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BOURBON, an island in the Indian Sea, about 400 miles to the east of Madagascar. It was discovered by the Portuguese in 1545, as appears by a date inscribed by them upon a pillar when they first landed. They gave it the name of Mascarenhas, but do not appear to have formed any establishment; so that when the French set...
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BOURBON
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BOURCHIER, John, Lord Bernars, grandson and heir of a lord of the same name, who was descended from Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, and had been knight of the Garter and constable of Windsor-castle. Under Edward IV. this Lord John was created a knight of the Bath on the marriage of the Duke of York, second son...
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BOURCHIER
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BOURDALOUE, Louis, a celebrated preacher among the Jesuits, and one of the greatest orators that France has ever produced, was born at Bourges on the 20th of August 1632. At the age of sixteen he entered the Society of Jesus, of which he was destined to become one of the greatest ornaments, and there completed his stud...
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BOURDALOUE
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BOURDEAUX, an arrondissement in the department of the Gironde, in France, extending over 1668 square miles, and comprehending eighteen cantons and 153 communes, with a population of 222,268 persons. The capital is the city which gives its name to the arrondissement. It is the see of an archbishop, and situated in a bro...
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BOURDEAUX
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BOURDELOT, John, a learned French critic, who lived at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries. He distinguished himself by annotations on Lucian, Petronius, and Heliodorus; a Universal History; Commentaries on Juvenal; a Treatise on the Etymology of French words; and several other works w...
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BOURDELOT
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BOURDON, Sebastian, a painter, born at Montpelier in 1616. He studied seven years at Rome, and acquired so great a reputation, that, on his return to France, he was appointed rector of the academy of painting in Paris, being the first who held that office. He succeeded better in landscapes than in history. His pieces a...
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BOURDON
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BOURG, an arrondissement of the department of Ain, in France, 672 square miles in extent, comprehending ten cantons and 119 communes, with 111,927 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, on the river Rey-souse, has several cotton manufactories and tanneries, and 7417 inhabitants. Long. 5. 8. E. Lat∙ 46. 12. ...
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BOURG
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BOURGANEUF, an arrondissement of the department of the Creuse, in France, comprehending four cantons and forty-nine communes, with 33,249 inhabitants. Its extent is 368 square miles. The chief place is a markettown of the same name, containing 2150 inhabitants.
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BOURGANEUF
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BOURGES, an arrondissement of the department of the Cher, in France, extending over 942 square miles, containing ten cantons and 121 communes, with 89,594 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, is situated at the confluence of the rivers Aron and Evrc. It still retains the old Roman walls, and eighty lo...
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BOURGES
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BOURGET, Dom John, an ingenious French antiquary, was born at the village of Beaumains, near Falaise, in 1724. He was educated at the grammar school at Cacn, whence he was removed to the university of that place, and there pursued his studies with great diligence and success till 1745, when he became a Benedictine monk...
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BOURGET
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BOURGOING, John Francis de, was born of an ancient family at Nevers, on the 20th November 1748. He was educated at the military school of Paris, and devoted himself particularly to the study of the languages. At the. age of seventeen he was sent by the government to Strasburg, where he studied public law under the cele...
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BOURGOING
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BOURGUIGNONS, or Burgundians, oneof the northern nations who overran the Roman empire, and at length settled in Gaul. They were of great stature, and warlike in their disposition; for which reason the emperor Valentinian engaged them in his service against the Germans. They lived in tents, close to each other, that the...
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BOURGUIGNONS
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BOURIGNON, Antoinette, a famous female preacher and pretended prophetess, was born at Lisle in 1616. At her birth she was so deformed that it was debatéâ some days in the family whether it would not be proper to stifle her as a monster; but her deformity diminishing, she was spared, and afterwards attained such a modic...
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BOURIGNON
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BOURNE, a market-town of the hundred of Aveland, in the county of Lincoln, 97 miles from London. It is situated in a pleasant country, very .productive in corn and cattle; and is at the head of a fine stream, which runs to Spalding. The market is held on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1474, in 1811 to 15...
