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kp-eb0706-032601-1241 | CHARES, the Lydian, a celebrated statuary, was the disciple of Lysippus, and made the famous Colossus of the sun in the city of Rhodes. He flourished 288 years before Christ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032602-1241 | CHARGE, in Gunnery, the quantity of powder and ball with which a gun is loaded for execution.
Charge, in Heraldry, is applied to the figures represented on the escutcheon, by which the bearers are distinguished from one another; and it is to be observed that too many charges are not so honourable as a smaller number.
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kp-eb0706-032603-1241 | CHARGED, in Heraldry. A shield carrying some impress or figure is said to be charged with it; so also, when one bearing, or charge, has another figure added to it, it is properly said to be charged.
Charged, in electrical experiments, is when a phial, pane of glass, or other electric substance, properly coated on both... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032604-1241 | CHARIOT, a half coach, having only a seat behind, with a stool before. The chariots of the ancients, chiefly used in war, were called by the several names of bigae, trigae, or quadrigae, according to the number of horses used to draw them. Every chariot carried two men, who were probably the warrior and the charioteer;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032701-1254 | CHARISIA, in the Heathen Theology, a wake or night festival instituted in honour of the Graces. It continued during the whole night, most of which was spent in dancing; and after the ballet, cakes made of yellow flour mixed with honey, and other sweetmeats, were distributed among the assistants. Charisia is also someti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032702-1254 | CHARISIUS, in the Heathen Theology, a surname given to Jupiter. The word is derived from γapς, gratia, grace or favour; Charisius being the god by whose influence men obtain the favour and affection of one another. On this account the Greeks used at their meals to make a libation of a cup to Jupiter Charisius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032703-1254 | CHARISTIA, a festival of the ancient Romans, celebrated in the month of February, in which the relations by blood and marriage met, in order to preserve a good correspondence; and that if there happened to be any difference among them, it might the more easily be accommodated by the good humour and mirth of the enterta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032704-1254 | CHARISTICARY, commendatory or donatory, a person on whom is conferred the enjoyment of the revenues of a monastery, hospital, or benefice.
The Charisticaries among the Greeks were a kind of donatories or commendatories, who enjoyed all the revenues of hospitals and monasteries, without giving an account of these to an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032705-1254 | CHARITE, La, a city of the department of the Nièvre, in France, .in a fine situation on the banks of the Loire, over which is a bridge to an island, which forms a beautiful object and promenade. It contains 590 houses, and 5302 inhabitants. Long. 2. 56. E. Lat. 47. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032706-1254 | CHARITY, among divines, one of the three grand theological virtues, consisting in the love of God and of our neighbour, or the habit and disposition of loving God with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourselves.
Charity is also used for the effect of moral virtue, which consists in supplying the necessities of othe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032901-1280 | CHARLATAN, or Cnarletan, signifies an empiric or quack, who retails his medicines on a public stage, and draws people about him with his buffooneries, feats of activity, and the like. The word, according to Calepine, comes from the Italian ceretano, which signifies of or belonging to Caeretum, a town near Spoleto in It... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032902-1280 | CHARLEMAGNE, or Charles I. king of France, and emperor of the West by conquest, was born at the castle of Saltzburg, in Upper Bavaria, in 742. The events in the life of this great monarch belong properly to the history of France. Equally illustrious in the cabinet and in the field, a wise legislator and a great warrior... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032903-1280 | CHARKOW, a circle in the Russian government of the Ukraine, bounded on the north by Kursk, on the east by Woltschansk, on the south-east by Kupinsk, on the south by Smijew, and on the west by Bogoduchow. It extends over 1980 square miles, and contains a population of 165,000 souls. The circle is watered by the Donez, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032904-1280 | CHARLEROY, a city, the head of a department of the same name, in the province of Hennegou, in the Netherlands. The department is divided into nine cantons, and contains 140 communes, with 92,249 inhabitants. The city is built on both banks of the Sambre, is strongly fortified, and has 650 houses, with 4020 inhabitants.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032905-1280 | CHARLEVILLE, a city of France, in the department of the Ardennes. It is situated on the left bank of the Meuse. It is the seat of the departmental courts of law, and contains 770 houses, and 7724 inhabitants, who are employed in the manufacture of arms, and of linen and woollen cloths. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-032906-1280 | CHARLES Martel, a renowned conqueror in the early annals of France. He deposed and restored Childeric, king of France; and had the entire government of the kingdom, first with the title of Mayor of the Palace, and afterwards as Duke of France', but he would not accept the crown. He died regretted in 741.
