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kp-eb0704-067404-8077 | BLANCHING, the art or method of making any thing white. Sec Bleaching. Blanching, in coinage, the operation performed on the planchets, or pieces of silver, to give them the requisite lustre and brightness.
Blanching, among gardeners, an operation by which certain salads and roots are rendered whiter than they would o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067405-8077 | BLANCO, the name of a cape on the western coast of Africa, in a barren and dreary region, near the southern termination of the Great Desert. It forms the boundary of the bay of Arguin; and, with the exception of Cape Verd, it forms the most westerly point of the continent. The Portuguese discovered it in 1441; but the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067406-8077 | BLANDFORD, a market and borough town in the hundred of Pimperne and county of Dorset, 103 miles from London. It is a clean well-built place, on the river Stour, overlooking which, at the end of the town, îs the fine seat and ornamented grounds of Mr Portman. This town has frequently been destroyed by fire, but has alwa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067407-8077 | BLANES, a city of the province of Catalonia in Spain, at the mouth of the river Tordera, defended by a castle’ It contains 3800 inhabitants, employed in the fisheries and navigation. Long. 2. 18. E. Lat. 4L 42. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067408-8077 | BLANK, or Blanc, in a general sense, signifies white-and Blancus, or Blanca, is used to denote a kind of white or silver money, of base alloy, coined by Henry V. in those parts of France which were then subject to England and valued at 8d. sterling.
Blank also denotes a small copper coin, formerly current in France, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067409-8077 | BLANKENBURG, a principality forming part of the duchy of Brunswick, extending over 140 square miles, comprehending a part of the Hartz Forest, and containing 14,400 inhabitants. The chief city, which bears the same name, is at the foot of the Blankenstein mountain, on whose top, 1130 feet above the city, is situated th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067410-8077 | BLANKET, in Commerce, a warm woollen stuff, light and loosely woven, chiefly used in bedding.
Tossing in a Blanket, a ludicrous kind of punishment, of which mention is made by the ancients under the denomination sagatio. Martial describes it graphically enough: 7Z√.s∙ ab excussa, missus ad astra, sago. A later writer ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067411-8077 | BLANKOF, John Teunisz, a painter, was born at Alkmaer in 1628, and received his earliest instruction from Arent Tierling; but afterwards was successively the disciple of Peter Scheyenburg and Caesar Van Everdingen. When he had spent some years with these masters, he went to Rome, where he occupied himself in copying th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067412-8077 | BLASE, a bishop of Sebasta in Cappadocia in the second and third centuries, who suffered death by decapitation under Diocletian, after undergoing flagellation, and having his flesh torn off with iron combs. He is a person of great note among the vulgar, who, in their processions connected with the woollen trade, genera... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067413-8077 | BLASPHEMY (derived from βlαψ ll M, compounded of a verbal derivative of ∕3λασrω, laedo, and <pr l μ∣> dιeο) [7:4:675]means literally, injurious or evil speaking. By the writers of the middle ages, it is used to denote simply blaming or condemning any person or thing. But among the Greeks, to blaspheme was to use words ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067501-8090 | BLAST, flatus, in the military art, a sudden compression of the air, caused by the discharge of the bullet out of a great gun.
Blast is also applied in a more general sense to any forcible stream of wind or air, produced by the mouth, bellows, or the air. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067502-8090 | BLASTING is a term used by the engineer and miner to denote the application of the explosive force of gunpowder in opening or rending rocks, indurated clay, consolidated earth, and the walls of old buildings. In quarrying sandstone, consisting of regular layers, the work is performed chiefly by means of the pick, the w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067801-8129 | BLAUBEUERN, a bailiwick in the circle of the Danube and kingdom of Wirtemburg, extending over 132 square miles, and comprehending one city, of the same name, with 1860 inhabitants, one market-town, and fifty-six villages, with a population of 15,646 persons. The climate is cold, and the soil rather unproductive. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067802-8129 | BLAYE, an arrondissement in the department of the Gironde, in France, extending over 732 square miles, and comprehending four cantons and thirty-seven communes, with a population of 31,794 persons. The chief place is Lesparre. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067803-8129 | BLAZONING, or Blazonry, in Heraldry, the decyphering the arms of noble families. The word originally signified the blowing or winding of a horn, and was introduced into heraldry as a term denoting the description of things borne in arms, with their proper significations and intendments, from an ancient custom observed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-067804-8129 | BLEACHING
Is the art of depriving cotton, linen, silk, wool, wax, &c., of their colouring matter, and rendering them as white as possible. The word is probably derived from the French term blanchiment, which signifies the process of rendering white.
