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kp-eb0704-043702-4996 | BASTINADO, or Bastinade, the punishment of beating or drubbing a criminal with a stick. The word is formed from the French baston, a stick, staff, or eudgel. The bastinade was a punishment used among the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Jews, and still obtains among the l urks. The Romans called it fastigatio, fustium admon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-043703-4996 | BASTION, in the modern fortification, a huge mass of eaith, usually faced with sods, sometimes with brick, and r rjy w ith stone, standing out from a rampart of which it ls apnncipal part. This is what, in the ancient fortification, was called a bulwark. Solid bastions are those which have e void space within them fill... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-043704-4996 | BASTOGNE, a small town of the Netherlands, in the duchy of Luxemburg. Long. 3. 42. E. Lat. 50. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 6' N 3 42' E | BASTOGNE |
kp-eb0704-043705-4996 | BASTON, Paton, or Patune, is a French word signifying a staff or eudgel; but is by many English writers eor-ruptly spelt as above. It is borne in English coats of arms, as a badge of illegitimacy.
Baston, Robert, a Carmelite monk, afterwards prior of the convent of that order at Scarborough, and also poet lauréat and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-043706-4996 | BASTWICK, Dr John, was born at Writtle, in Essex, in 1593. He practised physic at Colehester, but, being a man of warm imagination, and a good Latin scholar, applied himself to writing books against popery. About the year 1633 he printed in Holland a Latin treatise, entitled Elenchus Religionis Papisticae, with Flagell... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-043707-4996 | BAT. See Mammalia, Index. Bat, Bate, or Batz, a small copper coin, mixed with a little silver, current in several cities of Germany, and worth four crutzers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-043708-4996 | BATABLE, or Debatable Ground, that land which lay between Scotland and England, when the kingdoms were distinct, and to which both nations pretended right. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-043709-4996 | BATACOLO, a small fort and garrison on the east coast of the island of Ceylon, situated on an island in an arm of the sea. Here is a small square fort, mounting twenty-four guns, and a village in the vicinity, chiefly inhabited by Mahommedans and Hindoos. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-043710-4996 | BATALIN, an island in the Eastern Seas, off the coast of Celebes, between the first and second degree of south latitude, and about the 124th degree of east longitude. It is about 25 miles in length by 7 in average breadth.
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kp-eb0704-043801-5009 | BATANG, an island in the Eastern Seas, separated from the island of Bintang by a narrow strait. It lies off the south-eastern extremity of the Malay peninsula, and is surrounded by smaller rocky islets. It is estimated at 25 miles in length by 10 in average breadth.
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... | 0 9' S 128 48' E | BATANG |
kp-eb0704-043802-5009 | BATANISTS, or Batenites. See Batenites. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-043803-5009 | BATAVA (sciLĆWm ), a citadel of V in delicia, so called from the Cohors Batava, in garrison under the commander in Rhaetia; now Passau, situated in Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Inn, and Ills. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-043804-5009 | BATAVIA, a large city and sea-port on the north coast of the island of Java, and the capital of all the Dutch settlements in the East. It is situated on the river Jacatra, in a swampy plain, at the bottom of a bay, and has long been noted for the insalubrity of its atmosphere. This bay is formed by an indentation in th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 10' S 106 51' E | BATAVIA |
kp-eb0704-043901-5022 | BATAVORUM Insula, the island of the Batavi, in Ancient Geography. This island is described by Tacitus. “The Rhine flowing in one channel,” says he, “or only broken by small islands, is divided, at its entering Batavia, as it were into two rivers. One continues its course through Germany, retaining the same name and vio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-043902-5022 | BATE, George, an eminent physician, born at Maid’s [7:4:440]Morton, near Buckingham, in the year 1608. In 1629 he obtained a license, and for some years practised in and about Oxford; but his practice was chiefly amongst the Puritans, who at that time considered him as one of their party. In 1637 he took his degree of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 22' N 69 21' E | BATE |
kp-eb0704-044001-5035 | BATENITES, a sect of apostates from Mahommedanism, dispersed throughout the East, who professed the same abominable practices with the Ismaelians and Kar-matians. The word properly signifies esoteric. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044002-5035 | BATES, William, D. D. an eminent Presbyterian divine, born in November 1625. He was admitted to Emanuel College, Cambridge, and thence removed to King’s College in 1644. He was one of the commissioners at the conference in the Savoy, for reviewing the public liturgy, and was concerned in drawing up the exceptions again... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044003-5035 | BATH, a city in the county of Somerset, and one of the most beautiful places in this kingdom, or indeed in Europe. It stands on the river Frome, 105 miles from London. A great part of the city is but little above th e level of the stream, but the north part gradually rises in rows of streets and crescents, one above th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044101-5048 | BATHERI, a village of Northern Hindostan, situated among the mountains of Serinεgur. It has a sacred temple, and is situated 300 feet above the bed of the Ganges. On the opposite side of the river is an extraordinary cascade, which issues from the summit of the mountain. Long. 78. 30. E. Lat. 30. 49. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 49' N 78 30' E | BATHERI |
kp-eb0704-044102-5048 | BATHGATE, a town and parish of Scotland, in the county of Linlithgow, on the great road between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Lime-stone, coal, and iron-stone, abound in the neighbourhood. It∙is eighteen miles west of Edinburgh. The population is 2919. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044103-5048 | BATHS, Balnea, denote large ornamented buildings, erected by the ancients for the sake of bathing. Baths made a part of the ancient gymnasia, though they were frequented more for the sake of pleasure than of health.