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BOURNE
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BOURO, an island in the East Indian Ocean, between the Moluccas and Celebes. It is well cultivated, and is now subject to the Dutch, who have built a fortress there. Some mountains in it are exceedingly high, and the sea on one side is uncommonly deep. It produces nutmegs and cloves, as well as cocoa and banana trees, ...
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BOURO
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BOUSSAC, an arrondissement of the department of the Creuse, in France, extending over 370 square miles, and comprehending four cantons and fifty-seven communes, with 32,439 inhabitants. The capital is a markettown of the same name, at the junction of the rivers Be-ron and Creuse. ,
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BOUSSAC
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BOUTS-RIMES, a popular term in the French poetry, signifying certain rhymes, disposed in order, and given to a poet, together with a subject, to be filled up with verses ending in the same words, and in the same order. The invention of the bouts-rimés is ascribed to one Ducot, a poet, in the year 1649. In fixing the bo...
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BOUTS-RIMES
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BOUZIERS, ∙ an'arrondissement of the department of the Ardefine, in France,-extending over 519 square miles, and comprehending eight cantons and 144 communes, with 56,157 inhabitants. The chief place is the markettown of the sa⅛e name, on the banks of the river Aisne, which here forms two islands. The inhabitants are o...
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BOUZIERS
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BOVEY-TRACY, a market-town in the hundred of Teignbι k idge and county of Devon, 188 miles from London. It is remarkable for the production of a pipe-clay of great value in the potteries, and for a peculiar kind of coal. A court for the duchy of Lancaster is held here. The market is held on a Thursday. The inhabitants ...
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BOVEY-TRACY
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BOW {arcus), a weapon of offence, made of wood, horn, or other elastic' matter, which, being strongly bent by means of a string fastened to its two ends, throws out an allow with great force in suddenly recovering its natural state. It is also called the long-bow, by way of distinction from the cross-bow or arbalest. ...
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BOW
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BOW ISLAND, in the South Pacific Ocean, is situaítíd towards the eastern extremity of the Society Isles. ‰It'is a low-lying island, about ten or twelve leagues in compass, and has the extraordinary figure of a bow. Long. 1 141. 12.'W. Lat’. 18.23. S: < . ..ι,√i> f [7:5:156]
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BOW ISLAND
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BOWER, in Gardening, a place under covert of trees, differing only from an arbour as being round or square, and made with a kind of dome or ceiling at top, whereas the arbour is always built long and arched.
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BOWER
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BOWL denotes either a ball of wood for the use of bowling, or a vessel of capacity to contain liquors.
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BOWL
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BOWLDER Stones, small stones of a roundish figure, and no determinate size, found on the sea-shore, and on banks, or rather channels, of rivers.
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BOWLDER
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BOWLING, the art of playing at bowls. This game is practised either in open places, as bares and bowling-greens, or in close bowling-alleys. The skill of bowling depends much on a knowledge of the ground, and the right choice of a suitable bowl; as for close alleys the flat bowl, while for green swards, plain and leve...
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BOWLING
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BOWSPRIT, or Boltsprit, a kind of mast, resting slopewise on the head of the main stern, and having its lower end fastened to the partners of the fore-mast, and further supported by the fore-stay. It carries the spritsail, sprit-top-sail, and jack-staff; and its length is usually the same with that of the fore-mast.
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BOWSPRIT
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BOWYER, William, the most learned printer of his age, was born at Whitefriars, in London, on the 17th December 1699. His father, whose name was also William, had been eminent in the same profession; and his maternal grandfather, Icabod Dawks, was employed in printing the celebrated Polyglot Bible of Bishop Walton. At a...
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BOWYER
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BOWYERS, artificers whose business is to make bows; in which sense bowyers are distinguished from fletchers, who made arrows. The bowyers ’ company in London was incorporated in 1620. į
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BOWYERS
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BOX, in its most common acceptation, denotes a small chest or coffer for containing articles. Dice-Box·, a narrow deep cornet, channelled within, by which the dice are shaken and thrown. This answers to what the Romans called fritillus. Besides the fritillus, the Romans, for greater security, had another kind of diceb...