1. The ancients, especially in Egypt, where white linen or cotton wa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069301-8324 | BLEEDING. See Surgery. Bleeding of a Corpse, a phenomenon superstitiously believed to have been occasionally exhibited by the bodies of persons murdered, which, on the touch, or even the approach of the murderer, began, it was said, to bleed at the nose, ears, and other parts. This circumstance was formerly admitted in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069302-8324 | BLEKEDE, a bailiwick in the province of Luneburg and kingdom of Hanover, taking the name from its capital, a town of 1510 inhabitants on the river Elbe. It extends over 76,420 acres, and contains two towns, 54 villages, with 7460 inhabitants, mostly agriculturists. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069303-8324 | BLEMYES, orBLEMMYES,afabulous people of Ethiopia, said to have had no heads, their eyes and rpouths having been situated in their breasts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069304-8324 | BLENCH or Blanch. See Blanch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069305-8324 | BLENDE, in Mineralogy, the sulphuret of zinc, and by much the most common ore of that metal. In its crystalline form, its colour and appearance, this mineral varies extremely. The most common varieties, certainly, are brown or black, but a fine, oil-green, transparent species occurs at Schemnitz in Hungary; another of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069306-8324 | BLENHEIM, a village of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, situated in long. 2. 30. E. lat. 48. 40. N. This village is remarkable for the defeat of the French and Bavarians in 1704, by the English and their confederates under Prince Eugene and the Duke of Marlborough. See Britain. Blenheim House, a princely mansion ere... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069307-8324 | BLENNY. See Ichthyology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069308-8324 | BLETCHINGLEY, a parish and borough in the hundred of Tandridge, in the county of Surrey, twenty miles from London. It is situated on a rising ground at the foot of a range of chalk hills. It has no market. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1344, in 1811 to 1243, and in 1821 to 1187. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069309-8324 | BLETONISM, a supposed faculty of perceiving and indicating subterraneous springs and currents by means of sensation. The term is derived from a Μ. Bleton, who for some years excited attention by his being supposed to possess the faculty in question. But the faculty and its possessor are now alike forgotten. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069310-8324 | BLIGHT, a disease incident to plants, and affecting them variously, the whole plant sometimes perishing by it, and sometimes only the leaves and blossoms, which are scorched and shrivelled up, whilst the rest remains green and flourishing. See Plants, Diseases of. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-069311-8324 | BLIND, An epithet applied to a person deprived of the use of sight; or to one from whom light, colours, and all the variety of the visible creation, are intercepted by some natural deprivation or accidental disease.
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kp-eb0704-070201-8441 | BLINDING, a species of corporal punishment anciently inflicted on thieves, adulterers, perjurers, and others, and from which the ancient Christians were not exempt. Sometimes a mixture of lime and vinegar, or merely scalding vinegar, was poured into the eyes till their balls were consumed; sometimes a rope was twisted ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070202-8441 | BLINDNESS, a privation of the sense of sight, arising from a want of the organs of vision, or an involuntary obstruction of their functions. See Blind. Total Blindness is that state in which all sight or perception even of light is wanting, as in the case of those who are said to be stone-blind.
