCUS, Caius. See Flaccus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054805-0586 | VALERIUS MAXIMUS, a Latin writer of the age of Tiberius. His praenomen is by some supposed to have been Publius, by others Marcus. We learn from different passages of his own work, that he served in Asia with Sextus Pompeius, and returned to Rome after the death of Sejanus, or towards the end of the reign of Tiberius. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054806-0586 | VALERY, St, a sea-port of France, in the department of the Lower Seine, and the arrondissement of Yvetot. On the English channel it has a good tide-harbour, from which the herring and other fisheries are extensively carried on, and where many ships are built. Lat. 49. 52. 12. Long. 4. 35. 20. The inhabitants in 1836 am... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054807-0586 | VALET, a French term, used as a common name for domestic men-servants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054808-0586 | VALETTA, La, the capital of the island of Malta, is situated on the east side of the island, in 14° 30' E. long., [7:21:549]and 36° 53' N. lat. It was founded in 1566 by the celebrated grandmaster of the same name, and received munificent contributions from the pope, and from the kings of Spain, France, and Portugal, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054901-0587 | VALLADOLID, one of the provinces into which the kingdom of Leon in Spain is divided. It extends over 271 square leagues, and has a population of 187,390 souls. It is situated in a country destitute of trees, except an occasional mixture of fir woods in some of the more sandy soils. From being thus denuded of trees. It ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054902-0587 | VALOGNES, an arrondisement of the department of Manche in France. It extends over 406 square miles, and comprehends seven cantons, which are divided into 118 communes, with 95,950 inhabitants in 1836. The capital is the city of the same name, nine miles from the sea, on the banks of the river Werderet. It is a place of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054903-0587 | VALLEGGIO, a city of Italy, in the delegation of Verona, and under the Austrian government of Milan. It stands on the river Mincio, and contains 5350 inhabitants, chiefly employed in the culture of silk. Near to it is Borghetto, where, in 1796, the Austrian army was defeated by Bonaparte. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054904-0587 | VALVE, in Hydraulics, Pneumatics, &c. is a kind of lid or cover of a tube or vessel, so contrived as to open one way, but which, the more forcibly it is pressed the other way, the closer it shuts the aperture; so that it either admits the entrance of a fluid into the tube or vessel, and prevents its return; or admits i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-054905-0587 | VANBRUGH, S ir John, a very eminent dramatic writer, descended from a family originally of Ghent in Flanders. The persecution of the protestants by the duke of Alva drove his grandfather to London, where he established himself as a merchant. His son Giles went to reside in the city of Chester; and there it is supposed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-055101-0589 | VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, or Tasmania. This island was long considered to form the southern termination of the great island of New Holland; and it was only ascertained to be an island in 1798, by Surgeon Bass and Lieutenant Flinders. It is situated between the parallels of 41° 20’ and 43° 40' S., and the meridians of 144° 40'... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 32' S 139 49' E | VAN DIEMEN’S LAND |
kp-eb0721-055601-0594 | VANDSHELLING ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands on the south coast of New Guinea. Long. 136. 15. E. Lat 3. 32. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-055602-0594 | VANDYCK, Sir Αντηονυ, a celebrated painter, was born at Antwerp in the year 1599. After giving early proofs of his genius, he became the disciple of the illustrious Rubens. In the church of the Augustines at Antwerp, at the high altar, is a celebrated picture of Rubens, representing, in one part, the Virgin Mary sittin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-055701-0595 | VANE, a thin slip of bunting hung to the mast-head, or some other conspicuous place in the ship, to show the direction of the wind. It is commonly sewed upon a wooden frame called the stock, which contains two holes for slipping over the spindle, upon which it turns about as the wind changes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-055702-0595 | VANNES, an arrondissement in the department of Morbihan in France, extending over 638 square miles, comprehending eleven cantons, divided into seven communes, and containing a population of 125,898 in 1836. The capital is the city of the same name, which is connected with the gulf of Morbihan by a canal about two and a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-055703-0595 | VAR, a department of the south-east of France, formed out of the eastern part of ancient Provence. It extends in north latitude from 43° 2' to 44° 0', and in east longitude from 5° 29' to 6’ 59' and comprehends 2854 square miles. It is bounded on the north by the department of the Lower Alps, on the north-east by Piedm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-055704-0595 | VARDOOSETTAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Tinnevelly, twenty-three miles S.S.W. from Madura. Long. 78. 11. E. Lat. 9. 36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-055705-0595 | VARIATIONS, Calculus of. 1. The object of this calculus is the discovery of the form of a function which shall fulfil certain conditions, not expressed in direct terms, but involved in a finite integral. The first instance of a problem of this kind appears in a scholium to Prop. 34, b. ii. of the Principia, published i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056001-0598 | VARNA, a city of Turkey in Europe in the province of Silistra. It stands on the Black sea, at the mouth of the river of the same name. It is strongly fortified, and considered as one of the most important defences o∙' the southern division of Turkey in Europe. The obstinate defence of it, in the late war with Russia, s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056101-0599 | VARNISH, a clear limpid fluid, capable of hardening without losing its transparency, used by painters, gilders, &c. to give a lustre to their works, in order to preserve them and defend them from the air.
A coat of varnish ought to possess the following properties. 1st. It must exclude the action of the air; because w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056201-0600 | VARPA, an island near the north-east coast of Sumatra, about thirty miles in circumference. Long. 103. 25. E. Lat. 0. 36. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 0 36' S 103 25' E | VARPA |
kp-eb0721-056202-0600 | VARRO, Marcus Terentius, a very learned and very miscellaneous writer, was born at Rome about the year 116
before the Christian era. He received what was then considered as the best education that could be obtained. Having studied at Rome under Stilo, he proceeded to Athens, and became the disciple of Antiochus, an Ac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056301-0601 | VARRO ATACINUS, Publius Terentius, a Latin poet, was born in the province of Narbonne in the year 82 before the Christian era. According to Jerom, he derived his cognomen from a village named Atace; but as we discover no other trace of such a village, the account of Porphyrion, that he derived it from the river Atace, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056401-0602 | VARSHAH, a town in the Affghan territories, in the province of Lahore, thirty-eight miles east from the Indus. Long. 71. 40. E. Lat. 31. 47. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 31 47' N 71 40' E | VARSHAH |
kp-eb0721-056402-0602 | VASE, a term frequently used for ancient vessels dug from under ground, or otherwise found, and preserved in the cabinets of the curious. In architecture, the appellation vase is also given to those ornaments placed on corniches, fochles, or pedestals, representing the vessels of the ancients, particularly those used i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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