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kp-eb0721-056403-0602 | VASSAL, in our ancient customs, signified a tenant or feudatory; or person who vowed fidelity and homage to a lord, on account of some land, &c. held of him in fee; also a slave or servant, and especially a domestic of a prince. See Feudal System. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056404-0602 | VATNA, or Fatsa, a small sea-port of Asia Minor, in the Black sea, at the end of a fine bay. It is now a poor village, with an old palace, and a large khan for the accommodation of merchants trading with the Crimea. It is ten miles south-east of Unieh. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056405-0602 | VATTEL, Emmerich de, an eminent jurist, was the son of a protestant minister, and was born at Couret in the principality of Neuchâtel, in the month of April 1714. His academical studies he prosecuted at Basel and Geneva. During his early years, his favourite pursuit was philosophy; and having carefully examined the wor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056406-0602 | VAUBAN, Sebastian le Prestre de, marshal of France, and the greatest engineer that country ever produced. was born in 1633. He displayed his knowledge of fortification in the course of many sieges, and his services were rewarded with the first military honours. He was made governor of Lisle in 1668, commissary-general ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056407-0602 | VAUCLUSE, a department in the south-east division of France. It has been formed out of the ancient province of Avignon, of the county of Venassin, of the principality of Orange, and of a portion of Upper Provence. It extends in north latitude from 43° 41' to 44° 26', and in east longitude from 4° 34' to 5° 38'. It is b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056501-0603 | VAUD or Waadt, a canton of Switzerland, in the westernmost part of it, extending in north latitude from 46° 17' to 47° 5',and in east longitude from 5° 54' to 7° 1’. It is bounded on the north by the canton and lake of Neuchâtel, on the east by Freyburg, on the south-east by Berne and Valais, on the south by the lake o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056502-0603 | VAUDOTS, or Valpenses. See Waldenses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056503-0603 | VAULT, in Architecture, an arched roof, so contrived that the stones which form it sustain each other. Vaults are on many occasions to be preferred to soffits or flat ceilings, as they give a greater height and elevation, and are besides more firm and durable. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056504-0603 | VAVAO or Vavon, one of the Friendly islands, in the South Pacific ocean, seen by Perouse in 1787. It is nearly equal to the size of Tongataboo. Lat. of the western point 18. 34. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056505-0603 | VAYPEN, a small town in the territories of the Cochin rajah, standing upon a narrow island of the same name, which extends along the coast thirteen miles, and is only one mile in breadth. Long. 76. 7. E. Lat. 9. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056506-0603 | VAZIRABAD, a town of the Seik territories, in the province of Lahore, situated on the cast side of the Chinaub river, forty-seven miles N.N.W. from the city of Lahore. Long. 73. 28. E. Lat. 32. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056507-0603 | VEDAS, the sacred books of the Hindus believed tn he revealed by God, and called immortal. They are considered as the fountain of all knowledge human and divine, and are four in number; of which we have the following account in the first volume of the Asiatic Researches. The Rigue-da consists of five sections; the Yaju... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056601-0604 | VEERE, or Ter Veere, or by the English Campvere. This is a fortified town of the province of Brabant, and the kingdom of the Netherlands. It stands on the north side of the island of Walcheren, on a narrow channel near the mouth of the Scheldt, where two arms of that river meet. It has a fine arsenal, a handsome town-h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056602-0604 | VEGA CARPIO, Lope Felix de, a celebrated Spanish poet, was the son of Felix de Vega and Francisea Fernandez, who were both descended from honourable families, and lived in the neighbourhood of Madrid. In that metropolis he was born on the 25th November 1562. He was, according to his own expression, a poet from his crad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-056701-0605 | VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY. Ιn the Article on the Ανατομυ of Vegetables, a view has been given of the organography of plants, or the structure and forms of vegetables through their several gradations from the seed to the perfect plant. We now proceed to consider the functions which the different organs of vegetables perform,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-058901-0627 | VEGETIUS RENATUS, Flavius, a Latin writer, flourished towards the close of the fourth century. His treatise “De Re Militari,” he inscribed to the emperor Valentinian the Second, who was assassinated in the year 393. He appears to have been a man of rank. Raphael Volaterranus styles him “Comes Constantinopolitanus,” and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-058902-0627 | VEGETIUS RENATUS, Publius, is sometimes confounded with the writer noticed in the preceding article. He is the author of a work on the veterinary art; “Artis Veterinariae, Sive Mulo-medicinae, libri IV.” Basil. 