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kp-eb0707-001801-7480 | COFFER, in Architecture, a square depressure or sinking in each interval between the modifiions of the Corinthian cornice, and ordinarily filled up with a rose, sometimes with a pomegranate or other enrichment.
Coffer, in Fortification, denotes a hollow lodgement athwart a dry moat, from six to seven feet deep and fro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001901-7493 | COFFIN, the chest in which dead bodies are interred.
The sepulchral honours paid to the manes of departed friends in ancient times demand attention, and are extremely curious. Their being put into a coffin was considered as a mark of the highest distinction. With us, however, the poorest people are provided with coffi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001902-7493 | COGGESHALL, a market-town of the hundred of Lcxden, in the county of Essex, forty-five miles from London, on the river Blackwater. It was a few years ago a manufacturing town for baize and other woollen goods, now chiefly made in Yorkshire. It has a good market on Saturdays. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2469, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001903-7493 | COGILPATTY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Tinnevelly, ninety-three miles north by east from Cape Comorin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001904-7493 | COGNAC, an arrondissement in the department of the Charente, in France, 363 square miles in extent. It contains six cantons, divided into eighty-eight communes, and has a population of 44,967 persons. The chief place, of the same name, is situated in a rich district on the left bank of the Charente, celebrated for its ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001905-7493 | COGNATE, in Scotch law, any male relation by the mother. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001906-7493 | COGNATION, in the civil law, a term signifying that line of consanguinity which exists between males and females, both descended from the same father, as agnation is for the line of parentage between males only descended from the same stock. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001907-7493 | COHABITATION denotes the state of a man and a woman who live together without being legally married. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001908-7493 | COHAHUILA, a province of Mexico in the intendancy of San Luis Potosi. Its greatest length is 500 miles, and its greatest breadth 200 miles. The climate is described as pure and healthy, exςept about the middle of May, when the heat is intense; and sometimes a scorching wind is felt, which blisters the face. This provin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-001909-7493 | CO-HEIR, one who succeeds to a share of an inheritance divided among several persons.
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kp-eb0707-002902-7649 | CÖHORN, Menno, Baron de, the Vauban of Holland, and the contemporary as well as rival of the celebrated French engineer, was born at Lecuwarde, in Friseland, in 1641. His father, an officer of distinguished merit, early inspired him with a taste for military science; and having studied mathematics, in which he made gre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-003001-7662 | COHORT, in Roman Antiquity, the name of a part, division, or regiment, of the Roman legion, comprehending about 600 men. There were ten cohorts in a legion, the first of which exceeded the others both in dignity and in number of men. When the army was ranged in order of battle, the first cohort occupied the right of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-003002-7662 | COIF, the badge of a sergeant of law, who is called sergeant of the coif, from the lawn coif worn under the cap when the grade of sergeant is conferred. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-003003-7662 | COILERE PETTAH, a town of Hindustan in the province of Tinnevelly, thirty-three miles south by west from Madura. Long. 78. 3. E. Lat. 9. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 9 25' N 78 3' E | COILERE PETTAH |
kp-eb0707-003004-7662 | COILLE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar and district of Tyrhoot, sixty-seven miles north by east from Patna. Long. 85. 4L E. Lat 26. 27. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-003005-7662 | COIMBETOOR, a small province in the south of Hindustan, situated between the 10th and 12th degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the south by Dindigul, on the east by Salem and Kistnagherry, on the north by Mysore, and on the west by the province of Malabar. This district is divided into North and South Coimbetoo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 5' N 77 6' E | COIMBETOOR |
kp-eb0707-003101-7675 | COIMBRA, a city of Portugal, in the province of Beyra, containing 1500 inhabitants. The river Mondego passes through it, and has a well-built bridge across it. After traversing the province, it enters the sea at the port of Buarcos. Coimbra is the see of a bishop, but is principally celebrated for the university which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-003102-7675 | COIN, a piece of metal converted into money by the ι 'mpression thereon of certain marks or figures. Coin differs from Money as the species from the genus.
Ancient Coins are those chiefly which were current among the Jews, Greeks, and Romans. Their values and proportions are as follow:
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kp-eb0707-003201-7688 | COINAGE.
