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kp-eb0705-077006-3074 | CADUCEUS, in antiquity, Mercury’s rod or sceptre, being a wand entwisted by two serpents, borne by that deity as the ensign of his quality and office, and, according to the fable, given him by Apollo for his seven-stringed harp. Wonderful properties are ascribed to this rod by the poets; as laying men asleep, raising t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077007-3074 | CADUS, in antiquity, a wine vessel of a certain capacity, containing eighty amphorae or firkins; each of which, according to the best accounts, held nine gallons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077008-3074 | CADUSII, in Ancient Geography, a people of Media Atropatene, situated to the west, in the mountains, and reaching to the Caspian Sea; between whom and the Medes perpetual war and enmity continued down to the time of Cyrus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077009-3074 | CADUTINADA, a small district of Hindustan, in the province of Malabar. It is well cultivated, and is naturally a rich country, containing a large proportion of rice ground. But the grain which it produces is scarcely adequate to the support of its inhabitants; and a regular importation takes place from the southern par... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077010-3074 | CAELIUS, Aureli anus,. an ancient physician, and the only one of the sect of the Methodists of whom we have any remains. He was a native of Sicca, a town of Numidia; but in what age he flourished cannot be. determined. It is probable, however, that he lived before Galen; since, though he carefully mentions all the phys... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077101-3087 | CAEN, an arrondissement of the department Calvados, in France. Its extent is 450 square miles. It is divided into nine cantons, which are subdivided into 205. communes, containing 129,863 inhabitants.
Caen, a city, the capital of the department of Calvados, and of the arrondissement of its own name, in France. It stan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077102-3087 | CAERE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Etruria, the royal residence of Mezentius. Its ancient name was Ar-gyllce. In Strabo’s time not the least vestige of it remained, except the baths called coeretana. From this town the Roman censor’s tables were called ccerites tabuloe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077103-3087 | CAERLEON, a market-town of the hundred of Usk, in Monmouthshire, 157 miles from London. Near it are some ruins designated by the people Arthur’s Round Table. The market day is Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 667, in 1811 to 821, in 1821 to 1062, and in 1831 to 1071. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077104-3087 | CAERMARTHEN, the capital town of the county of that name, in South Wales. It is situated in a beautiful valley on the river Towy, which is navigable to it. It is an ancient place, was once fortified, and is the best built town in the principality. In the reign of James I. it was incorporated as a town and county of its... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077105-3087 | CÀERMÀRTHENSHIRE, a county in South Wales, containing 926 square miles, or about 590,640 acres. The northern and eastern parts are mountainous. Near the sea the land is flat, but the general surface of the county is hilly. It is intersected in almost every direction' by valleys, from the sides of which the hills rise a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077201-3100 | CAERNARVON, the capital of the county of that name in South Wales. It is a very ancient town; and the castle, in which the first prince of Wales was born, is in better preservation than any other of the ancient edifices of that kind and age in the kingdom. The town, which is on the entrance of the Menai Strait, is fine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077202-3100 | CAERNARVONSHIRE, a county in North Wales, is divided by the Conway from Denbighshire, from part of Merionethshire by a rivulet, from Anglesey by the Straits of Menai; and the residue is bounded by the sea.' In figure it is very irregular, a great peninsulated point running out from it to the south-west. From the extrem... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077401-3126 | CAERWYS, a market-town in the hundred of Rhyddlan, in Flintshire, North W r ales, five miles from St Asaph and 212 from London. The market is held on Tuesday, and is much frequented. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 773, in 1811 to 822, and in 1821 to 952. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077402-3126 | CAESALPINUS, Andrew, one of those great and daring geniuses who, contending with the mists of a dark age, elicit the most brilliant truths on the one hand, whilst they sometimes wander into great absurdities on the other, was born at Arezzo in Tuscany in 1519. Of his family nothing is recorded, nor does he appear to ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077501-3139 | CAESAR, Julius, the illustrious Roman general and military historian, was of the family of the Julii, who pretended they were descended from Venus by Aeneas. The descendants of Ascanius, sons of Aeneas and Creüsa, and surnamed Julius, lived in Alba till that city was ruined by Tullus Hostilius, king of Rome, who carrie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077601-3152 | CAESAREA, an ancient city of Palestine, of great celebrity, but now in ruins, and entirely deserted. It is situated on the sea-coast, and had an extraordinary harbour, which, according to Josephus, was constructed by Herod. Louis IX. of France is said to have rebuilt its walls during the holy wars. The adjacent ground ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077602-3152 | CAESAREAN Operation. See Midwifery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077603-3152 | CAESARIANS, Coesarienses, in Roman Antiquity,^ ere officers or ministers of the Roman emperors. They kept the account of the revenues of the emperors, and took possession in their name of such things as devolved or were confiscated to them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077604-3152 | CAESONES, a denomination given to those cut out of their mothers’ wombs. Pliny ranks this as an auspicious kind of birth; the elder Scipio Africanus, and the first of the family of the Caesars, were brought into the world in this way. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077605-3152 | CAESTUS, in Antiquity, a large gauntlet made of raw hide, which the wrestlers made use of when they fought at the public games. This was a kind of leathern strap, strengthened with lead or plates of iron, which encompassed the hand, the wrist, and a part of the arm, as well to defend these parts as to enforce their blo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077606-3152 | CAESURA, in the ancient poetry, is when, in the scanning of a verse, a word is divided, so that one part seems cut off, and goes to a different foot from the rest.
