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kp-eb0707-043201-2888 | COUNTORS, Countours, or Counters, has been used for serjeants at law retained to defend a cause, or to speak for their client in any course of law.
It is of these Chaucer speaks:
A sheriff had he been, and a countour,
Was nowhere such a worthy vavasour.
They were anciently called Serjeant countours. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043202-2888 | COUNTRY, among geographers, is used indifferently to denote either a kingdom, province, or lesser district. But its most frequent use is in contradistinction to town.
Country- Dance is of English origin, though now transplanted into almost all the countries and courts of Europe. There is no established rule for the co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043203-2888 | COUNTY, in Geography, originally signified the territory of a count or earl, but now it is used in the same sense with shire; the one word coming from the French, the other from the Saxon. In this view, a county is a circuit or portion of the realm; and the whole of England and Wales is divided, for its better governme... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043204-2888 | COUPAR, or Cupar, of Angus. See Cupar of Angus. Coupar, or Cupar, of Fife. See Cupar of Fife. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043205-2888 | COUPLET, a division of a hymn, ode, song, or the like, in which an equal number or equal measure of verses is found in each part. The divisions in odes are called strophes. Couplet, by an abuse of the word, is frequently made to signify a couple of verses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043206-2888 | COURANT, a French term synonymous with current, and properly signifying running. Sec Current. Courant is also a term in music and dancing, being used to express both the tune or air and the dance. With regard to the first, courant or currant is a piece of music in triple time; and the air of the courant is ordinarily n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043207-2888 | COURAYER, Peter Francis, a Roman Catholic clergyman, distinguished for great moderation, charity, and temper concerning religious affairs, as well as for learning, was born at Vernon, in Normandy, in 1681. While canon regular and librarian of the abbey of St Genevieve at Paris, he applied to Archbishop Wake for the res... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043208-2888 | COURIER (from the French courir, to run), a messenger sent post, or express, to carry dispatches.
The ancients, too, had their couriers. We meet with two kinds; first, those who ran on foot, called by the Greeks hemerodromi, or couriers of a day, regarding whom Pliny, Cornelius Nepos, and Caesar mention that some of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043301-2901 | COURLAND, a province of Russia, on the Baltic Sea. It was a Dutch dependent on Poland till 1795, when it fell under the power of Russia, but still retained its old name, and most of its laws, manners, and religion. It extends from north to south from the latitude 55° 37' to that of 57° 33', and from east to west from l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043302-2901 | COURPIERE, a city of the department of the Puy de Dôme, in France, with 304 houses, and 3168 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043303-2901 | COURT, an appendage to a house or habitation, consisting of a piece of ground inclosed with walls, but open above.
Court is also used for the palace or place where a king or sovereign prince resides.
Court, in a legal sense, is defined a place in which justice is judicially administered. And as by our constitution th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043304-2901 | COURTHEZON, a city of the department of Vaucluse, in France, where are some silk mills, and 2364 inhabitants, and near to which are some natural salt springs, forming a lake from which common salt is made. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043305-2901 | COURTRAY, a city of West Flanders, the capital of a circle of the same name. It is situated on the river Lys, and contains 2000 houses, with 13,980 inhabitants, who are industriously employed in various manufactures. The finest linen is woven by the peasantry in the neighbouring villages, and brought to the city to be ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043306-2901 | COUSIN, a term of relation between the children of brothers and sisters, who in the first generation are called cousins-german, in the second generation, second cousins, and so on. If sprung from the relations by the father’s side, they are denominated paternal cousins; if on the mother’s, maternal. The word is commonl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043307-2901 | COUTANCES, an arrondissement of the department of La Manche, in France. It extends over 575 square miles. The division is into ten cantons, which are subdivided into 139 communes; and the inhabitants amount to 140,587. The capital, a city of the same name, is situated at the confluence of the rivers Bulsard and Soulle,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 2' 50" N 1 32' 20" W | COUTANCES |
