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kp-eb0704-060601-7193 | BETTOORIAH, a district in the province of Bengal, situated principally between the 24th and 25th degrees of north latitude, now comprehended, with its capital Nat-tore, in the larger division of Raujeshy. It is fertile, and well adapted for the cultivation of rice; being watered bythe Ganges, which is the principal riv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060602-7193 | BETULEIUS, Sixtus, a grammarian, Latin poet, and philosopher, born at Memmingen in the year 1500. His real name was Birck. He taught the belles lettres and philosophy with reputation, and became principal of the college of Augsburg, where he died on the 16th of June 1554. He published several works in prose; and dramat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060603-7193 | BETWAH, a river of Hindostan, in the province of Malwah, which, from its source south of Bopal to its confluence with the Jumna, runs a course of 340 miles in a north-easterly direction. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060604-7193 | BEUTELSPACH, a town in the circle of Jaxt, of the kingdom of Wirtemburg. It stands on the river Beutel, and is remarkable as containing the ancient monastery and church, in which are buried the old family of Wirtemburg. It contains 1789 inhabitants, whose labour is chiefly applied to produce wine, which is highly estee... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060605-7193 | BEUTHEN, a circle in the Prussian government of Oppeln, in Silesia, extending over 306 square miles, or 195,840 acres, containing two cities, one market-town, and sixty-eight villages, with 4851 houses, and 36,439 inhabitants. Though hilly, it is a fertile district, with the exception of some sandy portions. The capita... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060606-7193 | BEVEL, among masons, carpenters, &c. a kind of square, one leg whereof is frequently crooked, according to the sweep of an arch or vault. It is movable on a centre, and so may be set to any angle.
lÌRVEr-Arigle, any angle excepting those of 45° or 90°. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060607-7193 | BEVELAND, North and South, the name of two Zealand islands, formed by the divided branches of the Scheldt. North Beveland is about six miles in length by four in breadth. It lies to the east of the island of Walcheren, and is separated from South Beveland by the island Wolfersdyke. The inundation of 1532 completely rui... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060608-7193 | BEVELLING, in ship-building, the art of hewing a timber with a proper and regular curve, according to a mould which is laid on one side of its surface. In order to hew any piece of timber to its proper bevel, says a writer on ship-building, it will be necessary, first, to make one side fair and out of winding; a term u... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060701-7206 | BEVERAGE, in a general sense, signifies a drink; and hence nectar is said to be the beverage of the gods. In writers of the middle ages, beverage, beveragium, or bibe-rαgiurn, denotes money given to an artificer or other person, to drink, over and above his hire or wages. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060702-7206 | BEVERIDGE, William, a learned English bishop in the beginning of the eighteenth century, was born in the year 1638, and educated in St John’s College, Cambridge, where he distinguished himself very early by his extensive learning, and particularly by his knowledge of the oriental languages. Upon the deprivation of Dr T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060703-7206 | BEVERLAND, Hadrian, a man of considerable genius, who flourished in the end of the seventeenth century, but prostituted his powers in the study and composition of books of a very obnoxious kind. He was a perfect master of Ovid, Catullus, Petronius, and authors of that stamp. In his infamous book on original sin, he mai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060704-7206 | BEVERLEY, a market and borough-town in the east riding of the county of York, 182 miles from London, on the river Hull. It has a considerable trade in malt and corn at its markets, which are held on Wednesday and Saturday. It has two churches; that of St John, or the Minster, founded by King Athelstane, being of a coll... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060705-7206 | BEVERUNGEN, a town of Germany, in the diocese of Paderborn, seated at the confluence of the rivers Beve and Weser, in long. 9. 30. E. lat. 51. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060706-7206 | BEVILE, in Heraldry, a thing broken, or opening like a carpenter’s rule. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060707-7206 | BEVIN, Elway, a musician eminently skilled in the knowledge of practical composition, who flourished towards the end of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. He was of Welsh extraction, and had been educated under Tallis, upon whose recommendation he was in 1589 sworn in gentleman extraordinary of the chapel; but from this situatio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060708-7206 | BEWDLEY, a market and borough-town in the parish of Ribbesford and hundred of Doddingtree, in the county of Worcester, 132 miles from London, and situated o‘n the river Severn. It is a trading town of some consideration, and has a good market on Saturday. In the centre of the bridge is a wooden erection, which serves t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060709-7206 | BEWITS, in falconry, pieces of leather, to which a hawk’s bells are fastened, and buttoned to his legs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060710-7206 | BEY, among the Turks, signifies a governor of a country or town. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060711-7206 | BEYAH, a river of Hindostan, which rises in the province of Lahore, near the mountains of Cashmere, and not far from the source of the Sutledge, which it afterwards joins. It pursues for the first 200 miles of its course a southerly direction, after which it turns to the west. The whole length of its course may be esti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060712-7206 | BEYHAR, a town of Bengal, and capital of Cooch Behar, on the Toresha river. It was taken in 1661 by the Mahommedans, who destroyed a number of the Hindoo temples, and changed its name. Long. 89. 22. E. Lat. 26. 18. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 18' N 89 22' E | BEYHAR |
kp-eb0704-060713-7206 | BEYRAMICH, a city of Asia Minor, the capital of the district called Troas, which belongs to the pasha of the Dardanelles. It is an extensive place, and the houses are better built and more regularly disposed than in Constantinople. Many antiquities are to be seen in this place and the vicinity; amongst which are severa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060714-7206 | BEYKANEER, or Bicanere, a principality of Asia, situated in the north-west of Hindostan, but the precise dimensions and limits of which are scarcely ascertained by [7:4:608]modern geographers. It extends from about 72. 10. to 75. 15. east longitude, and from 27. 40. to 29. 45. north latitude; and its superficial area p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060901-7232 | BEYRA or Beira, a province of the kingdom of Portugal, bounded on the north by Tras os Montes, on the east by the Spanish province of Estremadura, on the south by Alentejo and Portuguese Estremadura, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. It extends over 7710 square miles, and contains 1,129,200 inhabitants. It is chie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060902-7232 | BEYS, Giles, a celebrated printer at Paris, in the sixteenth century, who first introduced the consonants j and v. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-060903-7232 | BEZA, Theodore, one of the principal pillars of the reformed church, was born at Vezelai in Burgundy on the 24th June 1519. He was brought up by his uncle Nicholas Beza, counsellor of the parliament of Paris, till the month of December 1528, when he was sent to study at Orleans, and afterwards at Bourges, where, under ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061001-7245 | BEZIERS, an arrondissement in the department of Hérault, in France. It extends over 260 square miles, and contains twelve cantons, ninety-seven communes, and 107,804 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, considered one of the most beautiful spots in the kingdom, is elevated along the banks of the Orke. It ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061002-7245 | BEZOAR. This name, which is derived from a Persian word implying an antidote to poison, was given to a con? cretion found in the stomach of an animal of the goat kind, and once very highly valued for this imaginary quality; and hence it has been extended to all concretions found in the intestines of animals. Of these t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061003-7245 | BEZOARDIC, an appellation given to whatever partakes of the nature of bezoar; also compound medicines of which bezoar forms an ingredient. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061004-7245 | BHADRINATH, a town and celebrated temple in Hindostan, in the province of Serinaghur, situated on the west bank of the Alcanunda river, in the middle of a valley nearly four miles in length and one in breadth. The town is small, containing only twenty or thirty huts, in which reside the Brahmins and the attendants on t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 43' N 79 38' E | BHADRINATH |
kp-eb0704-061005-7245 | BHAGMUTTY, a river of Hindostan, which rises in a mountain near Catman doo, and enters the valley of Nepaul. At a short distance below Catmandoo it is joined by the Bishenutty, and loses its name. It falls into the Ganges a few miles below Monghir, after a course of 400 miles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061006-7245 | BHATGAN, or Bhatgong, a town of Northern Hindostan, in the valley of Nepaul, and a celebrated place of Hindoo superstition. It is the favourite residence of the Brahmins of Nepaul, and contains many more families of that order than either Catmandoo or Patu. It contains 12,000 houses, and its palace and the buildings in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 32' N 85 45' E | BHATGAN |
kp-eb0704-061007-7245 | BHATTIA, a town of Hindostan, in the western extremity of Gujerat, near Oaka. It contains 500 houses, chiefly inhabited by Aheens, an industrious and useful class of peasantry, who, from being shepherds, have of late years applied themselves to the cultivation of land. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061008-7245 | BHEELS. This savage tribe of plunderers are supposed to have been the aborigines of Gujerat and the adjacent quarters of Hindostan, in common with the Coolies, and to have been driven to their present fastnesses and their miserable way of life by the invasion of those tribes, from whatever quarter they may have come, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061009-7245 | BHURTPORE, a fortified town of Hindostan, in the province of Agra, and formerly the capital of an independent state. The rajah, who was one of the principal chieftains of the tribe of Jauts, possessed a considerable territory and several forts on the south-western bank of the Jumna. In 1818 the total area of this state... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 13' N 77 28' E | BHURTPORE |
