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kp-eb0706-073703-6584 | CLEMENTINE, a term used among the Augustines, and applied to a person w ho, after having been nine years a superior, ceases to be so, and becomes a private monk, under the command of a superior. The word had its rise from the circumstance of Pope Clement having, by a bull, prohibited any superior among the Augustines f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073704-6584 | CLENARD, or Kleinarts, Nicholas, a celebrated grammarian of the sixteenth century, was born at Diest, in Brabant, in 1495; and after having taught humanity at Louvain, where he had studied, he travelled into France, Spain, Portugal, and Africa. Clenard’s works arc, 1. Tabula in Grammaticam Hebracam, Louvain, 1529, 8vo;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073705-6584 | CLEOBIS and Biton, two youths, sons of Cydippe, the priestess of Juno at Argos. When oxen could not be procured to draw their mother’s chariot to the temple of Juno, they put themselves under the yoke, and drew it forty-five stadia to the temple, amidst the acclamations of the multitude, who congratulated the mother on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073706-6584 | CLEOMBROTUS, a king of Sparta, son of Anaxan-drides, who was deterred from building a wall across the isthmus of Corinth, against the approach of the Persians, by an eclipse of the sun. He died in the 75th Olympiad, and was succeeded by Plistarchus, son of Leonidas, a minor.
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kp-eb0706-073707-6584 | CLEOMENES, king of Sparta, who conquered the Argives, and freed Athens from the tyranny of the Peisistratidae. By bribing the oracle, he pronounced Demaratus, his colleague on the throne, illegitimate, because the latter refused to punish the people of Aegina, who had deserted the Greeks. He killed himself in a fit of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073801-6597 | CLEON, the name of several noted men of antiquity: 1. Of an Athenian, who, though originally a tanner, became, by means of his intrigues and eloquence, general of the armies of the state, took Thoron in Thrace, and was killed at Amphibolis in a battle with Brasidas, the Spartan general; 2. Of a general of Messenia, who... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073802-6597 | CLEOPATRA, the celebrated queen of Egypt, was daughter of Ptolemy Auletes. By her extraordinary beauty she subdued the two renowned Roman generals Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, the latter of whom, it is thought, lost the empire of Rome by his attachment to her. At length Mark Antony being subdued by Octavius Caesar, s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073803-6597 | CLEOSTRATUS, a celebrated astronomer, born in Tenedos, was, according to Pliny, the first who discovered the signs of the zodiac; but others say that he only discovered the signs Aries and Sagittarius. He also corrected the errors of the Grecian year, about the 306th year before Christ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073804-6597 | CLEPSYDRA, an instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall of a certain quantity of water. The word comes from %λsrrrω, condo, and υδωg, aqua, water; though there have likewise been clepsydrae in which mercury was used. The Egyptians, by this machine, measured the course of the sun. Tycho Brahe made use of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073805-6597 | CLERC, John le, a celebrated writer and universal scholar, was born at Geneva in 1657. After he had passed through,the usual course of study at Geneva, and had lost his father in 1676, he went to France in 1678; but returning the year after, he was ordained with the general applause of all his examiners. In 1682, Le Cl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073901-6610 | CLERGY, a general name given to the body of ecclesiastics belonging to the Christian church, in contradistinction to the laity.