Charles le Gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033001-1293 | CHARLES’S Wain, ∖ w Astronomy, seven stars in the constellation called Ursa Majors or the Great Bear.
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kp-eb0706-033101-1306 | CHARLESTON, a city and sea-port of South Carolina, in a district of the same name, is situated on a tongue of land formed by the confluence of the rivers Cooper and Ashley. These unite immediately below the city, and form a spacious and convenient harbour, communicating with the ocean below Sullivan’s Island, seven mil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 47' N 79 50' W | CHARLESTON |
kp-eb0706-033102-1306 | CHARLESTOWN, a post-town in Middlesex county, Massachusetts, one mile north of the centre of Boston. The principal part of the town is finely situated on a peninsula formed by Charles and Mystic rivers, which here flow into the harbour of Boston. Charlestown is connected with Boston by two bridges across Charles river,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033103-1306 | CHARLETON, Walter, a learned English physician, born in 1619, was physician in ordinary to Charles I. and Charles II., one of the first members of the Royal Society, and president of the College of Physicians. He wrote on various subjects; but at last his narrow circumstances obliged him to retire to the island of Jers... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033104-1306 | CHARLIEU, a city of the department of the Loire, in France, on the river Cornin, containing 450 houses and 2829 inhabitants. Long. 3. 55. E. Lat. 46. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033105-1306 | CHARLIQUEN, a town of Asiatic Turkey, situated between Erzerum and Tocat. It has a manufacture of Morocco leather. The caravans halt here during two or three days. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033106-1306 | CHARM, a term derived from the Latin carmen, a verse, and used to denote a magical power, or spell, by which, with the assistance of the devil, sorcerers and witches were supposed to do wonderful things, far surpassing the power of nature. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033107-1306 | CHARMES, a town of France, in the department of the Vosges; on the river Moselle. It contains 610 houses, and 2686 inhabitants. Long. 6. 45. E. Lat. 48. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033108-1306 | CHARNEL, or Charnel-House, a kind of porticoor gallery, usually in or near a churchyard, over which were anciently laid the bones of the dead after the flesh had been wholly consumed. Charnel-houses are now usually adjoining to the church. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033109-1306 | CHAROLLES, an arrondissement in the department of the Upper Saône and Loire, in France, extending over 1036 square miles, and comprising thirteen cantons, 144 communes, with 100,670 inhabitants. The chief place is a town of the same name, on the river Reçonce, and contains 301 houses, with 2518 inhabitants trading in t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033110-1306 | CHARON, in fabulous history, the son of Erebus and Nox, whose office was to ferry the souls of the deceased over the waters of Acheron, for which each soul had to pay a piece of money. For this reason the Pagans had a custom of putting a piece of money into the mouth of the dead, in order that they might have something... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033111-1306 | CHARONDAS, a celebrated legislator of the Thurians, and a native of Catanea, in Sicily, flourished 446 years before Christ. He ordained that no person should appear armed in the public assemblies of the nation; but one day going thither in haste without thinking of his sword, he was no sooner made sensible of his mista... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033112-1306 | CHARPENTIER, Francis, dean of the French academy, was born in 1620. His early capacity inclined his friends to educate him at the bar; but he was much more delighted with the study of languages and antiquity than of the law, and preferred repose to tumult. Μ. Colbert employed him in establishing his new Academy of Meda... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033113-1306 | CHARR. See Ichthyology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033114-1306 | CHARRON, Peter, the author of a book entitled Of Wisdom, which gained him great reputation, was born at Paris in the year 1541. After being advocate in the parliament of Paris for five or six years, he applied himself to divinity, and became so great a preacher, that the bishops of several dioceses offered him the high... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033115-1306 | CHART, or Sea-Chart, an hydrographical map, or a projection of some part of the earth’s superficies in plano, for the use of navigators.