kp-eb0707-043401-2914 | COUTHUTLAUGH, from the Saxon couth, knowing, and utlaugh, outlaw, he who wittingly receives a man outlawed, and cherishes or conceals him; for which offence he was in ancient times subject to the same punishment with the outlaw himself. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043402-2914 | COUTRAS, a city of the department of the Gironde, in France, situated at the influx of the Dronne into the Isle, which thus becomes navigable. It contains 658houses, and 3060 inhabitants. Long. 0. 13. W. Lat. 45. 4. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 4' N 0 13' W | COUTRAS |
kp-eb0707-043403-2914 | COVE, a town of Ireland, in the county of Cork, beautifully situated on Cork harbour, which lies eleven miles from the city. From an obscure fishing village it has risen to be a populous and flourishing town. It consists of one main street and several minor ones, ranking one above the other on the side of a steep hill,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043404-2914 | COVELONG, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the south of India, on the coast of the Carnatic, twenty-five miles south of Madras. It was built by Anwar ud Deen Khan, within a musket shot of the sea, near the ruins of another belonging to the Imperial East India Company of Ostend, whose principal factory is at this pl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043405-2914 | COVENANT, in ecclesiastical history, denotes the contract or convention agreed to by the Scotch in the year 1638, for maintaining their religion against innovation. In 1581 the General Assembly of Scotland drew up a confession of faith, or national covenant, condemning episcopal government, under the name of hierarchy,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043406-2914 | COVENTRY, an ancient city in the county of Warwick, ninety-two miles from London. The streets are narrow and ill built, and the whole has a very gloomy appearance. There are some handsome churches, especially St Michael’s, the spire of which is an object of great admiration. The inhabitants are occupied in manufactorie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043407-2914 | COVERIPANK, a town in the south of India, in the Carnatic, nine miles east of Arcot. A victory was there gained by the British over the French and their allies in 1754. Long. 79. 37. E. Lat. 12. 52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 52' N 79 37' E | COVERIPANK |
kp-eb0707-043408-2914 | COVERIPORAM, a fortress of the south of India, in the district of Coimbetoor, and on the western bank of the Cavery river. Long. 77. 54. E. Lat. 11. 49. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043409-2914 | COVERT, in Law. Femme Covert or Couverte, denotes a woman married, and so under the coverture or protection of her husband.
Covert Way, in Fortification, is a space of five or six fathoms on the border of the ditch towards the country, and covered by a rising ground which has a gentle slope towards the field. The slop... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043410-2914 | COVERTURE, in Law, is applied to the state and condition of a married woman, who is under the power of her husband, and therefore called femme couverte. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043411-2914 | COVIN, a deceitful compact or agreement between two or more to deceive or prejudice a third person. Thus, if a tenant for life conspire with another, that this other shall recover the land which the tenant holds in prejudice of him in reversion, this is covin. Dr Skinner supposes the word to be a corruption of the Lati... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043412-2914 | COVING, in building, is when houses are built projecting over the ground plot, and the turned projection arched with timber, lathed, and plastered. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043413-2914 | COVINUS, among the ancients, a kind of chariot, in which the Gauls and Britons used to fight in battles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043414-2914 | COWARD, in Heraldry, a term given to a lion borne in an escutcheon, with his tail doubled, or turned in between his legs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043415-2914 | COWBRIDGE, a town of the county of Glamorgan, in South Wales, 172 miles from London. It consists of one well-built street, on the acclivity of a hill. It was formerly a much more extensive place, and had a monastery, afterwards[7:7:435] converted into a university, and some strong castles. The inhabitants amounted in 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043501-2927 | COWEL, Dr John, a learned civilian, was born about the year 1554. In 1607 he compiled a Law Dictionary, which gave great offence to Sir Edward Coke and the common lawyers, who first accused him to James I. of asserting that the king’s prerogative was in some cases limited; and when they failed in this attempt, complain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043502-2927 | COWES, West, a market and sea-port town of the Isle of Wight, in Hampshire, pleasantly situated on the shore, near the mouth of the river Medina. In time of war, being the common rendezvous for merchant ships waiting for convoy, it is very flourishing. At present it is mainly supported by company resorting to it for th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043503-2927 | COWL, or Coul, a sort of monkish habit worn by the Bernardines and Benedictines. The word is formed from euxullus, by running the first two syllables into one. There are two kinds of cowls; the one white, and very large, worn in ceremony, and when they assist at the office; the other black, worn on ordinary occasions i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043504-2927 | COWL DOORG, or Durga, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the district of Bednore. The town consists of 200 houses, besides the fort, which is situated at some distance, and more regularly constructed than the generality of hill forts. The surrounding country is covered with thick forests. Long. 75. 11. E. Lat. 13. 17... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 17' N 75 11' E | COWL DOORG |