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kp-eb0704-070301-8454 | BLINDS, or Blindes, in the art of war, a sort of defence commonly made of oziers, or branches interwoven, and laid across between two rows of stakes, about the height of a man, and four or five feet asunder. They are used particularly at the heads of trenches when these extend in front towards the glacis, and serve to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070302-8454 | BLINKS, among ancient sportsmen, denoted boughs broken down from trees, and thrown in the way where deer were likely to pass, to hinder their running, or rather to mark which way a deer ran, and thus to guide the hunter in pursuit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070303-8454 | BLISSINGEN, a fortified city on the south side of the island of Walchercn, in the province of Friesland. It is defended by the forts Ramnekins, Montebello, and St Hillary, and contains a dock-yard and naval storehouses. The civil inhabitants are 4800. Long. 3. 28. 16. E. Lat. 51. 26. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 26' 37" N 3 28' 16" E | BLISSINGEN |
kp-eb0704-070304-8454 | BLOATING, a puffing up or inflation of the exterior habit of the body, arising from an increase of the adipose substance. It is the same with what physicians call an emphysema. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070305-8454 | BLOCH, Mark Eleazar, an ichthyologist and helminthologist, born at Anspach about the year 1730. He was of the Jewish nation, and his parents being indigent, his early education was much neglected; but having entered into the employment of a surgeon at Hamburg, he supplied the deficiency by his own exertions, and made g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070306-8454 | BLOCK, an instrument or machine of wood, chiefly employed in the rigging and other parts of a ship, by means of which a facility is given to the hoisting up or lowering down of the masts, yards, and sails, or to the moving of any great weight, as guns, anchors, bales, casks, and the like. It is, in fact, a modification... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070401-8467 | BLOCK-MACHINERY. To acquire a greater degree of accuracy and uniformity, as well as celerity, in the making of blocks, Mr Walter Taylor of Southampton took out a patent in the year 1781, to secure to himself the benefit of some improvement he had made in the construction of the sheaves; he also shaped the shells, cut t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070701-8506 | BLOCKADE, in war, the shutting up of any place or port by a naval or military force, so as to cut off all communication with those who are without the hostile line.
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kp-eb0704-070901-8532 | BLOCKZIEL, a fortress of Overyssel, in the Netherlands, seated on the river Aa, at its junction with the Zuyder Zee. It has a port sufficient to contain 200 vessels, and serves to defend those ships that cross the sea. Its fortifications, which were considerable, have been allowed to fall to decay. The trade of the tow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070902-8532 | BLOIS, an arrondissement in the department of the Loire and the Cher, in France,'extending over 718 square miles, and comprehending ten cantons and 140 communes, with 103,051 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, is on the right bank of the Loire, raised in the form of an amphitheatre above the stream, over wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070903-8532 | BLOND, Christopher le, a painter of portraits in miniature, and all kinds of subjects, on paper, was born in 1670. Very few circumstances relative to his education or life are mentioned by any writers till he became known at Rome in the year 1716, being at that time painter to the Count Martinetz, ambassador at the cou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070904-8532 | BLONDEL, David, a Protestant minister, distinguished by his skill in ecclesiastical and civil history, was born at Chalons-sur-Marne, and was admitted minister at a synod of the Isle of France in 1614. He wrote, 1. A Defence of the Reformed Churches of France; 2. A work against the Decretal Epistles; 3. De Episcopis et... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070905-8532 | BLONDUS, Flavius, a historian born at Forli, in Italy, in 1388, was secretary to Eugenius IV. and other popes. He composed a great many books, and, amongst others, a History extending from the year 400 to 1440. He died in 1463. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-070906-8532 | BLOOD. See Anatomy and Physiology, Animal. Religious rises of Blood. Amongst the ancients blood was used for the sealing and ratifying of covenants and alliances, which was done by the contracting parties drinking a little of each other’s blood; and also for appeasing [7:4:710]the manes of the dead, in order to which b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-071101-8558 | BLOODSTONE, or Heliotrope, in Mineralogy, a chalcedony or agate of a deep green colour, with blood-red spots interspersed through it. Tartary and Siberia are its best known localities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-071102-8558 | BLOSSOM, in a general sense, denotes the flower of any plant.
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kp-eb0704-071103-8558 | BLOSSOMING of Plants, the act of blowing, or putting forth flowers or blossoms, called also flowering. The pious blossoming of the Glastonbury thorn on Christmas-day morning, is a vulgar error, originating in this, that the plant, besides the usual blossoming in the spring, sometimes puts forth a few white transient bl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-071104-8558 | BLOUNT, Thomas, a learned English writer of the seventeenth century, born at Bordesley in Worcestershire. He had not the advantage of a university education; but, by strength of genius and great application, he made a considerable progress in literature. Upon the breaking out of the Popish plot in the reign of King Cha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-071201-8571 | BLOW, Dr John, a famous musician and composer, was born in 1648, at North Collingham, in the county of Nottingham, and was one of the first set of children after the Restoration, bred up under Captain Henry Cook. He was also a pupil of Hingeston, organist to Oliver Cromwell, and after that of Dr Christopher Gibbons. On... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-071202-8571 | BLOW-PIPE, an instrument for directing the flame of a lamp or candle horizontally, so as to communicate an intense heat to small bodies placed in the flame. This is effected by impelling with velocity through a small aperture, against the flame, a stream of air, by means of the muscles of respiration and the mouth, or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-071601-8623 | BLOWING, in a general sense, denotes an agitation of the air, whether performed with a pair of bellows, the mouth, a tube, or the like.
