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kp-eb0706-002102-7276 | CALENTIÜS, Elisius, a Neapolitan poet and prose author. He was preceptor to Frederick, the son of Ferdinand, king of Naples, and the earliest writer on the illegality of putting criminals to death, except for murder. He died in 1503. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002103-7276 | CALENTURE, a feverish disorder incident to sailors in hot countries, the principal symptom of which is their imagining the sea to be green fields. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002104-7276 | CALENZANA, a city of the island of Corsica, in the department of Calvi, containing 1950 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002105-7276 | CALEPIN, Ambrosius, an Augustine monk of Cale-pio, whence he took his name, in the sixteenth century. He is author of a dictionary of eight languages, since augmented by Passerat and others. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002106-7276 | CALF, in Zoology, the young of the ox kind. See Mammalia. Golden Calf, an idol set up and worshipped by the Israelites at the foot of Mount Sinai, in their passage through the wilderness to the land of Canaan. Our version makes Aaron fashion this calf with a graving tool after he had cast it in a mould. The Geneva tran... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002107-7276 | CALI, a town of Popayan, in South America, on the river Cauca, in a fertile and populous plain, abounding in mines, vegetable productions, and cattle. It is distant eighty-seven miles from Popayan. Long. 76. 23. W. Lat. 3. 24. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 3 24' S 76 23' W | CALI |
kp-eb0706-002108-7276 | CALIAN, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, [7:6:22]which was formerly of larger size and of greater importance than it is at present, being now a poor place, inhabited by Mahommedans. It was exposed to many sieges during the wars which were carried on between the Mahommedans and the Mahrattas, and is n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 17' N 73 12' E | CALIAN |
kp-eb0706-002201-7289 | CALIBER, Calibre, or Calliper, properly denotes the diameter of any body: thus we say, two columns of the same caliber, the caliber of the bore of a gun, the caliber of a bullet, &c.
Caliber Compasses, a sort of compasses made with arched legs, to take the diameter of round or swelling bodies. See Compasses. ∙ Caliber... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002202-7289 | CALICO, in commerce, a sort of cloth resembling linens, made of cotton. The name is taken from that of Calicut, a city on the coast of Malabar, being the first place at which the Portuguese landed when they discovered the India trade. The Spaniards still call it callicu.
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kp-eb0706-002203-7289 | CALICUT, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Malabar, which extends along the sea coast, between the parallels of 10 and 12 degrees north latitude, about sixty or seventy miles, but is of inconsiderable breadth. It is fertile and productive, abounding generally in all sorts of Indian commodities, such as rice, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 15' N 75 50' E | CALICUT |
kp-eb0706-002204-7289 | CALICOOTE, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, near the Chilcath Lake, 20 miles N. W. from Ganjam. Long. 85. 21. E. Lat. 19. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002205-7289 | CALIDUCT, in Antiquity, a kind of pipes or canal disposed along the walls of houses or apartments, used by the ancients for conveying heat to several remote parts of the house from one common furnace. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002206-7289 | CALIFORNIA, New, a province of Mexico or New Spain, which extends from the isthmus of Old California, or the bay of Todos Santos, to Cape Mendocino in north lat. 40. 19. It is a narrow stripe of land, stretching to 600 miles in length by thirty in breadth. The climate is more mild than in the same latitude on the easte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002301-7302 | CALIGA, in Roman Antiquity, was the proper soldier’s shoe, made in the sandal fashion, without upper leather to cover the superior part of the foot, though otherwise reaching to the middle of the leg, and fastened with thongs. The sole of the caliga was of wood, like the sabot of the French peasants, and its bottom stu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002302-7302 | CALIGATI, an appellation given by some ancient writers to the common soldiers in the Roman armies, by reason of the caliga which they wore. The caliga was the badge or symbol of a soldier; and hence, to take away the caliga and belt, imported a dismission or cashiering. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002303-7302 | CALIGAWN, a town of Northern Hindustan, tributary to the chief of Nepaul, and situated in the country of the twenty-four rajahs. Long. 33. 56. E. Lat. 28. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 28 40' N 33 56' E | CALIGAWN |