Charts differ very considerably from geographical or land-maps, which are of no use in navigation. Nor are sea-charts all of the same kind; some being what we call plane charts, othe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033201-1319 | CHARTA, or Carta, primarily signifies a sort of paper made of the plant papyrus or biblus. Magna Charta, the great charter of the liberties of Britain, and the basis of our laws and privileges. This charter may be said to derive its origin from King Edward the Confessor, who granted several privileges to the church and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033202-1319 | CHARTER, in Law, a written instrument, or evidence of things acted between one person and another. The word charter comes from the Latin charta, anciently used for a public and authentic act, a donation contract, or the like, from the Greek γcLtrrr ∖ ς, thick paper, or pasteboard, on which public acts were wont to be w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033203-1319 | CHARTOPHYLAX, the name of an officer of the church of Constantinople, who attends at the door of the rails when the sacrament is administered, and gives notice to the priests to come to the holy table. He represents the patriarch upon the bench, tries all ecclesiastical causes, keeps all the marriage registers, assists... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033301-1332 | CHARTRE, an arrondissement in the department of the Indre, in France, extending over 620 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these into sixty-five communes, with 42,475 inhabitants. The capital, which gives its name to the arrondissement, is a city on a hill, at whose foot the Indre flow's, which contain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 55' N 1 51' E | CHARTRE |
kp-eb0706-033302-1332 | CHARTRES, an arrondissement of the department of the Eure and Loire, in France, extending over 858 square miles. It is divided into eight cantons, and these into 166 communes, containing 98,350 inhabitants. The chief city bears the same name, and is situated in a fertile district, on the banks of the Eure. It is surrou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033303-1332 | CHARTREUSE, or Chartreuse-Grand, a celebrated monastery, the capital of all the convents of the Carthusian monks, situated on a steep rock in the middle of a large forest of fir trees, about seven miles north-east of Grenoble, in the province of Dauphiny, in France. See Carthusians.
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kp-eb0706-033304-1332 | CHARTULARY, Chartularius, a title given to an ancient officer in the Latin church, who had the care of charters and papers relating to public affairs. The chartulary presided in ecclesiastical judgments, in place of the p>ope. In the Greek church the chartulary was called chartophylax ; but his office was there much mo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033305-1332 | CHARYBDIS, in Ancient Geography, a whirlpool in the Straits of Messina, according to the poets, near Sicily, and opposite to Scylla, a rock on the coast of Italy. Thucydides makes it to be only a strong flux and reflux in the strait, or a violent reciprocation of the tide, especially if the wind sets south. But on divi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033306-1332 | CHASE, or Chace, is a place of retreat for deer and wild beasts, of a middle kind between a forest and a park, being usually less than a forest, and not possessed of so many privileges. The following history of the English chase is given by Mr Pennant (British Zool. i. 42): “At first the beasts of chase had this whole ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033401-1345 | CHASTITY. Purity of the body, or freedom from obscenity. The Romañ law justifies homicide in defence of the chastity either of one’s self or one’s relations; and so also, according to Selden, stood the law in the Jewish republic. The law of England likewise justifies a woman in killing a man who attempts to ravish her.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033402-1345 | CHATEAUBRIANT, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Loire, in France. It extends over 640 square miles, comprises seven cantons and thirty-seven communes, containing 49,066 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is on the river Chère, and contains 650 houses, with 2733 inhabitants. Long 1. 30. W. L... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 45' N 1 30' W | CHATEAUBRIANT |
kp-eb0706-033403-1345 | CHATEAUDUN, an arrondissement of the department of the Eure and Loire, in France, extending over 576 square miles, divided into five cantons and ninety-one communes, and containing 53,994 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, is situated on a rising ground on the banks of the Loire. It has a fine market-place,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 4' 12" N 0 13' 59" E | CHATEAUDUN |