1528, 4to. This is the editio princeps; and it was followed by the edition of Sambucus, Basil. 1574, 4to. Veg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-058903-0627 | VEGLIA, an island in the Adriatic part of the Austrian province of Trieste, in the bay of Quarnaro. It is, including the small island Plaunich, about ninety square miles in extent, and contains a city, three market towns, and four teen villages, with 10,414 inhabitants. The island is mountainous and rocky, and on the n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-058904-0627 | VEII, a city of ancient Etruria, and long the powerful rival of Rome; distant about 100 stadia, or twelve miles, to the north-west, and situated on a high and steep rock. It was taken after a siege of ten years by Camillus, six years before the taking of Rome by the Gauls. The spot on which it stood lies near Isola in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-058905-0627 | VELARIUS, an officer in the court of the Roman emperors, being a kind of usher, whose post was behind the curtain in the prince’s apartment, as that of the chancellor’s was at the entry of the ballustrade, and that of the ostiarii at the door. The velarii had a superior of the same denomination, who commanded them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-058906-0627 | VELE RETE, a cluster of rocks in the eastern seas, to the south of the island of Formosa. Long. 121. 30. E. Lat. 21. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-058907-0627 | VELITES, in the Roman army, a kind of ancient soldiery, who were armed lightly with a javelin, a casque, cuirass, and shield. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-058908-0627 | VELLETRI, a city of Italy, in the papal territory, and the district of Tivoli. It stands on the declivity of the Albanian hills, has decayed walls and dilapidated towers, but is the seat of a bishop. It is ill built, but has a fine market place, a cathedral, with several other churches, nine monasteries, and two nunner... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-058909-0627 | VELLORE, a celebrated town and fortress of the south of India, province of the Carnatic, formerly the capital of a small district of the same name. It was once a port of great importance, as it commanded the main road leading to the Upper Carnatic, from the valley of Peniambady, which is the most direct route to and fr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059001-0628 | VELLUM, a town in the Southern Carnatic, seven miles south-west from Tanjore. Long. 79. 7. E. Lat. 10. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059002-0628 | VELLUM, is a kind of parchment, that is finer, evener, and more white than the common parchment. The word is formed from the French velin, of the Latin vitulinus, “belonging to a calf.” | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059003-0628 | VELOCITY, in Mechanics, swiftness; that affection of motion whereby a moveable is disposed to run over a certain space in a certain time. It is also called celerity, and is always proportional to the space moved. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059004-0628 | VELVET, a rich kind of stuff, all silk, covered on the outside with a close, short, fine, soft shag, the other side being a very strong close tissue. The nap or shag, called also the velveting, of this stuff, is formed of part of the threads of the warp, which the workman puts on a long narrow-channelled ruler or needl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059005-0628 | VENCATIGHERRY, a town in the province of the Carnatic, eighty-two miles north-west from Madras. Long. 79. 32. E. , Lat. 13. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059006-0628 | VENDEE, a department of the south-west of France, formed out of the western part of the ancient Lower Poitou. It extends in north latitude from 46° 19’ to 47° 7', and in east longitude from 0° 44' to 2° 32'. It is bounded on the north by the departments of the Lower Loire and Mayenne-Loire, on the east by that of the t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059007-0628 | VENDOLA, the most eastern of the Admiralty Islands, about three miles in circuit, covered with cocoa trees, and very populous. It is so surrounded by rocks, that it is almost inaccessible to boats. Long 148. 9∙ E. Lat. 2. 14. