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kp-eb0709-048304-1537 | FALLOPIAN Tubes, in Anatomy, two ducts arising from the womb, one on each side of the fundus, and thence extending to the ovaria, and which have a considerable share in conception. They arc called tuboe, from their form, which bears some resemblance to a trumpet; and their denomination of Fallopian they derive from Gab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048305-1537 | FALLOPIUS, or Falloppio, Gabriel, a celebrated anatomist and surgeon of the sixteenth century, was born at Modena in 1523. Although he taught anatomy with great distinction, and enjoyed an immense reputation, the details of his life are not exactly known, and have been variously related by different biographers; some, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048401-1550 | FALMOUTH, a sea-port of the county of Cornwall, in the hundred of Kerriar, 273 miles from London, at the spot where the river Fale falls into the sea. It has risen to importance from the excellence of its harbour, which is capable of containing large fleets of heavy ships in perfect security; though difficult to get ou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048402-1550 | FALSE, in general, something contrary to truth, right, or justice. Thus, we say a false action, false weights, false claim, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048403-1550 | FALSI Crimen, in the civil law, is fraudulent subornation or concealment, with design to darken or hide the truth, and make things appear otherwise than they are. The crimen falsi is committed, first, by words, as when a witness swears falsely; secondly, by writing, as when a man antedates a contract, or the like; and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048404-1550 | FALSIFY, in Law, is used for proving any thing to be false. Hence we find falsifying a record for showing it to be erroneous. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048405-1550 | FALSTER, an island in the Baltic, forming a part of the kingdom of Denmark. It is separated from Zealand by the Gaade Sound, from Langeland by Guldborg Sound, and from Moen by Green Sound. In extent it is 184 square miles, and contains 16,500 inhabitants, in two cities and thirty parishes. Its produce of corn exceeds i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048406-1550 | FALU, one of the provinces of northern Sweden. It ⅛ bounded on the north by Hernosand, on the east by Gefleborg, on the south-east by Wastera, on the south by Orebro, on the south-west by Carlstadt, and on the west by Norway. It extends over 12,980 square miles, comprehends three cities, one market-town, and 1747 insul... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 60 35' 49" N 15 29' 34" E | FALU |
kp-eb0709-048407-1550 | FAMA Clamosa, in the judicial procedure of the church of Scotland, a ground of action before a presbytery against one of its members, independentlyofany regular complaint by a particular accuser.
Any person who is of good character may prefer to the presbytery a complaint against one of their members; but the presbyte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048408-1550 | FAME, a heathen goddess, celebrated chiefly by the poets. She is feigned to have been the last of the race o Titians produced by the earth, to have had her palace m [7:9:485]the air, and to have possessed a vast number of eyes, ears, and tongues. She is mentioned by Hesiod, and particularly described by both Virgil and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048501-1563 | FAMIA, or Famich, a town of Syria, the ancient Apamea. Here, under the rule of the Seleucidae, was a school and nursery for cavalry, where 30,000 horses and 500 elephants were fed. There are now only a few buffaloes and sheep. It is thirty miles north of Damascus. Long. 36. 43. E. Lat. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048502-1563 | FAMILIARS of the Inquisition, persons who assist in apprehending such as are accused, and carrying them to prison. They are assistants to the inquisitor, and called familiars, because they belong to his family. In some provinces of Italy they were called cross-bearers, in others the scholars of St Peter the Martyr ; an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048503-1563 | FAMILY denotes the persons who live together in one house, under the direction of one head or chief manager. It also signifies the kindred or lineage of a person; and is used by old writers to indicate a hide or portion of land sufficient to maintain one family.
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kp-eb0709-048504-1563 | FAN, a machine employed to produce coolness by agitating the air. That the use of the Ian was known to the ancients is very evident from what Terence says:
Cape hoc flabellum, et ventulum huic sic facito; and also from the words of Ovid,
Profuit et tenues ventos movisse flabello.