kp-eb0706-033404-1345 | CHATEAULIN, an arrondissement in the department of Finisterre, in France. It is 775 square miles in extent, comprising seven cantons, fifty-nine communes, and a population of 82,432 persons. The chief place, of the same name, is a city situated on the banks of the Aulne. The city itself is small, and contains not more ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033405-1345 | CHATELLERAULT, an arrondissement of the department of the Vienne, in France, which extends over 460 square miles. It is divided into six cantons, and these into sixty-three communes, which contain 46,500 inhabitants. The chief city, which gives name to the department, is situated on the river Vienne, a little above the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 49' 6" N 0 36' 59" E | CHATELLERAULT |
kp-eb0706-033406-1345 | CHATHAM, a large town in the hundred of Larkfield, of the county of Kent. It forms a continuous street between the city of Rochester and the town of Brompton. It is on the river Medway, in which, opposite the town, some of the largest ships of war are in ordinary. The defences are powerful, and are kept in good repair.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033501-1358 | CHATILLON, an arrondissement in the department of Côte d’Or, in France. It extends over 820 square miles, and is divided into six cantons, and these into 116 communes, containing 48,170 inhabitants. The chief place, which is of the same name, but, to distinguish it, has the addition “sur Seine,” contains a population o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 23' N 4 23' E | CHATILLON |
kp-eb0706-033502-1358 | CHATTELS, a Norman term, under which were anciently comprehended all movable goods, those immovable being termed fief or fee. Chattels, in the modern sense of the word, are all sorts of goods, movable or immovable, except such as are in the nature of freehold. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033503-1358 | CHATTERIS, a town in the Isle of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, seventy-two miles from London. It is near the great drain from the Bedford level. It stands in a marshy but not unhealthy situation. The inhabitants amounted in 1811 to 2399, in 1821 to 3283, and in 1831 to 4177. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033504-1358 | CHATTERPOOR, a city of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, and district of Bundelcund. This is a very ancient town, which was founded by a rajah named Chuttersal, and was occasionally his residence. It was in consequence a very flourishing city, and an important commercial mart, being a great entrepôt of trade bet... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 57' N 79 53' E | CHATTERPOOR |
kp-eb0706-033505-1358 | CHATTERTON, Thomas, an unfortunate poet, whose fate and performances excited in no small degree the public attention, as well as gave rise to much literary controversy. He was born at Bristol on the 20th of November 1752, and educated at a charity school on St Augustin’s Back, where nothing more was taught than reading... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033601-1371 | CHAUCER, Geoffrey, who has been styled the Father of English poetry, has had many biographers, but much of his history is involved in considerable obscurity. The year 1328 has been usually assigned as the date of his birth, upon the authority of an inscription on his tombstone, in which he is said to have died in 1400,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033801-1397 | CHAUD Medley, in Law, is of much the same import with Chance Medley. The former in its etymology signifies an affray in the heat of blood or passion; the latter, a casual affray. In Scotch law it is Chaude Melle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033802-1397 | CHAUMONT, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Marne, in France, extending over 1015 square [7:6:339]miles, divided into ten cantons, and containing 78,804 inhabitants in 198 communes. The city which gives name to the district is situated on the acclivity of a hill, between the rivers Suize and Marne. It co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033901-1410 | CHAUNY, a city in the department of the Aisne, in France. It is situated on the river Oise, which is navigable, and, by means of a canal, is united to the Somme. It contains 816 houses and 3500 inhabitants. There are some of the largest-sized plate glasses and mirrors made here. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033902-1410 | CHAUVIN, Stephen, a celebrated minister of the reformed religion, born at Nismes, left France at the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and retired to Rotterdam, where he began a new Journal des Sçavansyanå, afterwards removing to Berlin, continued it there three years. At this last place he was made professor of philo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033903-1410 | CHAVES, a fortified town of Portugal, in the province Entre-Duero-e-Minho. It is situated on the northern frontier, towards Galicia, distant three leagues from Monterrey, and near the banks of the Tamaga, over which there is a bridge of Roman construction, with sixteen arches, and whose strength shows the antiquity of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033904-1410 | CHAUX de Fonds, a town in the canton of Ncufchatel, in Switzerland, the capital of a district of the same name. It stands in an elevated situation, 1750 feet above the level of the sea, and it contains 559 palace-like houses, and 5900 inhabitants, chiefly employed in the jewellery and watchmaking trade, and in the prep... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033905-1410 | CHAYANTA, a province of Bolivia, in the department of Potosi. It produces in abundance maize, wheat, and other European grain. It abounds in cattle of all sorts, and contains several gold mines. The population is about 100,000. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033906-1410 | CHAZELLES, Jean Mathieu, a celebrated French mathematician and engineer, was born at Lyons in 1657. Μ. Duhamel, with whom he got acquainted, finding his genius incline towards astronomy, presented him to M. Cassini, who employed him in his observatory. In 1684 the Duke of Mortemar made use of Chazellcs to teach him mat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033907-1410 | CHAZINZARIANS, a sect of heretics who appeared in Armenia in the seventh century. The word is formed of the Armenian chazus, cross. They were also called staurolatrce, which in Greek signifies the same as Chazin-zarians in Armenian, namely, adorers of the cross, because they were charged with paying adoration to the cr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033908-1410 | CHECKY, in Heraldry, is when the shield or a bordure is chequered, or divided into chequers or squares, in the manner of a chess-board. This is one of the most noble and most ancient figures used in armory; and a certain author says that it ought to be given to none but great warriors, in token of their bravery; for th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033909-1410 | CHEDUBA, an island in the Bay of Bengal, lying off the coast of Arracan. It is distant from the main land about ten miles. It is the most westerly of a cluster of inhabited islands, and produces such abundance of rice, that it is exported in great quantities. The channel between this island and the mainland is navigabl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033910-1410 | CHEEK, in Anatomy, that part of the face situated below the eyes on each side. See Anatomy. Cheeks, a general name among mechanics for almost all those pieces of their machines and instruments that are double and perfectly alike. Thus the cheeks of a printing pros are its two principal pieces: they are placed perpendic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-033911-1410 | CHEESAPANY, a town and small fort in the Nepaul [7:6:340] territories. The fortress stands upon a perpendicular rock, 530 yards in height. The natural strength of its position is its chief defence, as it is not capable of containing more than 100 men. The village contains twenty houses; and there is here a custom-house... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 23' N 85 30' E | CHEESAPANY |
kp-eb0706-034001-1423 | CHEESE, a sort of food prepared of curdled milk purged from the serum or whey, and afterwards dried for use. See Agriculture and Dairy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-034002-1423 | CHEKE, Sir John, a celebrated statesman, grammarian, and divine, descended of an ancient family in the Isle of Wight, was born at Cambridge in the year 1514, and educated at St John’s College in that university. After taking his degrees in arts, he was first chosen Greek lecturer, and then, in 1540, professor of that l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-034003-1423 | CHEKWALL, a town of the Sikk territories, in the province of Lahore. About ten miles to the south of this place are pits which yield salt, alum, and sulphur. 107 miles north-west from Lahore. Long. 72. 16. Ľ. Lat. 32. 39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-034004-1423 | CHELIDONIAS, according to Pliny, an annual or etesian wind, blowing at the appearance of the swallows, and otherwise called Favonius or Zephyrus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-034005-1423 | CHELIDONIUS Lapis, in Natural History, a stone said by the ancients to be found in the stomachs of young swallows, and greatly esteemed for its virtues in the falling sickness. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-034006-1423 | CHELMSFORD, a town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Essex. It is twenty-nine miles from London, on the junction of the rivers Cann and Chel-mer. It is well built, and situated in a fine country, but has little trade. The assizes and sessions are held here, and the jail, of modern erection, is in this t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-034007-1423 | CHELSEA, a parish in Middlesex, adjoining to London, which has grown to be more populous than many cities. It contains the hospital for invalid soldiers, the military asylum, a noble institution for the orphan children of soldiers, three churches, two of recent erection, and the botanic garden. A bridge across the Tham... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-034008-1423 | CHELTENHAM, a town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Gloucester, ninety-five miles from London. It takes its name from the small river Chilt, which passes through the town in its way to the Severn. It has long been celebrated for its mineral spring, whose supply of water was small; but of late years new... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-034009-1423 | CHEMISE, in Fortification, the wall with which a bastion or any other bulwark of earth is lined, for its greater support and strength; or it is the solidity of wall from the talus to the stone row.
