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kp-eb0706-012502-8628 | CAPON, a cock chicken, emasculated as soon as left by the dam, or as soon as he begins to crow. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012503-8628 | CAPONIERE, or Capponiere, in Fortification, a covered lodgment sunk four or five feet into the ground, encompassed with a little parapet about two feet high, serving to support several planks covered with earth. The caponiere is iarge enough to contain fifteen or twenty soldiers, and is usually placed in the glacis on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012504-8628 | CAPPADOCIA, an ancient kingdom of Asia, comprehending all the country which lies between Mount Taurus and the Euxine Sea. It was divided by the Persians into two satrapies or governments; by the Macedonians into two kingdoms, the one called Cappadocia ad Taurum ; the other Cappadocia ad Pontum, and commonly Pontus ; fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012701-8654 | CAPPANUS, a name given by some authors to a worm that adheres to and gnaws the bottoms of ships, to which it is extremely pernicious, especially in the East and West Indies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012702-8654 | CAPRAIA, a small island of the Sardinian states, lying in the Tuscan Sea, between the north-east point of Corsica and the coast of Piombino. It is about fifteen miles in circumference, and possesses a town of the same name, which has a good harbour. The principal product of the ground is vines. The population amounts t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012703-8654 | CAPRANU, a village of European Turkey, in the province of Livadia, on the river Cephissus, nearly corresponding to the ancient Chaeronea, a city of Boeotia. The ruins of that town are still in existence, and consist of the remains of a temple, a beautiful antique fountain, the theatre, some relics of the acropolis, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012704-8654 | CAPRI, an island of Italy, on the eastern side of the Bay of Naples, opposite to Ponte della Campanella. It consists of two lofty hills, with a fertile valley between them, which produces much wine and oil. The dwellings are scattered over the island, and the inhabitants amount to 3620. In ancient times it was the plac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012705-8654 | CAPRIATA, Peter John, a civilian and historian, was born at Genoa. He wrote in Italian the history of the wars of Italy, an English translation of which was printed in London in 1663. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012706-8654 | CAPRICORN, in Astronomy, one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
The ancients accounted Capricon the tenth sign; and when the sun arrived thereat, it made the winter solstice with regard to our hcinisphere; but the stars being advanced a whole sign towards the east, Capricon is now rather the eleventh sign; and it is a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012707-8654 | CAPRIFICATION, a method used in the Levant for ripening the fruit of the domestic fig-tree, by means of insects bred in that of the wild fig-tree.
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The most ample and satisfactory accounts of this curious operation in gardening are those of Tournefort and Pon-tedra; the former, in his Voyage to the Levant, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012801-8667 | CAPRIMULGUS, Goatsucker, or Fern-owl. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012802-8667 | CAPRINO, a town, the chief place of a district in the delegation of Verona, in Austrian Italy, containing 3760 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012803-8667 | CAPRIOLES, in the manège, leaps that a horse makes in the same place without advancing, in such a manner that, when he is at the height of the leap, he jerks out with his hinder legs even and near. It is the most difficult of all the high manege. It differs from a croupade in this, that in a croupade a horse does not s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012804-8667 | CAPRYKE, a town of the province of East Flanders, in the Netherlands, on the Wantergank, with 3379 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012805-8667 | CAPSA, in Ancient Geography, a large and strong town of Numidia, situated amidst vast deserts, waste, uncultivated, and full of serpents, where Jugurtha kept his treasure. In his time it was taken and razed by Marius the Roman general, who put to death all the citizens capable of bearing arms, and sold the rest as slav... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012806-8667 | CAPS ALI, a market-town of the island Cerigo, in the Mediterranean. It stands at the foot of a lofty mountain on the southern shore of the island, and has an excellent anchorage. It is the seat of a Greek bishop, and contains 1420 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012807-8667 | CAPSARIUS (from capsa, a satcheD, in Antiquity, a servant who attended the Roman youth to school, carrying a satchel with their books in it. He was sometimes also called librarius.
Capsarius was likewise an attendant at the baths, to whom persons committed the keeping of their clothes.