Blowing, among gardeners, denotes the action of flowers, in opening and displaying their leaves. In this sense, blowing is the same with flowering or blossoming.
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kp-eb0704-071701-8636 | BLOWING Machines, in the arts and manufactures, and in domestic economy, are instruments for producing a continued current of air, principally for the purpose of facilitating the combustion of fuel. The first idea of such a machine was doubtless derived from the lungs, which we are constantly in the habit of using for ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072001-8675 | BLUBBER denotes the fat of whales and other large sea-animals, of which train-oil is made. It is properly the adeps of the animal, and lies immediately under the skin, and over the muscular flesh. In the porpoise it is firm and full of fibres, and invests the body about an inch thick. In the whale its thickness is ordi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072002-8675 | BLUDENZ, a small city in the Austrian province of Tyrol, on the river Ill, containing about 1500 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072003-8675 | BLUE, one of the seven colours into which the rays of light divide themselves when refracted through a glass prism. See the article Chromatics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072004-8675 | BLUE John, a name applied by the Derbyshire miners to the nodular variety of fluorspar from the Odin mine near Castleton, which in that part of England is turned into vases, and polished for various ornamental purposes.
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kp-eb0704-072005-8675 | BLUING, the act or art of communicating a blue colour to bodies.
Bluing of Metals is performed by heating them in the fire till they assume a blue colour. It is particularly practised by gilders, who blue their metals before they apply the gold and silver leaf.
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kp-eb0704-072006-8675 | BLUNDERBUSS, a short fire-arm of a large calibre, widening towards the muzzle, and capable of containing a number of bullets at once. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072007-8675 | BLUSHING, a suffusion or redness of the cheeks, excited by a sense of shame, or the consciousness of some failing or imperfection.
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kp-eb0704-072008-8675 | BO, a cluster of six or seven islands in the Eastern Seas, lying east-south-east of the southern extremity of Gilolo. They are inhabited, and supply navigators with cocoa-nuts. Long. 126. 25. E. Lat. 1. 27. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072009-8675 | BOA. See Reptilia, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072010-8675 | BOAD, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Orissa, on the south side of the river Mahanuddy. It is possessed by an independent zemindar; and, like all the neighbouring towns and villages, it is fenced with bamboos, [7:4:721]to protect the inhabitants and their cattle from the wild beasts. It is 55 miles south-south-... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072101-8688 | BOADICEA, a valiant British queen in the time of Nero the emperor. She was the wife of Prasutagus, king of the Iceni, a people inhabiting the eastern part of Britain. On his death-bed Prasutagus named the emperor heir to his accumulated treasures conjunctly with his own daughters, in expectation of procuring by that me... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072102-8688 | BOAR, a term in the manege. A horse is said to boar when he shoots out his nose as high as his ears, and tosses his nose in the wind.
Boar, a male swine. See Mammalia.
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kp-eb0704-072103-8688 | BOARD, a long piece of timber sawed thin for building and several other purposes.
Board is also used for a kind of table or bench, on which several artificers perform their work. In this sense we say a work-hoard, shop-δoαr<7, tailors-ooar<∕, and the like.