The distinction of Christians into clergy and laity was derived from the Jewish, and adopted into the Christian church, by the apostles themselves. Whenever any number of converts was made, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-074101-6636 | CLERK (clericus), a word formerly used to signify a learned man, or man of letters. The word comes from the Greek xXrcgo¢, used for clergy, but more properly signifying lot or heritage, because the lot or portion of clerks or ecclesiastics is to serve God. Accordingly clerus was at first used to signify those who were ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-074201-6649 | CLERKE, Captain Charles, a celebrated English navigator, was bred up in the navy from his youth, and was present in several actions during the war of 1755. In the engagement between the Bellona and Courageux he was in imminent danger; for having been stationed in the mizen-top of the Bellona, the mast was carried overb... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-074301-6662 | CLERMONT, an arrondissement of the department of the Oise, in France, extending over 530 square miles, divided into eight cantons and 178 communes, and containing 86,760 inhabitants. The city which gives its name to the arrondissement is in a picturesque situation, overlooking the river Bresehe. It contains 495 houses,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-074302-6662 | CLEROMANCY, a kind of divination performed by the throwing of dice, and observing the points or marks turned up. The word comes from κλτjgoς, lot, and μαwua, divination. At Bura, a city of Achaia, there were a temple and celebrated oracle of Hercules, where such as consulted the oracle, after praying to the idol, threw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-074303-6662 | CLESIDES, a Greek painter, about 276 years before Christ, in the reign of Antiochus I. He revenged the injuries he had received from Queen Stratonice, by representing her in the arms of a fisherman. But however indecent the painter’s representation of the queen, she was drawn with such personal beauty, that she preserv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-074304-6662 | CLEVELAND, John, an English poet of some eminence in his time, who, during the civil war under Charles I., engaged as a literary champion in the royal cause against the parliamentarians. He was born in 1613, and died in 1659, much extolled by his party. FIis works, which consist of poems, characters, orations, epistles... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-074305-6662 | CLIENT, among the Romans, a citizen who put himself under the protection of some great man, who, in respect of that relation, was called patron. This patron assisted his client with his protection, interest, and goods; and the client gave his vote for his patron, when the latter sought any office for himself or his fri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-074306-6662 | CLIFTON, a large parish, forming a kind of suburb to the city of Bristol, and the residence of the richest class of its inhabitants, as well as of many other opulent families. It forms a portion of the hundred of Barton Regis, in Gloucestershire, and consists of rows and crescents of handsome and convenient houses; whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-074307-6662 | CLIMACTERIC (from climacter, a ladder) signifies, among physicians, a critical year in a person’s life.
According to some, this is every seventh year; but others admit only the years produced by multiplying seven by the odd numbers three, five, seven, and nine, to be climacterical. These years, they say, bring with th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-074308-6662 | CLIMATE.
The word Climate, or κλ∕∕zα, being derived from the verb κλmft, to incline, was applied by the ancients to signify that obliquity of the sphere with respect to the horizon from which results the inequality of day and night. The great astronomer and geographer Ptolemy distinguished the surface of our globe, fr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076401-6961 | CLINCH, in nautical language, that part of a cable which is bended about the ring of the anchor, and then seized or made fast. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076402-6961 | CLINCHING, in nautical language, a kind of slight caulking used at sea, about the posts, in prospect of foul weather. It consists in driving a little oakum into their seams, to prevent the water entering by them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076403-6961 | CLINIAS, a Pythagorean philosopher and musician, who flourished in the 65th Olympiad. Being very choleric, he was wont to assuage his passion by his lyre. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076404-6961 | CLIO, in Pagan Mythology, the first of the muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over history, and is represented as crowned with laurels, holding in one hand a trumpet, and in the other a book. Sometimes she holds a plectrum or quill with a lute. Her name signifies honour and reputation, κλ≡oς, gloria... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076405-6961 | CLISTHENES, a famous Athenian magistrate, the author of the mode of banishing ambitious citizens by ostracism, or writing their names upon a shell; in other words, by a species of ballot. The intention was patriotic, but, like all other human institutions, it was abused; and some of the worthiest citizens of Athens wer... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076406-6961 | CLITHEROE, a borough-town of the hundred of Blackburn, in Lancashire, distant thirty miles from Manchester, and 283 from London. It stands on the river Ribble, and has a canal navigation connecting it with most parts of the kingdom. The cotton trade has been extensively introduced here of late years. The market is held... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076407-6961 | CLITOMACHUS, a philosopher who flourished about 140 years before Christ. He was born at Carthage, but quitted his country at forty years of age, and went to Athens,where he became the disciple and successor of Carneades. He composed many books, but they were all lost CLITUMNUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Umbria, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076501-6974 | CLITUS, brother to Alexander the Great’s nurse. He fo'lowed that prince in his conquests, and saved his life by cutting off the hand of Rosaces, who held an axe uplifted to kill him at the passage of the Granicus. Alexander, who had a great regard for him, some time afterwards invited him to supper; when Clitus, at the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076502-6974 | CLIVE, Robert, Lord, son of Richard Clive, Esq. of Styche, near Drayton in Salop, was born in 1725. Towards the close of the war in 1741, he was sent as a writer, in the East India service to Madras; but being fonder of the camp than of the counting-house, he soon availed himself of an opportunity to exchange his pen f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076503-6974 | CLOACAE, in Antiquity, the common sewers of Rome, to carry off the dirt and soil of the city into the Tiber; justly reckoned amongst the grand works of the Romans. The first common sewer, called Cloaca Maxima, was built by Tarquinius (some say Priscus, others Superbus), of huge blocks of stone joined together without a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076504-6974 | CLOACINA, the goddess of jakes and common sewérs among the Romans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-076505-6974 | CLOCK AND WATCH WORK.