Under this head it will be proper to give a brief account of the constitution of the royal mint, as well as of the different processes which come under the general term Coinage ; for all these processes are conducted under various checks emanating from the constitution which the legislature has thought proper... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-005401-7974 | COKE, Sir Edward, lord chief justice of the King’s Bench in the reign of Jamc3 I., and one of the most distinguished lawyers England has produced, was descended of an ancient family in Norfolk, and born at Mileham in 1549. While a student at the Inner Temple, he distinguished himself by stating the case of a cook belon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-005501-7987 | COL, one of the Western Islands of Scotland, is annexed to the county of Argyle. It is thirteen miles long and nine broad. Long. 7. 15. W. Lat. 57. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 57 N 7 15' W | COL |
kp-eb0707-005502-7987 | COLABBA, a small island and fortress belonging to Austria, on the coast of Concan, twenty miles south from Bombay. Long. 72. 53. E. Lat. 18. 39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 39' N 72 53' E | COLABBA |
kp-eb0707-005503-7987 | COLAIR Lake, a lake of Hindustan, to the south of Ellore, in the Northern Circars, which is formed by the overflowings of the Krishna and Godavery, and extends forty-seven miles in length from west to east, and fourteen in breadth from north to south. During the rainy season the whole of this space is overspread with w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-005504-7987 | COLAIRCOTTA, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, and district of Ellore, situated on the borders of the Colair Lake, thirty-five miles from Masulipatam. Long. 81. 20. E. Lat. 16. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 38' N 81 20' E | COLAIRCOTTA |
kp-eb0707-005505-7987 | COLANGODU, a town of Hindustan, in the southeastern division of the Malabar province. This town has a resemblance to many of the villages in Bengal, though the houses are in their structure quite different, each being surrounded with a small garden, while at a little distance nothing is to be seen except a large grove ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 42' N 76 49' E | COLANGODU |
kp-eb0707-005506-7987 | COLAPOOR, a small independent Mahratta state, on the western coast of India, between the 15th and 17th degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the south by the Portuguese territory of Goa, on the east and north by the dominions of the Pcshwa, and on the w est by the sea. The country is well watered by many rivers, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-005507-7987 | COLAR, a small district in the eastern extremity of the Mysore rajah’s territories, situated between the 13th and 14th degrees of north latitude, and intersected by the 78th degree of east longitude. This country is bounded on the cast by the British district of Chittor. It is in general level, but it contains many bar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 8' N 78 19' E | COLAR |
kp-eb0707-005601-8000 | COLARBASIANS, or Colorbasians, a sect of Christians in the second century, so called from their leader Colarbasus, a disciple of Valentinus, who, with Marcus, another disciple of the same master, maintained that the plenitude and perfection of truth and religion were contained in the Greek alphabet, and that it was upo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-005602-8000 | COLARPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, and belonging to the Nizam, thirty miles south from Ellichpoor. Long. 78. 10. E. Lat. 20. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 56' N 78 10' E | COLARPOOR |
kp-eb0707-005603-8000 | COLBERT, John Baptiste, Marquis of Segnelay, one of the greatest statesmen whom France ever produced, was born at Paris in 1619, and descended from a respectable family which lived at Rheims in Champagne. His grandfather is said to have been a wine merchant, and his father at first followed the same occupation, but aft... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-005701-8013 | COLCHESTER, a borough-town in the hundred of Lexden, of the county of Essex, fifty-one miles from London, and situated on the banks of the navigable river Colne. It was formerly a larger place than at present, containing sixteen parishes. It had an extensive trade in baizes, which is now removed to the northern countie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-005702-8013 | COLCHIS, a country of Asia, east of the Euxine Sea, north of Armenia, and west of Iberia. It is famous as the destination of the expedition of the Argonauts, and as the birthplace of Medea. It was fruitful in poisonous herbs, and produced excellent flax. The inhabitants were originally Egyptians, who settled there when... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-005703-8013 | COLCOTHAR, the brownish-red oxide of iron which remains after the distillation of the acid from the sulphate of iron. It is used for polishing glass and other substances, and is known by artists under the denomination of crocus, or crocus martis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-005704-8013 | COLD.