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kp-eb0706-012808-8667 | CAPSICUM, or Guinea-pepper. The bell-pepper produces fruit for pickling, for which purpose the pods must be gathered before they arrive at their full size, while their rind is tender. They must be slit down on one side to get out the seeds, after which they should be soaked two or three days in salt and water. When the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012809-8667 | CAPSQUARES, strong plates of iron which come over the trunnions of a gun, and keep it in the carriage. They are fastened by a hinge to the prize-plate, that they may lift up and down, and form a part of an arch in the middle, to receive a third part of the thickness of the trunnions; for two thirds are let into the car... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012810-8667 | CAPSTAN, or Capstern, a strong massive column of timber, formed like a truncated cone, and having its upper extremity pierced with a number of holes to receive the bars or levers. It is let perpendicularly down through the decks of a ship, and is fixed in such a manner, that the men, by turning it horizontally with the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012901-8680 | CAPSULE, in a general sense, denotes a receptacle or cover in form of a bag.
Capsule, among botanists, a dry hollow seed-vessel or pericarpium, that cleaves or splits in some determinate manner. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-012902-8680 | CAPTAIN, a military officer. There are several kinds of captains, according to their commands.
Captain of a Troop or Company, an officer who commands a troop of horse or a company of foot under a colonel. In the horse and foot guards, the captains have the rank of colonels.
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kp-eb0706-013001-8693 | CAPTION, in Scots Law, a writ issuing under his majesty’s signet, in his majesty’s name, obtained after decree at the instance of a creditor in a civil debt, commanding messengers at arms and other officers of the law to apprehend and imprison the person of the debtor until he pay the debt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013002-8693 | CAPTIVE, a slave, or a person taken from the enemy. Formerly captives in war became the slaves of those who took them; and though slavery, such as obtained among the ancients, is now abolished, some shadow of it still remains in respect of prisoners of war, who are accounted the property of their captors, and have no r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013003-8693 | CAPTIVITY, in a general sense, the state or condition of a captive.
Captivity, in sacred history, a punishment which God inflicted upon his people, the Jews, for their vices and infidelities. The first of these captivities is that of Egypt, from which Moses delivered them, after which are reckoned six during the gover... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013004-8693 | CAPTURE, a prize or prey, particularly that of a ship taken at sea. Captures made at sea were formerly held to be the property of the captors after a possession of twenty-four hours; but the modern authorities require that, before the property can be changed, the goods must have been brought into port, and have continu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013005-8693 | CAPUA, a city, the capital of the province Terra di Lavoro, in the kingdom of Naples. It is on the river Volturno, and is fortified. The air in summer is unhealthy, and the water scarcely drinkable. The principal streets are paved with lava, but the others are in a neglected state. Though it contains a cathedral, eight... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013006-8693 | CAPUCHINS, religious persons of the order of St Francis in its strictest observance; deriving their name from capuce, or capuchon, a stuff cap, or cowl, wherewith they cover their heads. They are clothed with brown or gray, always barefooted, and never travel in coaches, nor shave their beards. The Capuchins are a refo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013101-8706 | CAPUT, the head.
Caput Baronice, the head of the barony, in ancient customs, denotes the ancient or chief seat or castle of a nobleman, where he had his usual residence, and held his court; and sometimes also called caput honoris, or the head of the honour. The caput baronice could not be settled in dowry, nor could i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013102-8706 | CARABINE, a fire-arm shorter than a musket, carrying a ball of twenty-four in the pound, borne by the light horse, hanging at a belt suspended over the left shoulder. The barrel is two feet and a half long, and is sometimes furrowed spirally or rifled within, which is said to add to the range of the piece. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013103-8706 | CARABINEERS, regiments of light horse, carrying longer carabines than the rest, and sometimes employed on foot. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013104-8706 | CARACALLA, Μ. Antoninus Bassianus, emperor after his father Severus in 211, put the physicians to death for not dispatching his father, as he would have had them. He killed his brother Geta; and put Papinianus to death, because he would not defend nor excuse his parricide. In short, it is said that twenty thousand pers... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013105-8706 | CARACCAS was formerly a division of the Spanish dominions in South America, bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, from the Cape de la Vela on the west, to the point of Paria; on the east by the sea, from the twelfth to the eighth degree of north latitude; on the south by Dutch Guiana and Peru; and on the west by t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013106-8706 | CARACCI, Louis, Augustine, and Hannibal, three celebrated painters of the Lombard school, all of Bologna. Louis was born in 1555, and was cousin-german to Augustine and Hannibal, who were brothers, the sons of a tailor, who was yet careful to give them a liberal education. They were both disciples of their cousin Louis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013201-8719 | CARACOL, in the manège, the half-turn which a horseman makes either to the right or left.