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BOX
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BOXERS, a kind of athlerae, who combat or contend for victory with their fists. Boxers are the same as the pugiles among the Romans. The ancient boxers battled with great force and fury, so as to dash out each other’s teeth, break bones, and sometimes to kill each other. The disfigurements which the boxers underwent we...
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BOXERS
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BOXHORNIUS, Marc Zuerius, a learned critic, born at Bergen-op-Zoom in 1612, was professor of eloquence at Leyden, and at length of politics and history in the room of Heinsius. He published, 1. Theatrum urbium Hollan-dice, Amsterdam, 1632; 2. Scriptores historice Augustee, cum notis, Leyden, 1632; 3. Poetee satyrici mi...
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BOXHORNIUS
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BOXING, the exercise of fighting with the fists, either naked or with a stone or leaden ball grasped in them. In this sense boxing coincides with the pugillatus of the Romans. When the champions had o ’ pα∕gα∕, or balls, whether of lead or stone, it was properly denominated 6φαiξομaχιa. The ancient boxing differed from...
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BOXING
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BOYAR, a term used for a grandee of Transylvania, Wallachia, or Moldavia.
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BOYAR
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BOYAU, in Fortification, a ditch covered with a parapet, which serves as a communication between two principal trenches.
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BOYAU
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BOYCE, Hector, a distinguished historian, was born at Dundee about the year 1465, being descended of a family which for several generations had possessed the barony of Panbride or Balbride. The orthography of his surname is extremely fluctuating; it is to be found under the various modifications of Boece, Boeth, Boeis,...
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BOYCE
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BOYD, Mark Alexander, a younger son of Robert Boyd of Pinkill in Ayrshire, was born on the 13th of January 1562. He is said to have come into the world provided with a couple of teeth. He learned the rudiments of the Latin and Greek languages at Glasgow under two grammarians, but was of so high and untractable a spirit...
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BOYD
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BOYER, Abel, a well-known glossographer and historiographer, born at Castres in France in 1664. Upon the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he went first to Geneva, then to Franeker, where he finished his studies, and finally came to England, where he applied himself so as-slduously[7:5:162] to the study of the English...
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BOYER
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BOYLE, Richard, one of the greatest statesmen of the seventeenth century, and generally styled the Great Earl of Cork, was the youngest son of ĨXIr Roger Boyle, and born at Canterbury on the 3d of October 1566. He studied at Bennet College, Cambridge, and afterwards became a student in the Middle Temple. Having lost hi...
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BOYLE
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BOYNE, a river of Ireland, which rises in Queen’s County in the province of Leinster, and running northeast by Trim and Cavan, falls at last into the Irish Channel a little below Drogheda. It is memorable for a battle fought on its banks between James II. and King William III. in which the former was defeated.
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BOYNE
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BOYSE, Boys, or Bois, John, one of the translators of the Bible in the reign of James I. was son of William Bois, rector of West Stowe, near St Edmundsbury, Suffolk, and born at Nettlestead in Suffolk on the 3d of January 1560. He was taught the first rudiments of learning by his father; and his capacity was such, that...
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BOYSE
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B QUADRO, Quadrato, or Duralx, in Music, called by the French b quarré, from its figure ♯. This is what we call B natural or sharp, in distinction to B mol or flat. If the flat ♭ be placed before a note in the thorough bass, it intimates that its third is to be minor; and if placed with any cipher over a note in the ba...
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B QUADRO
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BRA, a city of the province of Alba, in the kingdom of Sardinia. It stands on the river Stura, and contains 11,200 inhabitants, who find employment in the cultivation of silk, and the extensive manufacture of silk goods, and in making linen and coarse cloth.
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BRA
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BRABANCIONES, in the writers of the middle age, a kind of Netherlands soldiery, infamous for rapine; a sort of commissioned banditti, who hired themselves to fight for any one who could pay them. The word is variously written by the historians of those days; but every variety is derived from the country of Brabant, whi...