kp-eb0707-043505-2927 | COWLEY, Abraham, an eminent poet, was born at London in 1618. His father, who was a grocer, having died before he was born, his mother procured him admission as a king’s scholar at Westminster. His first inclination to poetry arose on his lighting on Spenser’s Fairy Queen, when he was but just able to read; and this in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043601-2940 | COWPER, William, a distinguished English poet, was born at Bdrkhamstead, in Hertfordshire, on the 26th of-November 1731. His father, who was rector of the parish, was nephew to Lord Chancellor Cowper, and chaplain to George II. At six years of age Cowper was taken from under the care of a mother whose amiable qualities... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043801-2966 | COXE’S Island, a small island at the mouth of the river Ganges, to the north of Sagor, three miles long and two broad. It is covered with wood, and inhabited by wild beasts. Long. 88. 12. E. Lat. 21. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 43' N 88 12' E | COXE’S |
kp-eb0707-043802-2966 | COX, Richard, a learned prelate, and principal pillar of the Reformation, was born at Whaddon in Buckinghamshire, in the year 1499. From Eton school he went to Cambridge, where he obtained a scholarship in King’s College, of which he became a fellow in 1519. He was thence invited to Oxford by Cardinal Wolsey, and was t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043803-2966 | COXACHIE, or Cocksackie, a township of the United States, in Greene county, New York. This place has been principally built since 1800; and it now enjoys a considerable and still increasing trade. It is distant twenty-two miles south of Albany, and eight north of the Hudson. The population amounts to about 5000. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043804-2966 | COYPEL, Anthony, a French painter, born at Paris in 1661. Noyel Coypel, his father, being chosen by Μ. Colbert as director of the academy at Rome, he took his son with him into Italy, where Anthony Coypel formed himself on the works of the greatest masters; and on his return to France was appointed first painter to the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043901-2979 | COZENING, tricking, or defrauding. In law it denotes an offence, where any thing is done deceitfully, whether belonging to contracts or not, which cannot be properly defined by any special name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043902-2979 | COZIQUIRIACHI, or Cosxguiriachi, Santa Rosa de, a town of Mexico in the intendancy of Durango, surrounded with silver mines. The population of this place amounts to nearly 11,000. It is distant twenty-four leagues south-west of Chihuahua. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043903-2979 | COZUMEL, an island of North America, near the coast of Yucutan, inhabited by native Indians. It is forty miles in length by from three to ten in breadth. The country is fertile, and cattle and fowl are abundant. Long. 87.58. W. Lat. 19. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043904-2979 | CRABBE, George, was born at Aldborough, in Suffolk, on the 24th December 1754, and was the son of an officer of the customs. He appears to have been designed by his father first for an employment similar to his own, and afterwards for the medical profession. He was apprenticed to an apothecary, and received an educatio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044001-2992 | CRACATOA, a small and mountainous island in the Eastern Seas, in the Straits of Sanda, between Sumatra and Java. It contains one very elevated peak; and there is on the north side a convenient watering place, and near it a Malay village, where fruits and vegetables may be procured. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044002-2992 | CRACOW, a small republic bordering on the Prussian, Austrian, and Russian dominions, at the point where they meet. It stretches along the left bank of the Vistula, where the Rudowa falls into that stream. The territory is about thirty-three miles in length, and its extent is about 500 square miles, or 323,840 English a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044003-2992 | CRAIG, John, a Scottish mathematician of the age of Newton, and one of the earliest writers on the fluxionary or differential calculus in this country. Newton no doubt had long been in possession of the principles of this calculus before his modesty allowed him to give his discoveries to the world, and heaven revised^[... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044301-3031 | CRAIL, a parish town and royal burgh of Scotland, in the county of Fife, about ten miles south-east of St Andrews. It is said to have been a town of some note as early as the ninth century. David I. had a palace here, now entirely demolished, except a fragment of a wall. It received from Robert Bruce the charter which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044401-3044 | CRAMOND, a small village of Scotland, situated on the south side of the Frith of Forth, and distant about five miles from Edinburgh, at the conflux of the Forth and Almond. This place is only worthy of notice from having been a Roman station. The harbour, formed by the Almond at this place, was, during the dominion of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044402-3044 | CRAMPONEE, in Heraldry, an epithet given to a cross which has at each end a cramp or square piece coming from it; that from the arm in chief towards the sinister angle, that from the arm on that side downwards, that from the arm in base towards the dexter side, and that from the dexter arm upwards. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044403-3044 | CRANAGE, the liberty of using a crane at a wharf, and also the money paid for drawing up wares out of a ship or vessel with a crane. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044404-3044 | CRANBORNE, a small town of the county of Dorset, ninety-three miles from London. The parish is extensive, including a large circuit, formerly a royal chase, but recently disforested and cultivated. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1402, in 1811 to 1611, and in 1821 to 1823. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044405-3044 | CRANBROOK, a market-town in the lathe of Seray, in Kent, forty-eight miles from London. This town is remarkable for having been the spot where the first manufacture of woollen was established by some Flemings in the reign of Edward III. The market is held on Wednesday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2561, in 1811 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044406-3044 | CRANGANORE, a town and sea-port of India, on the coast of Malabar, the capital of a small district of the same name. It stands about three miles up a river, five leagues to the north of Cochin, and is only accessible for small vessels. It is an ancient place, and the Jews assert that they were in possession of it as ea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044407-3044 | CRANK, a mechanical contrivance, in manner of an elbow, only of a square form, projecting out from an axis or spindle; and serving, by its rotation, to raise and let fall the pistons of engines for raising water.
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kp-eb0707-044408-3044 | CRANMER, Thomas, the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury, was descended of an ancient family, and was born on the 2d of July 1489, at Aslacton in the county of Nottingham, being the second son of Thomas Cranmer and of his wife Agnes Hatfield. He received what was then considered as a suitable education for a gent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044901-3109 | CRANNY, in glass-making, an iron instrument with which the necks of glasses are formed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044902-3109 | CRANTARA, among the ancient Britons, was a sort of military signal used for collecting the distant and scattered warriors to the standard of their chief. When a prince had immediate occasion for the assistance of his followers to repel some sudden invasion or engage in some expedition, besides striking the shield and s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044903-3109 | CRANTOR, a Greek philosopher and poet, who was born at Solos in Cilicia. He left his native country where he was admired, went to Athens, and there studied with Polemon under Xenocrates. He was considered as one of the chief supporters of the Platonic sect; and he was the first who wrote commentaries upon Plato’s works... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044904-3109 | CRAON, a city of the department of the Mayenne, in France, on the river Dudin, in a fertile district. It contains, including the suburb St Clements, 660 houses, and 3312 inhabitants. There is much spinning executed here for the cotton fabrics of Rouen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044905-3109 | CRAPE, a light transparent stuff, in the manner of gauze, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. It is woven without crossing, and much used in mourning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044906-3109 | CRASHAW, Richard, was the son of William Crashaw, an eminent divine, and educated at the charterhouse near London. He was then sent to Pembroke-hall in Cambridge, and was afterwards of Peter-house, of which he became fellow. In both colleges he was distinguished for his Latin and English poetry. Subsequently, however, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044907-3109 | CRASIS (from ×ioavvυμι, to mix or temper), the temper of the blood peculiar to every constitution.
Crasis, in Grammar, is a figure by which two different letters are either contracted into one long letter or a diphthong. Such, for instance, is οφ ∣ ς for οφ ∣ ες ; αλτιΰη for aλrιDsa ; τsrχρυς for τειχεος, &c.; where ∣... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044908-3109 | CRASSUS, Μ. Licinius, a celebrated Roman, surnamed the Rich on account of his opulence. At first he was very circumscribed in his circumstances, but by educating slaves and selling them at a high price he soon enriched himself. The cruelties of Cinna obliged him to leave Rome, and retire to Spain, where he remained con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-044909-3109 | CRATER, Cup, in Astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, the stars of which, in Ptolemy’s catalogue, are seven; in Tycho’s, eight; in Hevelius’s, ten; in the Britannic catalogue, thirty-one.