Under this title are usually comprehended such machines only as are moved by weights or springs, and regulated by a pendulum or balance for the purpose of measuring the lapse of time, or indicating or announcing its progress; but other machines also, when they resemble these, sometimes get the sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000101-7259 | CLODIUS, Publius, a Roman descended of an illustrious family, who rendered himself famous for his licentiousness, avarice, and ambition. He introduced himself in women’s clothes into the house of Julius Caesar, whilst Pompeia, Caesar’s wife, of whom he was enamoured, was celebrating the mysteries of the Bona Dea, where... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000102-7259 | CLOGHER, an episcopal town of Ireland, in the coun-, ty of Tyrone, and province of Ulster. In a very early age an abbey of regular canons, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was founded here. This was once a place of some consequence, but there is nothing about it now which entitles it to its former appellation of city. It ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000103-7259 | CLOGHNAKILTY, or Clonakilty, a market, post, and fair-town of Ireland, in the county of Cork. It is in a rapid state of improvement, the annual value of sales of linen and yarn effected here amounting to upwards of £30,000. There are here a permanent barrack, an endowed classical school, two subscription and two endowe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000104-7259 | CLOISTER, a habitation surrounded with walls, and inhabited by canons or religious persons. In a more general sense, cloister is used for a monastery of religious persons of either sex. In a more restricted sense, cloister is used for the principal part of a regular monastery, consisting of a square built around, which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000105-7259 | CLONES, a town of Ireland, in the county of Monaghan, and province of Ulster. It is a place of considerable antiquity. An abbey for regular canons was founded here in the beginning of the sixth century. Near the town are the ruins of an abbey and chapel, two Danish raths, and one of the ancient pillar towers peculiar t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000106-7259 | CLONMELL, the assize town of the county of Tipperary, in Ireland, is situated on the river Suir, which is navigable from this town to Carrick and Waterford. This place is of considerable antiquity, and was originally protected by walls and a castle; but these were destroyed by Cromwell. The town consists at present of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000201-7272 | CLOSE, in Heraldry. When any bird is drawn in a coat of arms with its wings close down about it (that is, not displayed), and in a standing posture, they blazon it by the word close; but if it be flying, they call it volant. Close- Hauled, in Navigation, the general arrangement or trim of a ship’s sails when she endeav... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000202-7272 | CLOTH, in commerce, a manufacture made of wool, and woven in the loom. Sec Woollen Manufacture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000203-7272 | CLOTHO, the youngest of the three Parcae, daughters of Jupiter and Themis. She was supposed to preside over the moment when men were born. She held the distaff in her hand, and spun the thread of life, whence her name κλω‰∕y, to spin. She was represented as wearing a crown with seven stars, and covered with a variegate... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000204-7272 | CLOUD, a collection of vapours suspended in the atmosphere.
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kp-eb0707-000401-7298 | CLOUD, St, a town of France, in the department of the Seine and Oise. It is in a fine situation, overlooking the most beautiful part of the Seine. The palace and park are elegant and tasteful. It contains many other houses on a small scale, and 1250 inhabitants. It is a great resort of the Parisians, especially at thos... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000402-7298 | CLOVIO, Giorgio Giulio, historical and portrait painter, was born in Sclavonia in 1498. Having in the early part of his youth applied himself to literature, his genius prompted him to pursue the art of painting as a profession; and at the age of eighteen he went to Rome, where he spent three years to perfect himself in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000403-7298 | CLOVIS I. was the real founder of the French monarchy. He was the first who conquered the several provinces of Gaul, which before his time had been possessed by the Romans, Germans, and Goths. Having united these to the then scanty dominions of France, he removed the seat of government from Soissons to Paris, and made ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000404-7298 | CLOYNE, a town of Ireland, in the county of Cork, and province of Munster. It is but a small place, though an episcopal residence. A church was built, and a bishopric erected here, by St Colman, who died on the 4th of November 604; and an abbey was also founded in 707. In 1430 the bishopric was united to that of Cork; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000405-7298 | CLUNY, a city of the department of the Saone and Loire, in France, on the river Grone. It contains 467 houses, and 4019 inhabitants, who are employed in making hats, gloves, cotton twist, and other articles. It is celebrated on account of its large Benedictine monastery, the buildings of which resemble a city, while it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000406-7298 | CLUPEA. See Herring. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000407-7298 | CLUVIER, Philip, in Latin Cluverius, a celebrated geographer, born at Dantzic in 1580. He was originally intended for the bar, but nature had designed him for different pursuits. He travelled into Germany and the Netherlands, in order to study law; but while at Leyden, Joseph Scaliger persuaded him to give way to his g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000408-7298 | CLYDE, a large river of Scotland, formed by a concentration of a number of rivulets rising amidst the mountains and wastes which separate Lanarkshire from the counties of Peebles and Dumfries. This river is the third in point of magnitude in Scotland, but the most useful for commerce. From its source it pursues a north... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000409-7298 | CLYTEMNESTRA, in fabulous history, the daughter of Jupiter and Leda. She married Agamemnon; but whilst that prince was at the siege of Troy, she had an amorous intrigue with Aegisthus, whom she engaged to murder Agamemnon on his return to his dominions. Her son Orestes, however, revenged the death of his father by kill... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000410-7298 | COACH. Few things have been more often or more unsuccessfully defined than this well-known and useful vehicle. Of the descriptions which have been given of it, many might with as much propriety be applied to various other machines of conveyance, which it would be a violation of language to dignify with the name of coac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000701-7337 | COAK, or charred pitcoal, is prepared for the smelting of iron orč, by igniting the coals piled up in long ridges in the open air, and closing in the cinders with earth, when brought to a glowing red heat. For the use of the manufacturers, the method hitherto most in practice has been to burn the small or screened coal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000702-7337 | COAL. See Mineralogy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000703-7337 | COAL TRADE. The vast importance of coal to the arts, manufactures, and general prosperity of Great Britain, renders the subject of the coal trade, and also the question as to the period when the exhaustion of our coal mines may be anticipated, matters of more than ordinary moment. With regard to the latter point, the i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000901-7363 | COAMINGS, in ship-building, arc the planks, or frame, forming aborder round the hatches, which raise them higher than the rest of the deck. Loop-holes for musketry are often made in the coamings, in order to clear the deck of the enemy when the ship is boarded. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000902-7363 | COAST, a sea-shore, or the country adjoining to the edge or margin of the sea. The chief advantages arising from an extensive sea-coast arc, that it affords a convenient opportunity for exportation and importation to and from all parts of the kingdom.
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... | 5 18' N 22 W | COAST |
kp-eb0707-000903-7363 | COASTING, in Navigation, the act of sailing along the sea-coast of any country. The principal points relating to this branch of navigation are, observance of the time and direction of the tide, knowledge of the reigning winds, of the roads and havens, of the different depths of the water, and the qualities of the groun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000904-7363 | COAT, or Coat of Arms, in Heraldry, a habit worn by the ancient knights over their arms, both in war and tournaments, and still borne by heralds at arms. It was a kind of surcoat, reaching as low as the navel, open at the sides, with short sleeves, sometimes furred with ermine and hair, upon which were applied the armo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000905-7363 | COAZZO, a town of Italy, in the province of Susa and kingdom of Sardinia. It stands at the junction of the rivers Cangone and Sangonetto, and contains 32u0 inhabitants, who carry on a considerable linen weaving trade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000906-7363 | COBADONGA, a small town of Spain, in the province of Asturias. Its fame has been spread through the peninsula, on account of the antiquity and sanctity of its Gothic cathedral, in which was consecrated Pelagius, the first of those zealous Christians that took arms against the Arabian invaders of Spain. In the retreats ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-000907-7363 | COBALT. The word cobalt is commonly used to denote a metallic ore consisting of arsenic combined with the metal which is properly called cobalt. It therefore does not occur in a native state, but in that of different ores, which, according to their combinations, come under one or other of the following heads:
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kp-eb0707-001001-7376 | COBBING, a punishment sometimes inflicted at sea. It is performed by striking the offender a certain number of times on the breach with a fiat piece of wood called the cobbing-board. It is used chiefly as a punishment for those who quit their station during the night-watch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001002-7376 | COBLE, a boat used in the turbot fishery, twenty feet six inches in length, and five feet in breadth. It is about one ton burthen, rowed with three pair of oars, and admirably constructed for encountering a heavy sea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001003-7376 | COBLENTZ, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the Prussian province of the Lower Rhine. The circle js on both sides of the Rhine, and extends over 135 square miles, or 86,400 acres, and contains four cities, three towns, and 136 villages, and 40,134 inhabitants.
