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BRAURONIA, in Grecian Antiquity, a festival in honour of Diana, surnamed Brauronia, from its having been observed at Brauron, an Athenian borough. This festival was celebrated once in five years, under the management of ten men, called in Greek kοοπο∣ο∣. The victim offered in sacrifice was a goat, and it was customary ...
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BRAURONIA
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BRAWN, the flesh of a boar soused or pickled. For this end the boar should be old, because the older he is the more horny will the brawn be. The method of preparing brawn is as follows: The boar being killed, it is the flitches only, without the legs, that are made brawn; the bones of these are to be taken out, and the...
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BRAWN
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BRAY, Sir Reginald, an architect and politician, was the second son of Sir Richard Bray, one of the privy council to King Henry VI. Sir Reginald was instrumental in the advancement of King Henry VII. to the throne of England, and was greatly in favour with that prince, who bestowed honours and wealth upon him. His skil...
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BRAY
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BRAZEN Sea, in Jewish Antiquity, one of the sacred utensils in the temple of Solomon. It was cast in the plain of Jordan, and removed from thence into the inner court of the temple, where it was placed upon twelve oxen, three of which looked towards each quarter of the world. It was ten cubits from the one brim to the ...
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BRAZEN
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BRAZIER, an artificer who makes and deals in all kinds of brass ware.
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BRAZIER
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BRAZIL. In presenting an account of this extensive and important country, we shall, first, give a brief historical sketch of the progressive discovery of its coasts and interior, of its gradual settlement, and of the auspices under which its social institutions have developed themselves; secondly, a condensed view of ...
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BRAZIL
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BRAZING, the soldering or joining two pieces of iron together by means of thin plates of brass, melted between the pieces that are to be joined. If the wotk be very fine, as when two leaves of a broken saw are to be brazed together, it is covered with pulverized borax, melted with water, that it may incorporate with th...
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BRAZING
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BRAZLAW, a town, the capital of the circle of the same name, in the Russian government of Podolia. It stands on the river Bug, in a very fertile district, and contains about 1200 inhabitants. Long. 28. 51. E. Lat. 48. 52. N.
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BRAZLAW
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BREACH, in a general sense, denotes a break or rupture in some part of a fence or inclosure, whether owing to time or violence. Inundations or overflowings of lands are frequently owing to breaches in dikes or sea banks. Dagenham breach is famous; it was made in 1707, by a failure of the Thames wall in a very high tide...
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BREACH
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BREAD, a mass of dough kneaded and baked in an oven. See Baking. Bread, Assize of. See Baking. Bread-Fruit. Among the more valuable products of the warmer climates and the fertile islands of the Southern Pacific Ocean, is to be ranked the bread-fruit, or Arto-cαrpus incisa of botanists. Nature has favoured the tropical...
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BREAD
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BREADALBANE, or Braidalbin, a district of Scotland, in the western part of Perthshire, about thirty-three miles in length by thirty-one in breadth. It is mountainous, and for the most part unproductive. The hills, however, afford pasture for large flocks of sheep, and some of the valleys are cultivated, though not exte...
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BREAK, in a general sense, signifies to divide a thing into several parts with violence. In the art of war, to break ground is to open the trenches before a place. Among sportsmen, to break a horse in trotting, is to make him light upon the hand in trotting, in order to make him fit for a gallop. To break a horse for h...
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BREAK
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BREAKERS, a name given by sailors to those billows that break violently over rocks lying under the surface of the sea. They are distinguished both by their appearance and sound, as they cover that part of the sea with a perpetual foam, and produce a hoarse and terrible roaring, very different from the sound which the w...
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BREAKERS
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BREAKWATER is any obstruction of wood, stone, or other material, as a boom or raft of wood, sunken vessels, &c., placed before the entrance of a port or harbour, or any projection from the land into the sea, as a pier, mole, or jetty, so placed as to break the force of the waves, and prevent their action on ships and v...
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BREAKWATER
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BREAM. See Ichthyology, Index.
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BREAM
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BREAST, in Anatomy, denotes the fore-parts of the thorax. Smiting the breast is one of the expressions of penitence. In the Romish church the priest beats his breast in rehearsing the general confession at the beginning of the mass. Breast- Hooks, in Ship-Building, are thick pieces of timber ineurvated into the form o...
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BREAST
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BRECHIN, a town of Scotland, in the county of Forfar and parish of Brechin, is situated on the face of a hill about the centre of the parish, on the left bank of the River South Esk, which is crossed below the town by a stone bridge of two arches. Brechin consists of one main street running north and south, with severa...