kp-eb0704-061101-7258 | BIA, in Commerce, a name given by the Siamese to those small shells which are called cowries throughout almost all the other parts of the East Indies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061102-7258 | BIAEUM, β∣aιοv, in Rhetoric, denotes a kind of counterargument, by which something alleged for the adversary is retorted against him, and made to conclude a different way: for instance, Occidisti, quia adstitisti interfecto. B∕a∕οv, Immo quia adstiti interfecto, non occidi; nam si id esset, in fugam me conjecissem. “Yo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061103-7258 | BIAFORA, in the customs of the middle ages, a form of cry or alarm, on the hearing of which the inhabitants of towns or villages were to issue forth armed, and attend their prince. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061104-7258 | BIAFRA, a tract of country on the coast of Western Africa, on a bay or bight of the same name, situated at the easternmost extremity of the Gulf of Guinea. It has long been known that a number of broad estuaries open into this bight from the north; but, owing to a strange want of enterprise, or some other cause, Europe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061105-7258 | BIALA, a town, the capital of the circle of the same name, in the province of Podlachia, in Poland. It is situated on the banks of the Krzna, and contains 3000 inhabitants. There is a fine castle here, belonging to Prince Radzivill. Long. 29. 50. E. Lat. 52. 1. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061106-7258 | BIALYSTOCK, a city, the capital of the circle of the same name, in the province of Grodno, in European Russia. It is on the river Bialy, and is an open town, regularly built, with four churches, two monastic institutions, and about 7000 inhabitants, of whom, as in all the Polish trading towns, a great proportion are Je... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061107-7258 | BIANCHI, Francesco, called II Frate, an eminent painter, was born at Modena, and had the honour of being master to one of the greatest painters that ever appeared, Antonio Correggio | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061108-7258 | BIANCHIN1, Francis, one of the most learned men of his time, was born at Verona in 1662, of a noble and ancient family. His taste for natural philosophy and mathematics induced him to establish the academy of Aleto-fili, at Verona. He went to Rome in 1684, and was made librarian to Cardinal Ottoboni, who was afterwards... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061109-7258 | BIAR, a town of the province of Valencia, in Spain, containing about 3000 inhabitants, who are employed in making woollen goods. The vicinity is celebrated for its honey, which has a peculiar flavour, extracted from the rosemary, which grows wild there in great abundance.' .
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kp-eb0704-061201-7271 | BIARCHUS, an officer in the court of the emperol’s of Constantinople, intrusted with the care and inspection of the provisions of the soldiery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061202-7271 | BIAS, one of the seven sages of Greece, who flourished about 608 before Christ. He was accustomed to say, that it was a sickness of the mind to wish for impossible things. During the siege of Priene, his native city, being asked why he alone had retired from the place without carrying any thing with him, he replied, th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061203-7271 | BIBERACH, a bailiwick in the circle of the Danube, in the kingdom of Wirtemburg. It extends over 140 square miles, comprehends one city, three market-towns, and eighty-four villages, with 25,940 inhabitants. It is a rich productive district, well watered by the rivers Riess, Um-lach, and Iller. The city which gives nam... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061204-7271 | BIBIENA, Ferdinand Galli, a painter and architect, was born at Bologna in 1657, and surnamed Bibiena from a territory of that name in Tuscany, in which his father was born. He acquired such reputation by his skill in architecture, that he was invited to court by the Duke of Parma, and made his first painter and archite... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061205-7271 | BIBLE (in Greek βίβλος, or ó βίβλος, the boolι), a name applied by Christians, by way of eminence, to the collection of books contained in the Old and New Testaments, known also by various other appellations, as the Sacred Books, Holy Writ, Inspired Writings, Scriptures, &c. The Jews styled their Bible, that is, the Ol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-061901-7362 | BIBLE SOCIETIES, associations for extending the knowledge of the Scriptures. For a long period this object has been pursued to a considerable extent by several religious institutions, such as the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, Bartlett’s Buildings, founded in 1699; Baron Cansteen’s Institution at Halle, fou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-062001-7375 | BIBLIANDER, Theodore, professor of divinity at Zurich in the sixteenth century. As he understood the oriental languages, he undertook a new edition of the Koran, the text of which he corrected, by collating the Arabic and Latin copies; and to this edition he subjoined the life of Mahommed and his successors, prefixing ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-062002-7375 | BIBLIOGRAPHY.