It is often disputed whether cold has any actual existence, or should be considered as merely the privation of heat. Nor is that question of a modern date. Plutarch attempted to discuss it, in his tract De primo frigido ; and the reasonings which he there employs, though abundantly vague, are yet curious. Cold, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006101-8065 | CONGELATION
Is the passage of any substance from the liquid to the so-∣ lid form, in consequence of the abstraction of heat. The conversion of water into ice could not fail to draw the notice of men in all ages. The minute and divided fragments of the same production^ which descend from the clouds in the shape of snow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006601-8130 | COLDINGHAM, supposed to be the Colonia of Ptolemy, and called by Bede the city Coldana and of Colud {fJoludum), situated on the borders of Scotland, about two miles from Eyemouth,-was a place famous many agesago for its convent. This was the oldest nunnery in Scotland, for here the virgin-wife Ethełdreda took the veil ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006602-8130 | COLDSTREAM, a town of Scotland, in Berwickshire, situated upon the north bank of the Tweed. It is an irregularly-built but thriving town, the chief thoroughfare from Edinburgh to Newcastle and other parts in that direction passing through it. The Tweed is here crossed by a strong bridge of five arches. Coldstream is ne... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006603-8130 | COLE, William, a well-known botanist, was born at Adderbury, in Oxfordshire, about the year 1626, and studied at Merton College, in Oxford. He at length removed to Putney, near London, and published The Art of Simpling, and Adam in Eden, or Nature’s Paradise. Upon the restoration of King Charles II. he was made secreta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006604-8130 | COLERAIN, a borough, market, fair, and post town of Ireland, in the county of Londonderry and province of Ulster. It is situated on the east bank of the Lower Bann. Formerly it was a place of great consideration, being the chief town of a county, erected by Sir John Perrot during his government of Ireland; whereas it i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006701-8143 | COLESHILL, a market-town of the hundred of Hem-lingford, in the county of Warwick, 104 miles from London. It is a well-built town, situated on a hill, at the bottom of which runs the river from whence it takes its name. It has a market on Wednesday. The population in 1811 amounted to 1639, in 1821 to 1760, and in 1831 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006702-8143 | COLESHY, a town of Southern India, in the province of Travancore. It has a small harbour, which is secure from all winds, under the protection of some rocks. Here the Danes had formerly a factory. It is thirty-three miles north-west from Cape Comorin. Long. 77. 11. E. Lat. 8, 12. W. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006703-8143 | COLET, John, dean of St Paul’s, the son of Henry Colet, knight, was born in London in the year 1466. His education commenced in St Anthony’s school in that city, whence, in 1483, he was sent to Oxford, and probably to Magdalene College. After seven years study of logic and philosophy, he took his degrees in arts. About... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006704-8143 | COLGONG, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, and district of Monghir, delightfully situated on the south-east bank of the Ganges. The surrounding country is well stocked with game of all sorts, from the rhinoceros and tiger to the quail and ortolan. It is 102 miles northwest from Moorshedabad. Long, 87.10. E... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006705-8143 | COLIBERTS (Colibertif, in Law, were tenants in soccage, and particularly such villeins as were manumitted or made freemen: but they had not an absolute freedom; for though they were better than servants, yet they had superior lords to whom they paid certain duties, and in that respect might be called servants, though t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006706-8143 | COLIGNI, Gaspard de, admiral of France, was born at Châtillon-sur-Loin in 1517. He signalized himself in his youth, during the reigns of Francis I. and Henry IL, and was made colonel of infantry and admiral of France in 1552. Henry II. employed him in the most important affairs; but after the death of that prince lie e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006707-8143 | COLINDA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, and district of Tipperah. It is situated on the high road between Dacca and Chittagong, and is principally inhabited by weavers, who manufacture a strong cotton cloth called baftah, of an excellent quality, remarkable for the raw material it contains. It is seven... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006708-8143 | COLISEUM, or Colisaeum, in the ancient architecture, an oval amphitheatre, built at Rome by Vespasian, in the place where stood the basin of Nero’s gilded house. The word is formed from colossaeum, on account of the colossus of Nero that stood near it, or, according to Nardini, from the Italian codisco. In this amphith... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006709-8143 | COLLAR, in Roman antiquity, a sort of chain put generally round the neck of runaway slaves after they were re-taken, with an inscription round it, intimating that they were deserters, and requiring that they should be restored to their proper owners, in the event of their again running away.
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kp-eb0707-006801-8156 | COLLARASS, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, and district of Narwar. It is situated on the bank of a small river, and is surrounded by an old stone wall of no strength. It was taken in 1781 by the British troops; but they were obliged to retreat before a large Mahratta army, led by Scindia. The surrounding ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006802-8156 | COLLATERAL, any thing, place, country, &c. situated by the side of another.