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BRECHIN
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BRECON, or Breknock, a market and borough town, the capital of the county of the same name, in South Wales, 168 miles from London, is situated at the confluence of the rivers Hondey and Uske. Its ancient castle, an object of great curiosity to the antiquarian, is said to have been built in the reign of William Rufus. T...
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BRECON
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BRECONSHIRE, or Brecknockshire, in South Wales, is divided from Radnorshire by the river Wye; its other boundaries are artificial. Its length is twenty-nine miles, the breadth of its southern basis thirty-four, and its circumference rather more than a hundred. It contains nearly 500,000 acres of land, not one half of w...
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BREDA, a city, the chief of a circle of the same name, in the province of South Brabant, in the Netherlands. It is well built and strongly fortified, and the country around can be flooded for defence in case of necessity. It is connected with the sea by a navigable canal, which communicates with the mouth of the Maas. ...
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BREDA
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BREDSTEDT, a town, the capital of a bailiwick, containing one town and nine parishes, in the duchy of Sleswick and kingdom of Denmark. It stands on the seashore, and contains 309 houses, with 1590 inhabitants. Long. 8. 53. E. Lat. 54. 38. N.
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BREDSTEDT
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BREECHES, a garment worn by males, reaching from the girdle to the knees, and serving to cover the hips, thighs, and knees. The ancient Romans had nothing in their dress answering to our breeches and stockings; instead of which, under their lower tunics and waistcoats, they sometimes bound their thighs and legs round w...
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BREECHES
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BREENBERG, Bartholomew, a painter, was born in 1620. He is best known by the name of Bartolomeo, an appellation bestowed upon him, for the sake of distinction, by the society of Flemish painters at Rome called Bentvogels∙ He was born at Utrecht, but in the early part of his life went to Rome. His studies in the art of ...
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BREENBERG
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BREEZE, a shifting wind that blows from sea or land during certain hours in the day or night. It is common in Africa and some parts of the East and West Indies. Breezes differ from ctesioe or trade-winds, inasmuch as the former arc diurnal, or have their periods each day, whilst the latter are annual, and blow at a dis...
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BREEZE
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BREGENTZ, the capital of the circle of Voralberg, in the Austrian province of Tyrol, stands on a hill at the south-east end of the lake of Constance. It has three churches, a Dominican monastery, and about 2200 inhabitants, occupied in silk and cotton manufactures, and in making various iron wares.
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BREGENTZ
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BREH AR, one of the Scilly Islands, lying almost, directly west of the Land’s End in Cornwall, about the distance of thirty miles. It is situated between the isles of Micarol, Guel, Trescaw, and Samson, and is the roughest and most mountainous of them all. Not long ago there were only two families on it, but now the nu...
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BREH AR
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BREHONS, the provincial judges among the ancient Irish, by whom justice was administered and controversies decided. These sages were a distinct tribe or family, to whom competent lands were allowed in inheritance. In criminal cases the brehon had the eleventh part of all the fines; which could not but be considerable a...
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BREHONS
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BREISACH, a bailiwick in the circle of Treisam, of the duchy of Baden, on the Rhine, containing two cities, twelve villages, and six hamlets, with 13,215 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, celebrated for its former strong castle, stands on the Rhine, and has a population of 2711 persons. Long. 7. 28. 30. E....
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BREISACH
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BREMEN State. See Germany. Bremen, a province of the kingdom of Hanover, which, together with Verden, was secularized at the treaty of Westphalia in favour of Sweden. In a war between Denmark and Sweden in 1712, it was conquered by the former kingdom, who sold it to the house of Hanover, to whom it was, after much nego...
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BREMEN
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BRENNAGE, Brexnagium, in the writers of the middle ages, a kind of tribute paid in lieu of bran, or bran itself, which the tenants were obliged to furnish for the support of the lord’s hounds. The word is also written brenage, brenagium, and brenaige, brenagium, brenaticum, and brennaticum.
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BRENNAGE
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BRENNUS, a celebrated captain among the Gauls, who, about 388 years before the Christian era, entered Italy with a powerful army, made great conquests there, defeated the Romans, and sacked Rome. The Capitol alone was defended; and Camillus coming to its relief, drove the Gauls not only out of Rome, but also out of Ita...
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BRENNUS
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BRENTFORD, a town, being a hamlet in part of the parish of Hamwell and hundred of Ossulton, in the county of Middlesex, seven miles from London, on the banks of the Thames. It consists of a single long street, and comprehends two parishes, with their respective churches. It is remarkable as the place where elections fo...