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059008-0628 | VENDOME, an arrondissement of France, in the department of the Loire and Cher. It is 655½ square miles in extent, comprehends eight cantons divided into 110 communes, and in 1836 contained 77,760 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, stands on two islands in the river Loire. In 1836 it contained 8206 inhab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059009-0628 | VENEERING, Vaneering, or Fineering, a kind of marquetry, or inlaying, by which several thin slices or leaves of fine wood, of different kinds, are applied and fastened on [7:21:591]a ground of some common wood. There are two kinds of inlaying; the one, which is the more ordinary, goes no farther than the making of comp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059101-0629 | VENEZUELA, one of the provinces which composed the republic of Colombia, but which has recently been erected into an independent republic, is situated between 2° and 12° north lat. and 60° and 73° west long. It is bounded on the north by the Caribbean sea, on the east by British Guiana, on the west by New Granada, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059301-0631 | VENIAMBADY, a small village of Hindustan, in the Barramahal province, fortified with a mud wall, 120 miles west-south-west from Madras. Long. 78∙ 42. E. Lat. 12. 42. N. It stands on the banks of the Palar, and contains two temples of note, the one dedicated to Mahadeva or Siva, and the other to Vishnu. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059302-0631 | VENICE is situated in north lat. 45° 25' and east long. 12° 20', in the midst of a lagune, or shallow lake, which extends about twenty miles in length from north to south, and about six in breadth, divided from the sea by the two islands, or sand-banks, of Malamocco and Palestrina, each about nine miles long, but only ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059501-0633 | VENLOO, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Limburg and circle of Roermund. It is situated on the right bank of the Meuse, over which is a flying bridge. It is strongly fortified, and is protected by Fort St. Michael on the opposite side of the river. It contains 5740 inhabitants. Its chief trade is by the ri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059502-0633 | VENTILATION is the art of providing any confined area or apartment with an adequate supply of air, in a condition suitable to the purposes for which it may be required. The air is usually introduced in a stream which maintains a freshness and purity of atmosphere in the place that is ventilated, any contaminated air be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059801-0636 | VENTILATOR, a machine by which the noxious air of any close place may be discharged, and replaced by fresh. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059802-0636 | VENTIVALUM, a town in the Southern Carnatic, forty miles west-north-west from Pondicherry. Long. 79. 25. E. Lat. 12. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059803-0636 | VENTRICLE properly denotes any little cavity; but is more particularly used by physicians and anatomists for the stomach and certain cavities of the heart and brain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059804-0636 | VENTRILOQUISM, an art by which some individuals can so modify their voice, as to make it appear to proceed from any distance, and in any direction. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059805-0636 | VENUS, in Pagan worship, the goddess of love and beauty. Cicero mentions other two deities of this name, Venus, styled Urania and Coelestis, and the Venus Pandemos or Popularis, the wife of Vulcan, and the goddess of wanton and effeminate love. To the first the Pagans ascribed no attributes but such as were agreeable t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059806-0636 | VERA CRUZ, one of the nineteen states which compose the republic of Mexico also the capital city of that state. See Mexico | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059807-0636 | VERAMALLY, a town in the Southern Carnatic, twenty-three miles south-west from Trinchinopoly. Long. 78. 35. E. Lat. 10. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059808-0636 | VERCELLI, a province of the kingdom of Sardinia, in the principality of Piedmont. A part of it is mountainous, but the other portions are fertile, especially in the valleys, where much rice is produced. It contains three cities, and seventy-three towns and villages, with 99,600 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059809-0636 | VERCELLI, a province of the kingdom of Sardinia, in the principality of Piedmont. A part of it is mountainous, but the other portions are fertile, especially in the valleys, where much rice is produced. It contains three cities, and seventy-three towns and villages, with 99,600 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059901-0637 | VERCHAIRALSK, a small town of Asiatic Russia, in the province of Onfa on the Oural, 120 miles S.E. of Onfa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059902-0637 | VERCHATURIA, a town on the western frontier of Siberia, where is established the custom-house of Siberia, which levies a duty of 10 per cent. on all goods passing through it. This town is situated near extensive mines, and contains 450 houses, four churches, and two convents. It is 120 miles north of Catherinenburg. Lo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059903-0637 | VERCHOLENSK, a small town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Irkoutsk, on the Lena, 120 miles north of Irkoutsk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059904-0637 | VERD, CAPE, a promontory on the west coast of Africa, forty miles north-west of the mouth of the river Gambia, in 14° 45' north lat, and 14° 40' west long. The Cape Verd islands are situate about 400 miles west of the Cape; they consist of ten islands beside islets and rocks, and belong to Portugal. The principal is Sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059905-0637 | VERDUN, a city of France, the capital of the arrondissement of the same name, in the department of the Meuse, and standing on that river. It is strongly fortified, and has a most powerful citadel, and is considered one of the most important defences on that side of the kingdom. In 1836 it contained 9978 inhabitants, ex... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059906-0637 | VEREJA, a city of Russia, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the government of Moscow, 513 miles from Petersburg. It stands on the river Protwa, whose water can be used to fill the trenches that surround the walls. The town has considerable trade in corn, hemp, flax, honey, wax, tallow, and wool. It contains ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059907-0637 | VERGE, in Law, signifies the compass of the king’s court, which bounds the jurisdiction of the lord steward of the household. It is supposed to have been twelve miles round. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059908-0637 | VERGERS, officers of the courts of queen’s bench and common pleas, whose business it is to carry white wands before the judges. There are also vergers of cathedrals, who carry a rod tipped with silver before the bishop, dean, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059909-0637 | VERMICELLI, a composition of flour, cheese, yolks of eggs, sugar, and saffron, reduced to a paste, and formed, in to long slender pieces like worms, by forcing it with a piston through a number of little holes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059910-0637 | VERMILION, a bright and beautiful red colour composed of quicksilver and sulphur, in great esteem among the ancients, under the name of minium. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-059911-0637 | VERMIN is a general term, denoting those animals which are either directly or indirectly injurious to mankind, the inferior animals, or the fruits of the earth; as fleas, caterpillars, flies, worms, &c.
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kp-eb0721-060301-0641 | VERMONT, one of the United States of America. It lies between the river Connecticut and the long tapering basin of Lake Champlain; stretching from 42° 44' to 45° north lat., a distance of nearly 160 miles, and from 71° 30' to 73° 20' west long., with a breadth expanding pretty regularly from forty-five miles in the sou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060401-0642 | VERNIER Scale, a scale excellently adapted for the graduation of mathematical instruments, thus called from its inventor Peter Vernier. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060402-0642 | VERNON, a city of France, in the department of the Eure, and the arrondissement of Evreux. It stands in a fine valley situated on the banks of the Seine; and in 1836 it contained 710 houses, with 4485 inhabitants. They carry on considerable trade in corn and flour, and have some large tanneries. Near to it are some val... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060403-0642 | VERONA, a delegation or province of Austrian Lombardy, within the government of Venice. It is bounded on the north by the Tyrol, on the north-east by Vicenza, on the east by Padua, on the south-east by Polesina, on the south by Mantua, and on the west by the lake of Garda, which divides it from Brescia. It extends over... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060404-0642 | VERSAILLES, a city of France, the capital of an arrondissement of the same name, in the department of the Seine and Oise, which extends over 331 square miles, is divided into eight cantons, and those into 114 communes, containing, in 1836, 133,551 inhabitants. This city is extensive, is divided into the new and the old... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060501-0643 | VERSE, in Poetry, a line consisting of a number of long and short syllables, which run with an agreeable cadence. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060502-0643 | VERSETZ, a city of Hungary, the capital of a circle of the same name in the province of Hither Theiss. It is the seat of a Greek bishop, and a place of great industry, having large silk mills, and an extensive trade in wine, corn, rice, silk, and other commodities. Here are extensive barracks for cavalry. It contains m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060503-0643 | VERT, in Heraldry, the term for a green colour. It is called vert in the blazon of the coats of all under the degree of nobles; but in coats of nobility it is called emerald; and in those of kings venus . In engraving it is expressed by diagonals, or lines drawn athwart from right to left, from the dexter chief corner ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060504-0643 | VERTEX denotes the crown of the head. Hence vertex is also used figuratively for the top of other things; thus we say, the vertex of a cone, pyramid, &c.