kp-eb0706-002304-7302 | CALIGULA, the Roman emperor and tyrant, a. d. 37, began his reign with every promising appearance of becoming the real father of his people; but at the end of eight months he was seized with a fever, which it is thought left a frenzy on his mind; for his disposition totally changed, and he committed the most atrocious ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002305-7302 | CALIPH, or Khalif, the supreme ecclesiastical dignitary among the Saracens; or, as the term is otherwise defined, the sovereign dignitary among the Mahommedans, vested with absolute authority in all matters relating both to religion and policy. In the Arabic it signifies successor or vicar ; the caliphs bearing the sam... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002401-7315 | CALIPHATE, the office or dignity of caliph. The successions of caliphs continued from the death of Mahommed till the 655th year of the hegira, when the city of Bagdad was taken by the Tartars. After this, however, there were persons who claimed the caliphate, as pretending to be of the family of the Abassides, and to w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002402-7315 | CALIPPIC Period, in Chronology, a series of seventy-six years, perpetually recurring; which being elapsed, the middle of the new and full moons, as its inventor Calippus, an Athenian, imagined, return to the same day of the solar year. Meton, a hundred years before, had invented the period or cycle of nineteen years, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002403-7315 | CALISTA, in fabulous history, the daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, and one of the nymphs of Diana. Being beloved by Jupiter, that god assumed the form of the goddess of chastity, by which means he debauched her; but her disgrace being revealed as she was bathing with her patroness, the incensed deity turned her and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002404-7315 | CALITRI, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Principato-Ulteriore, with 4540 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002405-7315 | CALIXTINS, a name given to those among the Lutherans who follow the sentiments of George Calixtus, a celebrated divine, and professor at Helmstadt in the duchy of Brunswick, who died in 1656. He opposed the opinion of St Augustin on predestination, grace, and free will, and endeavoured to form an union among the variou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002406-7315 | CALKEN, a market-town in the province of East Flanders, in the Netherlands, containing 3940 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002407-7315 | CALL, among hunters, a lesson blown upon the horn to comfort the hounds.
Call, among sailors, a sort of whistle or pipe, of silver or brass, used by the boatswain and his mates to summon the sailors, to their duty, and direct them in the different employments in the ship. As the call can be sounded to various strains,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002408-7315 | CALLAC, a town of the department of Coté du Nord, in France, containing 1686 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002409-7315 | CALLACAND, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Tinnevilly, forty-two miles north by east of Cape Comorin. Long. 77. 44. E. Lat. 8. 31. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 8 31' N 77 44' E | CALLACAND |
kp-eb0706-002410-7315 | CALLAN, a town of Ireland, in the county of Kilkenny, situated on the banks of King’s River. It consists of four streets intersecting each other at right angles. The church, once a stately fabric, is now nearly in ruins. On the east side of the town are the remains of an abbey which was founded in the fifteenth century... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002411-7315 | CALLANDER, a village and parish of Scotland, in the county of Perth, situated on the river Teith. It is neatly built; and much resorted to by travellers, who come to visit the scenery around, which is uncommonly beautiful. The population in 1821 was 2031, and in 1831 1909. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002412-7315 | CALLAO, a strong town of South America, in Peru. It is the port of Lima, from which it is distant about two leagues. The town is built on a low flat point of land on the sea shore, not more than nine or ten feet above the level of high water mark; but the tide does not commonly rise or fall above five feet. The roadste... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 2' S 77 4' W | CALLAO |