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BRENTFORD
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BREREWOOD, Edward, an English mathematician and antiquary, was the son of Robert Brerewood, a tradesman, who was thrice mayor of Chester, and born in that city in the year 1565. He received the rudiments of his education at the free school in Chester; and was afterwards admitted, in 1581, of Brazen-nose College in Oxfo...
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BREREWOOD
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BRESCIA, one of the delegations into which the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy is divided. It is bounded on the north-west by Bergamo, on the north-east by the Tyrol, on the east by the Lake of Guarda, on the south-east by Mantua, on the south by Cremona, and on the south-west by Lodi. Its extent is 1115 square m...
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BRESCIA
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BRESLAU, one of the governments into which the kingdom of Prussia is divided. It extends over the northwest part of the province of Silesia, or what was formerly Lower Silesia. It is bounded on the north and northeast by Posen, on the east by Poland, on the south-east by Oppeln, on the south-west by Reichenbach, and on...
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51 6' 50" N 16 56' 47" E
BRESLAU
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BRESSUIRE, an arrondissement in the department of the Two Sevres, in France, extending over 650 square miles, and comprehending six cantons and ninty-one communes, with 68,400 inhabitants. The chief place is a market-town of the same name on the river Argenton. It was totally destroyed during the wars in La Vendée, but...
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BRESSUIRE
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BREST, an arrondissement in the department of Finisterre, in France, extending over 127 square miles, comprehending twelve cantons and eighty-five communes, with 136,149 inhabitants. It takes its denomination from the city of Brest, the most perfect and strongest naval station in the kingdom. The harbour consists of th...
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48 22' 42" N 4 13' 20" W
BREST
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BRET, a name which the people on the coast of Lincolnshire give to the common turbot, a fish extremely plentiful there, and taken in vast abundance. The way of catching them is in a net trailed on the ground by two horses, the one going up to the middle of his body in water, the other on shore.
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BRET
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BRETHREN and Sisters of the Free Spirit, in Ecclesiastical History, an appellation assumed by a sect which sprung up towards the close of the thirteenth century, and gained many adherents in Italy, France, and Germany. They took their denomination from the words of St Paul, in his epistle to the Romans, chap, viii. ver...
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BRETON, or Cape Breton, an island near the eastern side of the continent of North America, situated between forty-five and forty-seven degrees of north latitude. It is separated from Nova Scotia by a narrow strait called Canso, and is about a hundred miles in length by fifty in breadth. It is surrounded with little sha...
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BREVET, in the French customs, denotes the grant of some favour or donation from the king. Brevet more particularly denotes that species of military commission by which an officer is promoted to a rank in the army above that which he holds in his regiment. Brevet rank, therefore, is a rank in the army higher than that...
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BREUGHEL, John, was born about the year 1575. He first applied himself to painting flowers and fruit, in which he excelled; and he afterwards obtained much success in drawing landscapes and views of the sea. He lived long at Cologne, where he acquired considerable reputation, and then travelled into Italy, where his fa...
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BREVIARY, a daily office or book of divine service in the Roman church. It is composed of matins, lauds, vespers, and the compline or post communio. The breviary of Rome is general, and may be used in [7:5:230]all places; but on the model of this various others have been formed, appropriated to each diocese, and each ...
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BRE λ r IATOR, an officer under the eastern empire, whose business it was to write and translate briefs. At Rome those are styled breviators, or abbreviators, who dictate and draw up the pope’s briefs.
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BREWER, Anthony, a dramatic poet, who flourished in the reign of King Charles I., and appears to have been held in considerable estimation by the wits of that time, as may be gathered from a compliment paid to him in a poem called Steps to Parnassus, in which he is supposed to have a magic power to call the muses to hi...
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BREWING. We shall divide this article into five chapters. In the first we shall take as short a view as possible of the history of the art; in the second, we shall give an account of the different kinds of grain employed in brewing; in the third, we shall treat of the process of malting; in the fourth, of that of brew...
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BRIANCON, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Alps, in France, 658 square miles in extent, and containing five cantons, twenty-seven communes, and 82,370 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, stands in an alpine situation on the river Durance, and is strongly fortified, having been conside...
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BRIANCON
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BRIANSK, a circle in the Russian government of Orel, with a population of 68,540 persons. The chief place is the city of the same name, on the river Desna. It trades in iron, corn, hemp, flax, and oak-bark, and contains about 6000 inhabitants. Long. 34. 14. E. Lat. 53. 21. N.