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... | 50 21' 55" N 7 25' 49" E | COBLENTZ |
kp-eb0707-001004-7376 | COBURG. See Saxe-Coburg. Coburg, a city, the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg. It stands in a pleasant and fruitful district on the river Its, and is surrounded by mountains, whose sides are covered with vines, and at whose feet are well cultivated gardens. It contains 765 houses, and, including the military, 8154 i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001005-7376 | COCCEIUS, John, professor of theology at Bremen, was founder of a sect called Cocceians, who, amongst other singular opinions, held that of a visible reign of Christ in this world, after a general conversion of the Jews and all other people to the true Christian faith, as laid down in the voluminous works of Cocceius. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001006-7376 | COCCOLITE, in Mineralogy, a green-coloured variety of hornblende, which generally occurs massive, or in concretions so loosely aggregated as to admit of being separated by the fingers. It fuses with difficulty before the blowpipe, and has a specific gravity of 3∙3. It occurs with garnet and granular limestone in the ir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001007-7376 | COCHABAMBA, a department of Bolivia, in South America. The climate is mild and the soil productive. Cochabamba is also the name of a province and town in this department. The town is situated at an elevation of 8448 feet above the level of the sea, and is considered as one of the most healthy and agreeable places in Bo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001008-7376 | COCHIN, a small province of Hindustan, on the coast of Malabar, intersected by the I0th degree of north latitude. It has the Malabar province on the north, Travancore on the south, Dindigul on the east, and the sea on the west. A portion of this territory, equal to about 745 square miles, is attached to the district of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 9 57' N 76 8' E | COCHIN |
kp-eb0707-001101-7389 | COCHIN CHINA. This extensive kingdom is situated in the southern extremity of Asia, and forms part of the peninsula between China and Hindustan. It is not separated, however, by any distinct boundary from the neighbouring countries; and its limits have been greatly extended by conquest beyond those of Cochin China prop... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001401-7428 | COCHINEAL, or Cociiineel, a drug used by dyers and others, for producing red colours, especially crimsons and scarlets, and for making carmine; and likewise in medicine as a cardiac, cordial, sudorific, alexipharmic, and febrifuge.
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kp-eb0707-001402-7428 | COCK, in Zoology, the English name of the males of gallinaceous birds, but more especially used for the common dunghill cock. See Ornithology. Cock-Pit, a sort of theatre upon which game-cocks fight.
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kp-eb0707-001501-7441 | COCKBURNE, Mrs Catharine, a most accomplished lady and celebrated writer, was the daughter of Captain David Trotter, a native of Scotland, and a naval commander in the reign of King Charles II. She was born in London on the 16th of August 1679, and baptized in the Protestant church, according to which she was bred up. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001601-7454 | COCKERMOUTH, a borough-town in the ward of Allerdale, in Cumberland, twenty-five miles from Carlisle, and 302 from London. It stands near the confluence of the rivers Derwent and Cocker, and contains the remains of an ancient castle, which must have been of great strength. There are manufactures of leather, hats, shall... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001602-7454 | COCKET is a seal belonging to the king’s customhouse, or rather a scroll of parchment sealed and delivered by the officers of the customs to merchants, as a warrant that their merchandise has been customed.
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kp-eb0707-001603-7454 | COCKNEY, a very ancient nickname for a citizen of London. Ray interprets it to mean a young person coaxed or cockered, made a wanton or nestle-cock, and delicately bred and brought up, so as when arrived at man’s estate to be unable to bear the least hardship. According to another writer, it signifies a person ignorant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001604-7454 | COCKSWAIN, or Cockson, an officer on board a man of war, who has the care of a boat or sloop, and all things belonging to it. His duty is to be always ready with his boat’s gang or crew, and to man the boat upon all occasions. He sits in the stern of the boat, which he steers, and has a whistle to call and encourage hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001605-7454 | COCLES, Publius Horatius, a celebrated Roman, who alone opposed the whole army of Porsenna at the head of a bridge, while his companions behind him were cutting off the communication with the opposite shore. When the bridge was destroyed, Codes, though wounded by the darts of the enemy, leapt into the Tiber, and swam a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001606-7454 | COCOS, the name of several islands in the Eastern Seas and in the Pacific Ocean. 1. There are two islands of this name which form part of the group of the Andamans, thirty miles south-east of the Great Andaman: 2. Two small islands near the west coast of Sumatra: 3. A cluster of small uninhabited islands in the Bay of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 5 35' N 273 6' E | COCOS |
kp-eb0707-001607-7454 | COCYTUS, one of the rivers of hell, according to the theology of the poets. It derives its name aπo τoυ xwxü¢/f, from groaning and lamenting. Hence Milton,
Cocytus named, of lamentation loud, Heard on the rueful stream.