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BRABANCIONES
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BRABANT. See Netherlands.
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BRABANT
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BRABEUTES, or Brabcuta, in Antiquity, an officer among the Greeks, who presided at the public games, and decided such disputes as occurred among the antagonists in the ġymnastical exercises. The number of brabcutae was not fixed; sometimes there was only one, but more commonly they amounted to nine or ten.
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BRABEUTES
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BRACCIOLINI, Francis, an Italian poet, a native of Pistoja, and the friend of Pope Urban VIII. was born about the year 1566. Removing to Florence, he was admitted into the academy there, and devoted himself to literature. At Rome he entered into the service of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, with whom he afterwards went to ...
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BRACCIOLINI
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BRACELET, an ornament worn on the wrist, and much used among the ancients. It was made of different materials, and in different fashions, according to the age and quality of the wearer. The word is French, bracelet; which Menage derives further from braceletum, a diminutive of bracile, a word occurring in writers of th...
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BRACELET
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BRACHMINS, or Bracnmans, a branch of the ancient Gymnosophists or philosophers of India. See Bramins.
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BRACHMINS
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BRACHYGRAPHY, the art of short-hand writing. See Short Hand.
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BRACHYGRAPHY
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BRACHYLOGY, (from βξαχυς, short, and λογος, expression), in Rhetoric, the expressing of any thing in the most concise manner. This, as far as is consistent with perspicuity, is a virtue and beauty of style; but if obscurity be the consequence, which is often the case, it becomes a blemish and defect. Quintilian gives a...
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BRACHYLOGY
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BRACKE, or Brache, a bailiwick in the duchy of Oldenburg, containing three towns, with 6108 inhabitants· The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the Viser, and is of importance from the ships, which require a greater depth of water than is to be found near Bresner, commonly remaining to discharge or receive t...
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BRACKE
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BRACKENHEIM, a bailiwick in the circle of the Neckar, of the kingdom of Wirtemburg. It extends over ninety-eight square miles, and comprehends five cities, two market-towns, and twenty-nine villages, with 24,096 inhabitants. The city, which gives name to the bailiwick, is [7:5:171]situated on the river Zaber, and conta...
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BRACKENHEIM
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BRACKET, among carpenters and others, means a kind of wooden stay, serving to support shelves and the like. Brackets, in a ship, the small knees, serving to support the galleries, and commonly carved. The timbers that support the grating in the head are also called brackets. Brackets, in Gunnery, are the cheeks of the...
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BRACKET
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BRACKLEY, a borough and market-town of the hundred of King’s Sutton, in Northamptonshire, sixty-three miles from London. It had formerly much trade in wool, and some manufactures; but now chiefly depends on the agriculture of its vicinity. It has two churches, a handsome market-house, an endowed free school, and an hos...
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BRACKLEY
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BRACTON, Henry, Lord Chief Justice of England in the reign of Henry III., was probably a native of Devonshire. He was educated at Oxford, where he took the degree of doctor of laws, and was made one of the itinerant judges about the year 1244. Ten years after he became chief justice, and had the Earl of Derby’s house i...
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BRACTON
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BRADFORD, or Bradfortii, a market-town in the wapentake of Morley, of the west-riding of Yorkshire, 197 miles from London, and situated on a branch of the river Aire. It is built partly on the side of a steep hill, with some of the streets looking over the houses in the others. It has extensive manufactures of worsted ...
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BRADFORD
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BRADING, a town on the eastern side of the Isle of Wight, in the county of Hampshire, ninety-nine miles from London. It has a harbour capacious but shallow, and dry at low water. It has little trade, depending chiefly on the rural inhabitants in its vicinity. A new church has been recently built here. The inhabitants a...
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BRADING
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BRADLEY, Dr James, a celebrated English astronomer, the third son of William and Jane Bradley, was born at Sherborne in Dorsetshire in the year 1692. He was educated for the university at North Leach by Mr Egles and Mr Brice, who kept a boarding-school there; and from North Leach he was sent to Oxford. His friends inte...