The most magnificent baths were those of Titus, Paulus Aemilius, and Diocletian, of which some ruins st... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044201-5061 | BATHING, the act of using or applying a bath; that is, of immersing the body, or part of it, in water or other fluid.
Bathing is a practice of great antiquity. It prevailed among the Greeks as early as the heroic age; and we even find mention made by Homer of hot baths in the Trojan times, although these seem to have ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044801-5139 | BATHURST, Ralph, M. D. an eminent physician, poet, and divine, was born in the year 1620. He studied divinity in Trinity College, Oxford; but the civil commotions ensuing, he changed the course of his studies, and applying himself to physic, took a doctor’s degree in that faculty. By dint of assiduous application, he s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044901-5152 | BATHYLLUS and PY z LADES, inventors of pantomimic entertainments on the stage. Bathyllus succeeded in representing comedy; Pylades in representing tragedy. Their art consisted in expressing the passions by gestures, attitudes, and dumb show; not, as in modern times, in machinery and the fooleries of Harlequin. They flo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044902-5152 | BATILLUS, a musical instrument made of metal, in the form of a staff, furnished with metallic rings, which, being struck, gave out harmonic sounds. It was used by the Arminians in their church-service. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044903-5152 | BATINDA, a district in Hindostan, situated partly in the north-western quarter of the province of Delhi, and partly in the northern extremity of the province of Ajmeer. 1his district is celebrated for the fertility of its pasture-ands, and for an excellent breed of horses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044904-5152 | BATISTE, in Commerce, a fine white kind of linen cloth, manufactured in Flanders and Picardy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044905-5152 | BATMAN, in Commerce, a kind of weight used at Smyrna, containing six okes of 400 drachms each. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044906-5152 | BATMANSON, John, prior of the Carthusian monastery, or Charter-house, London. He was for some time a student at Oxford, but it does not appear that he took any degree in that university. He was intimately acquainted with Edward Lee, archbishop of York, at whose request he wrote against Erasmus and Luther. He died in th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-044907-5152 | BATNEARS, or Batties, a people of the northern part of Hindostan, inhabiting a country which extends about 200 miles in length and 100 in breadth, and of which the capital is Batncar, situated, according to some authorities 170, and according to others 219 miles west-north-west of Delhi. This country comprehends part o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045101-5178 | BATON, or Baston. See Baston. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045102-5178 | BATRACHOMYOMACHIA, or “battle of the frogs and the mice,” the title of a burlesque poem generally ascribed to Homer. The subject of the work is the death of Psycharpax, a mouse, son of Toxartes, who having mounted on the back of Physignathus, a frog, was being conveyed to her palace, to which she had invited him, when,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045103-5178 | BATS, or BATSCH, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, consisting of an extensive plain between the Danube and Theis, extending over 3638 square miles, or 3,328,320 acres, and comprehending three cities, nine towns, and 189 villages, with 315,500 inhabitants, who consist of various eastern races of Sclavonian or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 10' 46" N 18 52' 21" E | BATS |
kp-eb0704-045104-5178 | BATTAE, in Ancient Geography, a people of Germany, formerly inhabitants of the territory or district now called Hesse. Dissatisfied with their situation there, they settled on the island formed by the Vahalis and Rhine, which from them took the name of Batavia, or Batavorum Insula. See Batavorum Insula. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045105-5178 | BATTALAH, a large open town of Hindostan, in the province of Lahore. It stands in a fine open plain, and is surrounded by groves of mango trees and tanks of water. It is about 24 miles east from Amrutsir, and 75 east-southeast from the city of Lahore. Long. 75. 3. E. Lat. 31.34. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 31 34' N 75 3' E | BATTALAH |