Caracol, in Architecture, denotes a staircase in a he- 1 lix or spiral form. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013202-8719 | CARACT, or Carat, the name of that weight which expresses the degree of fineness of gold. The word is also written carract, carrat, harract, and harrat. Its origin is contested; but the most probable opinion is that of Kennet, who derives it from carecta, a term which anciently denoted any weight, and came afterwards t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013203-8719 | CARACTACUS, a renowned king of the ancient British people called Silures, inhabiting South Wales. Having valiantly defended his country seven years against the Romans, he was at length defeated; and, flying to Cartismunda, queen of the Brigantes (inhabitants of Yorkshire), was by her treacherously delivered up to the R... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013204-8719 | CARAGROUTH, in Commerce, a silver coin of the empire, weighing nine drachms. It passes at Constantinople for a hundred and twenty aspers. There are four sorts of them, which are all equally current, and of the same value. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013205-8719 | CARAITES, in ecclesiastical history, a religious sect among the Jews, of which there are still some subsisting in Poland, Russia, Constantinople, Cairo, and other places of the Levant, whose distinguishing tenet and practice it is to adhere closely to the words and letter of the scripture, exclusive of allegories, trad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013301-8732 | CARAMAN, a town in the department of the Upper Garonne, in France, with 2286 inhabitants.
Caraman, a tow n of Asiatic Turkey, and the capital of Caramania. It is situated on a plain, and consists of low houses, almost all built of clay. It has manufactures of coarse w oollen cloth, and others of wool and cotton mixed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013302-8732 | CARAMANIA, an extensive province of Asia Minor. On the north and west it has Natolia for its boundary, on the south the Mediterranean, and its eastern boundary is not exactly ascertained. The coast is everywhere indented by bays and inlets, and in many parts is of a steep and rocky aspect, with promontories which rise ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013401-8745 | CARAMANTA, a town of South America, in the province of Antioquia. It is situated on the Cauca, sixty-five leagues north-east of Popayan. Long. 75. 33. W. Lat. 5. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013402-8745 | CARAMNASSA, a small winding river of Hindustan, which separates the province of Batar from that of Benares. It is chiefly remarkable as it is so far different from other streams that the Hindus are forbidden to touch it; and they always cross it therefore with the utmost caution, as by touching it they lose the fruits ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013403-8745 | CARAT. See Caract. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013404-8745 | CARAVACCA, a town of Spain, at the mouth of a river of the same name, in Segura, in the province of Murcìa, containing 8720 inhabitants. Lat. 38. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013405-8745 | CARAVAN, or Karavanne, in the East, signifies a company or assembly of travellers and pilgrims, and more particularly of merchants, who, for their greater security, and in order to assist each other, march in a body through the deserts, and other dangerous places, which are infested with Arabs or robbers.
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kp-eb0706-013406-8745 | CARAVANSERAI, or Kara vansera, a place appointed for receiving and loading the caravans. It is commonly a large square building, in the middle of which there is a very spacious court; and under the arches or piazzas that surround it there runs a bank, raised some feet above the ground, where the merchants and those who... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013407-8745 | CARAVANSERASKIER, the steward or keeper of a caravanserai. He keeps an account of all the merchandises that are sold upon trust, and demands the payments of the sums due to the merchants for what has been sold in the caravanserai, on the seller’s paying two per cent. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013408-8745 | CARBON. See Chemistry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013409-8745 | CARBONARA, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Principato-Ulteriore, with 2747 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013410-8745 | CARBUNCLE, a name formerly given to garnet.