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BRADLEY
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BRADNINCH, a town of the hundred of Hayridge, in the county of Devon, 170 miles from London, and six from Exeter. It is a poor manufacturing place, but has a corporation, and formerly returned two members to Parliament; but the inhabitants were relieved from the expense on the plea of poverty, on payment of five marks,...
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BRADNINCH
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BRADS, among artificers, a kind of nails used in building, which have no spreading heads as other nails have. They are distinguished among ironmongers by six names; as joiners -brads, flooring-brads, batten-brads, bill-brads, quarter-heads, and the like. Joiners’-brads are for hard wainscot; batten-brads are for soft w...
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BRADS
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BRADSHAW, Henry, a Benedictine monk, was born at Chester about the middle of the fifteenth century. Discovering an early propensity to religion and literature, he was received while a boy into the monastery of St Werberg in that city; and having there imbibed the rudiments of education, he was afterwards sent to Glouce...
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BRADSHAW
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BRADSHAW, John, descended of an ancient family, originally from Derbyshire, and born in 1586, officiated as president of the court, assembled at Whitehall, which tried Charles I. and condemned that unfortunate prince to lose his head on the scaffold. Being appointed speaker or president of the Parliament under Cromwell...
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BRADSHAW
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BRADWARDIN, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, surnamed the Profound Doctor, was born at Hartfield in Sussex about the close of the thirteenth century. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he took the degree of doctor of divinity, and acquired the reputation of a profound scholar, a skilful mathematician, an...
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BRADWARDIN
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BRADY, Robert, a physician and historian of the seventeenth century, was born in the county of Norfolk, and admitted into Caius College, Cambridge, in 1643. He took his degree of bachelor of physic in 1653, was created doctor in that faculty in 1660, and the same year elected master of his college in pursuance of the k...
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BRADY
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BRAEMAR, a district of Scotland, in the county of Aberdeen. See Aberdeenshire.
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BRAEMAR
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BRAG, a game at cards, where as many may partake as the cards will supply; the eldest hand dealing three to each person at one time, and turning up the last card all round. This being done, each gamester puts down three stakes, one for each card; and the first stake is won by the best card turned up in the dealing roun...
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BRAG
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BRAGA, a city, the capital of the province Entre Douro-e-Minho, in Portugal. It is situated on an elevated plain near the river Savado, is fortified and defended by a citadel. The streets are irregular and ill paved, and the houses large, but of an antique fashion. It has an archbishop, and, besides the cathedral, six ...
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BRAGA
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BRAGANZA, a city, the capital of the province of Tras os Montes, in Portugal, and the place from which the reigning family originated. It is situated on the river Fervença, one of the tributary streams of the Sabor, is surrounded with walls, and contains about 5000 inhabitants, employed chiefly in the silk trade. Long....
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41 47' N 6 36' W
BRAGANZA
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BRAHE, Tycho, a celebrated astronomer, descended of an illustrious family, originally of Sweden, but settled in Denmark, was born on the 14th December 1546, at Knudstorp, in the county of Schonen. He was taught Latin when seven years old, and studied five years under private tutors. His father dying, his uncle sent him...
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BRAHE
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BRAHILOW, or in Turkish Ibrainl, a city on the northern bank of the Danube, in the province of Wal-lachia, in European Turkey. It has a strong citadel to defend the passage over the river, which is here divided into several branches. The trade of the place is considerable, both in corn and in preserved sturgeons. It is...
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44 56' N 27 49' E
BRAHILOW
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BRAHMAPOOTRA, or Burrampooter, the largest river in India, which rises on the opposite side of the same narrow range of snow-clad mountains from which the Ganges flows. Its source has never been exactly explored, but it is supposed to be about the 32d degree of north latitude and 82d of east longitude. After winding ea...