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kp-eb0704-072104-8688 | BOAT, a small open vessel, propelled on the water by oars or sails. The construction, machinery, and even [7:4:722]the names of boats, are very different, according to the various purposes for which they are calculated, and the services on which they are to be employed. Thus they are occasionally slight or strong, shar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072201-8701 | BOATING, a kind of punishment in use among the ancient Persians for capital offenders. The manner of boating was this: The person condemned to it being laid on his back in a boat, with his hands stretched out, and tied fast on each side of it, another boat was put over him, his head being left out through a space fitte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072202-8701 | BOATSWAIN, the officer who has the boats, sails, rigging, colours, anchors, and cables, committed to his charge. It is also the duty of this officer to summon the crew to their duty; to assist with his mates in the necessary business of the ship; and to relieve the watch when it expires. He ought frequently to examine ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072203-8701 | BOBBIN, a small piece of wood turned in the form of a cylinder, with a little border jutting out at each end, bored through to receive a small iron pivot. It serves to spin with the spinning wheel, or to wind thread, worsted, hair, cotton, silk, gold, and silver. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072204-8701 | BOBBING, among fishermen, a particular manner of catching eels, different from sniggling. Bobbing for eels is thus performed. Some large lobs are scoured well, and a twisted silk thread run through them from end to end with a needle, so many being taken that they may warp about a board a dozen times at least; then they... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072205-8701 | BOBLINGEN, a bailiwick in the circle of the Neckar and kingdom of Wirtemburg, taking its name from the city, which is on the declivity of a hill, and contains 2450 inhabitants, who are celebrated for making several chemical preparations and wax-lights. It extends over 88 square miles, and comprehends 3 towns and 17 vil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072206-8701 | BOBILEE, a town of Hindostan, in the northern circars. The Rangaroo of Bobilee was in 1757 one of the polygars of the first rank in this country; but being engaged in deadly enmity with a neighbouring polygar, who prevailed on the French commander Μ. Bussy to espouse his cause, he was attacked in his fort, the last ret... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072207-8701 | BOCAYRENT, a town of the province of Valencia, in Spain. It contains 5850 inhabitants, who are remarkable for their industry in the manufacture of linen and woollens, of cordage, soap, paper, and brandy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072208-8701 | BOCCACIO, or Boccace, John, one of the most gifted and learned writers of his age, whose name alone, according to Mazzuchelli, is worth a thousand eulogiums, was born in 1313. His father was a merchant at Florence, where the pursuits of commerce were held in the highest estimation; and his family came originally from C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072501-8740 | BOCCALE, or Bocal, a liquid measure used at Rome, answering to what among us is called a bottle, and equivalent to about an English quart. Seven boccales and a half make a rubia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072502-8740 | BOCCALINI, Trajan, a celebrated satirical writer, born at Loretto in 1556, who obtained the admiration of all Italy by his refined and delicate criticisms. Sovereign princes themselves did not escape the lash of his satire. The cardinals Borghese and Gaétan having declared themselves his protectors, he published his Ba... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072503-8740 | BOCCARELLA, in the glass manufacture, a small hole or aperture of the furnace, placed on the side of the bocca, and almost horizontal with it. Out of this and another similar aperture the servitors take coloured or finer metal from the piling pot. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072504-8740 | BOCCONE, Paolo Sylvio, a celebrated natural historian, born at Palermo in Sicily in 1633. After he had gone through the usual course of study, he applied himself chiefly to natural history, in which he made great progress. He was afterwards ordained priest, and entered into the Cistertian order; but this new way of lif... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072505-8740 | BOCHART, Samuel, one of the most learned men of the seventeenth century, was born atRoucn in Normandy in the year 1599. He early made great progress in learning, and became a proficient in the oriental languages. He was many years pastor of a Protestant church at Caen, and became tutor to Wentworth Dillon, earl of Rosc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072601-8753 | BOCHIUS, or Bocqui, John, a Latin poet, born at Brussels in 1555. He travelled into Italy, Germany, Poland, and Muscovy, and at his return became secretary to the duke of Parma. He died on the 13th of January 1609. The critics in the Netherlands set so great a value on his poetry, that they gave him the name of the Bel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072602-8753 | BOCHNIA, a circle in the Austrian province of Galicia. It extends over 860 square miles, or 550,400 acres, and comprehends five cities, nine towns, and 377 villages, and about 200,000 inhabitants. It is a fine tract of country, at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. Some parts are very woody, and the others better ad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072603-8753 | BOCHTHEIM, a town, the chief of a canton on the Rhine, in the duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, celebrated for its good wine. It stands on the Wedelgraben, and contains about 2000 inhabitants. The canton has 16,480 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072604-8753 | BOCHUM, a circle in the Prussian government of Arnsberg, and province of Westphalia. It extends over 136 square miles, or 86,040 acres, and contains four cities and several villages and hamlets, with 28,801 inhabitants. It is a good corn-growing district, and not very woody or hilly. The chief place, of the same name a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 29' 50" N 7 5' 54" E | BOCHUM |
