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kp-eb0704-064205-7661 | BILLETON, an island in the Eastern Seas, of a circular form, about fifty miles in length by forty-five in breadth, situated between Sumatra and Borneo. Long. 108. E. Lat. 2. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064206-7661 | BILLIARDS, a well-known game, played on a rectangular table with ivory balls, which are driven into hazards or holes, according to certain rules. This game was invented by the .Fŗench, and was originally played in a manner different from that which is at present practised, by having a pass or iron fixed on the table, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064301-7674 | BILLINGEN, a city, the chief of a bailiwick, in the circle of the Lake of Constance and duchy of Baden. It stands on the Brigach, is fortified, and contains 3500 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in manufacturing iron goods and other hardware. The bailiwick contains 12,300 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064302-7674 | BILLON, in the history of coins, a composition of precious and base metals, where the latter predominates. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064303-7674 | BILMA, a town situated in the heart of the African desert, being the capital of the wandering tribe called the Tibboos. The place is mean and poor, surrounded with a mud wall. In its vicinity are a number of lakes, the waters of which, on evaporation by the heat of the sun, yield a quantity of very pure and fine salt.'... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064304-7674 | BILSAH, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Malwah, situated on the Betwah river. It is inclosed with a stone wall, defended by square towers and a ditch. The suburbs without the walls are not very extensive; but the streets are spacious, and contain some good houses. The town and the surrounding country are celebr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 33' N 77 50' E | BILSAH |
kp-eb0704-064305-7674 | BILSHOFEN, a magistracy in the circle of the Lower
Danube, in the kingdom of Bavaria, comprehending 258 square miles, and containing 22,200 inhabitants. The capital of the district is a small city of the same name at the entrance of the river Bils into the Danube, and contains 270 houses, with about 2000 inhabitants. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 28' 30" N 13 6' 40" E | BILSHOFEN |
kp-eb0704-064306-7674 | BILSON, Thomas, bishop of Winchester, in which city he was born and educated. In 1565 he was admitted perpetual fellow of New College, and in 1570 completed his degrees in arts. He was made bachelor of divinity in 1579, and doctor the year following. His first preferment was that of master of Winchester school; he was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064307-7674 | BILSTON, a town in the parish of Wolverhampton and hundred of Seisdon, in the county of Stafford, 128 miles from London. It is celebrated for its mines of coal, the operations of which are fostered by the canals which convey them in all directions at a cheap rate. It is also a great manufacturing place for all kinds of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064308-7674 | BIMLIPATAM, a town of Hindostan, in the Northern Circars, situated on the bay of Bengal. The Dutch had formerly a fort here; and in the adjacent country piece goods of various sorts are manufactured. It is twelve miles north from Vizagapatam. Long. 83. 35. E. Lat. 17. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 50' N 83 35' E | BIMLIPATAM |
kp-eb0704-064309-7674 | BINACLE, a wooden case or box, which contains the compasses, log-glasses, watch-glasses, and lights to show the compass at night. As this is called bittacle in all the sea-books, even by mariners, it appears evidently to be derived from the French term habitacle, a small habitation, which is now used for the same purpo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064310-7674 | BINARY Arithmetic, that kind of notation in which unity or 1 and 0 are only used. This was the invention of Μ. Leibnitz, who showsit to be very expeditious in discovering the properties of numbers, and in constructing tables; and Μ. Dangecourt, in the history of the Royal Academy of Sciences, gives a specimen of it con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064401-7687 | BING, in the alum-works, denotes a heap of alum thrown together in order to drain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064402-7687 | BINGAZI. See Cyrenaica. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064403-7687 | BINGEN, a city, the chief of a canton of the same name, of 8496 inhabitants, on the Rhine, where the Nahe falls into that stream, in the duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. It is situated in a most magnificent valley, with picturesque scenery around it. It contains 491 houses, and 3246 inhabitants, mostly occupied in the trade i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 55' N 7 44' E | BINGEN |