Collateral, in genealogy, those relations which proceed from the same stock, but not in the same line of ascendants or descendants, yet are as it were beside each other. Thus uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, and cousins, are collaterals, or in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006803-8156 | COLLATION, in the canon law, the giving or bestowing of a benefice on a clergyman by a bishop, who has it in his own gift or patronage. It differs from institution in this, that institution is performed by the bishop upon the presentation of another, and collation is his own gift or presentation; and it differs from a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006804-8156 | COLLECT, Collection, a voluntary gathering of money for some pious or charitable purpose. Some say the name collect, or collection, was used by reason that those gatherings were anciently made on the days of collects and in collects, that is, in assemblies of Christians; but, more probably, quia colligebatur pecunia. C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006805-8156 | COLLEGAL PETTAH, a town of India, in the province of Coimbetoor, situated on the borders of Mysore. It has two large temples, and contains 600 houses; and is a mart for the traders between Seringapatam and the country below the Ghauts, near the Cavery. It is thirty-one miles east-south-east from Seringapatam. Long. 77.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006806-8156 | COLLEGE, an assemblage of several bodies or societies, or of several persons into one society.
College, among the Romans, was applied indifferently to those employed in the offices of religion, government, the liberal and even mechanical arts and trades; so that anciently the word signified what we now call a corporat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-006901-8169 | COLLEGIANS, Collegiani, Collegiants, a religious sect formed among the Arminians and Anabaptists in Holland, about the beginning of the seventeenth century, and so called because of their colleges or meetings twice a week, where every one, females excepted, had the liberty of expounding the Scripture, praying, &c. They... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-007001-8182 | COLLEGIATE, or Collegial, churches, are those which have no bishop’s see, yet have the ancient retinue of the bishop, the canons and prebends. Such are Westminster, Rippon, Windsor, &c. governed by deans and chapters. Collegiate churches, in Scotland, are those where two ministers serve the cure as colleagues; dividing... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-007002-8182 | COLLIER, Jeremy, a learned English nonjuring divine, born in 1650, and educated in Caius College, Cambridge. He had first the small rectory of Ampton, near St Edmund’s Bury, in Suffolk, which, in six years, he resigned, in order to proceed to London, where, in 1685, he was made lecturer of Gray’s Inn; but the change of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-007003-8182 | COLLIERY.
A colliery or coal-work is a place where coals are extracted or quarried out from the stratified masses below ground, and brought to the surface by means of machinery.
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A | |
kp-eb0707-008501-8377 | COLLINGWOOD, Cuthbert, first Lord Collingwood, a celebrated naval commander, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on the 26th of September 1750. He was early sent to school, and when only eleven years of age was put on board the Shannon, then under the command of Captain, afterwards Admiral, Brathwaite, a relation of his o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008601-8390 | COLLINS, Anthony, a polemical writer, born at Hes-ten, near Hounslow, in the county of Middlesex, in 1676, was the son of Henry Collins, a gentleman of about L.1500 a-year. He was first bred at Eton College, and then went to King’s College, Cambridge, where he had for his tutor Mr Francis Hare, afterwards Bishop of Chi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008701-8403 | COLLINSON, Peter, an eminent naturalist and antiquary, descended of an ancient family, was born on the paternal estate called Hugal Hall, or Height of Hagai, near Windermere lake, in the parish of Stavely, about ten miles from Kendal, in Westmoreland. Whilst a youth, he discovered an attachment to natural history. He b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008801-8416 | COLLIQUAMENTUM, in Natural History, a very transparent fluid in an egg, observable after two or three days incubation, containing the first rudiments of the chick. It is included in one of its own proper membranes, distinct from the albumen. Harvey calls it the oculus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008802-8416 | COLLIQUATI0N, in Chemistry, is applied to animal, vegetable, and mineral substances, tending towards fusion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008803-8416 | COLLUMPTON, a market-town in the hundred of Hayridge, in Devonshire, 1G5 miles distant from London, and situated on the river Culm, which runs into the Exe. It had considerable trade in making serges, which is now much diminished. The market, which is held on Saturday, is well attended. The inhabitants amounted in 1811... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008804-8416 | COLLUTHIANS, a religious sect who rose about the beginning of the fourth century, on occasion of the indulgence granted to Arius by Alexander, patriarch of Alexandria. Several people being scandalized at so much condescension, and, among the rest, Colluthus, a priest of the same city, he made this a pretence for holdin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008805-8416 | COLLYBUS, (KoaλυCoς), in Antiquity, the same with what is now called the rate of exchange. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008806-8416 | COLLYRAE, or Collyrides, in Antiquity, a certain ornament of hair, worn by the women on their necks. It was made up in the form of the small roundish cakes vλK- λυgaι, collyrae. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008807-8416 | COLLYRIDIANS, in church history, a sect, towards the close of the fourth century, denominated from a little cake, called by the Greeks %oλλυg∕δ∕α, coUyridia, which they offered to the Virgin Mary. This sect, it seems, consisted chiefly of Arabian women, who, out of an extravagant devotion to the Virgin, met on a certai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008808-8416 | COLMAN, George, a miscellaneous and theatrical writer, was born at Florence about the year 1733. He was the son of Mr Colman, at that time British resident at the court of the Duke of Tuscany, and of a sister of the Countess of Bath. He received the early part of his education at Westminster School, where Lloyd, Church... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008809-8416 | COLMAR, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Rhine, in France. It extends over 660 square miles, and contains thirteen cantons, with 142 communes, and 156,970 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, is situated on a beautiful plain, with a canal connected with others extending to Basle in Swi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 4' 44" N 7 29' 55" E | COLMAR |
kp-eb0707-008810-8416 | COLMENAR, Viejo, a town situated on the Spanish river Manzanares, in the province of Guadalaxara, with 4000 inhabitants. In its manufactories of cloth seventy-seven looms are employed. There is a stone bridge over the river. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008811-8416 | COLNA, a town of Bengal, and district of Jessore, pleasantly situated on the south-west bank of the Muddmutty or Naugunga river, which is navigable at all seasons of the year. It is situated eighty-three miles north-east from Calcutta. Long. 89. 38. E. Lat. 23. 11. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008812-8416 | COLOGNA, a city of the delegation of Verona, in the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy. It is on the canal of Frasene, and is a place of much trade in silk and its other products. It contains 3550 inhabitants. Long. 12. 13. 6. E. Lat. 45. 18. 11. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008813-8416 | COLOGNE, one ôf the governments into which the [7:7:89] Prussian dominions on the Rhine are divided. It is bounded on the north by Dusseldorf, on the east by Arensburg, on the south by Coblentz, and on the west by Aix-la-Chapelle. It extends over 1350 square miles, or 864,000 acres; and in 1827 it contained 367,580 inh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-008901-8429 | COLOMBIA.
The republic of Colombia, in South America, was formed on the 17th of December 1819, by the congress of Venezuela, assembled in St Thomas de Angostura, through the influence of General Bolivar, and was afterwards confirmed by the general constituent congress of the whole country, held at the city of Rosario ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-011101-8715 | COLONEL, in military matters, the commander in chief of a regiment, whether of horse, foot, or dragoons. Skinner derives the word from colony, being of opinion that the chiefs of colonies, called coloniales, might give name to chiefs or commanders of forces.
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kp-eb0707-011102-8715 | COLONNADE, in Architecture, a range of columns, a peristyle of a circular figure, or a series of columns disposed in a circle, and insulated on the inside.
A Polystyle Colonnade is that the number of whose columns is too great to be taken in by the eye at a single view. Such is the colonnade of the church of St Peter’... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-011103-8715 | COLONUS, a husbandman or villager, who was.bound to pay yearly a certain tribute, or at stated times of the year to plough a certain part of the lord’s land; and hence is derived the word clown, which is synonymous with the Dutch boor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-011104-8715 | COLONY.
