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kp-eb0704-023903-2422 | AUTOGRAPH denotes a person’s own handwriting, or the original manuscript of any book, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023904-2422 | AUTOLITHOTOMUS, he who cuts himself for the stone. Of this a very extraordinary instance is given by Reiselius, in the Ephemerides of the Academy Natures Curiosorum, dec. 1, an. 3, obs. 192. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023905-2422 | AUTOMATON (from avτος, ipse, and μaoμaι, excitor), a self-moving machine, or one so constructed, by means of weights, levers, pulleys, and other mechanism, as to move for a considerable time as if endowed with animal life. According to this description, clocks, watches, and all machines of that kind, are automata.
Und... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023906-2422 | AUTONOMIA, a power of living or being governed by our own laws and magistrates. The liberty of the cities under the faith and protection of the Romans consisted in their autonomia; that is, they were allowed to make their own laws, and elect their own magistrates, by whom justice was to be administered, and not by Roma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023907-2422 | AUŢOPYROS, from aυτoς, and <nvgoς, wheat; in the ancient diet, an epithet given to a species of bread, wherein the whole substance of the wheat was retained, without retrenching any part of the bran. Galen describes it otherwise, viz. as bread where only the coarser bran was taken out; and thus it was a medium between ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023908-2422 | AUTUMN, the third season of the year, when the harvest and fruits are gathered in. Autumn is represented tn painting by a man at perfect age, clothed like the verbal, and likewise girded with a starry girdle, holding in one hand a pair of scales equaliy poised, with a globe in each, and in the other a bunch of divers f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023909-2422 | AUTUMNAL Equinox, that time when the sun enters the autumnal point.
Autumnal Point is that part of the equinox from which the sun begins to descend towards the south pole.
Autumnal Signs, in Astronomy, are the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes during the autunm. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023910-2422 | AUTUN, one of the arrondissements of the department of the Saône and Loire⅛ in France, extending over 647 square miles, or 414,080 acres. It is divided into eight cantons, and again into 87 communes, and contains 69,192 inhabitants. The chief city of the arrondissement bears the same name. It is built on the banks of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 56' 58" N 4 11' 50" E | AUTUN |
kp-eb0704-023911-2422 | AUVERNAS, a very deep-coloured heady wine, made of black raisins so called, which are produced near Orleans. It is not fit to be drunk before it is above a year old, but if kept two or three years it becomes excellent. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023912-2422 | AUXERRE, an arrondissement in the department of the Yonne, in France. Its extent is 774 square miles, or 475,360 acres, divided into 12 cantons and 130 communes, with 102,122 inhabitants. The chief city of the arrondissement is of the same name. It is situated on the banks of the Yonne, in a district productive of wine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023913-2422 | AUXESIS, in Mythology., a goddess worshipped by the inhabitants of Aegiua, and mentioned by Herodotus and Fausanias.
Auxesis, in Rhetoric, a figure whereby any thing is magnified too much. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023914-2422 | AUXILIARY, whatever is aiding or helping to another.
Auxiliary Verbs, in Grammar, are such as help to form or conjugate others; that is, are prefixed to them, to form or denote the modes or tenses thereof; as, to have and to be in the English; être and avoir in the French; ho and sono in the Italian, &c. In the Englis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023915-2422 | AUXO, in Mythology, the name of one of two Graces worshipped by the Athenians. See Hegemone. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023916-2422 | AUXONNE, a city in the arrondissement of Dijon and department of Côte d’Or, in France. It is on the Saône, and is strongly fortified. The inhabitants are 5280, who, besides their manufactures of cloth and serges, carry on by the river considerable traffic with Lyons. Long. 5.17. 4 E. Lat. 47. 11.24. N.