Carbuncle, in Heraldry, a charge or bearing, consisting of eight radii, four of which make a common cross, and the other four a saltier. Some call these radii buttons or staves, because they are round, and enriched with buttons, or pearled like pilgrims’ staves, and frequent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013411-8745 | CARCASSONNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Aude, in France, extending over 830 square miles. It is divided into 12 cantons and 141 communes. The population amounts to 89,139 persons. The chief place, from which the arrondissement takes its name, is a city [7:6:135]on the Aube, which divides it into two par... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013501-8758 | CARCAXENTE, a town of Spain, in the province of Valencia, containing 5900 inhabitants. There are mills here for making silk thread; and oranges and pomegranates are cultivated in the neighbourhood. Lat. 39. 11. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013502-8758 | CARCERES, in the ancient Circensian games, were inclosures in the circus, wherein the horses were restrained till the signal was given for starting, when, by an admirable contrivance, they all at once flew open. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013503-8758 | CARD, among artificers, an instrument consisting of a block of wood set with sharp teeth, serving to arrange the hairs of wool, flax, hemp, and the like. There are different kinds of them, as hand-cards, stock-cards, &c. They are made as follows:
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kp-eb0706-013504-8758 | CARDAN, Jerom, one of the most extraordinary geniuses of his age, was born at Pavia on the 24th of September 1501. As his mother was not married, she tried every method to procure an abortion, but without effect. She was three days in labour, and they were at last obliged to cut the child from her. He was born with his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013601-8771 | CARDASS, a sort of card, proper for carding flocks of silk, to make cappadine of it. It is also the name which the French give to those flocks of silk.
Cardass is also the name which, in the cloth manufactories of Languedoc, they give to a sort of large card, which is used for carding the dyed wool designed for making... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013602-8771 | CARDERS, in the woollen manufactory, are persons who prepare wool, &c. for spinning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013603-8771 | CARDIAC, in a general sense, signifies all medicines beneficial to the heart, whether applied internally or externally. The word comes from the Greek word κaξδ ∣ a, cor ; the heart being reputed the immediate seat of their operation.
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kp-eb0706-013604-8771 | CARDIFF, a market-town of Glamorganshire, South Wales, where the assizes and sessions are held. It consists of two parishes, though it has but one church. It is watered by the river Taaf, which is connected by means of a canal with the distant parts of the country, by which a vast quantity of iron is brought from the f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013701-8784 | CARDIGAN, a town in South Wales, the capital of the county of the same name, on the Irish Channel. It is a borough sending one member to parliament in eon-junction with Aberystwith, Lampeter, and Adpar. It has two markets weekly, on Tuesday and Saturday. The river Tivey runs by it to the sea. The castle, once an extens... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013702-8784 | CARDIGANSHIRE, a county of Wales, is divided from Caermarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, along the greatest part of its southern side, by the Tivey; on the north it is divided from Merionethshire by the river Dory, and from Montgomeryshire by an artificial boundary. The boundaries on the east, between it and Radnorshire a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013801-8797 | CARDINAL, in a general sense, an appellation given to things on account of their pre-eminence. The word is formed of the Latin cardo, a hinge; it being on these fundamental points that all the rest of the same kind are supposed to turn. Thus, justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude, are denominated the four cardin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013901-8810 | CARDIOID, in the higher geometry, an algebraical curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013902-8810 | CARDITO, a town of Italy, in the province Terra di Lavoro, of the kingdom of Naples, with 3501 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013903-8810 | CARDONA, a town of Spain, in the province of Catalonia, with 2400 inhabitants. It is situated on the banks of the river Llobregat, and is remarkable for a mountain of rock salt, destitute of any covering, at the foot of which it is built. This extraordinary mountain is one Spanish league, or four miles, in circumferenc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-013904-8810 | CAREENING, in naval language, the bringing a ship to incline on one side, in order to trim and caulk the other side.
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kp-eb0706-013905-8810 | CAREER, in the manege, a place inclosed with a barrier, wherein they run the ring. The word is also used for the race or course of the horse itself, provided it do not exceed 200 paces. In the ancient circus, the career was the space which the bigae or quadrigae were to run at full speed in order to gain the prize.