Fire Chemise, a piece of linen cloth, steeped in a composition of oil of petroleum, camphor, and other combustible matter... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-034101-1436 | CHEMISTRY
Is a science, the object of which is to determine the constituents of bodies, and the laws which regulate the combinations of the elementary particles of matter. As an art, it has made very considerable progress. The methods of separating the constituents of bodies from each other, and of determining their p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050601-3581 | CHEMNITZ, or Chemnitius, Martin, a famous Lutheran divine, the disciple of Mclancthon, was born at Britzen, in Brandenburg, in 1522. He was employed in several important negotiations by the princes of the Lutheran communion, and he died in April 1589. His principal work is Examem Concilii Tridentini, Frankfort, 1585, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050602-3581 | CHEMOSIS, a disease of the eyes, proceeding from inflammation, in which the white of the eyes swells above the black, and overtops it to such a degree that there appears a sort of gap between them. Others, however, define it differently. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050603-3581 | CHENIER, Marie Joseph de, was the son of Louis Chenier, well known as the author of Recherches Historiques sur les Maitres, and Révolutions de l’Empire Othmam. He was born in the year 1764, at Constantinople, where his father at that time acted as consul-general of France. At a very early period of life he entered into... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050701-3594 | CHEODLE, a market-town of the hundred of Tot-monslow, in the county of Stafford. It is situated in the centre of a district abounding in coal, in consequence of which several establishments are formed for making copper, tin, and brass wares. Near the town are the ruins of a Cistertian abbey, founded in 1167. -The inhab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050702-3594 | CHEPSTOW, a market-town of the hundred of Caldi-cott, in the county of Monmouth. It is built on the river Wye, over which is a bridge, where the tide rises higher than at any spot in England. It is a place of considerable trade, but especially for ship timber and oak bark, lt has a market on Saturday, well attended. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050703-3594 | CHER, a department of France, formed out of the ancient Upper Berri, and a small portion of the Bourbonnois. It is bounded on the north by the Loiret, on the east by the Nièvre, on the south by the departments of the Allier and the Creuse, and on the west by those of the Indre and Loire and Cher. It comprehends 2908 sq... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050704-3594 | CHERASCO, a city of Italy, in the province of Coni, of the kingdom of Sardinia. It is built at the junction of the rivers Stura and Tanaro. It contains several public buildings, and 11,160 inhabitants. There are considerable establishments for spinning and weaving silk. The country around is highly productive of corn a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050705-3594 | CHERBOURG, an arrondissement of the department of La Manche, in France. It comprehends 380 square miles, and is divided into five cantons and seventy-eight communes, containing 67,565 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is a city in a large bay at the mouth of the small river Divette. As the only part possessed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050706-3594 | CHEREM, among the Jews, is used to signify a species of annihilation. The Hebrew word cherem signifies properly to destroy, exterminate, devote, or anathematize. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050707-3594 | CHERIBON, Sheribon, or Tcheribon, a town in the island of Java, and capital of a principality of the same name, 190 miles by the coast eastward of Batavia. Thetown is situated at the head of a deep bay, formed to the southeast of Point Indramayo, and to the westward of which there is good anchorage in the easterly mons... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050708-3594 | CHERILUS of Samos, a Greek poet, who flourished 479 years b. c. He sung the victory gained by the Athenians over Xerxes, and was rewarded with a piece of gold for every verse. His poem had afterwards the honour of being rehearsed yearly along with the works of Homer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050709-3594 | CHERSO, an island in the Adriatic Sea, belonging to the Austrian Illyrian province. It is a long island, stretching from north to south about thirty-five miles. It consists of a single range of mountains, formed into a kind of natural terraces, on which vines and olive trees flourish. The other parts of the island are ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050801-3607 | CHERSON, the capital of the province as well as of the circle of the same name in European Russia. It is distant from Petersburg 1200 miles, and has been built since 1778, on the right bank of theDneiper. It contains many establishments of a public nature, viz awell-built fortress, the marine arsenal, with its docks, s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050802-3607 | CHERSONESUS, among geographers, the same as a peninsula, or land almost encompassed by the sea, and only joined to the continent by a narrow neck or isthmus. The word is Greek, ^sgōOvîļ¢ro;, from χεg<ros, land, or earth, and wjuo¢, island. In ancient geography it was applied to several peninsulas, as the Chersonesus Au... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050803-3607 | CHERUB (plural, Cherubim), an angelic spirit, which in the celestial hierarchy is placed next to the seraphim. The term cherub, in Hebrew, is sometimes taken for a calf or ox. Ezekiel represents the face of the cherub as synonymous with the face of an ox. The word cherub, in Syriac and Chaldee, signifies ↑,odill or plo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050804-3607 | CHESAPEAK Bay, a spacious bay of North America, in the states of Virginia and Maryland. The entrance, which is sixteen miles wide, is between Cape Charles and Cape Henry. The bay enters 190 miles into the land, dividing the states above named into two equal parts, called the eastern and western shores. It varies from s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050805-3607 | CHESELDEN, William, an eminent anatomist and surgeon, who was born at Burrow on the Hill, in the county of Leicester, and descended from an ancient family in the county of Rutland. He received the rudiments of his professional education at Leicester, and married Deborah Knight, a citizen’s daughter, by whom he had one ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050806-3607 | CHESHAM, a market-town in the hundred of Burnham, of the county of Buckingham, twenty-eight miles from London. It is situated in a pleasing vale. The chief employment, besides agriculture, is making bone lace. The market is held on Wednesday. The population amounted in 1811 to 1191, in 1821 to 2017, and in 1831 to 5388... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-050807-3607 | CHESHIRE is divided from Lancashire by the rivers Mersey and Tame; from Derbyshire and Staffordshire by the rivers Goyt and Dane, and a range of hills; and from Flintshire and Denbighshire in a great measure by the river Dee and its estuary, a small portion of the hundred of Broxton lying to the west of this general bo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-051101-3646 | CHESS,
A very ancient and ingenious game, performed by two persons, with thirty-two pieces of wood or ivory called men, on a square board divided into sixty-four equal squares, usually stained black and white alternately. Each player has sixteen men, those of the one player being usually black, and those of the other ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-051901-3750 | CHEST, in commerce, a kind of measure, containing an uncertain quantity of several commodities. A chest of sugar, for instance, contains from ten to fifteen hundredweight; a chest of glass, from two hundred to three hundred feet; a chest of Castille soap, from two and a half to three hundredweight; a chest of indigo, f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-051902-3750 | CHESTER, a city, the capital of the county of the same name, in the hundred of Broxton. It is situated on the river Dee, over which is a fine bridge of twelve arches. The buildings are very antique, and the fronts of them have wooden galleries projecting towards the street, under and on which is a dry promenade in all ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052001-3763 | CHESTERFIELD, a market-town of the hundred of Scarsdale, in the county of Derby, 150 miles from London, on a hill between two small rivers. It communicates, by means of a recent canal, with the river Trent. It has some manufactories of hosiery and of silk, and some spinning of cotton. The family of Stanhope derives the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052002-3763 | CHEVALER, in the manège, is said of a horse when, in passing upon a walk or trot, his off fore-leg crosses or overlaps the near fore-leg every second motion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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