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... | 47 11' 24" N 5 17' 4" E | AUXONNE |
kp-eb0704-024001-2435 | AVA. This extensive country is situated in the southeast of Asia, in the region beyond the Ganges. It Is possessed by the Burmese, the limits of whose dominions, having been greatly enlarged by conquest, cannot be very correctly defined. On the west, where they border with the British territories in India, they are bou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 50' N 96 E | AVA |
kp-eb0704-024901-2552 | AVADOUTAS, a sect of Indian Brahmins, who in austerity surpass all the rest. The other sects retain earthen vessels for holding their provisions, and a stick to lean on; but none of these are used by the Avadoutas; they only cover their nakedness with a piece of cloth, and some of them even dispense with that, going qu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-024902-2552 | AVAL. See Bahrein. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-024903-2552 | AVALANCHES, a name given to prodigious masses of consolidated snow, which, disengaged from the summits or more elevated peaks, frequently roll down the sides of the Alps. See the article Alps. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-024904-2552 | AVÀLLON, an arrondissement in the department of the Yonne, in France, extending over 456 square miles, or Ml,810 acres,and comprehending five cantons, divided into seventy communes, with 43,295 inhabitants. The capital of the arrondissement is of the same name. It is situated θ n a bθd of granite, at the foot of which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 28' N 3 46' E | AVÀLLON |
kp-eb0704-024905-2552 | AVEIRO, a town of Portugal, in the province of Beira, containing a population of 7000 inhabitants. It has a thriving trade in oil, salt, and fish. Long. 8. 34. W. Lat. 40. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 40' N 8 34' W | AVEIRO |
kp-eb0704-024906-2552 | AVEIRON or Aveyron, a department so called from the river of the same name, which runs through it from east to west. It is bounded on the north by the department of Cantal, on the north-cast by that of Lozère, on the east by that of the Gard, on the south-east by that of Hérault, on the south-west by that of the Tarn, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-024907-2552 | AVELGHEM, a market-town on the left bank of the Scheld, in the circle of Courtray and province of West Flanders, in the Netherlands. It contains 3780 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-024908-2552 | AVELLA, a town of Naples, in the province of Terra di Lavoro, in a fine situation, and commanding most extensive prospects. It is distant about 15 miles from the city of Naples, and contains 5050 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-024909-2552 | AVELLINO, a large town of the Principato-Ultra, in [7:4:250] the kingdom of Naples, about 25 miles to the eastward of the metropolis. It is the see of a bishop, and contains many churches, though with nothing peculiarly striking except some most grotesque ornaments. It is a manufacturing town of some consequence, and e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025001-2565 | AVE-MARIA, the angel Gabriel’s salutation to the Virgin Mary, when he brought her the tidings of the incarnation. It is become a prayer or form of devotion in the Romish church. The chaplets and rosaries are divided into so many ave-marias and so many pater-nosters, to which the Papists ascribe a wonderful efficacy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025002-2565 | AVENCHES, a circle of the Canton Waadt or Vaud, in Switzerland, divided into two arrondissements, containing 3760 inhabitants. It is situated on the borders of the Murten Lake. The chief town is of the same name, and contains 1100 inhabitants, who cultivate fruits and tobacco. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025003-2565 | AVENOR, an officer belonging to the king’s stables, who provides oats for the horses. He acts by warrant from the master of the horse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025004-2565 | AVENTINE, John, author of the Annals of Bavaria, was born in the year 1466, at Abensperg, in the country just named. He studied first at Ingoldstadt, and afterwards in the university of Paris. In 1503, he privately taught eloquence and poetry at Vienna, and, in 1507, he publicly taught Greek at Cracow in Poland. In 150... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025005-2565 | AVENTINUS Mons, one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome stood. The origin of the name Aventinus is uncertain; but this hill was also called Murcius, from Murcia, the goddess of sloth, who had a little chapel there; and Collis Dianae, from the temple of Diana; likewise Remonius, from Remus, who wanted to build the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025006-2565 | AVENUE, in Gardening, a walk planted on each side with trees, and leading to a house, garden-gate, wood, &c. and generally terminated by some distant object. The trees most proper for avenues with us are the English elm, the lime, the horse-chestnut, the common chestnut, the beech, and the abele. The English elm will d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025007-2565 | AVENWEDDE, a town on the Dalke, with 2880 inhabitants, in the circle of Wiedenbruck and government of Menden, in the Prussian province of Westphalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025008-2565 | AVENZOAR, Abu Merwan Abdalmalec ebn Zohr, an eminent Arabian physician, who flourished about the end of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century. He was of noble descent, and born at Seville, the capital of Andalusia, where he exercised his profession with great reputation. He was contemporary with Averroes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025009-2565 | AVERAGE,^[1. Average is said by Cowell to be derived from the Latin word averaġiwm, from the verb averare, to carry. He supposes it to have been introduced into commerce to show the proportion to be paid by every man according this goods carried. Loccenius, on the other hand, derives it from the French havre, or the Ge... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025401-2617 | AVERDUPOIS. See Avoirdupois. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025402-2617 | AVERNES, or AVENNES, a small but well-fortified town in Hainault, on the frontier of France towards the Netherlands. It is the head of an arrondissement in the department of the North, and contains a population of 2700. Long. 4. E. Lat. 50.7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 7' N 4 E | AVERNES |