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kp-eb0721-060505-0643 | VERTICILLUS, a mode of flowering, in which the flowers are produced in rings at each joint of the stem, with very short foot-stalks. The term is exemplified in mint, horehound, and other plants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060506-0643 | VERTICITY, is that property of the loadstone whereby it turns or directs itself to one particular point. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060507-0643 | VERTOT, Rene Aubert De, a lively and elegant, though not a very profound or accurate historian, was born at the castle of Benetot in Normandy, on the 25th of November 1655. He was the second son of a gentleman allied to several distinguished families, but possessed of little or no fortune. He was educated in the Colleg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060508-0643 | VERTUMNUS, in Mythology, a god who presided over gardens and orchards, honoured among the Etruscans, from whom the worship of this deity was transmitted to the Romans. Vertumnus had a temple near the market-place at Rome, being represented as one of the tutelary deities of the merchants. The commentators on Ovid say, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-060509-0643 | VERULAM. Francis Bαcον, Viscount St. Albans, and Baron Verulam. This illustrious man was born in London, on the 22d day of January 1561. His father, Sir Nicholas Bacon, a courtier, a lawyer, and a man of erudition, stood high in the favour of Queen Elizabeth, and was lord-keeper during twenty years of her reign. Anne, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061101-0649 | VERVEIERS, a circle of the province of Liege, in the Netherlands, containing six cantons, divided into twenty-nine communes. The capital is the city of the same name, finely situated on the river Besdre, partly in a valley, and partly on the declivity of some hills. It is well built, and a place of the most active indu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061102-0649 | VESALIUS, Andreas, a celebrated physician and anatomist, was born at Brussels in the year 1514. He studied physic at Paris under Sylvius, but applied himself chiefly to anatomy, which was then very little known, dissections being esteemed unlawful and impious; and it appears from his work “De Humani Corporis Fabrica,” ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061103-0649 | VESOUL, a city of France, the capital of an arrondissement of the same name in the department of the Saone. It stands on the river Drugeon, is well built, and is surrounded with hills, whose sides are covered with vineyards yielding very good wine. Around it are some beautiful promenades. In 1836 it contained 5583 inha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061104-0649 | VESPER, a small island in the Pacific ocean, thirty-six miles in circumference, discovered by Roggewin in 1722. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061105-0649 | VESPERS, in the church of Rome, denote the afternoon service; answering in some measure to the evening prayers of the church of England. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061106-0649 | VESPUCCI, AMERIGO, was born at Florence, 9th March, 1451, of a distinguished family, and was educated by his uncle, a man of great scientific reputation, and made great proficiency, especially in astronomy and geography, and the sciences connected with navigation. He was destined by his family to commercial pursuits, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061201-0650 | VESTA, in pagan worship, the same with Cybele. See Cybele. Vesta the Younger, in pagan worship, the goddess of fire, was the daughter of Saturn and Cybele, and the sister of Ceres. She was so much in love with chastity, that on Jupiter’s ascending the throne, and offering to grant whatever she asked, she only desired t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061202-0650 | VESTALIA, in Roman antiquity, a festival celebrated in honour of the goddess Vesta, on the 5th of the ides of June; that is, on the 9th of the month. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061203-0650 | VESTALS, among the ancient Romans, were priestesses of the goddess Vesta, and had the perpetual fire committed to their charge. They were at first only four in number, but afterwards increased to six; and it does not appear that their number ever exceeded six, among whom was one superior to the rest, and called vestali... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061204-0650 | VESTIBULE, in Architecture, a kind of entrance into a large building; being an open place before the hall, or at the bottom of the staircase. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061205-0650 | VESTRY, a place adjoining to a church, where the vestments of the minister are kept; and also a meeting at such place, consisting of the minister, church-wardens, and chief men of most parishes, who make a parish vestry or meeting. By custom there are select vestries, being a certain number of persons chosen to have th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061206-0650 | VESUVIUS, a celebrated volcano of Italy, six miles east from the city of Naples. This mountain has two tops; one of which only goes by the name of Vesuvius, the other being now called Somma; but Sir William Hamilton is of opinion, that the latter is what the ancients called Vesuvius. The perpendicular height of Vesuviu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-061207-0650 | VETERINARY SCIENCE.