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BRIANSK
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BRIAREUS, in fabulous history, a giant, the son of Aether, Titan, or Coelus, and Terra. This was his name in heaven; but on the earth he was called Aegeon. He was of singular service to Jupiter, when Juno, Pallas, Neptune, and the rest of the gods, endeavoured to bind him in chains and dethrone him; but he afterwards c...
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BRIAREUS
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BRIBE, a reward given to pervert the judgment. The word is French, bribe, which originally denotes a bit, fragment, or relic of meat taken off the table; so that bribe imports as much as panis mendicatus, and still keeps up the idea of the matter of which bribes anciently consisted. Hence also the Spaniards use bribar ...
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BRIBERY, in Law, is a high offence, where a person in a judicial station takes any fee, gift, reward, or brockage for doing his office, except of the king. But, taken largely, it signifies the receiving or offering any undue reward to or by any person concerned in the administration of public justice, whether judge, of...
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BRIBERY
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BRICIANI, those of the order of that name. This was a military order, instituted by St Bridget, queen of Sweden, who gave them the rules and constitutions of the orders of Malta and St Augustin. This order was approved of by Pope Urban V.
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BRICK, a kind of artificial stone made of baked clay. 1. The art of making bricks is so simple that it must have been practised in the earliest ages of the world; probably before mankind had discovered the method of fashioning stones to suit the purposes of building. The book of Genesis informs us, that burnt bricks w...
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BRIDE, a newly-married woman. Among the Greeks it was customary for the bride to be conducted from her father’s house to her husband’s in a chariot, the evening being chosen for that purpose to conceal her blushes. She was placed in the middle, her husband sitting on one side, and one of her most intimate friends on th...
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BRIDEGROOM, a newly-married man, the spouse of the bride. In nothing have the usages of different nations varied more than in regard to marriage, and the ceremonies by which it is celebrated or solemnized. Amongst [7:5:263]the Romans the bridegroom was decked to receive his bride; his hair was combed and cut in a parti...
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BRIDEWELL, a work-house, or place of correction for vagrants, and other disorderly persons. Bridewell, near Flect-street, is a foundation of a mixed and singular nature, partaking of the characters of hospital, prison, and work-house. It was founded in 1553 by Edward VL, who gave the place where King John had formerly...
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BRIDGE. The mathematical theory of the structure of bridges has been a favourite subject with mechanical philosophers. It gives scope to some of the most refined and elegant applications of science to practical utility; and, at the same time that its progressive improvement exhibits an example of the very slow steps b...
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BRIDGE
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BRIDGE-TOWN, the capital of the island of Barbadoes. See Barbadoes. [7:5:286]
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BRIDGEND, a market-town of the county of Glamorgan, in South Wales, being partly in the parish of Newcastle and partly in that of Coity, 179 miles from London. It stands on the river Ogmore, which supplies a great abundance of salmon and other fish, and the market, held on Saturday, is well supplied with all other nece...
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BRIDGENORTH, a borough and market-town of the hundred of Stoddendon, in the county of Salop, 140 miles from London, on the river Severn. It is an ancient place, in the vicinity of which are many interesting remains of antiquity. There is a considerable trade carried on in iron, leather, pipes, malt, and building boats ...
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BRIDGEWATER, a borough and market-town of the hundred of North Petherton, in the county of Somerset, 142 miles from London. It stands on the river Parret, on which vessels from sea ascend to the iron bridge, but are aground at low water. There is much trade here, as coals for the supply of the interior are imported in ...
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BRIDLE, a contrivance made of straps or thongs of leather and pieces of iron, in order to keep a horse in subjection and obedience. The several parts of a bridle are the bit or snaffle; the head-stall, or leathers from the top of the head to the rings of the bit; the fillet, over the fore-head and under the fore-top; ...
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BRIDLE
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BRIDPORT, a borough and market-town in the hundred of Beaminster and county of Dorset, 134 miles from London, on the river Brit, which is divided into two branches, one of them passing at the east, the other at the west end of the town. The manufacturing industry here is very great, producing sail-cloth, twine, nets, r...
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BRIEF, in Law, an abridgment of the client’s case, made out for the instruction of counsel on a trial at law; wherein the case of the litigant is to be briefly but fully stated. Brief, or Brieve, in Scots Law, a writ issued from the Chancery, directed to any judge-ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to cal...
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BRIEG, a circle in the Prussian province of Silesia, extending over 213 square miles, or 136,320 acres, containing two cities, two market-towns, sixty-two villages, and 5226 houses, inhabited by 34,342 individuals. It is divided into two parts by the river Oder, is a level district, and, on the Polish side of that rive...