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kp-eb0707-045001-3122 | CRATES, of Thebes, an ancient philosopher, was the disciple of Diogenes the Cynic. It is said by some that he threw all his money into the sea, that he might the more freely apply himself to the study of philosophy; but others assert that he placed it in another person’s hands, with orders to give it to his children if... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045002-3122 | CRATINUS, an ancient comic poet, of whom we should scarcely have known any thing, had not Quintilian, Horace, and Persius mentioned him, along with Eupolis and Aristophanes, as the great masters of what is called the ancient comedy. He seems to have died in the eighty-seventh Olympiad. Suidas tells us that he wrote twe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045003-3122 | CRATIPPUS, a celebrated Peripatetic philosopher, was a native of Mitylene, where he taught philosophy, but at length he went to Athens, where Brutus and the son of Cicero were his disciples. Pompey went to see him after the battle of Pharsalia, and proposed to him his difficulties in relation to the belief of a Provide... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045004-3122 | CRAVANT, a city in the department of the Yonne, in France, at the confluence of the Eure and Yonne. It contains 314 houses, and 1622 inhabitants, who produce excellent wine. Long. 3. 30. E. Lat. 47. 42. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045005-3122 | CRAWFORD, Adair, a physician distinguished by his researches in chemical physiology, was born in Ireland about the year 1748. His father, the Rev. Thomas Crawford, was the Presbyterian minister of Crumlin, near Belfast, in the county of Antrim. The family were originally from Scotland; a remote ancestor, who was a cler... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045101-3135 | CRAYER, Caspar de, a painter, was born at Antwerp in 1585, and was a disciple of Raphael Coxis, the son of the same Coxis whò had studied under Raffaelle; but he soon showed such proof of genius, and of an elevated capacity, that he far surpassed his master. Of all his contemporaries, he was accounted to approach neare... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045102-3135 | CRAYON is a sort of soft pencil made of any kind of coloured substance used for drawing in what is called pastil. It is a name which may also with propriety be applied to primitive substances or chalks.
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kp-eb0707-045401-3174 | CREAM, a general name applicable to all substances which separate from a liquor, and arc collected upon its surface. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045402-3174 | CREAT, in the manege, an usher to a riding master, or a gentleman bred in the academy, with the intention of qualifying himself for teaching the art of riding the great horse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045403-3174 | CREATION, in its primary import, signifies the bringing into being something which did not before exist. The term is therefore generally applied to the original production of the materials out of which the visible world was composed. It is also used, in a secondary or subordinate sense, to denote those subsequent opera... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045701-3213 | CREBILLON, Prosper Jolyot de, a French writer of tragedy, usually ranked after Corneille and Racine, was born at Dijon on the 15th February 1674. He was originally destined for the profession of the law, and placed at Paris with the view of prosecuting his legal studies; but the impetuosity of his passions rendering hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045702-3213 | CREDENTIALS, letters of recommendation and power, especially such as are given to ambassadors or public ministers, by the prince or state that Sends them to foreign courts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045703-3213 | CREDIBILITY, a species of evidence, less indeed than absolute certainty or demonstration, but greater than mere possibility. It is nearly allied to probability, and seems to be a mean between possibility and demonstration. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-045704-3213 | CREDIT, in the sense in which we are now to treat of it, is the trust which is given to a person when he obtains a loan of moneys or purchases any article, the payment of which is to be made at an after period. Every sum of credit, therefore, must be founded on a transfer of a corresponding sum of capital; and the whol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046001-3252 | CREDITON, a market-town of the hundred of that name, in Devonshire, 180 miles from London, and seven from Exeter. It is situated on the river Creedy, which turns some manufacturing and mealing mills. It is in a fertile district, and was formerly a place of great trade in making serges for Spain; but that trade has decl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046002-3252 | CREDITOR, a person to whom any sum of money is due, either by obligation, promise, or otherwise. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046003-3252 | CREDULITY denotes a weakness of mind, by reason of which a person yields his assent to propositions or facts, before he has considered the evidence in support of them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046004-3252 | CREECH, Thomas, well known for his translations of ancient authors, both in prose and verse, was son of Thomas Creech, and born near Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, in 1659. He was educated in grammatical learning under Mr Curganven of Sherborne, to whom he afterwards dedicated a translation of one of Theocritus’ Idylls, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046005-3252 | CREED, a brief summary of the articles of religious belief.