kp-eb0704-072605-8753 | BOOKING, a town in the hundred of Hinckford, in the county of Essex, 40 miles from London. It is celebrated for the manufacture of a particular description of baize, which found a ready vent in the markets of Spain; but of late years the trade has declined, from the superior advantages enjoyed by the rival fabrics in t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072606-8753 | BODERIA, or Bodotria, the ancient name for the Frith of Forth in Scotland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072607-8753 | BODIN, John, a native of Angiers, where he was born about the year 1530, was one of the ablest men in France in the sixteenth century, and famous for his Methodus αd facilem Historiarum cognitionem, his Republic, and other works. He was in great favour with Henry III. who imprisoned Michel de La Serre for writing an in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072608-8753 | BODKIN, a small instrument made of steel, bone, ivory, or the like, used for making holes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072609-8753 | BODLEY, Sir Thomas, founder of the Bodleian library at Oxford, was born at Exeter in Devonshire in 1544. When he was about twelve years of age, his father, Mr John Bodley, being a Protestant, was obliged to leave the kingdom. He settled at Geneva with his family, and continued there till the death of Queen Mary. In tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072701-8766 | BODMIN, a borough-town of the hundred of Trigg, in the county of Cornwall, 234 miles from London. It is one of the county towns; the assizes and quarter-sessions being held here alternately with Launceston. The county jail and house of correction are handsome buildings of modern erection. The little trade in serges has... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072702-8766 | BODONI, Giambatista, superintendent of the royal press at Parma, chief printer to his catholic majesty, member of various academies in Italy, and knight of several orders, was born in 1740, at Saluzzo in Piedmont, where his father owned a printing establishment. While yet a boy, he began to employ himself in engraving ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072703-8766 | BOECE, or Boethius, Hector. See Boyce, Hector. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072704-8766 | BOEDROMIA, in Antiquity, solemn feasts held at Athens in memory of the succour brought by Ion to the Athenians, when invaded by Eumolpus, son of Neptune, in the reign of Erectheus. Plutarch gives another account of the Boedromia, which, according to him, were celebrated in commemoration of the victory obtained by These... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072705-8766 | BOEDROMION, in Chronology, the third month of the Athenian year, answering to the latter part of our August and beginning of September. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072706-8766 | BOEHMEN, Jacob, called by his disciples the Teutonic Theosophrist, and founder of the sect of Boehmists, was born in 1575, at a village near Goerlitz in Upper Lausatia. He was bred a shoemaker, and marrying, supported a large family by this occupation; until, after amusing himself with chemistry, a visionary turn of mi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072707-8766 | BOEOTIA, the name of two ancient kingdoms, one of which was founded, or rather restored, by Cadmus, and named by him Boeotia, from the ox which is said to have directed him to the place where he built the capital of his new kingdom, better known afterwards by the name of Thebes. The other Boeotia was in Thessaly, and i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072801-8779 | BOERHAAVE, Herman, the most celebrated physician of the eighteenth century, and one who without impropriety maybe opposed to the Galen of antiquity, if not in extent of genius, at least for the number and variety of his acquirements, the exclusive empire which his medical system obtained, and the immense celebrity whic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-072901-8792 | BOETHIUS, or Boetius, Flavius Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, a prose as well as poetical writer of the sixth century, was descended of one of the noblest families of the city of Rome. The time of his birth is stated to have been about that period in the Roman history when Augustulus, whose fears had induced him t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-073001-8805 | BOG properly signifies a quagmire, covered with grass, but not solid enough to support the weight of the body; in which sense it differs only from marshes or fens, as a part differs from the whole. But some restrict the term bog to quagmires pent up between two hills; whereas fens lie in champaign and low countries, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 57 48' N 2 23' W | BOG |
kp-eb0704-073002-8805 | BOGALCUND, a district of the province of Gundwana in Hindostan, in the 25th degree of north latitude, and 82d of east longitude; bounded on the west by the British possessions in Bundelcund, on the east by the small territory of Man was, and watered by the rivers Soane, Bichanuddy, and Behennuddy.
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kp-eb0704-073101-8818 | BOGARMITAE. See Bogomili. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-073102-8818 | BOGHERA, a province of the kingdom of Sardinia, bounded on the north by the Po, which divides it from Mortara and the Austrian government of Milan, on the east by Parma, on the south by Genoa, and on the west by Tortona. It extends over 504 square miles, and contains two cities, 139 towns and large villages, and 58 ham... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 1' N 8 39' E | BOGHERA |
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