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kp-eb0707-001608-7454 | CODAPAHAR, a town of Hindustan, in the district of Bundelcund, twenty-five miles north-north-east from Chatterpoor. Long. 80. 2. E. Lat. 25. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001609-7454 | CODE (codex), a collection of the laws and constitutions of the Roman emperors, made by order of Justinian. The word comes from the Latin codex, a paper book; so called a codicibus vel caudicibus arborum, the trunks of trees; the bark of which being stripped off, served the ancients as material for writing upon.
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kp-eb0707-001610-7454 | CODEX, in Antiquity, denotes a book or tablet on which the ancients wrote.
Codex also denoted a kind of punishment by means of [7:7:17] a log or block of wood, which slaves who had offended were made fast to, and obliged to drag along with them; but sometimes they sat on it closely bound. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001701-7467 | CODICIL is a writing, by way of supplement to a will, when any thing is omitted that the testator wishes to have added, or desires to be explained, altered, or recalled. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001702-7467 | CODIFICATION. This term has in recent times been used to denote the formation of systematic codes, providing simultaneously for the whole objects of legislation. See Legislation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001703-7467 | CODLIN, an apple useful in the kitchen, being the most proper for baking. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001704-7467 | CODLING, an appellation given to the young cod-fish. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001705-7467 | CODON (Kωδωv), in Antiquity, a cymbal, or rather little brass bell, resembling the head of a poppy. Codons were fastened to the trappings and bridles of horses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001706-7467 | CODRINGTON, Christopher, abrave English officer, and not less distinguished for learning than benevolence, was born at Barbadoes in the year 1668, and educated at Oxford; after which he betook himself to the army, and by his merit and courage soon recommended himself to the favour of King W illiam, who made him a capta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001707-7467 | CODRUS, the seventeenth and last king of Athens, son of Melanthus. When the Heraclidae made war against Athens, the oracle said that the victory would be granted to the nation whose king was killed in battle. Upon this the Heraclidae gave strict orders to spare the life of Codrus; but the patriotic king disguised himse... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001708-7467 | CO-EFFICIENTS, in Algebra, are the numbers or known quantities which are put before letters or quantities, whether known or unknown, and into which they are supposed to be multiplied. Thus, in 3x, ax, or bx, 3, a, and b are the co-efficients of x ; and in 6a, §b, 6 and 9 are the co-efficients of a and b. See Algebra. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001709-7467 | COELOSYRIA, in the larger sense of the word, was the name of the whole country to the southward of Seleucia, and extending as far as Egypt and Arabia; but this word is principally applied to the valley situated between Libanus and Anti-Libanus. This word occurs only in the apocryphal writings of the Old Testament. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001710-7467 | COELUS (Heaven), in Pagan Mythology, the son of Aether and Dies, or Air and Day. According to Hesiod, he married Terra or the Earth, on whom he begat Aurea or the Mountains, the Ocean, &c. But having at length imprisoned the Cyclops, who were also his children, his wife, offended at this proceeding, incited her son Sat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001711-7467 | COEMETERY. See Cemetery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001712-7467 | COEMPTIONALES, among the Romans, an appellation given to old slaves, who were sold in a lot with others, because they could not be sold alone. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001713-7467 | COENOBITE, a religious person who lives in a convent, or in community, under a certain rule; in opposition to anchoret or hermit, who lives in solitude. The word comes from the Greek %o∕voς, communis, and βιos, vita, life. Cassian makes this difference between a convent and a monastery, that the latter may be applied t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001714-7467 | COENOBIUM (%o∕voβ∕ov), the state of living in a society or community where all things are common. Pythagoras is believed to be the author or institutor of this kind of life; his disciples, though some hundreds in number, being obliged to give up all their private estates, to be added to the common stock. The Essenians ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001715-7467 | COFFEA, the Coffee-Tree. The flowers, which are produced in clusters at the root of the leaves, are of a pure white, and have a very grateful odour. The fruit, which is the only useful part, resembles a cherry. When it comes to be of a deep red, it is gathered for the mill, in order to be manufactured into those coffee... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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