kp-eb0704-025403-2617 | AVERNUS, a lake of Campania in Italy, near Baiae, famous among the ancients for its poisonous qualities. It is described by Strabo as situated within the Lucrine Bay, deep and darksome, surrounded with steep overhanging banks, and only accessible by the narrow passage through which you sail in. Black aged groves stretc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025404-2617 | AVERROES, one of the most subtile philosophers that ever appeared among the Arabians, flourished at the end of the eleventh and beginning of the twelfth century. H e was the son of the high-priest and chief judge of Cordoba in Spain; and, educated in the university of Morocco, he studied natural philosophy, medicine, m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025501-2630 | AVERROISTS, a sect of Peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy some time before the restoration of learning, and attacked the immortality of the soul. They took their denomination from Averroes, from whom they borrowed their distinguishing doctrine. The Averroists held that the soul was mortal, according to reas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025502-2630 | AVERRUNCI (Dei), certain gods, whose business it was, according to the Pagan theology, to avert misfortunes. Apollo and Hercules were of the number of these gods among the Greeks, and Castor and Pollux among the Romans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025503-2630 | AVERSA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, and a bishop’s see. It is situated in a very fine plain, in long. 14. 20. E. lat. 4L 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025504-2630 | AVES, one of the Carribbee Islands, 451 miles south of Porto Rico with a good harbour for the careening of ships. It is so called from the great number of birds that frequent it. There is another of the same name lying to the northward of this, in lat. 15. 0. N.; and a third near the eastern coast of Newfoundland, in l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025505-2630 | AVESBURY, Robert, an English historian, of whom little more is known than that he was keeper of the registry of the court of Canterbury in the reign of Edward III. and consequently that he lived in the fourteenth century. He wrote Memorabilia gesta magnifici regis Angliae domini Edwardi Tertii post Conquoestum, proceru... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025506-2630 | AVEZZANO, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Ulteriore, containing about 2700 inhabitants. Long. 13. 32. E. Lat. 41. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025507-2630 | AVIARY, a place set apart for feeding and propagating birds. It should be so large as to give the birds some freedom of flight; and turfed, to avoid the appearance of foulness on the floor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025508-2630 | AVICENNA, or Avicenes, the prince of Arabian philosophers and physicians, was born at Assena, a village in the neighbourhood of Buckharia. His father was from Balkh in Persia, and had married at Buckharia. The first years of Avicenna were devoted to the study of the koran and the belles lettres. He soon showed what he ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025509-2630 | AVIGLIANO, a small town of Piedmont in Italy. Long. 7. 5. E. Lat. 44. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025510-2630 | AVIGNON, an arrondissement in the department of Vaucluse, in France, the extent of which is 174 square miles, or 117,360 acres. It comprehends five cantons, divided into 21 communes, containing 52,504 inhabitants. The capital of the arrondissement is of the same name, and situated in a beautiful valley on the left bank... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025601-2643 | AVILA, one of the four provinces into which Old Castile in Spain is divided. It is the least of the four, and most thinly peopled. The extent is 215 square leagues, and the population 118,061 souls. The high ridge of the mountains of Guadarrama separates it from the province.of Madrid. The principal river which waters ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025602-2643 | AVIO, a market-town with 2045 inhabitants, employed chiefly in the silk manufactory. It is situated on the river Etsch, in the Italian confines of Roveredo, in the Austrian principality of Tyrol. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025603-2643 | AVIS, a walled town of Portugal, situated on the river of the same name in Alentejo, and containing about 1500 inhabitants. It is nine miles north-west of Estremoz. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025604-2643 | AVISON, Charles, organist of Newcastle, and a disciple of Geminiani, was the author of an essay on musical expression, published in the year 1752, in which are some judicious reflections on music in general. Throughout his book he celebrates Marcello andGeminiani; the latter frequently to the prejudice of Mr Handel. In... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025605-2643 | AVLONA, a Turkish European paschalic, comprehending a part of the ancient Albania, and a province on the sea-coast. It is bounded on the north and north-east by the paschalic of Ilbessan, on the south-east by Yanina, on the south by Delonia, and on the west by the Adriatic Sea. I he climate and soil resemble that of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025606-2643 | AVOIRDUPOIS. This was formerly the weight used for the larger and coarser commodities, such as groceries, cheese, wool, lead, &c. The proportion of a pound avoirdupois to a pound troy is as 17 to 14. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025607-2643 | AVOLA, a city of Sicily, in the intendancy of Sara-gosa, on the sea-coast, with 6780 inhabitants. There are some sugar plantations near it, but from their unprofitableness they are nearly abandoned. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025608-2643 | AVOSET. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025609-2643 | AVRANCHES, an arrondissement in the department of Calvados, in France, the extent of which is 475 square miles, or 304,000 acres. It is divided into nine cantons, and these into 127 communes, containing 106,144 inhabitants. The capital of the arrondissement is of the same name. It stands on a hill, at the foot of which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025610-2643 | AVSTA, a mining village in the barony of Rasgard and province of Storakopparber (formerly Dalcarleia), in Sweden. It suffered by fire in 1803, but has since been rebuilt and increased. It contains 115 houses and 600 inhabitants, all employed in the various mineral products of the vicinity. There is a mint for coining c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025611-2643 | AWA, in Japan, the capital of a province on the south coast of the island of Niphon, 85 miles south of Jeddo. Long. 140. 4. E. Lat. 34. 24. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025612-2643 | AWARD, in Law, the judgment of an arbitrator, or of one who is not appointed by the law a judge, but chosen by the parties themselves for terminating their difference. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025613-2643 | AWASI, or Awadsi, an island of Japan, about 60 miles in circumference. It is situated near the south coast of Niphon. Long. 133. 44. E. Lat. 34. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025614-2643 | AWL, among shoemakers, an instrument wherewith holes are bored through the leather to facilitate the stitching or sewing of the same. The blade of the awl is usually a little flat and bended, and the point ground to an acute angle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025615-2643 | AWME, or Aume, a Dutch liquid measure, containing eight steckens or twenty verges or verteels, equal to the tierce in England, or to one sixth of a ton in France. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025616-2643 | AX, a carpenter’s instrument for hewing wood. It ιs furnished with a long handle or helve, for the purpose of being used with both hands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025617-2643 | AXAMENTA, in Antiquity, a denomination given to the verses or songs of the Salii, which they sung in honour of all men. The word is formed, according to some, from axare, q. d. nominare. Others will have the Carmin Saliaria to have been denominated axamenia, on account of their having been written in axibus, or on wood... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025701-2656 | AXBRIDGE, a market-town, formerly a borough, of the hundred of Winterstoke, in the county of Somerset. It stands on the river Ax, just below the range of the Mendip hills, near the great chasm through them known by the name of Chedder Clift. The corporation is of great antiquity, as is the large Gothic parish church. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 17' N 40 0' E | AXBRIDGE |
kp-eb0704-025702-2656 | AXHOLM, an island in the north-west part of Lincolnshire, in England, formed by the rivers Trent, Idle, and Dan. It is about twenty miles in circuit, and contains three villages, Crowle, Epworth, and Hyrst. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025703-2656 | AXILLA, va Anatomy, the arm-pit, or the cavity under the upper part of the arm. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025704-2656 | AXILLARY, something belonging to or lying near the axilla. Thus, axillary artery is that part of the subclavian branches of the ascending trunk of the aorta which passes under the arm-pits; axillary glands are situated under the arm-pits, enveloped in fat, and he close by the axillary vessels; ⅛ ∖∖ Α axillary vein is o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025705-2656 | AXIM, a small territory on the Gold Coast of Africa, due east of Apollonia. The climate in this part is so excessively moist that it is proverbially said to rain eleven months and twenty-nine days of the year. This excessive moisture renders it very unhealthy, but it produces great quantities of rice, water melons, lem... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025706-2656 | AXINOMANCY, Axinomantia, from αξ∕vη, securis, and μuντuα, divinatio; an ancient species of divination, or a method of foretelling future events by means of an ax or hatchet. This art was in considerable repute amongst the ancients, and was performed, according to some, by laying an agate stone on a red-hot hatchet, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025707-2656 | AXIOM, Axioma (from αξ∕oω, dignum censeo, I account worthy), a self-evident truth, or a proposition the truth of which every person perceives at first sight. Thus, the whole is greater than a part; a thing cannot be and not be at the same time; and from nothing, nothing can arise; are propositions or truths of this des... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025708-2656 | AXIS, in Geometry, the straight line in a plain figure, about which it revolves, to produce or generate a solid. Thus, if a semicircle be moved round its diameter at rest, it will generate a sphere, the axis of which is that diameter.