kp-eb0706-002501-7328 | CALLAO, so called by its inhabitants, but more generally known to Europeans under the name of Campello, lies opposite to the coast of Cochin China, and about eight miles to the eastward of the mouth of a considerable river on the coast of Cochin China, upon the banks of which is situated the town of Faifoo, a place of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002502-7328 | CALLAS, a city of the department of the Var, in France. It has fourteen oil-mills, and 2095 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002503-7328 | CALLATABELLOTA, a city of Sicily, in the intendancy of Girgents, on a lofty mountain, containing 4500 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002504-7328 | CALLIAN, a market-town of the department of the Var, in France, in a district where there are coal mines, and where much glass is made. The inhabitants amount to 1823. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002505-7328 | CALLIANY, a large and populous town of Hindustan, in the province of Beeder, and the capital of a district of the same name, seventy-seven miles west by north of Hyderabad, and eighty-five east of Bejapoor. Long. 77. 33. E. Lat. 17. 22. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 22' N 77 33' E | CALLIANY |
kp-eb0706-002506-7328 | CALLICRATES, an ancient sculptor, who engraved some of Homer’s verses on a grain of millet, made an ivory chariot that might be concealed under the wing of a fly, and an ant of ivory in which all the members were distinct. But Aelian justly blames him for exerting his genius and talents in things so useless, and at the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002507-7328 | CALLIGRAPHUS anciently denoted a copyist or scrivener, who transcribed fair, and at length, what the notaries had taken down in notes or minutes. The word is compounded of καλλog, beauty, and ygapω, I write. The minutes of acts, &c. were always taken in a kind of cipher or shorthand, such as the notes of Tyro in Gruter... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002508-7328 | CALLIGRAPHY, the art of fair writing. Callicrates is said to have written an elegant distich on a sesamum seed. Junius speaks of a person, as very extraordinary, who wrote the apostles’ creed and the beginning of St John’s Gospel in the compass of a farthing. What would he have said of our famous Peter Bale, who, in 15... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002509-7328 | CALLIMACHUS, a celebrated architect, painter, and sculptor, born at Corinth, having seen by accident a vessel about which the plant called acanthus had raised its leaves, conceived the idea of forming the Corinthian capital; and hence the Corinthian order of architecture. The ancients assure us that he worked in marble... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002510-7328 | CALLINGAPATAM, a town of Hindustan, on the sea coast of the Northern Circars, seventy miles north-east from Vizagapatam. Long. 84. 15. E. Lat. 18. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002601-7341 | CALLINO, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Abruzzo Ulteriore, with 1400 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002602-7341 | CALLINUS of Ephesus, a very ancient Greek poet, and the inventor of elegiac verse, some specimens of which are to be found in the collection of Stoboeus. He flourished about 776 years before Christ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002603-7341 | CALLIONDROG, a town and fortress of Hindustan, on the west side of the river Noggry, in the Mysore, forty-four miles south by cast from Bellary. Long. 77. 9. E. Lat. 14. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002604-7341 | CALLIOPE, in Pagan Mythology, the muse who presides over eloquence and heroic poetry. She was thus named from the sweetness of her voice, and was reckoned the first of the nine sisters. Her distinguishing office was to record the worthy actions of the living; and accordingly she is represented with tablets in her hand. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002605-7341 | CALLIPAEDIA, the art of getting or breeding fine and beautiful children. Divers rules and practices relating to this art are to be found in ancient and modern writers. Claude Quillet de Chinon, a French abbot, under the fictitious name of Clavicles Loetus, has published a Latin poem in four books, under the title of Ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002606-7341 | CALLIRRHOE, in Ancient Geography, surnamed En-ηeαerunos from its nine springs or channels, a fountain not far from Athens, greatly adorned by Peisistratus, where there were several wells, but this the only running spring. Callirrhoe was also the name of a very fine spring of hot water beyond Jordan, near the Dead Sea, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002607-7341 | CALLISTEA, in Grecian Antiquity, a Lesbian festival, in which the women presented themselves in Juno’s temple, and the prize was assigned to the fairest. There was another of these