kp-eb0704-064404-7687 | BINGHAM, Joseph, a learned divine, born at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, in September 1668; educated at University College, Oxford; and afterwards presented by John Radcliffe, Μ. D. to the rectory of Headbournworthy, near Winchester. In this country retirement he began his laborious work entitled Origines Ecclesiastica!, or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064405-7687 | BINGLEY, a town and parish in the west riding of Yorkshire, situated on the river Aire. The population is 6176, including Micklethwaite; and it is distant thirty-eight miles south-west of York, and 202 north-west of London. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064406-7687 | BINN, binna, a sort of chest or cupboard, wherein to lock up bread, meat, or other provisions. The word is also used for a place boarded up to put corn in. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064407-7687 | BINOMIAL, in Algebra, a root consisting of two factors connected by the sign plus or minus. Thus a + b and 8 — 3 are binomials, consisting of the sums and differences of these quantities. See Algebra. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064408-7687 | BINTANG, an island lying off the south-eastern extremity of the Malay peninsula, about the first degree of N. latitude, and near thirty-five miles in length by eighteen in average breadth. It is surrounded by numerous small rocky isles and islets, which render the navigation dangerous. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064409-7687 | BIOGRAPHY, that branch of history which treats of the lives, actions, and works of eminent or remarkable persons. See History. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064410-7687 | BION, a bucolic poet and native of Smyrna, who lived at the same time with Ptolemy Philadelphus, whose reign reached from the fourth year of the 123d Olympiad to the second year of the 133d. He was an incomparable poet, if we may believe the lamentations of his disciple Moschus; and the few pieces of his which have des... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064411-7687 | BIOTHANATI, from 'β∣α, violence, and Qαjατος, death, in some medical writers, denotes those who die a violent death. The word is also written, and with more propriety, biathanati. In a more particular sense, it denotes those who kill themselves, and are properly called autotha-nati. In this sense it is that the word is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064412-7687 | BIOTHANATOS is also used, in some writers of the barbarous age, for wicked, damnable, or accursed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064413-7687 | BIOUAC, Bmouac, Biouvac, or Bivouac, from the German weywacht, a double watch or guard, originally meant a night guard or a detachment of the whole army, which, during a siege, or in the presence of an enemy, marched out every night in squadrons or battalions to line the circumvallations, or to take post in thefrontof ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064414-7687 | BIQUADRATE, or Biquadratic, is the next power above the cube, or the square multiplied by itself. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064415-7687 | BIQUADRATIC Equation, in Algebra, an equation raised to the fourth power, or where the unknown quantity of one of the terms has four dimensions. Thus a? 4 + <zar 5 + Zw 2 + cτ + if=0 is a biquadratic equation. See Algebra. . f Biquadratic Parabola, in Geometry, a curve line o the third order, having two infinite legs t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064501-7700 | BIRBHOOM, a district of Hindostan, in the province of Bengal, situated about the 24th degree of north latitude, being eighty-five miles in length by thirty in breadth. It is the largest Mahommedan zemindary in Bengal, and is held by a Mahommedan family of the Afghan nation, said to have been fixed there by Shere Shah a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064502-7700 | BIRCH, Thomas, an eminent historical and biographical writer, was born in London in 1705. His parents wa ’ e both of them quakers; and his father, Joseph Birch, was a coffee-mill maker by trade. Thomas, having been put to school, proved indefatigable in his application, and stole many hours from sleep to increase his s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064601-7713 | BIRD, William, an eminent musician and composer, was one of the children of the chapel in the reign of Edward VI., and, as is asserted by Wood in the Ashmolean MS., was bred up under Tallis. It appears that in 1575 Tallis and Bird were both gentlemen and also organists of the royal chapel; but the time of their appoint... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064602-7713 | BIRD. See Ornithology. For the method of preserving birds see Taxidermy. EiRD~Call, a little stick, cleft at one end, in which is put a leaf of some plant, wherewith to counterfeit the cry or call of several birds, and bring them to the net, or snare, or lime-twig, to be taken. A laurel leaf fitted on the bird-call cou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064901-7752 | BIRE, an arrondissement of the department of Calvados, in France, near 364 square miles in extent, and comprehending six cantons, 97 communes, and 86,745 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, on the river Bire, contains 8131 inhabitants, employed chiefly in the manufacture of woollen goods. Long. 1. 1. W. Lat.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 50' N 1 1' W | BIRE |