That branch of knowledge to which the term Bibliography is generally applied would be more correctly designated by the word Bibliology. It was originally employed to denote skill in the perusing and judging of ancient manuscripts; but it is now appropriated to the knowledge of books with reference to the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063301-7544 | BIBLIOMANCY, a kind of divination performed by means of the Bible, otherwise called sortes bibliçoe or sor te sanctorum· It consisted in taking passages of Scripture at hazard, and thence drawing indications concerning the future; as in Augustin’s tolle et lege. It was. much used at the consecration of bishops. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063302-7544 | BIBLIOTHECA, in its original and proper sense, denotes a library or place for containing books.
Bibliotheca, in matters of literature, denotes a treatise giving an account of all the writers on a certain subject. Thus we have bibliothecae of theology, law, philosophy, and other branches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063303-7544 | BÍBLISTS. So the Roman Catholics denominate those Christians who make Scripture the sole rule of faith; in which sense all Protestants either are or ought to be biblists. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063304-7544 | BICANERE. See Beykaneer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063305-7544 | BICCARINO, a city in the province of Capitanata, of the kingdom of Naples, the seat of a bishop, now joined, with Troja. It stands on the river Volgano, and contains about 4000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063306-7544 | BICE, or Bise, among painters, a blue colour prepared from the lapis Armenus. Bice bears the best body of all bright blues used in common work, but it is the palest in colour. It works indifferently well, but inclines a little to sandy, and therefore requires good grinding. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063307-7544 | BICESTER or Bisseter, a market-town in the hundred of Ploughley, in the county of Oxford, fifty-nine miles from London, and twelve from Oxford. A small Stream here runs into the Charwell at Islip. The market is held on Friday. It has no other trade than the supply of the agricultural district which surrounds it. The in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063308-7544 | BICHAT, Marie François Xavier, celebrated as an anatomist and physiologist, was born in France, at a village called Thoirette, on the 11th of November 1771. Great attention was paid to his education by his father, who was himself a physician, and who initiated him at an early age in those studies which were to prepare ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063501-7570 | BICLINIUM, in Roman Antiquity, a chamber with two beds or couches in it, or with only two round a table. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063502-7570 | BIDAL, or Bidale, in our ancient customs, denotes the invitation of friends to drink ale at the house of some poor man, who, in consideration of the beverage, expected some contribution for his relief. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063503-7570 | BIDDENDEN, a town of the hundred of Barclay, and Lathe of Soray, in the county of Kent, fifty-four miles from London, and fifteen from Maidstone. It was formerly one of the first places for the manufacture of woollen cloths, a trade introduced into this part of the kingdom by a colony of Flemings in the reign of Edward... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063504-7570 | BIDDING, or Offering, denotes the raising the price of an article or commodity at a sale or auction. The French call this encherir; and it answers to what was called licitari by the Romans, who used to bid by holding up the hand or finger.