Caesura, in the modern poetry, denotes a rest or pause towards the middle of an Alexandrine verse, by which the voice and pronunciation are aided, and the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077607-3152 | CAETERIS Paribus, a Latin term in frequent use among mathematical and physical writers. The words literally signify the rest, or other things, being alike or equal. Thus we say, the heavier the bullet, coeteris paribus, the greater the range; that is, by how much the bullet is heavier, if the length and diameter of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077608-3152 | CAFFA, in commerce, painted cotton cloths manufac- ' tured in the East Indies, and sold at Bengal.
Caffa, Kaffa, or Kjeffe, a town of European Russia, in the Crimea, and at one time the largest and most important place in that peninsula. It is pleasantly situated at the end of a large bay on the northern shore of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077609-3152 | CAFFILA, a company of merchants or travellers, who join together in order to go with more security through various countries on the continent of the East Indies, and also Africa.
The caffila differs from a caravan, at least in Persia; for the caffila properly belongs to some sovereign, or to some powerful company in E... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077610-3152 | CAGANUS, or Cacanus, an appellation anciently given by the Huns to their kings. The word appears also to have been formerly applied to the princes of Muscovy, now called czar. From the same also, probably, the Tartar title cham or khan had its origin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077611-3152 | CAGAYAN Sooloo, an island in the Eastern Seas, about twenty miles in circumference, of a rich soil, and of luxuriant aspect. It has a good harbour on the north side, with a bar which admits vessels of fifteen feet water. The island is governed by a rajah dependent on Sooloo. Long. 118. 36. E. Lat. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077612-3152 | CAGE, an inclosure made of wire, wicker, or the like, interwoven lattice-wise, for the confinement of birds or wild beasts. The word is French, cage, formed from the Italian gaggia, of the Latin cavea, which has the same signification: a caveis theatralibus in quibus includebantur ferae.
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kp-eb0705-077613-3152 | CAGGIANO, a city of Italy, in the province Principato-Citeriore of the kingdom of Naples, with 2777 inhabitant | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077614-3152 | CAGLIARI, the capital of the island of Sardinia, as well as of the province of the same name. It stands on the gulf of that name, and contains thirty churches, about 5000 houses, and 25,880 inhabitants. It is the residence of the viceroy, of an archbishop, and the place of assembling of the boards of administration and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077701-3165 | CAGNANO, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Capitanata, with 3477 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077702-3165 | CAHÓRS, an arrondissement in the department of the Lot, in France. It extends over 865 square miles, and contains twelve cantons, divided into 136 communes, with 106,417 inhabitants. The chief place, from which the arrondissement takes its name, is on the right bank of the Lot, which forms almost a circle round it. It ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077703-3165 | CAHUSAC, a town of France, in the department of the Tarn, on the river Verre, with 1424 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077704-3165 | CAIAPHAS, high priest of the Jews after Simon, condemned Christ to death; and was deprived of his place by the emperor 'Vitellius, for which disgrace he made away with himself. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077705-3165 | CAIFONG. See China. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077706-3165 | CAILLAC, an arrondissement of the department of the Tarn, in France, extending over 510 square miles. It is divided into eight cantons and eighty-four communes, and contains 63,736 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, on the river Tarn, which is navigable to a certain extent. It has 1503 houses, and 663... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077801-3178 | CAIMACAN, or Kaimacam, in Turkish affairs, a dignity of the Ottoman empire, answering to lieutenant, or rather deputy, amongst us. There are usually two caimacans, one residing at Constantinople as governor of the capital, and the other attending the grand vizir in quality of lieutenant, secretary of state, and first m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077802-3178 | CAIMAN, or Cayman Islands, three small islands situated fifty-five leagues north-north-west of Jamaica. The southernmost of these islands is called Great Caiman, and contains about 160 inhabitants, whose chief employment consists in fishing for turtle, with which they supply Porto Rigal and other places. A considerable... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077803-3178 | CAIN, eldest son of Adam and Eve, killed his brother Abel, for which he was condemned by God to banishment and a vagabond state of life. Cain retired to the land of Nod on the east of Eden, and built a city, to which he gave the name of his son Enoch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077804-3178 | CAINITES, a sect of heretics in the second century, so called on account of their great respect for Cain. They pretended that the virtue which produced Abel was of an order inferior to that which had produced Cain, and that this was the reason why Cain had the victory over Abel and killed him; for they admitted a great... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077805-3178 | CAIRNS, or Carnes, the vulgar name of those heaps of stones which are to be seen in many parts of Britain, particularly in Scotland and in Wales. They are composed of stones of all dimensions, thrown together in a conical form, a flat stone crowning the apex. Various causes have been assigned by the learned for these h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077901-3191 | CAIRO, or Grand Cairo, the capital of Egypt, situated in a plain at the foot of a mountain, in long. 32. 0. E. lat. 30. 0. N. It was founded by Jawhar, a Moggrebin general, in the middle of the tenth century. He gave his new city the name of Al Kahira, or the Victorious. It became the residence of the caliphs of Egypt,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078001-3204 | CAIROAN, or Cairwan, a city of Africa, in the kingdom of Tunis, seated in a sandy barren soil, about five miles from the Gulf of Capres. It has neither spring, well, nor river; for which reason they are obliged to preserve rain water in tanks and cisterns. It was built by the Aglabites, and was once the seat of a consi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078002-3204 | CAISSON, in the military art, a wooden chest, into which several bombs are put, though it is sometimes filled only with gunpowder. This is buried under some work of which the enemy intend to possess themselves, and when they are masters of it, is fired in order to blow them up.
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kp-eb0705-078003-3204 | CAISTOR, a market-town in the hundred of Yarborough and county of Lincoln. It is joined by a canal to the town of Głanford Brigg. It is a place of great antiquity, said to have been built by the Saxon Hengist. The town is supplied with water by four springs, whose streams, after passing through it, unite and form the r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078004-3204 | CAITHNESS is the most northern county of Scotland. It is bounded on the north by the Pentland Frith, which separates it from the Orkney Islands; on the east and south-east by the Moray Frith; on the south and southwest by Sutherlandshire; and on the west by the Northern Ocean. A chain of hills, commencing on the east a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078202-3230 | CAIUS, Kaye, or Keye, Dr John, the founder of Caius College in Cambridge, was born at Norwich in 1510. He was admitted very young a student in Gonville Hall in the above-mentioned university; and at the age of twenty-one translated from Greek into Latin some pieces of divinity, and into English Erasmus’s paraphrase on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078203-3230 | CAJARE, a market-town of the department of the Lot, in France, on the right bank of the Dordogne, with 1912 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078204-3230 | CAJAZZO, a city of Italy, in the province Terra di Lavoro, of the kingdom of Naples, near the Volturno. It has a cathedral, several other churches, and 2765 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078205-3230 | CAJETAN, Cardinal, was born at Cajeta, in the kingdom of Naples, in the year 1469. His proper name was Thomas de Vio, but he adopted that of Cajetan from the place of his nativity. He defended the authority of the pope, which had suffered greatly at the council of Nice, in a work entitled Of the Power of the Pope ; and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078206-3230 | CAJUPUT OIL, a volatile oil obtained by distillation from a species of melaleuca, which has lately obtained the name of melaleuca cajuputi; cajuputi being its Malay name. This tree, or rather shrub, is a natlve of the island of Amboyna, and of the southern part of Borneo. Cajuput oil is prepared from the leaves which a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078207-3230 | CAKE, a finer sort of bread, so denominated from its flat round figure, <. , [7:5:783]• The Hebrews had several sorts of cakes, which they offered in the temple. These were made of the meal either of wheat or barley, and were kneaded sometimes with oil and sometimes with honey; though sometimes they only rubbed them ov... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078301-3243 | CALABASH, in Commerce, a light kind of vessel fφ∙med of the shell of a gourd emptied and dried, serving to put divers kinds of goods in, as pitch, rosin, and the like. The word in Spanish, calabaça, signifies the same. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078302-3243 | CALABRIA Citeriore, one of the southern provinces into which the kingdom of Naples, in Italy, is divided. It is bounded on the south by Calabria Ulteriore, on the east by the Ionic Sea, on the north by Basilicata, and on the west by the Mediterranean. Its extent is 3652 square miles, or 2,337,280 English acres. The App... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078303-3243 | CALABRITTO, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Principato-Citeriore, with 2160 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078304-3243 | CALAHORRA, a town of Spain, in the province of Old Castile, and in the district of Soria. It was a city of considerable distinction in past ages, and the vestiges of its grandeur are still visible around it. The vicinity of the place yields a considerable quantity of fine wool. It is on the banks of the little river Yr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078305-3243 | CALAIS, a city of the arrondissement of Boulogne, and department of Calais, in France. It is a place of importance from being the nearest point to England, and the landing place of those who pass from thence to the Continent. The harbour, which is dry at low water, is only fit for the reception of small vessels. It is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078306-3243 | CALAMANCO, a sort of woollen stuff’ manufactured in England and Brabant. It has a fine gloss, and is checkered in the warp, whence the checks appear only on the right side. Some calamancoes are quite plain, others have broad stripes adorned with flowers, others plain broad stripes, others narrow stripes, and others are... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078307-3243 | CALAMIANES, a group of small islands in the Eastern Seas, about twelve in number, and situated to the north arid north-east of the Philippines. They are surrounded by numerous shoals and rocks, which render the navigation intricate and dangerous. The largest of these islands are' called Busvagon and Calamiane, and the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078401-3256 | CALAMINE, the native carbonate and silicate of zinc, which, though very generally found in the same deposits, differ materially both in their mineralogical and chemical characters. The most prevalent colour of Calamine is white; occasionally, however, it is blue, green, yellow, or brown. It varies also from transparent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078402-3256 | CALAMOTA, an island on the coast of the Austrian kingdom of Dalmatia, in the Adriatic Sea. It is a little to the west of Ragusa, and contains only one town, or rather large village. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078403-3256 | CALAMUS, in the ancient poets, denotes a simple kind of pipe or fistula, the musical instrument of the shepherds and herdsmen, and usually made either of an oaten stalk or a reed.
Calamus Scriptorius, in antiquity, a reed or rush to write with. The ancients made use of styles to write on tables covered with wax, and o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078404-3256 | CALAMY, Edmund, an eminent Presbyterian divine, born at London in the year 1600, and educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where his attachment to the Arminian party excluded him from a fellowship. Dr Felton, bishop of Ely, however, made him his chaplain; and in 1639 he was chosen minister of St Mary Aldermary, in the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078405-3256 | CALAMY, Edmund, grandson to the preceding (by his eldest son, Mr Edmund Calamy, who was ejected from the living of Moxton in Essex, on St Bartholomew’s day 1662), was born in London on the 5th April 1671. After having learned the languages, and gone through a course of natural philosophy and logic at a private academy ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078406-3256 | CALANORE, the chief town of a small district of the same name in Hindustan, province of Lahore. Acbar was here first proclaimed emperor on the death of his father in 1556. Long. 75. 0. E. Lat. 31. 51. N. The district is situated in the Sikk territories, between the 31st and 32d degrees of north latitude. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078407-3256 | CALAS, John, the name of a most unfortunate Protestant merchant at Toulouse, inhumanly butchered under forms of law which were prostituted to shelter the sanguinary dictates of ignorant and fanatical zeal. He had [7:5:785]lived forty years at Toulouse. His wife was an Englishwoman of French extraction, and they had fiv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078501-3269 | CALASCIBETTA, a city of the intendancy of Calatanisetta, in the island of Sicily, in the defile between two mountains, on the river Nebroden. It contains 4780 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078502-3269 | CALASH, or Calesh, a small light kind of chariot or chair, with very low wheels, used chiefly for taking the air in parks and gardens. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078503-3269 | CALASIO, Marius, a Franciscan, and professor of the Hebrew language at Rome, of whom there is very little to be said, but that he published there, in the year 1621, a concordance of the bible, which consisted of four great volumes in folio. This work has been highly approved and commended both by Protestants and Cathol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078504-3269 | CALASIRIS, in antiquity, a linen tunic fringed at the bottom, and worn by the Egyptians under a white woollen garment; but this last they were obliged to pull off when they entered the temples, being only allowed to appear there in linen garments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078505-3269 | CALATAFINI, a city of Sicily, in the intendancy of Trapani. It is between two hills, in a fine corn country, containing 10,000 inhabitants. This district is celebrated for its dairy and breeding cattle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078506-3269 | CALATANISETTA, one of the intendancies into which the island of Sicily is divided. It is bounded on the north by Palermo, on the east by Catania, on the southeast by Seragosa, on the south by the sea, and on the west by Girgenti. It is divided into three districts, viz. Calatanisetta, Piazza, and Terranovo, and contain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078507-3269 | CALATHUS, in antiquity, a kind of hand-basket made of light wood or rushes, used by the women sometimes to gather flowers, but chiefly, after the example of Minerva, to put their work in. The figure of the calathus, as represented on ancient monuments, is narrow at the bottom, but widens upwards like that of a top. Pli... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078508-3269 | CALATOR, in antiquity, a crier, or officer appointed to publish something aloud, or call the people together. The word is formed from καλεω, voco, “I call.” The pontifices had such ministers, whom they used to send before them when they went to sacrifice οnferice or holidays, in order to advertise the people to leave o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078601-3282 | CALAYAN, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, and the most northerly of those called the Babuyanes islands. It is situated due north of the large island of Luzon, and is about twenty-three miles in circumference. Long. 121. 30. E. Lat. 19. 28. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078602-3282 | CALATVOTURA, a city of Italy, in the intendancy of Palermo, in the island of Sicily. It is situated in a valley among the mountains, near the river Grande, and contains about 3200 inhabitants. The situation is somewhat unhealthy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078603-3282 | CALCAR, John de, a celebrated painter, was the disciple of Titian, and perfected himself by studying Raphael. Among various pieces, he drew a Nativity, representing the angels around the infant Christ; and so ordered the disposition of his picture as to cause the light to proceed from the child. He died at Naples in 15... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078604-3282 | CALCAREOUS SPAR, or Crystallized Carbonate of Lime, one of the most generally diversified substances in the mineral kingdom, and certainly that which presents the greatest variety of crystalline forms. The Abbé Haüy has drawn and described upwards of 500 of these; and since his time not fewer than 800 other distinct mo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078605-3282 | CALCEARIUM, in antiquity, a donative or largess bestowed on Roman soldiers for buying shoes. In monasteries, calcearium denoted the daily service of cleaning the shoes of the religious. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078606-3282 | CALCEDONY. The distinction between this substance and agate rests upon very arbitrary grounds. Agate frequently presents a variety of colours, and a multiplicity of beautiful delineations. Calcedony is generally of one uniform colour, of a light brown, and sometimes nearly white. It occurs in irregular masses, forming ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078701-3295 | CALCHAS, in fabulous history, a famous diviner, followed the Greek army to Troy. He foretold that the siege would last ten years; and that the fleet, which was detained in the port of Aulis by contrary winds, would not sail till Agamemnon’s daughter had been sacrificed to Diana. After the taking of Troy he retired to C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078702-3295 | CALCINATO, a market-town of Italy, in the Austrian delegation of Brescia, with 3207 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078703-3295 | CALC-SINER, or Stalactitic Carbonate of Lime. This occurs mamillated, or in long pendulous masses or tubes, commonly coating, or even entirely filling, the interior of caves. Though deposited from water loaded with particles of lime, and therefore in a constant state of formation, these stalactites (which outside are c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078704-3295 | CALC-TUFF, or Calcareous Tufa, is the most impure, the most irregular, and the most porous, of all the varieties of limestone. It occurs in beds generally in the vicinity of lakes and rivers, also encrusting rocks, and enveloping animal and vegetable remains in the proximity of calcareous springs. Immense deposits of c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-078705-3295 | CALCULUS primarily denotes a little stone or pebble, anciently used in making computations, taking suffrages, playing at tables, and the like. In after times, pieces of ivory, and counters struck of silver, gold, and other