kp-eb0704-064902-7752 | BIREMIS, in Roman Antiquity, a vessel with two rows or banks of oars. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-064903-7752 | BIRKENHEAD, or Berkenhead, Sir John, a political author of note, was born about the year 1615. Being recommended to Dr William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, he became his secretary; in which office he showed such capacity and diligence, that the archbishop, by his diploma, created him master of arts in 1639; and in t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065001-7765 | BIRMINGHAM, a large town of the hundred of Hem-lingford, in the county of Warwick, 109 miles from London. It stands on the verge of the two counties of Worcester and Salop, so that some of the villages, which may be fairly considered as suburbs to Birmingham, arc in reality in those counties. It consists of two parishe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065002-7765 | BIRNBAUM, a circle in the Prussian government of Posen, formerly a part of Poland. It is extended over 543 square miles, or 347,520 acres, and comprehends five cities or towns, and 150 villages, with 26,923 inhabitants. The northern part is sandy and woody, but the southern is moderately fertile. The chief place, which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065003-7765 | BIRON, Armand de Gontault, Lord of, marshal of France, and a celebrated general in the sixteenth century, who signalized himself by his valour and conduct in several sieges and battles. He was made grand-master of the artillery in 1569; and so much was he respected, or rather feared, on account of his well-known braver... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065004-7765 | BIROTA, or Birotum, in Roman Antiquity, a kind of vehicle, so denominated from its moving upon two wheels. It carried about 200 pounds weight, and was drawn by three mules. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065005-7765 | BIRR, or Parsons Town, a market-town of Ireland, situated upon the Little Brosna river. It is the capital of King’s County, and few inland towns of Ireland are equally thriving. The streets are well built; and in the centre of an extensive square is a pedestrian statue of Vv illianf Duke of Cumberland, son of George IL... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065006-7765 | BIRRUS, in Roman Antiquity, a cloak made of woollen cloth, and worn by the soldiers. Also a robe anciently worn by the priests or bishops. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065007-7765 | BIRTH, in Midwifery, signifies the same with delivery.
Birth is also used for a person’s descent; and he is said to be high or low according to the circumstances 0 his ancestry.
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kp-eb0704-065101-7778 | BISACCIA, a city in the Principato-Ulteriore of the kingdom of Naples. It is a bishopric in conjunction with St Angelo, and contains 5340 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065102-7778 | BISACUTA, in the middle-age writers, an axe with two edges, which cuts either way; or a missile weapon pointed at both ends. Walsingham represents the securis bisacuta as peculiar to the Scottish nation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065103-7778 | BISCARA, a town in the territory of Algiers, capital of the southern province of Zaab. The district is inhabited by a rude, stout race, who repair to Algiers, and seek the meanest and hardest employments, as sweeping chimneys, cleaning the streets, &c., and having gained a little money, return to their native territory... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065104-7778 | BISCAY, a province of the north of Spain. It is bounded on the north by the sea, on the east by Guipuscoa, on the south by Alava, and on the west by Burgos; and it extends over 1272 square miles. By the last authentic census the population was found to amount to 112,371; but it is said to have increased in the thirty y... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065105-7778 | BISCEGLIA, a city and bishopric in the province of Bari, and kingdom of Naples. It is situated on the seashore, and has no water but that collected during rains, and preserved in cisterns. It contains 10,590 inhabitants. 1he harbour is frequented only by small vessels. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065106-7778 | BISCHOFSHEIM, a city, the chief of a bailiwick of the same name, in the duchy of Baden, on the river Tauber, containing 2000 inhabitants. The bailiwick comprehends three cities or towns, eighteen villages and hamlets, an d 16,200 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065107-7778 | BISCHOP, or Biskop, John de, an artist, born at the Hague in 1646. He is spoken of with commendation as a painter, and his drawings from the great masters are held in estimation by the curious. In these he had succeeded so happily as to preserve with the greatest exactness the style of the painter whose pictures he cop... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065108-7778 | BISCUIT, or Biskuit, a kind of bread prepared by the confectioners, of fine flour, eggs, and sugar, and rose or orange water; or of flour, eggs, and sugar, with aniseeds and citron peel, baked again and again in the oven, in tin or paper moulds. There are divers sorts of biscuit, as seed-biscuit, fruit-biscuit, long-bi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065109-7778 | BISHOP, a prelate or person consecrated for the spiritual government and direction of a diocese. The word comes from the Saxon bischop, which again is derived from the Greek i r χut^M∙τrος, an overseer, inspector, or superintendent, a title given by the Athenians to those whom they sent into the provinces subject to th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065301-7804 | BISHOPING, a term among horse-dealers, to denote the sophistications used to make an old horse appear young, or a bad one seem good. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065302-7804 | BISHOPRIC, the district over which a bishop’s jurisdiction extends, otherwise called a diocese. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065303-7804 | BISIGNANO, a city and the see of a bishop, in the province of Calabria Citeriore, in the kingdom of Naples, containing 9100 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065304-7804 | BISLEY, a market-town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Gloucester, 103 miles from London. It is situated in the vale of Chalford, where the manufacture of broad cloth is extensively conducted. The Stroud Canal, which unites the Thames and Severn, passes through the parish. The market has gone to decay.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065305-7804 | BISMILLAH, a solemn form used by Mahommedans at the beginning of all their books and other writings, signifying, “In the name of the most merciful God.” | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065306-7804 | BISMUTH, in Mineralogy, one of the semi-metals, is of a silver white colour, much inclined to red, and liable to tarnish; generally occurs massive or lamellated, sometimes, though rarely, crystallized; is brittle when cold, but, on being heated, may be hammered into plates; at the comparatively low temperature of 476° ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065307-7804 | BISOMUM, or Disomum, in Roman Antiquity, a tomb for two dead bodies, or the ashes of two. The ancients frequently buried two, three, or four bodies in the same sepulchre, disposed side by side; and hence the sepulchres of the primitive Christians had the words bisomi, trisomi, quadrisomi, &c. inscribed on them, to indi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065308-7804 | BISON. See Ornithology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065309-7804 | BISSAGOS, a group of small, low, fertile islands, situated at or near the mouth of the Rio Grande, in Western Africa. The entire number of these islands is very great, but there are only sixteen of any considerable magnitude. These arc, Bissao, Bulama, Tale, Bussi, Man terre, Canabae, Galincis, Arcas, Formosa, Carache,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065401-7817 | BISSAO. See Bissagos. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065402-7817 | BISSAT, Peter, professor of canon law in the university of Bologna, in Italy, was descended from the earls of Fife in Scotland, and born in that county in the reign of James V. He was educated at St Andrews, from which he removed to Paris; and, having spent some time in that university, proceeded to Bologna, where he c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065403-7817 | BISSEXTILE, in Chronology, a year consisting of 366 days, being the same with our leap-year. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065404-7817 | BISSOLEE, a district of Hindostan, in the province of Lahore, belonging to the scheiks, extending along the west side of the Ravey river, and situated between the thirty-second and thirty-third degrees of N. latitude. The country is covered with high hills, which extend with little variation to Cashmere. The chief town... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065405-7817 | BISTOURY, in Surgery, an instrument for making incisions, of which there are different kinds; some being of the form of a lancet, others straight and fixed in the handle like a knife, and others crooked, with the sharp edge on the inside. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065406-7817 | BISTRE, among painters, signifies the burnt oil extracted from the soot of wood. It is of a brown transparent colour, having much the same effect in water-painting, where alone it is used, as brown pink in oil. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065407-7817 | BISZTRITZ, a district or circle in the Hungarian province of the Seven Mountains. It extends over 1025 square miles, or 656,000 acres, and contains one city and fifty-five villages. It is an elevated tract of land, forming a part of the range of the Carpathian Mountains, through which is the pass of Rodna into Buckovin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065408-7817 | BITHYNIA, an ancient kingdom of Asia, formerly known by the names of Mysia, Mygdonia, Bebrycia, Mari-andynia, and Bithynia. It was bounded on the west by the Bosphorus Thracius and part of the Propontis, on the south by the river Rhyndacus and Mount Olympus, on the north by the Euxine Sea, and on the east by the river ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065409-7817 | BITONTO, a city, the see of a bishop, in the province of Bari, in the kingdom of Naples, on the great road from Foggia to Bari. It contains, besides the cathedral, twenty, four churches, and 14,200 inhabitants, who export the excellent wine known by the name of Zagarello. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065410-7817 | BITTER, an epithet given to all bodies of an opposite taste to sweetness.