kp-eb0704-045106-5178 | BATTALIA, an army ranged in order of battle, or ready for engagement. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045107-5178 | BATTALION, the lowest integral denomination in an army or national military force. Hence two or more battalions constitute a regiment, two or more regiments a brigade, two or more brigades a division, two or more divisions a corps d’armée, and two or more corps d’armée a grand army. A battalion therefore is the unit or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045108-5178 | BATTANTA, a small island in the Eastern Seas, about the 131 st degree of east longitude, separated from the island of Salawatty by Pitt’s Straits. It is thirty-five miles in length by five in average breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045109-5178 | BATTAS, a fertile and populous country in the island of Sumatra, which is divided into many small districts. It ιs bounded on the north by that of Acheen, and on the south by the district of Race. It extends along the western coast, from the river Singkel to that of Tabuyong; in-and to that of Ayer Bangis, and across t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045110-5178 | BATTECOLAH, a large open town of Hindostan, on the sea-coast of North Canara. It is situated on the north banks of the Sancadaholay, which flows through a beautiful valley, in a high state of cultivation. It contains 500 houses, and has two mosques, besides two Jain temples, the only remains of sixty-eight which were f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 56' N 74 37' E | BATTECOLAH |
kp-eb0704-045111-5178 | BATTEL, or Trial by the Wager of Battle, in English law, a species of trial of great antiquity, but now abrogated by positive statute. It seems to have owed its origin to the military genius of our ancestors, joined to a superstitious notion that Heaven would interpose, and give the victory to him who had the right. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045201-5191 | BATTEN, a name given by workmen to a scantling of wood, from two to four inches broad, about one inch thick, and of considerable though variable length. The term is chiefly used in speaking of doors and windows of shops or other places of the kind which are not framed of whole deal, but are made to appear as if they we... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045202-5191 | BATTERING, the attacking with heavy artillery a fortification or strong post, possessed by an enemy, in order to demolish the works.
EAττERiNG-Iiam, in Antiquity, a military engine used before the invention of gunpowder, for beating down the walls of besieged fortresses. Generally speaking, it consisted of a long heav... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045301-5204 | BATTERY, in the military art, any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, either to attack the forces of the enemy or to batter a fortification; and hence batteries have various names, according to the purposes which they are designed to effect.
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kp-eb0704-045302-5204 | BATTIE, or Batty. See Batnears. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045303-5204 | BATTISTA, Franco, a celebrated painter, born at Venice, was a disciple of Michael Angelo, whose manner he followed so closely, that, in the correctness of his outlines, he surpassed most of the masters of his time. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045304-5204 | BATTLE, a market-town in the rape of Hastings and county of Sussex, 56 miles from London. It was the scene of the conflict in 1066 which insured to William the Norman the crown of England. The abbey founded by him forms a most magnificent pile of ruins, and the ancient gatehouse is still in good preservation. The place... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045501-5230 | BATTLEMENTS, in Architecture, are notches or indentures in the top of a wall or other building, in the form of embrasures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045502-5230 | BATTON, in merchandise, a name given to certain pieces of wood or deal for flooring or other purposes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045503-5230 | BATTORY, a name given by the Hans Towns to their magazines or factories abroad. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045504-5230 | BATTU, an island lying off the western coast of Sumatra, forty miles in length by ten in average breadth, and entirely covered with wood. It is almost immediately under the equinoctial line. Its exports are cocoa nuts, oil, and sea-slug. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045505-5230 | BATUA, Butua, Euthoe, or Euthoece, in Ancient Geography, a town of Dalmatia, situated on the Adriatic; now Budoa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045506-5230 | BAUCIS, in fabulous history, an old woman who lived with Philemon her husband in a cottage in Phrygia. Jupiter and Mercury happening to travel in that country, were well received by this venerable pair after having been refused entertainment by every body else. To punish the people for their inhumanity, the two gods la... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045507-5230 | BAUDELOT, Charles Caesar, a learned advocate in the parliament of Paris, distinguished by his skill in ancient monuments, was received into the Academy of Belles Lettres in 1705. He wrote a Treatise on the Advantages of Travelling, Letters and Dissertations on Medals, &c.; and died in 1722, aged 74. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045508-5230 | BAUDIER, Michael, a gentleman of Languedoc, who lived in the reign of Louis XIII., and published several books, which procured him the character of a copious and laborious author. Among these were, 1. An Inventory of the General History of the Turks; 2. The History of the Seraglio; 3. That of the Religion of the Turks;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045509-5230 | BAUDIUS, Dominic, professor of history in the university of Leyden, was born at Lisle on the 8th of August 1561. He began his studies at Aix-la-Chapelle, and continued them at Leyden, whence he removed to Geneva, where he studied divinity. After residing there some time he returned to Ghent, and afterwards to Leyden, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045510-5230 | BAUDRAND, Michael Anthony, a geographer, born at Paris on the 18th July 1633. He travelled into several countries, and then applied himself to the revisal of Ferrarius’s Geographical Dictionary, which he enlarged to the extent of one half. He wrote, 1. Notes to Papirius Masso’s Description of the Rivers of France; 2. A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045511-5230 | BAUGE, an arrondissement of the department of the Mayenne and the Loire, in France, extending over 668 square miles, and comprehending six cantons and sixty-one communes, with 75,793 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is on the river Souanon, and contains 3350 inhabitants, employed principally in making se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045601-5243 | BAUHIN, John, a distinguished botanist, was born at Lyons in the year 1541. He was the son of an eminent physician, who quitted France, his native country, on account of religion, and settled at Basel. In early life he travelled with Gesner, the celebrated naturalist, and collected plants in the Alps, in France, and in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045602-5243 | BAUMAN Islands, a cluster of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered in 1722 by Bauman, who accompanied the Dutch navigator Roggeweji round the world. The inhabitants are said to be friendly to strangers. Long 173. W. Lat. 12. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 S 173 W | BAUMAN |
kp-eb0704-045603-5243 | BAUME, Anthony, a druggist in Paris, distinguished by his knowledge of chemistry, and by his practical application of that knowledge, was born at Senlis in 1728. He was the son of an innkeeper, and was put as apprentice to the eminent chemist Geoffroy. He had not received a regular school education; a defect that occas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045701-5256 | BAUMEN, or Bauman, a cave of Lower Saxony, in Germany, about a mile from Wernigerode, and eighteen miles from Goslar. The entrance is through a rock, and so narrow, that not above one person can pass at a time. There are several paths in it, which the peasants have turned up in searching for the bones of animals, which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045702-5256 | BAUR, John William, an eminent Flemish painter, born at Strasburg, was a disciple of Brendel. He spent some time at Rome, where his studies were wholly devoted to architecture and landscapes, which prevented his studying the antique. He painted small figures in distemper on vellum, and etched with great spirit. His lar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-045703-5256 | BAUTZEN, the capital of the circle of Lausatia, in the kingdom of Saxony. It is situated on the banks of the Spree, on an elevation 5S0 feet above the level of the sea, and celebrated as the scene of the last battle which Buonaparte gained in his campaign in Germany in 1813. Bautzen is a great manufacturing town for ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 10' 34" N 14 19' 17" E | BAUTZEN |
kp-eb0704-045704-5256 | BAVARIA,
A country in the south-west of Germany, in former times a margraviate and duchy, afterwards an electorate, and, since 1806, a kingdom of considerable extent. It is situated between the forty-seventh and fifty-first degrees of north latitude, and is of an oblong form, its greatest extent being from north to so... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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A | |
kp-eb0704-046301-5334 | BAWTRY, a market-town in the parish of Blythe, in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It stands on the river Idle, which empties itself into the Trent, by which it carries on some trade. It is 155 miles from London, on the great road to Scotland, and has a good market on Saturday,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-046302-5334 | BAXTER, Richard, an eminent nonconformist divine, was born at Rowton in Shropshire, the 12th November 1615, and distinguished himself by his exemplary life, his pacific and moderate principles, and his numerous writings. He was remarkable for his piety even when he was very young. Upon the opening of the Long Parliamen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-046401-5347 | BAY, an arm of the sea, shooting up into the land, and terminating in a nook. It is a kind of lesser gulf, larger than a creek, and wider within than at its entrance.
Bλυ Colour denotes a sort of red inclining to chesnut. The term is chiefly used in speaking of horses.