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BRAHMAPOOTRA
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BRAHMINS, Bramins, Brahmans, or Brachmans, called Bga^α∣∕α∕ by the Greek writers, the name employed to designate that body or order of priests who have always been the sole guardians, preeeptors, and ministers of the Hindu religion. It is formed, by a slight modification, from that of Brahma, which is itself a derivati...
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BRAHMINS
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BRAHOOICK Mountains, a chain of mountains so called by Colonel Pöttinger, from the Brahooes, who inhabit them. They run along the eastern frontier of Persia, and extend 280 miles in length from south-east to north-east, and about 200 miles in their utmost breadth, under latitude 28. N. This range of mountains springs a...
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BRAHOOICK
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BRAINTREE, a market-town in the hundred of Hink-ford and county of Essex, 40 miles from London. It was the first seat of the baize manufacture introduced into England by the Flemings in the reign of Elizabeth, but that trade is nearly altogether removed to the north of England. It is situated in a very beautiful and fe...
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BRAINTREE
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BRAKEL, a circle in the Prussian government of Minden and province of Westphalia. It extends over 134 square miles, or 85,760 acres, and contains five cities, thirty villages, and fifteen hamlets, and a population of 21,201 persons. It is well cultivated and fertile. The dense population finds employment in making the ...
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BRAKEL
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BRAMA, or Bruma, a pagan deity of the East Indies. See Brahmins.
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BRAMA
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BRAMAH, Joseph, a practical engineer and machinist, was born at Stainborough, in Yorkshire, on the 13th of April 1749. His father rented a farm on the estate of Lord Strafford; and, being the eldest of five children, he was intended for the same employment. He exhibited at a very early age an unusual talent for the mec...
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BRAMAH
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BRAMBANAN, a village of Java, nearly in the centre of the island, situated at the foot of a range of mountains on the north that run east and west to a great extent. It is noted for the remains of Hindu images, temples, and inscriptions, which are spread over an extent of ten miles. The most remarkable of those ruins a...
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BRAMBANAN
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BRAMBER, a small hamlet of twenty houses, in the rape of the same name in the county of Sussex, whence two members are returned to parliament. These burgage-houses belong to the Duke of Rutland and Lord Calthorpe, and of course confer on them the patronage. [7:5:184]
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BRAMBER
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BRAMHALL, Dr John, archbishop of Armagh, was born of an ancient family at Pontefract in Yorkshire about the year 1593. He was invited to Ireland by the lord deputy Wentforth, and soon afterwards obtained the archdeaconry of Meath, the best in that kingdom. In 1634 he was made bishop of Londonderry, a see which he impro...
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BRAMHALL
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BRAMPTON, a market-town of Eskdale Ward, in the county of Cumberland, 311 miles from London. It is an old town, of some note in former ages, and is still the head of the barony of Gillsland. It stands on the river Irthing, one mile from the Picts’ wall. It has a large market on Tuesday, and a smaller one on Saturday, a...
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BRAMPTON
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BRANAU, a small city in the Austrian province of Upper Ens, in the circle of Inviertel. It is situated on the banks of the Inn, and has manufactories of cloth and of paper. Long. 12. 52. 40. E. Lat. 48. 14. N.
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BRANAU
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BRANCHIDAE, in Grecian Antiquity, priests of the temple of Apollo, at Didymus, in Ionia. They opened to Xerxes the temple of Apollo, and suffered him to carry away the riches; after which, thinking it unsafe to stay longer in Greece, they fled to Sogdiana, upon the frontiers of Persia, where they built a city called by...
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BRANCHIDAE
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BRAND Sunday, Dimanche des Brandons, in French ecclesiastical writers, denotes the first Sunday in Lent, which is thus called on account of an ancient practice in the Lyonnois, where the peasants, in the night of this day, walked about their orchards, gardéns, and other places, with torches lighted, or fire-brands in t...
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BRAND
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BRANDENBURG, one of the larger provinces into which the kingdom of Prussia is divided, and the division from which that powerful monarchy originally sprung. It was at first denominated a marquisate; then the electoral dignity was added to the reigning family; and afterwards, by the acquisition of Prussia, Brandenburg b...