The knowledge and the enlightened treatment of the diseases of domestic animals have, in this country, been elevated to the rank of a science only within the last fifty years. Previously to that time, the art of Farriery consisted in the traditionary lore of the worker in iron, faber ferrarius, or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-063801-0676 | VEVAY, a town of Switzerland, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name in the canton of Vaud. It is finely situated on the lake of Geneva, where the climate is mild, and the prospects around are of the most exciting description. In this town many English families find a retreat. There is a college, an hospital, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-063802-0676 | VIADUCT. The contract for a brick viaduct should clearly define the site and extent of the whole of the sections; the gross amount to be paid, as well as the detail prices at which any additions or extra works are to be paid; an enumeration of the plans, sections, and drawings, which should be signed by the engineer an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064101-0681 | VIALES, in mythology, a name given among the Romans to the gods who had the care and guard of the roads and highways. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064102-0681 | VIANA, a department or corregimento of the province Entre Duro e Minho in Portugal, extending along the seashore to the northward of the river Minho. It comprehends seven towns, 291 villages or parishes, 30,980 dwellings, with about 170,000 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, situated at the mouth of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064201-0682 | VIBEX is sometimes used by physicians, for a black and blue spot on the skin occasioned by an efflux or extravasation of blood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064202-0682 | VICAR, a person appointed as deputy to another, to perform his functions in his absence, and under his authority.
Vicar, in the canon-law, denotes a priest of a parish, the predial tithes of which are impropriated or appropriated; that is, belong either to a chapter, religious house, &c. or to a layman who receives th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064203-0682 | VICENZA, a delegation or province of Austrian Lombardy, within the government of Venice. It is bounded on the north-west by the Tyrol, on the north-east by Belluno, on the east by Treviso, on the south-east by Padua, and on the south-west by Verona. It extends over 836 square miles, is divided into thirteen districts o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064204-0682 | VICENZA, a city, the capital of the delegation of that name in Italy. It is built on two streams, the Bachiglione, and the Recone, which divides it into two parts connected together by four bridges. It is surrounded with walls, having six gates, one of which, leading to the Field of Mars, is considered the master-piece... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064205-0682 | VICRAVANDY, a town in the province of the Carnatic, twenty-two miles west-north-west from Pondicherry. Long. 79. 43. E. Lat. 12. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064206-0682 | VICTOIRE ISLE, a small island in the eastern seas, covered with wood. Long. 106. 30. E. Lat. 1. 39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064207-0682 | VICTOR, Sextus Aurelius, a Latin historian, lived in the age of Constantius and Julian. From the terms in which he speaks of Africa, describing it as “decus terrarum,” it has been conjectured that he was a native of that region. According to his own account, he was born in the country, and was the son of a poor and unl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064208-0682 | VICTORIA FORT, a fortified island on the coast of Concun, about seventy miles south from Bombay, which commands a harbour six miles to the north of Severndroog. Long. 72. 55. E. Lat. 17. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064209-0682 | VICTORY, the overthrow or defeat of an enemy in war or combat.
Victory, in Pagan worship, is represented by Hesiod as the daughter of Styx and Pallas; and Varro calls her the daughter of Heaven and Earth. The Romans erected [7:21:643]a temple to her, where they prayed the gods to give success to their arms. They paint... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064301-0683 | VIDA, Marco GeroNIMO, a very elegant Latin poet, was a native of Cremona, but the time of his birth is uncertain. Different writers have placed it in 1470, 1480, and 1490. His parents were noble, but not wealthy. He prosecuted his studies at Padua and Bologna, and at an early age was admitted into the congregation of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064302-0683 | VIELLE. (Fr.) a very old stringed instrument, played by means of finger-keys, and the friction of a wheel instead of a bow. It is much used by wandering Savoyards. In Britain it is called a hurdy-gurdy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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