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BRIEL, a town in the province of South Holland, in the Netherlands, the chief place of a circle of the same name, on the north side of the island Boorne, near the mouth of the Maas. It contains about 3800 men, of whom many are fishermen and pilots. It is interesting as the place the capture of which laid the foundation...
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BRIEL
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BRIEY, an arrondissement of the department of Moselle, in France, extending over 474 square miles, comprehending five cantons and 165 communes, with 56,112 inhabitants. The chief place, a tow n of the same name, on the river Waget, contains about 1900 inhabitants.
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BRIEY
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BRIG, or Brigantine, a merchant-ship with two masts. This term is not universally confined to vessels of a particular construction, or which are masted and rigged in a manner different from others, but is variously applied, by the mariners of different European nations, to a peculiar sort of vessel in their own marine....
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BRIGADE, in the military art, signifies the union of several squadrons or battalions under the command of a colonel, who has also the rank of brigadier-general in the army. A brigade.of artillery consists of a certain number of cannon or field-pieces, with the necessary munitions, stores, and gunners. The soldiers atta...
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BRIGADIER, a military officer, whose rank is next above that of colonel, and who is intrusted with the command of a brigade. In Great Britain this rank is in abeyance during peace, but revived in actual service in the field. Every brigadier marches at the head of his brigade upon duty. The brigadier des armées of the F...
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BRIGANDINE, a coat of mail, a kind of ancient defensive armour, consisting of thin jointed scales of plate, pliant and easy to the body.
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BRIGG, or Glandford Brigg, a market-town in the hundred of Yarborough and county of Lincoln, 153 miles from London, on the river Ancohne, which is navigable to the Humber. There is a large corn-market here on Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1327, in 1811 to 1497, and in 1821 to 1674.
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BRIGG
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BRIGGS, Henry, one of the greatest mathematicians of the sixteenth century, was born at Warley Wood, in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, in the year 1556. In 1592 he was appointed examiner and lecturer in mathematics, and soon afterwards reader of the physical lecture founded by Dr Linacer. When Gresham College in Lon...
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BRIGHTHELMSTONE, or Brighton, a town on the sea-coast, in the hundred of Whalesbone and rape of Lewes, in the county of Sussex. The growth of this place is one of those manifestations of the progress of wealth and the increased power of gratification in this kingdom, which on reflection cannot fail to excite astonishme...
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BRIGITITNS, or Bridgetins, more properly Erigit-tins, a religious order, so called from their founder, St Bridget, or Birgit, a Swedish lady of the fourteenth century, whom some represent as a queen, but Fabricius, on better grounds, considers as a princess, the daughter of King Birgenes, legislator of Upland, and famo...
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BRIGNOLES, an arrondissement of the department of the Var, in France. Its extent is 492 square miles, and it contains eight cantons, twenty-six communes, and 66,184 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the river Salme, in a mountainous district, containing 5301 souls. Long. 6. 50. E. Lat. 43. ...
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BRIGNOLES
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BRILLIANT, in a general sense, something that has a bright and lucid appearance.
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BRILLIANTS, a name given to diamonds of the finest cut. Sec Diamond.
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BRILLIANTS
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BRILON, a circle in the Prussian government of Arnsberg, and province of Westphalia. It extends over 376 square miles, or 240,640 acres, contains six cities, four market-towns, eight parishes, and 105 hamlets, with 3652 houses, and 29,082 inhabitants. Although the northern part is hilly and woody, the valleys to the so...
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BRILON
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BRIM denotes the utmost verge or edge, especially of round things. The brims of vessels are made to projecta little over, to prevent liquors, when poured out, from running down the side of the vessel. The brimming of vessels was contrived by the ancient potters, in imitation of the supercilium or clip of the cornices o...
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BRIM
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BRINDISI, a city on the shores of the Adriatic, in the province of Otranto and kingdom of Naples. It was formerly fortified, but its defences are now dilapidated. It contains a cathedral, several cloisters and nunneries, and at present only 6150 inhabitants. The harbour is now nearly choked up with sand, and hence its ...
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BRINDISI
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BRINDLEY, James, a man celebrated for mechanical inventions, and particularly skilful in planning and conducting inland navigation, was born in 1716, at Tunsted in Derbyshire. Through the mismanagement of his father, his education was totally neglected; and, at seventeen, he bound himself apprentice to a mill-wright, n...