Bitter, a sea-term, signifying any turn of the cable about the bits, so that it may be let out by little and little. When the ship is stopped by a cable, she is said to be brought up by a bitter; and that end of the cable which is wound about th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065411-7817 | BITTERFELD, a circle in the Prussian government of Merseburg, in the province of Saxony, extending over 213 square miles, or 136,320 acres. It is a level and rather sandy district, watered by the Mulda and its tributary streams, producing no surplus production except wood, and an insufficient supply of corn for food. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065412-7817 | BITTERN. See Ornithology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065413-7817 | BITUMEN, in Mineralogy (^Mineral Pitch, Asphaltum^ Erdpeclι), the most perfectly inflammable mineral known. Of this there are three varieties, elastic, earthy, and slaggy; the first is distinguished by its softness and elasticity, which, however, it partly loses on exposure to the air; the second, by its dull earthy ap... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065414-7817 | BIVALVES, a term sometimes used for such shells as consist of two pieces. It is also an appellation given by botanists to such pods or capsules as consist of two valve; inclosing the seeds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065415-7817 | BIUMBRES, in Geography, an appellation given to th( inhabitants of the torrid zone, by reason of their shadows being projected different ways at different seasons of the year. The biumbres are the same with those otherwise denominated amphiscii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065416-7817 | BIZARRE, denoting capricious, a term used among florists for a particular kind of carnation, which has its flowers striped or variegated with three or four colours.
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kp-eb0704-065501-7830 | BLAARDINGEN, a town in the province of South Holland, in the Netherlands, on one of the branches of the Maas, the chief seat of the herring fishery, with 6700 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065502-7830 | BLACK, Dr Joseph, distinguished for his discoveries in chemistry, was born in France, on the banks of the Garonne, in the year 1728. His father was a native of Belfast, but descended from a Scottish family which had been some time settled there. Mr Black, the father, was engaged in the wine trade; and for the purpose o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-065801-7869 | BLACK SEA, or Euxine Sea, Pontus Euxinus of the ancients, is a large inland sea, bounded on the west by Rumelia, Bulgaria, and Bessarabia; on the north by Russian Tartary; on the east by Mingrelia, Circassia, and Georgia; and on the south by Anatolia. It is entered from the Mediterranean through the channel of the Dard... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066301-7934 | BLACKALL, Offspring, bishop of Exeter in the beginning of the eighteenth century, was born at London in the year 1654, and educated at Catharine-Hall, Cambridge. For two years he refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, but at last submitted to the government, though he seemed to condemn the revoluti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066302-7934 | BLACKBURN, a large market-town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Lancaster, 204 miles from London, on the river Derwent, over which there are four stone bridges. The town has taken its name from the colour of the river. It owes a great portion of its prosperity to the extension of canals, which give a f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066303-7934 | BLACKING is a term generally used to signify a factitious black, as lamp-black, shoe-black, and the like. A mixture of ivory or lamp-black with linseed-oil makes the common oil blacking. For a shining blacking, small-beer or water is used instead of oil, in the proportion of about a pint to an ounce of the ivory-black,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066304-7934 | BLACKLOCK, Thomas, a clergyman, was born at Annan, in the south of Scotland, in the year 1721. His father was a bricklayer; but, though in this humble sphere of life, he was of a respectable character, and not deficient in knowledge and urbanity. The son was not quite six months old when he lost his eye-sight by the sm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066501-7960 | BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, a physician, and voluminous writer of theological, poetical, and physical works. Having early declared in favour of the Revolution, King William, in 1697, chose him one of his physicians in ordinary, and conferred on him the honour of knighthood. On Queen Anne’s accession, Sir Richard was also a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066502-7960 | BLACKNESS, the quality of a black body, or a colour arising from such a texture and situation of the superficial parts of a body as deadens or rather absorbs the light falling upon it, without reflecting any, or very little of it, to the eye. In this sense blackness stands directly opposed to whiteness, which consists ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066503-7960 | BLACKSTONE, Sir William, an eminent English lawyer, was born at London in July 1723. His father, Mr Charles Blackstone, a silk-man, citizen, andbowyer of London, died some months before the birth of our author, who was the youngest of four children; and his mother also died before he was twelve years old. Even from his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066601-7973 | BLACKWALL, Anthony, A.