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kp-eb0704-025709-2656 | AXMINSTER, a market-town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Devon. It takes its name from the river Axe, on which it stands, and the ancient abbey church or minster which ornaments the centre of the town, and which was built by King Athelstane to commemorate a victory over the Danes. It is 147 miles from... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025710-2656 | AXUNGIA, in a general sense, denotes old lard, or the driest and hardest of any fat in the bodies of animals; but more properly it signifies only hog’s.lard. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025711-2656 | AY, or Aι, a town of France, in the department of Marne, containing 2500 inhabitants. It is celebrated for its wines, which are esteemed superior to any in Champagne. Five leagues south of Rheims. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025712-2656 | AYAMONTE, a town of Spain, in the province of Seville. It is a sea-port in the centre of the gulf of Huelva. The Guadiana, increased by the stream of the Chauza, passes the town, and empties itself into the ocean at this spot. Ayamonte is well fortified, and the harbour is good, but, on account of a bar at its mouth, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025801-2669 | AYLESBURY, a market and borough town of the hundred of the same name, in the county of Buckingham, and thirty-nine miles from London. It stands on a gentle hill in the centre of a fertile vale, through which one of those small streams runs, the waters of which contribute to form the Thames. It is favoured by the extens... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025802-2669 | AYLMER, John, bishop of London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was born in the year 1521, at Ayhner-hall, in the parish of Tilney, in the county of Norfolk. Whilst a boy, he was distinguished for his quick parts by the marquis of Dorset, afterwards duke of Suffolk, who sent him to Cambridge, and made him his chaplain,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025803-2669 | AYLSHAM, a market-town of the hundred of South Erpingham, in the county of Norfolk, 112 miles from London. It has a good market-place, is a cheerful looking town, and is connected with the sea by a navigable canal. There was formerly some trade in knitting stockings, which has much declined of late years. The market is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025804-2669 | AYMARGUES, a city in the arrondissement of Nismes and department of the Gard, in France. It is situated on the bank of the Rosny, and has 1800 inhabitants, with brandy distilleries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025805-2669 | AYORA, a well-built town, pleasantly situated, in the gover nment of Cofrentes and province of Valencia, in Spain, containing 5850 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025806-2669 | AYR, a ιoyal burgh, the capital of Ayrshire, is situated at the influx of the river Ayr into the Irish Sea. The spot has been inhabited from a remote antiquity. It was the site of a Roman station; and it has been ascertained that a hamlet remained here until the year 1197, when William the Lion engrafted a new town upo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-025901-2682 | AYRSHIRE, a county in the west of Scotland, considerable for its population and industry, is bounded by Wigtonshire and the stewartry of Kirkcudbright on the south, by the counties of Dumfries and Lanark on the north-east and east, by Renfrewshire on the north, and by the Irish Sea and the Frith of Clyde for about 70 m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026001-2695 | AYRAINES, a town in tfie department of the Somme and the arrondissement of Amurs, in France, with a population of 1560 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026002-2695 | AYR ∖, or Aery, of hawks, a nest or company of hawks, so called from the old French word aire, which signifies the same thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026003-2695 | AYSCUE, Sir George, a gallant English admiral, descended from a good family in Lincolnshire. He obtained the honour of knighthood from King Charles L which, however, did not withhold him from adhering to the parliament in the civil war. He was by them constituted admiral of the Irish seas, where he is said to have done... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026101-2708 | AZAMOR, a small sea-port of the kingdom of Morocco, in Africa. It is situated on the river Morbeya, in the province of Duguella, at a considerable distance from its mouth. This town, though formerly very considerable, is ill fitted for maritime commerce, the entrance of the river being very dangerous. It was unsuccessf... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026102-2708 | AZARIAH, or Uzzian, a king of Judah, succeeded his father Amaziah, 810 years before Christ. He assembled an army of above 300,000 men, with which he conquered the Philistines, demolishing the walls of Gath, Jabniel, and Ashdod, and built up the walls of Jerusalem, furnished the city with conduits, and planted gardens a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026103-2708 | AZAZEL. This word relates to the history of the scape-goat, under the Jewish religion. Some call the goat itself by this name, as St Jerome and Theodoret. Dr Spenser says, the scape-goat was to be sent to Azazel, by which is meant the devil. Μ. Le Clerc translates it proecipitium, making it that steep and inaccessible ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026104-2708 | AZEITAO, a town of Portugal, in the bailiwick of St Ubes and province of Estremadura. It is situated on a small river that runs into the Tagus, and contains 552 houses, with 2342 inhabitants. There is here a calico printing manufactory, as well as several tanneries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026105-2708 | AZËRBIJAN, a province of Persia, part of the ancient Media. It is separated from Armenia on the north by the river Araxes, and from Irak on the south by the Kizilozein or Golden stream. It has the Caspian Sea and Ghilan on the east, and Armenia and Kurdistan on the west, lhe country is superior to the southern province... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026106-2708 | AZIMUTH, in Astronomy, an arch of the horizon, intercepted between the meridian of the place and the vertical circle passing through the centre of the object.
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kp-eb0704-026107-2708 | AZOGA Ships were those Spanish ships commonly called the quicksilver ships, from their carrying quicksilver [7:4:262]to the Spanish West Indies, in order to extract the silver from the ore obtained in the mines of Mexicoand Peru. These ships were not permitted to carry goods unless for the king of Spain’s account. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026201-2721 | AZONI, in Ancient Mythology, a name applied by the Greeks to such of the gods as were deities at large, not appropriated to the worship of any particular town or country, but acknowledged in general by all countries, and worshipped by every nation. These the Latins called dii communes. Of this sort were the Sun, Mars, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026202-2721 | AZOPH or Asow, a city on the sea of that name, situated at the embouchure of the river Don. It was formerly a place of great importance, but has declined since 1774, when it became a fixed part of the Russian empire. The harbour is nearly choked up, and the fortifications are neglected. It now contains about 3000 inhab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026203-2721 | AZORES, or Western Islands. These form a range situate in the Atlantic Ocean, extending in an oblique line from north-west to south-east, between the 37th and 40th degrees of north latitude, and the 25th and 32d degrees of west longitude. It has been a subject of some controversy among geographers, to what quarter of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026401-2747 | AZZARA, Joseph Felix Nicholas de, a celebrated Spanish naturalist. He was born in 1731, at Barbanales, a village near Barbastro, in the province of Aragon. He discovered an early disposition towards the arts and sciences, which was directed and stimulated by his near relation the celebrated painter Mengs. He entered in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026402-2747 | B, the second letter, and first consonant, in all known alphabets, excepting the Ethiopic, where it occupies the ninth place. It is a labial and mute, representing the compression of the lips, and consequently incapable of being uttered or pronounced without the aid of a vowel, or a forcible expiration equivalent in ef... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026501-2760 | BAAL, the same as Bel or Belus, an idol of the Chaldeans and Phoenicians or Canaanites. The word Baal, m the Punic language as well as in the Hebrew, signifies “lord” or “master,” and doubtless meant the supreme Deity, the Lord and Master of the universe. Some learned men think that the Baal of the Phoenicians was the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-026502-2760 | BABATAG, a city of the government of Silistria, in Turkey in Europe. It stands on the lake or estuary Rasim, which communicates with the Black Sea, and it is surrounded by mountains covered with woods. It is a large city, containing 10,000 inhabitants, amongst whom are many Jews and Greeks. It used to be the winter hea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 55' N 28 32' E | BABATAG |
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