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kp-eb0706-014001-8823 | CAREGLIO, a town of Italy, in the province Coni, of the kingdom of Sardinia. It is built on the river Grana, and contains 5200 inhabitants, who are employed chiefly in raising silk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014002-8823 | CARENTAN, a small city in the department of La Manche, in France. It is fortified, and strong from its situation amidst marshes. It has a small tide harbour, which admits light vessels to the city. The inhabitants are 2717. Long. 1. 20. 25. W. Lat. 49. 18. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014003-8823 | CARENTOIRE, a small town, in a large parish in the department of Morbihan in France, in the neighbourhood of which many crystals are found. The population is 5467. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014004-8823 | CARET, among grammarians, is a character marked thus λ, signifying that something is added on the margin, or interlined, which ought to come in where the caret stands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014005-8823 | CAREW, George, born in Devonshire in 1557, and an eminent commander in Ireland, was made president of Munster by Queen Elizabeth; when, joining his forces with the Earl of Thomond, he reduced the Irish insurgents, and brought the Earl of Desmond to trial. King James made him governor of Guernsey, and created him a baro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014006-8823 | CAREY, Harry, a man distinguished both in poetry [7:6:141]and music, but perhaps more so by a certain facetiousness, which made him agreeable to everybody. He published in 1720 a little collection of poems, and in 1732 six cantatas, written and composed by himself. He also composed sundry songs for modern comedies, par... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014101-8836 | CARGADORS, a name which the Dutch give to those brokers whose business is to find freight for ships outward bound, and to give notice to the merchants, who have commodities to send by sea, of the ships that are ready to sail, and of the places for which they are bound. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014102-8836 | CARGO denotes all the merchandises and effects which are laden on board a ship.
Super-CARGo, a person employed by merchants to go a voyage, oversee the cargo, and dispose of it to the best advantage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014103-8836 | CARIA, in Ancient Geography, a country of Asia Minor, whose limits are extended by some, while they are contracted by others. Mela and Pliny extend the maritime Caria from Jasus and Halicarnassus to Calynda and the borders of Lycia. The inland Caria Ptolemy extends to the Meander and beyond. Car, Cariâtes, Cariatis, Ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014104-8836 | CARIACO, a sea-port town of Colombia, in the province of Cumana. It is situated to the east of the Gulf of Cariaco, near the mouth of the river of the same name, on a large plain covered with plantations. The climate is hot and unhealthy. The principal trade of this place consists in cotton, which is of excellent quali... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014105-8836 | CARIBBEE Islands, a cluster of islands which stretch from Anguilla on the north to Tobago on the south, and form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea. The name has been vaguely applied to the whole of the West India islands; but it strictly means that archipelago which extends somewhat in the form of a crescent, f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014106-8836 | CARICATURA, in painting, denotes the concealment of real beauties, and the exaggeration of blemishes, but still so as to preserve a resemblance of the object. The word is Italian, formed of carica, a load, burden, or the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014107-8836 | CARICOUS, an epithet given to such tumours as resemble the figure of a fig. They are frequently found in the piles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014108-8836 | CARIGNANO, a city of Italy, in the province of Turin, in the kingdom of Sardinia, on the left bank of the river Po. The royal family name is derived from this place. It contains 7220 inhabitants. Long. 7. 35. E. Lat. 44. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014109-8836 | CARILLONS, a species of chimes, frequent in the Low Countries, particularly at Ghent and Antwerp, and played on a number of bells in a belfrey, forming a complete series or scale of tones and semitones, like those on the harpsichord or organ. There are pedals communicating with the great bells, upon which the carillane... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014110-8836 | CARIMATA, an island in the Eastern Seas, lying off the west coast of Borneo, betwixt the first and second degrees of south latitude. It is mountainous and woody, with a cloud-capt peak in the middle, and is inhabited. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014111-8836 | CARIMON, Java, a group of ten or twelve small islands in the Eastern Seas, lying north of Samarang, in Java Sea, covered with wood. The principal island is about twenty miles in circumference. Long. 110. 15. E. Lat. 5. 45. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 5 45' S 110 15' E | CARIMON |
kp-eb0706-014112-8836 | CARINA, a Latin term, properly signifying the heel of a ship, or that long piece of timber running along the bottom of the ship from head to stern, upon which the whole structure is built or framed.