contentions at the festival of Ceres Eleusinia among the Parrhasians, and another among the Eleans, where the most beautiful man was presen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002608-7341 | CALLISTHENES, the philosopher, disciple, and relation of Aristotle, by whose desire he accompanied Alexander the Great in his expeditions; but proving too severe a censurer of that hero’s conduct, he was by him put to the torture, on a suspicion of a treasonable conspiracy, and died under the infliction, 328 years befo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002609-7341 | CALLISTRATUS, an excellent Athenian orator, was banished for having obtained too great an authority in the government. Demosthenes was so struck with the force of his eloquence, and the glory it procured to him, that he abandoned Plato, and resolved from thenceforward to apply himself to oratory. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002610-7341 | CALLOT, James, a celebrated engraver, was born at Nancy in 1593. In his youth he travelled to Rome to learn designing and engraving, and thence proceeded to Florence, where the grand duke took him into his service. After the death of that prince, Callot returned to his native country, where he was very favourably recei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002611-7341 | CALLOW, a town in the province of East Flanders, on the left bank of the Scheldt, with 2030 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002612-7341 | CALLVIZZANO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom and province of Naples, with 2200 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002613-7341 | CALLYGONG Hills, a range of mountains in Hindustan, the south-west part of a ridge which runs along the south bank of the river Nerbuddah. They have been but little explored. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002614-7341 | CALM, the state of rest which exists in the air and sea when there is no wind stirring. Calms are never so great on the ocean as on the Mediterranean, because the flux and reflux of the former keep the water in a continual agitation, even where there is no wind; whereas, there being no tides in the latter, the calm is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002615-7341 | CALMAR, a province of Sweden, formed out of the eastern part of Smaland, and the island Oeland. It is bounded on the north-west and north by Lenkoping, on the east by the Baltic Sea, on the south by Blekinge, and on the west by Cronberg and Jonkoping. The extent is 4312 square miles. The population is 148,396, inhabiti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002616-7341 | CALMET, Augustine, one of the most learned and laborious writers of the eighteenth century, was born at Mesnil le Horgne, a village in the diocese of Toul, in France, in the year 1672, and took the habit of the Benedictines in 1688. Among the many works he published are, 1. A literal Exposition, in French, of all the B... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002617-7341 | CALMONT, a town in the department of the Upper Garonne, in France, with 1522 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002618-7341 | CALMUCKS. See Kalmucks.
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kp-eb0706-002701-7354 | CALNE, a market and borough town in the hundred of the same name in Wiltshire, ninty-one miles from London, on the road to Bath. It is chiefly built of stone raised in the neighbourhood. It is situated on the river Marlow, which runs through the lower part of the town. The market is held on Tuesday. The greater part of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002702-7354 | CALOGERI, in Ecclesiastical History, monks of the Greek church, divided into three degrees; the novices, called archam; the ordinary professed, called michrochemi ; and the more perfect, called megalochemi. They are likewise divided into coenobites, anchorites, and recluses. The coenobites are employed in reciting thei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002703-7354 | CALORIC. See Chemistry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002704-7354 | CALOSA, a town of Spain, in the province of Valencia, with 3200 inhabitants. Manufactures of earthen-ware and esparto are carried on here. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002705-7354 | CALOTTE, a cap or coif of hair, satin, or other stuff; an ecclesiastical ornament in most Popish countries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002706-7354 | CALOWZ, a mountainous and woody district of Hindustan, principally situated in the province of Lahore, about the 32d degree of north latitude. It is bounded on the north by Kaugrah, on the east by Besseer, on the south by Nhan, and on the west by the Punjab. Its capital is Bellaspore, and it is nearly divided by the ri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002707-7354 | CALPE, a mountain of Andalusia, in Spain, at the foot of which, towards the sea, stands the town of Gibraltar. It is half a league in height towards the land, and so steep that there is no approaching it on that side. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002708-7354 | CALPURNIUS, Titus, a Latin Sicilian poet, who lived under the Emperor Carus and his son. Seven of his eclogues are extant. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002709-7354 | CALTAGIRONE, a city of the intendancy of Catania, in the island of Sicily. It is in a healthy situation on a hill watered by the river Terra Nova. It has a university and other establishments for education. The environs are rich in all the appropriate agricultural productions; and the city supplies a large surrounding ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002710-7354 | CALUSO, a town of Italy, in the province Ivrea, and kingdom of'Sardinia, with 2850 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002711-7354 | CALVADOS, a department of France, formed out of that part of Lower Normandy formerly distinguished as Bessin, Bocage, Champagne dé Caen, Auge, and Licu-rain. It has received its present name from a chain of rocks so called, at a small distance from the shore, between the mouths of the rivers Orne and Bire, about sixtee... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002712-7354 | CALTURA, a village and small port on the west coast of the island of Ceylon, twenty-cight miles to the south of Columbo, situated on the river Caltura, which is one of the largest branches of the Muliwaddy, and is there about a mile broad. Arrack and rum are manufactured here, and there is a large plantation of sugar-c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002713-7354 | CALVART, Denis, a celebrated painter, was born at Antwerp in 1552, and had for his masters Prospero Fontana and Lorenzo Sabbatini. He opened a school at Bologna, which became celebrated, and from which proceeded Guido, Albani, and other great masters. Calvart was well skilled in architecture, perspective, and anatomy, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002714-7354 | CALVARY, a term used in Catholic countries for a kind of chapel of devotion, raised on a hillock near a city, in memory of the place where Jesus Christ was crucified near the city of Jerusalem. The word is derived from the Latin calvarium ; and that from calvus, bald, in respect the top of the hillock was bare and dest... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002715-7354 | CALVERT, George, afterwards Lord Baltimore, was born at Kipling in Yorkshire about the year 1582, and educated at Oxford, where he took the degree of bachelor of arts. He afterwards travelled. At his return he was made secretary to Sir Robert Cecil: he was afterwards knighted, and in 1618 appointed one of the principal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002801-7367 | CALVI, an arrondissement of the island of Corsica, 550 square miles in extent, divided into six cantons, and these into thirty-one communes, containing 18,603 inhabitants. The capital is a fortified city of the same name, on the western side of the island, with a good haven. It contains 400 houses and 2164 inhabitants.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002802-7367 | CALVIN, John, the mos't eminent of the reformers from Popery after Luther, and, from the large body of Christians distinguished by his name, deemed entitled to equality with him, was born at Noyou, in Picardy, in 1509. His father was a cooper in that place, and bore the name of Chauvin or Cauvin, which his son afterwar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002901-7380 | CALVINISM, the doctrine and sentiments of Calvin and his followers. See Theology. Crypto- Calvinists, a name given to the favourers of Calvinism in Saxony, on account of their secret attachment to the Genevan doctrine and discipline. Many of them suffered by the decrees of the convocation of Torgau, held in 1576. The C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002902-7380 | CALVISIUS, Seth, a celebrated German chronologer in the beginning of the seventeenth century. He wrote Elenchus Calendarii Gregoriani, et duplex Calendarii melioris forma, and other learned works, together with some excellent treatises on music. He died in 1617, aged sixty-one. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002903-7380 | CALUMET, a symbolical instrument of great importance among the American Indians. It is nothing more than a pipe, whose bowl is generally made of a soft red marble, and the tube of a very long reed, ornamented with the wings and feathers of birds. No affair of consequence is transacted without the calumet. It ever appea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002904-7380 | CALUMNY, the crime of accusing another falsely, and knowingly so, of some heinous offence.