The most ancient form of creed is that which goes under the name of the apostolic creed. Besides this there are several other ancient forms and scattered remains of creeds to be met with in the records of the primitive church. The first is the form of apostol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046101-3265 | CREFELD, a circle in the Prussian province of Juliers-Cleeve-Berg, extending over 109 square miles, and comprising five cities, one market-town, twenty-two villages, and 36,094 inhabitants, who are among the most industrious of any of the subjects of Prussia.
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kp-eb0707-046102-3265 | CRELLIUS, John, a famous Socinian, born in 1590, in a village near Nuremberg. In 1612 he went into Poland, where the Unitarians had a school, in which he became professor of divinity and minister at Cracow, where he died in 1632, aged forty-two. Crellius wrote, 1. Ethica Aristotełica, ad Sacrarum Literarum normam emend... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046103-3265 | CREMA, a city of the delegation of Lodi, and government of Milan, in the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy. It is situated on the river Serio, and is the seat of a bishop, and, besides the cathedral, contains thirty-two churches, several palaces, 800 houses, and 8420 inhabitants. In a district between the marsh of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046104-3265 | CREMATION is sometimes used for burning, particularly when applied to the ancient custom of burning the dead. This custom is well known to have prevailed among most eastern nations, and it continued with their descendants after they had peopled the different parts of Europe. Hence we find it prevailing in Greece, Italy... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046105-3265 | CREMONA, a delegation of the government of Milan, in the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy, bounded on the north by Brescia, on the east by Mantua, on the south by Parma, and on the west by Lodi. It extends over 500 square miles, or 320,000 English acres, and was inhabited in 1817 by 170,960 individuals. The delega... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046106-3265 | CRENELLE, or 1mbattled, in Heraldry, is used when any honourable ordinary is drawn, like the battlements on a wall to defend men from the enemy’s shot. This attribute belongs to the arms of such as have defended castles for their prince and country, or of such as are skilled in architecture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046107-3265 | CRENOPHYLAX, in Antiquity, a magistrate of Athens, who had the inspection of fountains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046108-3265 | CREODIBA, in the customs of the middle ages, a robbery and murder committed in a wood, where the body of the person killed was burnt in order to prevent the discovery of the crime. The word, says Wendelinus, is compounded of cruy and diven, that is, wood-robbers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046109-3265 | CREOLES, a name originally given to the families descended from the Spaniards who first settled at Mexico in America. These are much more numerous than .the Spaniards properly so called, and the Mulattoes, from which species of inhabitants they are distinguished; and formerly they were excluded from all considerable em... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046110-3265 | CREON, king of Corinth, was son of Sisyphus. He promised his daughter Glauce to Jason, who had repudiated Medea; but to revenge the success of her rival, Medea sent her as a present a gown covered with poison. Glauce put it on, and was seized with sudden pains; her body took fire, and she expired in the greatest tormen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046111-3265 | CREPANCE, in the manege, a chop or cratch in a horse’s leg, given by the spunges of the shoes of one of the hinder feet crossing and striking against the other hinder foot. This cratch degenerates into an ulcer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046112-3265 | CREPIDAE, among the Romans, a kind of slippers or shoes, which were always worn with the pallium, as the calcei were with the toga.
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kp-eb0707-046201-3278 | CREPUNDIA, in Antiquity, a term used to express such things as were exposed along with children, as rings, jewels, &c. serving as tokens by which they might afterwards be known. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046202-3278 | CREPUSCULUM, in Astronomy, twilight; the time from the first dawn or appearance of the morning to the rising of the sun; and again, between the setting of the sun and the last remains of day. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046203-3278 | CRESCENT, the new moon, which, as it begins to recede from the sun, shows a little rim of light, terminating in points or horns, which increase till it becomes full and round in the opposition. The word is formed from cresco, I grow. The term is also used for the same figure of the moon in its wane or decrease, but imp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-046204-3278 | CRESCENTTNO, a town of Italy, in the province of Bercelli and kingdom of Sardinia. It is situated on the river Po, and contains 3960 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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