Carina is also frequently used for the whole capacity [7:6:142] or bulk of a ship, containing the hull or all the space ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014201-8849 | CARINAE were weepers, or women hired among the ancient Romans to weep at funerals. They were thus called from Caria, the country whence most of them came. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014202-8849 | CARINI, a city of Italy in the intendancy of Palermo, in the island of Sicily. It is situated on a small bay in a luxuriant valley, eighteen miles from Palermo, and contains 7600 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014203-8849 | CARINTHIA, a province of the Austrian empire, with the title of duchy, lying between 12° 35' and 15° of east longitude, and between 46° 20' 50" and 47° 6' of north latitude. It is bounded on the west by the Tyrol, on the south by Carniola and Friuli, and on the north and east by Salzburg and Styria. This province conta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014204-8849 | CARITAS. The poculum caritatis, or grace-cup, was an extraordinary allowance of wine or other liquors, which the religious at festivals drank in commemoration of their founders and benefactors. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014205-8849 | CARKE denotes the thirtieth part of a sarplar of wool. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014206-8849 | CARLETON, Sir Dudley, was born in Oxfordshire in 1573, and bred in Christ Church College. He went as secretary to Sir Ralph Winwood to the Low Countries when King James resigned the cautionary towns to the States; and he was afterwards employed for twenty-nine years as ambassador to Venice, Savoy, and the United Provin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014207-8849 | CARLINE, or Caroline Thistle. This plant is said to have been discovered by an angel to Charlemagne, to cure his army of the plague; whence its denomination.
Carline, or Caroline, a silver coin current in the Neapolitan dominions, and worth about 4d. of our money.
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kp-eb0706-014208-8849 | CARLINGFORD, a sea-port town of Ireland, in the county of Lowth, situated on a bay to which it gives name. The town is inconsiderable. Butter brought from the county of Tyrone is here shipped to a considerable extent; and large quantities of oysters are sent to Dublin. This town has a castle built on a rock, which is s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 1' N 6 8' W | CARLINGFORD |
kp-eb0706-014209-8849 | CARLISLE, a city, the capital of the county of Cumberland, on the south side of the river Eden, near the influx of the Cadew. It is 305 miles from London, and sixteen from Penrith. As a frontier place towards Scotland, it has still some ancient fortifications, though in a state of dilapidation. It is the see of a bisho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 56' N 2 53' E | CARLISLE |
kp-eb0706-014210-8849 | CARLOCK, in Commerce, a sort of isinglass, made of the sturgeon’s bladder, imported from Archangel. The chief use of it is for clarifying wine, but it is also used by the dyers. The best carlock comes from Astracan, where a great quantity of sturgeon is caught.
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kp-eb0706-014301-8862 | CARLOPAGO, a sea-port town of the Austrian province of Croatia, in the Morlachian channel. It is fortified, and contains a church and Capuchin convent, with 220 houses, and about 1000 inhabitants, who carry on considerable trade in wine, honey, wax, and timber. The harbour is very secure, and the merchants have about t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 31' 45" N 15 9' 31" E | CARLOPAGO |
kp-eb0706-014302-8862 | CARLOS, San, a city of South America, in the province and government of Venezuela. It is situated on the river Aguirre, and is large, handsome, and well divided. Like a number of other towns in the South American provinces, it was founded by the missionaries. The inhabitants, who are chiefly Spaniards from the Canary I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014303-8862 | CARLOTA, a town of Spain, in the province of Cordova. It is one of those new establishments, founded with a view to cultivate the Sierra Morena. It is near the confluence of the rivers Guadalquivir and Xenil. The cultivation of the Sierra Morena by German colonists was the project of the meritorious but unfortunate Ola... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014304-8862 | CARLOW, an inland county in the province of Leinster, in Ireland, is formed somewhat in the shape of a wedge, having its base to the north, on which side it abuts on the counties of Kildare and Wieklow, while on the east it is bounded by the latter of those counties, on the southeast by Wexford, and on the south-west a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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