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kp-eb0709-048505-1563 | FANATICS, enthusiastic, visionary persons, who pretend to revelation and inspiration. The, ancients called those fαηαtici who passed their time in the fana or temples, and being often seized with a kind of enthusiasm, as if inspired by the divinity, showed wild and antic gestures. Frudentius represents them as cutting ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048506-1563 | FANCY. See Imagination. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048507-1563 | FANIONS, in the military art, small flags carried along with the baggage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048508-1563 | FANNERS, a machine for winnowing corn, or for separating the chaff from the grain. See Agriculture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048509-1563 | FANO, a city of the delegation Urbino, in the papal dominions, in Italy. It is situated on an arm of the river Metauro, on the sea shore, is surrounded with walls, and contains a cathedral, sixteen parish churches, nine monasteries, and five nunneries, a large opera house, and many handsome private houses, with a popul... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048510-1563 | FANSHAWE, Sir Richard, a distinguished cavalier in the heroic age of the civil wars and the protectorate, was the youngest son of Sir Henry Fanshawe, brother of Lord Viscount Fanshawe of Dromore in Ireland, and born at Ware-park, Hertfordshire, in June 1608. He had only attained his seventh year at the time of his fath... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048601-1576 | FANTASIA, in the Italian music, signifies fancy, and is used for a .composition, in which the composer ties himself to no particular time, but ranges according as his fancy, amidst various movements and different airs, dictates. This is also called the capricious style. Before sonatas were used, many compositions of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048602-1576 | FANUM, among the Romans, a temple or place consecrated to some deity. The deified men and women among the heathens had likewise their fana; and Cicero even erected one to his daughter Tullia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048603-1576 | FARAHA, a town of Arabia, on the south coast of the Persian Gulf, 200 miles east-south-east of El Catif. Long. 51. 30. E. Lat. 25. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 7' N 51 30' E | FARAHA |
kp-eb0709-048604-1576 | FARANDMAN, a traveller, or merchant stranger, to whom, by the laws of Scotland, justice ought to be done with all expédition, that his business or journey be not hindered. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048605-1576 | FARCE was originally a droll petty show or entertainment, exhibited by charlatans, and their buffoons, in the open street, in order to gather the crowd together. The word is French, and signifies, literally, forced meat or stuffing. It was applied on this occasion on account of the variety of jests, gibes, and tricks, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048606-1576 | FARDAPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar. The fort is of no strength. It is forty-three miles north-west of Jalnapoor. Long. 76. 12. E. Lat. 20.29. b>∙ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048607-1576 | FAREHAM, a market-town of the county of Southampton, in the hundred of its own name, seventy- 1 " 3 miles from London. It stands nearly at the head θ Portsmouth harbour, and vessels of considerable burden can discharge their cargoes there. It is resorted to in t ιe summer for the purpose of sea-bathing. There is a co [... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048701-1589 | FAREWELL Cape, on the north-west coast of Tavai Poenammoo, the southern island of New Zealand. Long. 186. W. Lat. 40. 33. S.. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 33' S 186 W | FAREWELL |
kp-eb0709-048702-1589 | FARLEU, money paid by the tenants in the west of England, in lieu of a heriot. But in some manors of Devonshire, farleu is often distinguished as the best goods, whilst heriot is the best beast, payable at the death of a tenant. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048703-1589 | FARM, Farin, or Ferm (Firma), in Law, signifies a little country messuage or district, containing house or land, with other conveniences, and which is hired or taken by lease, at a certain yearly rent. See Agriculture.
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kp-eb0709-048704-1589 | FARMER, he who tenants a farm, or is lessee thereof; and generally every lessee for life, years, or at will, is called farmer. As this word implies no mystery, except it be that of husbandry, husbandman is the proper addition for a farmer.
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kp-eb0709-048801-1602 | FARNABIE, Thomas, son of a carpenter in London and born in 1575, staid a short time at Oxford, where being enticed to abandon his religion, he went to Spain, and was there educated in a college belonging to the Jesuits. Being weary of their severe discipline, he accompanied Sir John Hawkinsand Sir Francis Drake in thei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048802-1602 | FARNHAM, a market-town at the western end of the county of Surrey, in the hundred of the same name, 41 miles from London, on the road to Portsmouth. The vicinity is chiefly remarkable for the quality of the hops produced, which by their celebrity, and consequently high price, have extended the cultivation very consider... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048803-1602 | FARNOVIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of Socinians, so called from Stanislaus Farnovius, who separated from the other Unitarians in the year 1568, and was followed by several persons eminent for their learning. This sect did not last long; for having lost their chief, who died in 1615, it was scattered abroad a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048804-1602 | FARNWORTH, a township of the county of Lancaster, within the parish of Dean, occupied chiefly by manufacturers of cotton goods, whose numbers amounted in 1801 to 1439, in 1811 to 1798, in 1821 to 2044, and in 1831 to 2928. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048805-1602 | FARO, a city on the sea coast, in the province of. garve, in Portugal, in lat. 37. 