Introduction. — Meaning of the term Colony. — Two Species of Colonies ; 1. That in the Conception of which the Idea of Population predominates ; 2. That in the Conception of which the Territory predom inates. The term “colony” has not been used with much precision. Dr Johnson defines it “A body of people drawn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012601-8910 | COLOPHONITE, in Mineralogy, a variety of garnet generally possessing a dark colour«, and a vitreous, half fused-like appearance. It occurs massive, or in large granular concretions; has a specific gravity of 4∙0, and is met with in the beds of magnetic iron at Arendal in Norway, in Piedmont, and also in Ceylon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012602-8910 | COLORATURA, in Music, denotes all manner of variations, trillos, diminutions, and the like, serving to make a song agreeable. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012603-8910 | COLOSSUS, a statue of enormous or gigantic size. The most eminent specimen of this kind was the Colossus of Rhodes, a statue of Apollo, so high that ships passed with full sails betwixt its legs. It was the workmanship of Chares, a disciple of Lysippus, who spent twelve years in making it. But it was at length overthro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012701-8923 | COLOSTRUM, the first milk of any animal after bringing forth it,s young, called in some places beestings. It is remarkable that this milk is generally cathartic, and purges the meconium; thus serving both as aliment and as medicine. An emulsion prepared with turpentine dissolved with the yolk of an egg, is sometimes ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012702-8923 | COLOUR, a property inherent in light, by which, according to its various proportions or quantities, or from some other cause, it excites different vibrations in the optic nerve, which, propagated to the sensorium, affect the mind with different sensations. See Chromatics and Optics. Colour, in Dyeing. See Dyeing. Colou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012901-8949 | COLRAN, or Coleroon River, the northern branch of the Cavery, from which it separates below the island of Seringham, near Trichinopoly, and falls into the sea at Dericota, after a course of about eighty miles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012902-8949 | COLT, the young of the horse kind. See Farriery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012903-8949 | COLTIE, a term used by timber merchants, for a defect or blemish in some of the annular circles of a tree, by which its value is much diminished. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012904-8949 | COLUBER, in Zoology, the name of a genus of serpents. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012905-8949 | COLUMB-KILL. See Iona. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012906-8949 | COLUMBA, the Pigeon, a genus of birds. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-012907-8949 | COLUMBA, St, in allusion to whose name the island of Icolmkill, one of the Hebrides, received its ancient name of Iona, which is derived from a Hebrew word, signifying a dove. In the year 565, this holy man, instigated by his zeal, left his native country of Ireland, with the pious design of preaching the gospel to the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-013001-8962 | COLUMBANUS, a saint and poet, was born in Ireland, and brought up to a religious life among the disciples of St Columba. He made uncommon progress in learning, and very early in life distinguished himself for poetical abilities by the composition of a book of psalms, and a number of moral poems, intended also to be set... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-013002-8962 | COLUMBIA, a post-town in Richland district, South Carolina. It is situated opposite to the confluence of the Saluda and Broad Rivers, which here unite to form the Con-garee. The town is a handsome and flourishing place, and is the seat of the state government. The population amounts to about 4000. Long. 81. 7. W. Lat. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-013003-8962 | COLUMBRETES, a cluster of islands belonging to Spain, off the coast of Valencia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-013004-8962 | COLUMBUS, or Congregation of St Columbus, a society of regular canons, w ’ lio formerly had one hundred abbeys or monasteries in the British isles.
Columbus, Christopher, the celebrated navigator and discoverer of the western world, was born in the city of Genoa, about the year 1446. Although several illustrious famil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-013401-9014 | COLUMELLA, Lucius Junius Moderatus, a celebrated Roman writer on agriculture,,was a native of Cadiz, and lived under the emperor Claudius. He composed his works about the year 42 of our era. These consist of a treatise on agriculture, entitled De Re Rustica, and another De Arboribus. The treatise De Re Rustica is divid... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-013402-9014 | COLUMN, in Architecture, a round pillar made to support and adorn a building, and composed of a base, a shaft, and a capital. See Architecture. Columns, denominated from their use. — Astronomical column is a kind of observatory, in the form of a very high tower built hollow, with a spiral ascent to an armillary sphere ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-013501-9027 | COLUMNARIUM, in Roman antiquity, a tribute demanded for every pillar of a house. It was first laid on by Julius Caesar, in order to put a stop to the extravagant expenses laid out on buildings. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-013502-9027 | COLURES, in Astronomy and Geography, two great circles supposed to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and to pass through the solstitial and equinoctial points of the ecliptic. See Geography. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-013503-9027 | COLURI, a little island in the Gulf of Engia, in the Archipelago, formerly called Salamis. The principal town is of the same name, and situated to the south side, at the bottom of the harbour, which is one of the finest in the world. The famous Grecian hero Ajax, who makes such a figure in Homer’s Iliad, was king of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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