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kp-eb0704-046402-5347 | BAYARD, Peter du Terrail de, esteemed by his contemporaries the model of soldiers and men of honour, and denominated “the knight without fear and without reproach,’ was descended from an ancient and noble family in Dauphine. He accompanied Charles VIII. in bis expedition to Italy, and gave remarkable proofs of his valo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-046501-5360 | BAYAZID, or Bajazid, a city of Turkish Armenia, m the pashalic of Erzeroum, situated on a mountain, the summit of which is strongly fortified. It is surrounded by a wall and ramparts: it has two churches and three mosques; and the monastery of Karu Killeesea is famous for the beauty of its architecture, as well as for ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 24' N 43 45' E | BAYAZID |
kp-eb0704-046502-5360 | BAYEN, Peter, a celebrated chemist, member of the nstitute of France, was born in 1725, at Chalons-sur-aine. He showed a great inclination to study, and was sent by his parents to school at Troyes, where he went 11 ough a course of classical education with success.
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kp-eb0704-046601-5373 | BAYEUX, an arrondissement of the department of Calvados, in France, extending over 390 square miles, containing six cantons, 159 communes, and 82,519 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, is on the river Eure, in a fruitful valley, about seven miles from the sea. It contains 10,419 inhabitants, who are chi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 16' N 0 48' W | BAYEUX |
kp-eb0704-046602-5373 | BAYLA, or Bela, a town of Persia, in the province of Mckran, and capital of the district of Lus. It is built on the north-eastern bank of the river Pooralee. About one third of the town in the western quarter is encompassed by a tolerably good mud wall; the remainder is totally unprotected against any attack either of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 10' N 66 40' E | BAYLA |
kp-eb0704-046603-5373 | BAYLE, Peter, author of the Historical and Critical Dictionary, was born on the 18th of November 1647, at Carla, a village in the county of Foix, in France, where his father, John Bayle, was a Protestant minister. In 1666 he went to the Protestant university at Puylaurens, where he studied with the greatest application... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-046701-5386 | BAYLY, Lewis, author of a well-known book entitled The Practice of Piety. He was born at Caermarthen in Wales, educated at Oxford, appointed minister of Evesham in Worcestershire about 1611, made chaplain to King James, and promoted to the see of Bangor in 1616. His book is dedicated to the high and mighty prince, Char... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-046702-5386 | BAYONET, from the French Baïonnette, and so called from the place where it is said to have been first made, a kind of triangular dagger, made with a hollow handle and a shoulder, to fix on the muzzle of a firelock or musket, so that neither the charging nor firing is prevented by its being attached to the piece. At fir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-046703-5386 | BAYONNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Pyrenees in France, extending over 491 square miles, and comprehending eight cantons and fifty-four communes, with 69,498 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It is situated at the junction of the river Nive with the Adour, about three miles fr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 29' 24" N 1 35' 8" W | BAYONNE |
kp-eb0704-046801-5399 | BAZAR, or Bazaar, a denomination among the Turks and Persians, given to a kind of exchange, or place where stuffs and other wares are sold. The word bazar is of Arabic origin, and literally denotes sale or exchange of goods. Some of the eastern bazars are open, like the market-places in Europe, and serve the same purpo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-046802-5399 | BAZAS, an arrondissement in the department of the Gironde in France, extending over 697 square miles, and comprehending seven cantons and 68 communes, with a population of 47,579 persons. The chief place is a markettown of the same name, which contains 4215 inhabitants, employed in various kinds of manufactures. Long. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-046803-5399 | BAZAT, or Baza, in Commerce, a long, fine-spun cotton, which comes from Jerusalem, whence it is also called Jerusalem cottoìl. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-046804-5399 | BAZEEGURS, a tribe of Indians, inhabiting different parts of the peninsula of Hindostan. The appearance and manners of mankind are so much diversified in the various countries where they dwell, that animated controversies have been excited, whether all have had a common origin; or whether they have sprung from protopla... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047001-5425 | BAZGENDGES, in Natural History, the name of a substance used by the Turks and other eastern nations in scarlet-dyeing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047002-5425 | BAZZANO, a city of Italy, in the papal delegation of Bologna, on the canal of St Giovanni. It contains about 3450 inhabitants.