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BRINDLEY
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BRINE, or Pickle, water saturated with saline particles. Brine also denotes a pickle pregnant with salt, wherein things are steeped for preservation. Brine -Pans, the pits where the salt water is retained, and suffered to stagnate, that by the action of the sun it may be converted into salt. There are divers sorts of...
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BRINE
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To BRING-to, in Navigation, to check the course of a ship when she is advancing, by arranging the sails in such a manner that they shall counteract each other, and prevent her either from retreating or moving forward. In this situation the ship is said to lie by, or to lie to; having, according to the sea phrase, some ...
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BIÍIOUDE, an arrondissement in the department of the Upper Loire, in France, extending over 706 square miles, and containing eight cantons and 118 communes, with a population of 76,374 persons. The capital is the city of the same name, on the left bank of the river Allier, with 5486 inhabitants. Long. 3. 15. E. Lat. 45...
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BIÍIOUDE
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BRISSON, Mathurin James, a zoologist and natural philosopher, born at Fontenay-le-Comte, 3d April 1723, the son of Mathurin Brisson and Louisa Gabrielle Jourdain. He was originally intended for the church, but he had acquired at an early age a taste for natural history, which was particularly encouraged by the advantag...
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BRISSON
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BRISSOT, Peter, one of the ablest physicians of the sixteenth century, was born at Fontenay-le-Comte, in Poitou, in 1478. He studied at Paris, and, having taken his doctor’s degree, bent his thoughts on reforming physic, by restoring the precepts of Hippocrates and Galen, and exploding the maxims of the Arabians; for w...
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BRISSOT
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BRISTOL, a city of England, partly within the boundary of the county of Somerset, and partly in that of Gloucester, though it is a county of itself; distant 119 miles from London, and 13 miles from Bath. It is situated in a valley, rather contracted, at the junction of the rivers Frome and Avon, which, by the construct...
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BRISTOL
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BRITAIN, OR GREAT BRITAIN, The most considerable of all the European islands, is situated between fifty and fifty-eight and a half degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the north by the North Sea, on the east by the German Ocean, on the south by the English Channel, and on the west by St George’s Channel and the ...
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BRITAIN, OR GREAT BRITAIN
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BRITANNICUS, son of the emperor Claudius by Messalina, was excluded from the empire after his father had married Agrippina, who placed her son Nero on the throne, and caused Britannicus to be poisoned, a. d. 55.
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BRITANNICUS
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BRITTLENESS, that quality of bodies which subjects them to be easily broken by pressure or percussion.
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BRITTLENESS
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BRIVE, an arrondissement of the department of the Corrèze in France, four hundred and six square miles in extent, and comprehending ten cantons and a hundred and one communes, with 93,858 inhabitants. The capital, Brive la Galliarde, is on the left side of the Corrèze, on a beautiful plain, with a population of 5762 pe...
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BRIVE
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BRIXEN, a city in the Austrian province of Tyrol and circle of Pusterthal, at the confluence of the rivers Eisack and Rientz. It contains a cathedral, four other churches, and a nunnery for English ladies. It is situated in long. 12. 39. 30. E. and lat. 46. 40. N.
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BRIXEN
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BRIXHAM, a town of the hundred of Haytor, in the county of Devon, a hundred and ninety-nine miles from London, on the western side of Torbay. It is in a warm, sheltered situation, and during the war formed the place for watering the king’s ships on that station. It is celebrated as the spot where King William landed in...
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BRIXHAM
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BROACH, a town and district of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat. The district is situated principally between the 21st and 22d degrees of north latitude, and it is bounded on the west by the Gulf of Cambay. It is one of the best cultivated and most populous tracts on the west coast of India, and was finally acquir...
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BROACH
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BROAD Piece, a denomination given to certain gold pieces broader than a guinea; particularly Caroluses and Jacobuses. Broadside, in the sea-language, a discharge of all the guns on one side of a ship at the same time.
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BROAD
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BROCADE, or Brocado, a stuff of gold, silver, or silk, raised and enriched with flowers, foliages, and other ornaments, according to the fancy of the merchants or manufacturers. Formerly the word signified only a stuff woven all of gold, both in the warp and in the woof, or all of silver, or of both mixed together; the...
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BROCADE
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BROCATEL, or Brocadel, a kind of coarse brocade, chiefly used for tapestry.
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BROCATEL
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BROCCOLI, a kind of cabbage cultivated for the use of the table. See Horticulture.
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BROCCOLI
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BROCHE or Brooch. See Broach.
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BROCHE