Oath of Calumny, Juramentum, or rather Jusjurandum, Calumniae, or de Calumnia, among civilians and canonists, was an oath which both parties in a cause were obliged to take; the plaintiff that he did not bring his charge, and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002905-7380 | CALVISSON, a city of the department of Gard, in France, on the river Escates, with 500 houses and 2790 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002906-7380 | CALVUS, Cornelius Licinius, a celebrated Roman orator, was the friend of Catullus, and flourished sixty-four years b. c. Catullus, Ovid, and Horace, spea⅛of him. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002907-7380 | CALX properly signifies lime, but has been used by chemists and physicians for a fine powder remaining after the calcination of metals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002908-7380 | CALYBITES, the inhabitants of a cottage; an appellation given to divers saints on account of their long residence in some hut, by way of mortification. The word is formed from καλυστω, tego, I cover ; whence καλu⅛ a little cot. The Romish church commemorates St John the Caly-bite on the 15th of December. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002909-7380 | CALYCISTAE, systematic botanists, so named by Linnaeus, who have arranged all vegetables from the different species, structure, and other circumstances, of the calyx or flower-cup. The only systems of this kind are the Character Plantarum ĴVovus, a posthumous work of Mag-nolius, professor of botany at Montpelier, publi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002910-7380 | CALYDON, in Ancient Geography, a town of Aetolia, situated seven miles and a half from the sea, and divided by the river Evenus. The country was anciently called Aeolis, from the Aeolians, its inhabitants. This country was famous for the story of Meleager and the Calydonian boar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-002911-7380 | CALYPSO, in fabulous history, a goddess who was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, or, as others say, of [7:6:30]Atlas. She was queen of the island of Ogygia, which from her was called the island of Calypso. According to Homer, Ulysses suffered shipwreck on her coast, and staid with her several years. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003001-7393 | CALYX, among botanists, a general term, expressing the cup of a flower, or that part of a plant which surrounds and supports the other parts of the flower. See Botany. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003002-7393 | CAMAIEU, or Camåyeu, a word used to express a peculiar sort of onyx; also a stone, on which are found various figures, and representations of landscapes, or the like, formed by a kind of lusus naturoe, so as to exhibit pictures without painting. It is of these camaieux Pliny is to be understood as speaking when he says... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003003-7393 | CAMALDULIANS, Camaldunians, or Camalbolites, an order of religious persons, founded by Romuald, an Italian fanatic, in 1023, in the horrible desert of Camaldoli, otherwise called Campo Malduli, situated in the state of Florence, on the Apennines. Their rule is that of St Benedict; and their houses, by the statutes, can... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003004-7393 | CAMALODUNUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Trinobantes, the first Roman colony in Britain. From the Itineraries it appears to have stood where Malden now stands. It continued to be an open town under the Romans, a place of pleasure rather than strength, yet not unadorned with splendid works, as a theatre and a te... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003005-7393 | CAMANA, a province of Peru, bounded on the northwest and north by the province of Ica, on the north-east by that of Lucanas, on the east by those of Parinacochas and Condesuios, on the south-east by that of Collahuas, and on the west by the South Sea. It is about twenty-five leagues in length, by about fourteen in brea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003006-7393 | CAMANDOO, a town of Hindustan, in the territory of the Seiks, in the province of Lahore, situated on the east side of the Beyah river, 124 miles north-east from the city of Lahore. Long. 75. 50. E. Lat. 32. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003007-7393 | CAMARANA, an island of Arabia, in the Red Sea, where the natives fish for coral and pearls. Lat. 15. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003008-7393 | CAMASSEI, or Camace, Andrea, painter of history and landscape, was born at Bevagna, and at first learned the principles of design and colouring from Domenichino; but afterwards he studied in the school of Andrea Sacchi, and proved a very great painter. He was employed in St Peter’s at Rome, as also at St John Lateran; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003009-7393 | CAMBAY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and the port of Ahmedabad, situated at the upper part of the Gulf of Cambay, and supposed to be the Camanes of Ptolemy. It was formerly a very flourishing city, the seat of an extensive commerce. But it decayed with Ahmedabad in Gujerat, in the supplying of which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003101-7406 | CAMBAYES, in commerce, cotton cloths made at Bengal, Madras, and some other places on the coast of Coromandel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003102-7406 | CAMBER, according to our monkish historians, one of the three sons of Brute, who, upon his father’s death, had that part of Britain assigned him for his share called from him Cambria, now Wales. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003103-7406 | CAMBERED Decks, among ship-builders. The deck or flooring of a ship is said to be cambered, or to lie cambering, when it is higher in the middle of the ship’s length, and droops towards the stem and stern, or the two ends; also when it lies irregular, a circumstance which renders the ship very unfit for war. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003104-7406 | CAMBERT, a French musician in the seventeenth century, was at first admired for the manner in which he touched the organ, and became superintendent of music to Anne of Austria, the queen-mother. The Abbé Perin associated him in the privilege he obtained from his majesty, of setting up an opera in 1669. Cambert set to m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003105-7406 | CAMBERWELL, a large village in the hundred of Brenton, in Surrey, adjoining to London, whose population amounted in 1811 to 11,309, in 1821 to 17,876, and in 1831 to 28,231. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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