BEACHY-Head, a promontory on the coast of Sussex between Hastings and Shoreham, where the French defeated the English and Dutch fleet in 1690. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047003-5425 | BEACON, a signal for the better securing the kingdom against foreign invasions. On certain eminent places of the country were placed long poles, whereon were fastened pitch-barrels to be fired by night, and to produce smoke by day, to give notice in a few hours to the whole kingdom of an approaching invasion. These wer... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047004-5425 | BEACONAGE is money paid towards the maintenance of a beacon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047005-5425 | BEACONSFIELD, a market-town of the hundred of Burnham, in the county of Buckingham, twenty-four miles from London, on the road to Oxford. The streets are four in number, crossing each other at right angles. This place is celebrated as the residence of the poet Waller and of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. The market... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047006-5425 | BEAD, a small globule or ball used in necklaces, and made of different materials, as pearl, steel, garnet, coral, diamond, amber, crystal, pastes, glass. The Romanists make great use of beads in rehearsing their Ave-Mαrias and Pater-nosters; and a similar custom obtains among the religious orders throughout the East, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047007-5425 | BEADLE (from the Saxon łrydel, a messenger), a crier or messenger of a court, who cites persons to appear and answer. He is also called a summoner or apparitor' B ea ' die is likewise an officer of a university, whose chief¼' siness it is to walk before the masters with a mace at al public processions. There are, besid... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047008-5425 | BEAGLES, a small sort of hounds or hunting dogs. Beagles are of different kinds, as the southern beagle, [7:4:471]something less and shorter, but thicker, than the deep-mouthed hound; the fleet northern or cat beagle, smaller and of a finer shape than the southern, and a harder runner. From the two, by crossing the str... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047101-5438 | BEAKED, in Heraldry, a term used to express the beak or bill of a bird. When the beak and legs of a fowl are of a different tincture from the body, the technical expression is, beaked and membered of such a tincture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047102-5438 | BEALE, Mary, distinguished for her skill in painting, was the daughter of Mr Cradock, minister of Walton-upon-Thames, and learned the rudiments of her art from Sir Peter Lely. She painted in oil, in water-colours, and in crayons,and had much business. Her portraits were executed in the Italian style, which she acquired... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047103-5438 | BEAM, among weavers, a long thick wooden cylinder, placed lengthwise on the back part of the loom of those who work with a shuttle. That cylinder on which the stuff is rolled as it is weaved is also called the beam or roller, and is placed on the fore-part of the loom.
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kp-eb0704-047104-5438 | BEAMINSTER, or Beminster, a market-town in the hundred of Netherbury and county of Dorset. It is situated in a fruitful district surrounded with orchards, and is 137 miles from London. It has some manufactures of sailcloth and other flaxen goods, and of coarse woollens. The market is held on Thursday. The inhabitants a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047105-5438 | BEAN. The ancients made use of beans in gathering the votes of the people, and for the election of magistrates. A white bean signified “absolution,” and a black one “condemnation.” Beans had a mysterious use in the lemuralia ραrentalia, where the master of the family, after wash- ιn g> was to throw black beans over his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047106-5438 | BEAR. See Mammalia, Index. Bear, in Astronomy. See Astronomy. Order of the Hear was a military order in Switzerland, instituted by the emperor Frederick II. in 1213, by way of acknowledgement for the service the Swiss had done him, and in favour of the abbey of St Gal. To the collar of the order hung a medal, on which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 35' N 9 45' W | BEAR |
kp-eb0704-047107-5438 | BEARD, the hair growing on the chin and adjacent parts of the face, chiefly of adults and males.
Various have been the ceremonies and customs of nations in regard to the beard. The Tartars, from a religious principle, waged a long and bloody war with the Persians, declaring them infidels, merely because they would not... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047401-5477 | BEARING, in Navigation, an arch of the horizon intercepted between the nearest meridian and any distinct object, either discovered by the eye or resulting from the spherical proportion; as, in the first case, at four p. μ. Cape Spado, in the isle of Candia, bore S. by W. by the compass. In the second, the longitudes an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047402-5477 | BEAST, a general appellation given to all four-footed animals, fit either for food, labour, or sport. Beasts of Burden, in a commercial sense, are all four-footed animals which serve to carry merchandises on their backs. The beasts generally used for this purpose are elephants, dromedaries, camels, horses, mules, asses... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047403-5477 | BEAT, in its most general acceptation, signifies to chastise, strike, knock, or vanquish. But it has several other significations in the manufactures, and in the arts and trades. Sometimes it signifies to forge and hammer; in which sense smiths and farriers say, to beat iron; sometimes it means to pound, to reduce into... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-047404-5477 | BEATER, in manufactures, is applied to divers sorts of workmen, whose business it is to hammer or flatten certain materials, particularly metals.
Gold-B eaters are artizans, who, by beating with a hammer, on a marble, gold and silver in moulds of vellum and bullocks’ guts, reduce them to thin leaves fit for gilding or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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