Μ. a learned author,who, after completing his academical education at Emanuel College, Cambridge, was appointed head-master of the free school at Derby, and lecturer of All-Hallows there. He first distinguished himself in the literary world by an edition of Theognis, printed at London in 1706, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066701-7986 | BLACKWELL, Thomas, an eminent Scottish writer, was the son of a minister at Aberdeen, and born there in 1701. He received his grammatical education at a school in Aberdeen, studied Greek and philosophy in the Marischal College there, and took the degree of A. Μ. in 1718. Being distinguished for uncommon-parts, and an e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066702-7986 | BLADE, in commerce, a thin slender piece of metal, either forged by the hammer, or run and cast in moulds, to be afterwards sharpened to a point, edge, or the like. Sword-blades are made by armourers, while knife-blades are fabricated by cutlers. The English and Damascus blades are most esteemed; among the French, thos... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066703-7986 | BLADEN, Martin, a translator and dramatic author, was originally an officer in the army, and bore the commission of lieutenant-colonel in Queen Anne’s reign, under John duke of Marlborough, to whom he dedicated a translation of Caesar’s Commentaries. In 1714 he was made one of the lords commissioners of trade and plant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066801-7999 | BLADUM, in writers of the middle ages, is a name applied to all sorts of standing corn in the blade and ear. The word is also written blatum, Dlava, and blavium. In old charters the word bladum included the whole product of the ground, as fruit, corn, flax, grass; and it was sometimes also applied to all sorts of grain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066802-7999 | BLAEU, William, a famous printer of Amsterdam, as well as a disciple and friend of Tycho Brahe. His Atlas, his Treatises of the Globes, Astronomical Institutions, and other works, together with his fine impressions, have secured his name from oblivion. He died in 1638. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066803-7999 | BLAGRAVE, John, the second son of John Blagrave of Bulmarsh-court, near Sunning in Berkshire, was descended of an ancient family in that county. From a grammar-school at Reading he was sent to St John’s College, Oxford, where he applied himself chiefly to the study of mathematics; and without taking any degree, afterwa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066804-7999 | BLAIN, among farriers, a distemper incident to beasts, being a sort of bladder growing on the root of the tongue against the windpipe, and swelling to such a degree as to stop the breath. It comes by great chafing and heating of the stomach, and its diagnostics are, the animal gaping, holding out his tongue, and foamin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-066805-7999 | BLAIR, Dr Hugh, a distinguished clergyman of the church of Scotland, was born at Edinburgh in 1718. His father, John Blair, was a merchant in that city, and grandson of the famous Mr Robert Blair, minister of St Andrews, chaplain to King Charles I., and one of the most distinguished clergymen of the period in which he ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067201-8051 | BLAIR-ATHOLE, or Blair in Athole, a village and parish in the county of Perth and district of A thole. containing a population of about 3000, and distant eighteen miles from Dunkeld, thirty-three from Perth, and seventy-six from Edinburgh. The village has almost completely decayed out; but the parish is nevertheless re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067202-8051 | BLAISE, a military order instituted by the kings of Armenia, in honour of St Blaise, anciently bishop of Sebasta in that country, the patron saint of that nation. Justinian calls them knights of St Blaise and St Mary, and places them not only in Armenia, but in Palestine. They made a particular vow to defend the religi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067203-8051 | BLAKE, Robert, a famous English admiral, born in August 1589, at Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, where he was educated at the grammar-school. In 1615 he went from thence to Oxford, where he was entered at St Alban’s Hall; he subsequently removed to Wadham College; and, on the 10th of February 1617, he took the degree of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067401-8077 | BLANC, Mont, a stupendous mountain in Savoy. See Alps. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067402-8077 | BLANCARDS, a name given to certain linen cloths, so called from the thread used in weaving them being half blanched or bleached before it is used.
BLANCHE-Ferme, or Blank farm, means a farm, the rent of which is paid in silver, not in cattle. In ancient times the crown rents were often reserved to be paid in libris al... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067403-8077 | BLANCHARD, James, a painter. He was born at Paris, and learnt the rudiments of his profession under Nicholas Bolleri, his uncle; but left him at twenty years of age, and travelled into Italy. He staid two years at Rome, and thence proceeded to Venice, where he was so charmed with the works of Titian, Tintoret, and Paul... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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