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kp-eb0704-063505-7570 | BIDDLE, John, one of the most eminent English writers among the Socinians, was born at Wotton-under-Edge, in Gloucestershire, and educated in the free-school of that place. Being a hopeful youth, he was noticed, particularly by Lord George Berkeley, who allowed him an exhibition of L.10 a year. This caused him to apply... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063601-7583 | BIDDOOMAHS, a fierce and piratical tribe who inhabit a cluster of large rugged islands in the eastern part of the great African lake or inland sea called the Tchad. They neither sow, plant, nor rear cattle, but maintain the creed, that providence, while withholding from them these goods, has bestowed strength and coura... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063602-7583 | BIDEFORD, or Biddeford, a market-town and seaport of the hundred of Shebbear, in the county of Devon, 202 miles from London. The town is on the river Tawe, which runs into the Bristol Channel at Barnstaple Bay. Itis built partly on the bank of the river, and partly on the declivity of a very steep hill. It is accessibl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063603-7583 | BIDENTAL, in Roman Antiquity, a place blasted with lightning, which was immediately consecrated by an haruspex, with the sacrifice of a bidens. This place was afterwards accounted sacred, and it was unlawful to enter it or to tread upon it; for which reason it was commonly Surrounded with a ditch, wall, hedge, ropes, o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063604-7583 | BIDENTALES, in Roman Antiquity, priests instituted to perform certain ceremonies and expiations when lightning struck on any place. Their principal office was the sacrificing a sheep of two years old, which in Latin is called bidens; and hence the place struck with thunder got the name of bidental. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063605-7583 | BIDENTES, in middle-age writers, denotes two-yearlings, or sheep of the second year. The wool of these bidentes, or two-year-old sheep, being the first shearing, was sometimes claimed as a heriot to the king on the death of an abbot. Among the ancient Romans the word was extended further to any sorts of beasts used for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063606-7583 | BIDET, a nag or little horse, formerly allowed to each trooper and dragoon, for his baggage and other occasions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063607-7583 | BIDLOO, Godfrey, author of several treatises on anatomy, was born at Amsterdam on the 12th March 1649. In 1688 he was chosen professor of anatomy at the Hague, and in 1694 at Leyden, when King William III. of England appointed him his physician; an office which he accepted only on condition of holding his professorship... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063608-7583 | BIDSCHOW, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia. It extends over 902 square miles, or 577,280 acres, and comprehends nine cities, nineteen market-towns, and 610 villages, with 33,680 houses. The inhabitants amount to 234,600. The Elbe has its source in this circle. The ćhief place, New Bidschow, is a city contain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063609-7583 | BIEDENKOPF, a city, the chief of a canton of the same name, containing 7550 inhabitants, on the river Lahn. It is a town of much industry, containing 2800 inhabitants, employed in making cloth, baize, blankets, and various’ other kinds of goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063610-7583 | BIELFELD, a circle in the Prussian government of Minden, and province of Westphalia. It extends over 110 square miles, or 70,400 acres; contains one city, one market-town, five parishes, and sixteen hamlets; and is peopled by 31,840 persons. It is mostly of a poor soil, and chiefly produces hemp and flax, with but litt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063611-7583 | BIELITZ, a duchy in the Austrian government of Moravia and Silesia. It stands on the frontiers of the former kingdom of Poland, between the Vistula and the Beila. It contains one city, and fifteen small towns and villages, with 10,300 inhabitants, mostly of the Sclavonic race. The city, of'the same name, is a great man... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063612-7583 | BIELLA, a province of the kingdom of Sardinia. It is a mountainous district, bounded on the north by Sesia, on the east and south-east by Vercelli, on the south-west and west by Ivrea, and on the north-west by Aoste. It ex * tends over 264 square miles, and contains a population of 102,-714 inhabitants. The > capital, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 55' N 7 50' E | BIELLA |
kp-eb0704-063701-7596 | BIER, a wooden machine for carrying the bodies of the dead to the place of interment. The word comes from the French bière, which signifies the same thing. It is called in Latin feretrum, from ferendo. Among the Romans the common bier, on which the poorer sort were carried, was called sandapila; that used for the riche... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063702-7596 | BIFRONS, a person double-fronted, or two-faced. Bi-frοηs is more peculiarly an appellation of Janus, who was represented by the ancients with two faces, because he was supposed to look both backwards and forwards; though other reasons for this mode of delineation are mentioned by Plutarch. Sometimes he was painted with... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063703-7596 | BIGA, in Antiquity, a chariot drawn by two horses abreast. Races of chariots with two horses were introduced into the Olympic games in the 93d Olympiad; but the invention was much more ancient, as we learn that the heroes in the Iliad fought in chariots of that kind. The moon, the night, and the morning, are by mytholo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063704-7596 | BIGAMY literally signifies being twice married, but with us the term is used as nearly synonymous with polygamy, or having a plurality of wives at once. A second marriage, while the former husband or wife is still living, is simply void, and a mere nullity, by the ecclesiastical law of England; yet the legislature has ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063801-7609 | BIGAN, an arrondissement of the department of the Gard, in France, 550 square miles in extent, and containing ten cantons and eighty-seven communes, with 60,349 inhabitants. The capital, a market-town of the same name, stands on the river Acre, and contains a population of 3980 persons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063802-7609 | BIGGAR, a town and parish of Scotland, in the county of Lanark. The town is small, but the main street, though irregular, is broad and spacious. The only building worthy of notice is the church, which was collegiate, and founded by Malcolm Lord Fleming in 1545, who liberally endowed it. In the parish are to be seen the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063803-7609 | BIGGLESWADE, a market-town of the hundred of Biggleswade, in the county of Bedford, forty-five miles from London, and five from Bedford. It is on the river Ivel, which is navigable to Lynn by the Ouse. The land near it is remarkably prolific, and is let at a higher rent than in any other part of England. It is chiefly ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063804-7609 | BIGHORN River, a river of North America, which is said to rise in the Rocky Mountains, near the Yellow Stone River and the sources of the Platte, and then to find its way through the eastern range of the Rocky Mountains. Taking a northerly direction, it falls into the Yellow Stone River in about the 47th degree of nort... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063805-7609 | BIGHT, among seamen, denotes one roll or round of a cable or rope when coiled up. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063806-7609 | BIGNON, Jerome, a French writer, was born at Paris in 1590. Under the care of his father he early acquired uncommon knowledge in philosophy, mathematics, history, civil law, and divinity; and had almost completed his studies at an age when it is usual to send children to school. At ten years of age he gave the public a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063807-7609 | BIGOT, a person obstinately and perversely wedded to some opinion or practice, particularly of a religious nature. Camden has probably hit upon the true origin of the word. He relates, that when Rollo, Duke of Normandy, received Gisla, the daughter of Charles the Foolish, in marriage, together with the investiture of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063808-7609 | BIJANAGUR, an ancient city in the south of India, in the Balaghaut ceded territories, once the capital of a great Hindoo empire, though now in ruins. It is situated on the south bank of the Toombuddra river, directly opposite to Annagoondy. The city has been inclosed with strong stone walls on the east side, and is bou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063809-7609 | BILBOA, a city, the capital of the province of Biscay, in Spain. It is situated in a very contracted valley, through which the river Ibaicabal runs, from the occasional overflowing of which the city is subject to inundations. It is an old-built place, with narrow and crooked streets, and, for [7:4:639]the most part, wi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063901-7622 | BILBOES, a punishment at sea, answering to the stocks at land. The offender is laid in irons or stocks, which are more or less ponderous according to the quality of the offence of which he is guilty. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063902-7622 | BILEDULGERID. See Bled-el-Jereede. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-063903-7622 | BILFINGER, George Bernard, was born on the 23d of January 1693, at Canstadt in Wirtemburg, and acquired considerable celebrity as a philosopher and statesman. His father was a Lutheran minister. By a singularity of constitution, hereditary in his family, Bilfinger came into the world with twelve fingers and twelve toes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064001-7635 | BILGE of a ship, the bottom of her floor, or the breadth of the place the ship rests on when she is a-ground. Therefore bilge-water is that which lies on her floor and cannot go to the well of the pump; and bilgepumps, or burr-pumps, are those that carry off the bilge-water. They likewise say the ship is bilged when sh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064002-7635 | BILINGUIS, in a general sense, signifies one that speaks two languages; but in law is applied to a jury that passes in any case between an Englishman and a foreigner, of which part ought to be English and part foreigners. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064003-7635 | BILIOUS, in general, denotes something belonging to or partaking of the nature of bile. Hence bilious fevers are those occasioned by the redundancy or bad qualities of the bile. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064004-7635 | BILL, in Mechănics, an instrument made of iron, edged in the form of a crescent, and adapted to a handle. It is used by plumbers to perform several parts of their work, by basket-makers to cut the largest pieces of chestnuttrees and other wood, and by gardeners to prune trees. When short, it is called a hand-bill; and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064201-7661 | BILLACH, a circle in the Austrian province of Laybach and Trieste. It is a woody district, extending over 2091 square miles, or 1,338,240 acres. It is rich in mines, producing some gold, much lead, quicksilver, alum, antimony, iron, and copper. The inhabitants in 1817 were 111,850, of whom 17,000 were Lutherans, and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 35' N 13 47' E | BILLACH |
kp-eb0704-064202-7661 | BILLERECAY, a market-town within the parish of Bursted, in the hundred of Barnstaple and the county of Essex, twenty-four miles from London. It is situated on an elevated plain, and commands a fine view of the rich vale through which the Thames flows. There is a good corn market on the Thursdays. The inhabitants amount... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064203-7661 | BILLET, in Heraldry, a bearing in the form of a long square. Billeté signifies that the escutcheon is strewed all over. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064204-7661 | BILLETING, in military affairs, is the quartering of soldiers in the houses of a town or village. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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