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BRANDENBURG
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BRANDEUM, in ecclesiastical writers, a linen cloth or veil put over the tombs of the apostles Peter and Paul, and left there for some time, by which it is supposed to acquire a degree of sanctity, entitling it to be worshipped as a relic; and as such it was frequently sent by the pope as a present to some prince. In th...
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BRANDEUM
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BRANDING, on the face or hand, denotes a punishment inflicted by law for various offences, by burning with a hot iron, after the offender has been admitted to benefit of clergy.
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BRANDING
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BRANDON, a town in the hundred of Lachford, in the county of Suffolk, 78 miles from London, on the river Little Ouse, by which there is a communication with the sea at Lynn, and much corn is forwarded. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1148, in 1811 to 1360, and in 1821 to 1770.
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BRANDON
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BRANDRITH denotes a trevet or other iron stand, whereon to set a vessel over the fire. Brandrith, among builders, denotes a fence or rail about the mouth of a well.
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BRANDRITH
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BRANDT, Gerard, a learned divine of the reformed religion, was born at Amsterdam in 1626, and was successively minister in several places of the Netherlands. He wrote some works, particularly A History of the Reformation of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, 1671-74, in 2 vols. 4to; The Life of Admiral Ruyter; An Account of t...
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BRANDT
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BRANDY, a spirituous and inflammable liquor, extracted from wine and other liquors by distillation. The wine-brandy of France is esteemed the best in Europe. It is distilled wherever wine is made, and for this purpose pricked rather than good wine is employed. The chief brandies for foreign trade, and those accounted b...
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BRANDY
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BRANK, an instrument formerly used in some parts of Scotland, and in Staffordshire, for correcting scolding women. It was a sort of head-piece, which opened and inclosed the head of the shrew, while an iron, sharp as a chisel, entered the mouth, and subdued the unruly member within. Thus harnessed, the offender was led...
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BRANK
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BRASIDA, an anniversary solemnity at Sparta, in memory of Brasidas, a Lacedemonian captain, famous for his achievements at Methone, Pylos, and Amphipolis. It was celebrated with sacrifices and games, in which none were permitted to attend but free-born Spartans. Whosoever neglected to be present at the solemnity was fi...
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BRASIDA
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BRASIDAS, a celebrated general of the Lacedemonians about 424 years before the birth of Christ. He defeated the Athenians by land and sea, took many places, and rendered his native country formidable to all the neighbouring states. He repulsed the Athenians in their attempted surprise of Amphipolis, but died of the wou...
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BRASIDAS
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BRASS, in Chemistry and Manufactures, an alloy of copper and zinc. This name, however, has not been exclusively applied to the alloy of these metals; for the gunmetal, which has been also called brass, is an alloy of copper with tin. The same alloy, with more tin, is used in machinery, and is preferred to the alloy of ...
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BRASS
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BRASSICA Cabbage. See Horticulture.
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BRASSICA
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BRASSICAVIT, or Braciiicavit, in the manege, means a horse whose fore legs are naturally bent archwise, and who is so called by way of distinction from an arched horse, whose legs are bowed by hard labour.
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BRASSICAVIT
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BRAULS, Indian cloths with blue and white stripes. They are otherwise called turbans, because they serve to cover those ornaments of the head, particularly on the coast of Africa.
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BRAULS
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BRAUNFELS, a town in the Prussian province of Coblentz, in the circle of Wetzlar-Braunfels. It belongs to t ae duke of that name, formerly a prince, but now mediatised. The castle, on the top of a sugar-loaf hill overlooking the city, is one of the most picturesque objects in Germany. The foot is washed by the Iserbach...
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BRAUNFELS
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BRAUNSBERG, a circle in the Prussian government of Königsberg and province of East Prussia. It extends over 392 square miles, and contains three cities and seventeen parishes,with30,863inhabitants. Though very woody, it produces much good corn and flax. The city, whose name it bears, stands near the Frisehe Haff, which...
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BRAUNSBERG