matterials,
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kp-eb0705-078801-3308 | CALCUTTA, one of the largest and most splendid cities of Asia, the modern capital of Hindustan, and the seat of the supreme government of the British in India. It is situated upon the river Hooghly, which forms the western channel of the Ganges, and, though not the principal, is the only one of its numerous branches wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-079201-3360 | CALDARIUM, in the ancient baths, denoted a brazen vessel or cistern, placed in the hypocaustum, full of hot water, to be drawn thence into the piscina or bath, to give it the necessary degree of heat. In this sense the caldarium stands contradistinguished from the tepedarium and frigidarium. Caldarium also denoted the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-079202-3360 | CALDERINUS, Domitius, a learned critic, born at Calderia, near Verona. He read lectures upon polite literature at Rome with great reputation, and was the first who ventured to write upon the most difficult of the an··· cient poets. He died very young in 1477. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-079203-3360 | CALDERON DE LA BARCA, Don Pedro, a celebrated Spanish dramatic author, was born in 1600. Having early completed his studies, he attached himself to some patrons about court; but being soon disgusted with this state of dependence he enlisted as a common soldier, and made several campaigns in Italy and the Low Countries.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-079204-3360m | CALDERWOOD, David, an industrious historian of the church of Scotland, and a strenuous defender of its discipline, was born in the year 1575. He was educated in the university of Edinburgh, where he took the degree of A. Μ. in the year 159∣ig and having been early destined for the church, he devoted much attention to t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-000101-7016 | CALDIERO, a town of the delegation of Verona, in the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy, where there are some warm baths. It contains 2250 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-000102-7016 | CALDRON, or Cauldron, a large kitchen utensil, commonly made of copper; having a movable iron handle, by which to hang it on the chimney hook. The word is formed from the French chaudron, or rather the Latin caldarium. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-000103-7016 | CALDWALL, Richard, a learned English physician, born in Staffordshire about the year 1513. He studied physic in Brazen-nose College, Oxford, and was examined, admitted into, and made censor of, the College of Physicians at London, all in one day. Six weeks afterwards he was chosen one of the elects; and in the year 157... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-000104-7016 | CALEDONIA, the ancient name of Scotland. From the testimonies of Tacitus, Dio, and Solinus, we find that the ancient Caledonia comprehended all that country situated to the north of the rivers Forth and Clyde. In proportion as the Silures or Cimbri advanced northwards, the Caledonians, circumscribed within narrower lim... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-000201-7029 | CALEDONIAN Canal. See Navigation Inland, and Scotland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-000202-7029 | CALEFACTION, the production of heat in a body from the action of fire, or that impulse impressed by a hot body on others around it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-000203-7029 | CALELLA, a town of Spain, on the sea-coast, in the province of Catalonia, with 2400 inhabitants, who are employed in distilling brandy and wine, in easting anchors, and in making fishing nets, lace, and blonde. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-000204-7029 | CALENBERG, a principality or duchy in the kingdom of Hanover. It is bounded on the north-east by Luneburg; on the south-east by Hildesheim; on the south by Brunswick, the Prussian circle of Minden, and Pyrmont; and on the west by Lippe, Schaumburg, and Hoya. It is 1090 square miles, or 667,800 English acres, in extent;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-000301-7042 | CALENDAR.
A calendar is a method of distributing time into certain periods adapted to the purposes of civil life, as hours, days, weeks, months, years, &c.
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A | |
kp-eb0706-001701-7224 | CALENDER, a mechanical engine employed by cloth-lappers, for dressing and finishing cloths and stuffs of various descriptions and fabrics, before exposure to sale, or delivery to purchasers. It is also used by calico-printers, in order to extend and smooth the surface of their cloths, after they have been bleached, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002101-7276 | CALENDERS, a sort of Mahommedan friars, so called from Santon Calenderi, their founder. This Santon went bareheaded, without a shirt, and with the skin of a wild beast thrown over his shoulders. He wore a kind of apron , before, the strings of which were adorned with counterfeit precious stones. His disciples are rathe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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