2. N. It is a little to the westward of Cape Santa Maria, and only admits ships to enter [7:9:489]or depart at spring tides. It has some trade with the north of Europe, to which it exports figs, resins, oranges, lemons, olives, and almon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048901-1615 | FAROE, Faroer, or Feroe, a group of European islands, situated in the Northern Ocean, between Zetland and Iceland, about 200 miles north-west of the former. They appear to form the country described by the early Venetian navigators under the name of Friesland, though that term was afterwards applied by the English to t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048902-1615 | FARQUHAR, George, a celebrated comic writer, was the son of a clergyman, and born in 1678 at Londonderry, in Ireland, where he received the rudiments of his education, and gave early indications of that genius for which he afterwards distinguished himself. As he was one of a numerous family, his parents, having no fort... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049001-1628 | FARRIER, one whose employment it is to shoe horses, and cure them when diseased or lame. The term farrier is probably a corruption of ferrier, in French ferrans , from the verb ferrer, to shoe a horse; all these words being derived[7:9:491] from the Latin ferrum, iron. There is no doubt that the word farrier was at fir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049101-1641 | FARRINGDON, a market-town of the county of Berks, in the hundred of the same name, sixty-eight miles from London. It is finely situated on the declivity of the termination of a range of hills, at the foot of which the Thames runs, and where the ruins of an ancient castle are to be seen. It is a town of but little trade... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049102-1641 | FARS, a province of Persia, bounded by Irak on the north, Kerman and Laristan on the east, Kuzistan on the west, and on the south by the Persian Gulf. This province is divided into the Germaseer and Sirhud, or the warm and the cold climates. It is in general sandy and barren, though with some considerable exceptions. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049103-1641 | FARTACH, or Fartak, a sea-port of Arabia, in the province of H⅛dramaut, belonging to the sheik of Keshun. It is 133 miles south-east of Hadramaut, and 480 east of Mocha. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049104-1641 | FARTHING, a small English copper coin, amounting to one-fourth of a penny. It was anciently called fourthing, as being the fourth of the integer or penny.
EARTHING of Gold, a coin used in ancient times, containing in value the fourth part of a noble, or 20d. in silver. It is mentioned in the statute 9 Henry V. cap. 7,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049201-1654 | FASCES, in Roman antiquity, axes bound together with rods or staves, and borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their office and authority. According to Florus, the use of the fasces was introduced by the elder Tarquin, the fifth king of Rome; and they were then the mark of the sovereign dignity. In after tim... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049202-1654 | FASCETS, in the art of making glass, are the irons thrust into the mouths of bottles, in order to convey them to the annealing tower. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049203-1654 | FASCIA, in Antiquity, a thin sash which the Roman women wrapped round their bodies next to the skin, in order to make them slender. Something of this sort seems also to have been in use amongst the Grecian ladies.
Fascia, in Architecture, signifies any flat member having considerable breadth and but small projection, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049204-1654 | FASCINATION, from the Greek βα<sκawuv, to fascinate or bewitch, a sort of witchcraft supposed to operate either by the eye or the tongue. Ancient writers distinguish two sorts of fascination; one performed by looking, or the efficacy of the eye, and the other by words, especially by malignant praises.
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kp-eb0709-049205-1654 | FASCINES, in Fortification, are a kind of faggots made of small branches of trees or brushwood, tied in three, four, five, or even six places, and are of various dimensions, according to the purposes to which they are to be applied. Those which are to be pitched over, for burning lodgments, galleries, or any other work... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049206-1654 | FAST, in general, denotes abstinence from food; but is more particularly used for such abstinence on a religious account.
Religious fasting has been practised by most nations from the remotest antiquity. Some divines even pretend that it had its origin in the earthly paradise, where our first parents were forbidden to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049301-1667 | FASTERMANS, or Fasting-men, was used in our ancient customs to signify men of repute and substance; or rather pledges, sureties, or bondsmen, who, according to the Saxon polity, were bound fast to answer for one another’s peaceable behaviour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049302-1667 | FASTI, in Roman antiquity, the kalendar in which were expressed the several days of the year, with their easts, games, and other ceremonies.
1 here were two kinds of fasti, the greater and less; the former being distinguished by the appellation of fasti magistrales, and the latter by that of fasti halxndares. The fast... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049303-1667 | FASTOLF, Sir John, a renowned English officer, who served in France under Henry IV., Henry V., and Henry VI., was descended from an ancient family in Norfolk, and was born about the year 1377. He was as much distinguished for his virtue at home, as for his valour abroad; and became no less amiable in his private than h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049304-1667 | FAT, an oily concrete substance, deposited in different parts of animal bodies.
Fat, in nautical language, signifies the same with broad. Thus a ship is said to have a fat quarter, if the trussing in or tuck of her quarter be deep.
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kp-eb0709-049401-1680 | FATA Morgana, a very singular phenomenon, mentioned by different philosophical writers and travellers, who inform us that it is seen in the Straits of Messina, and sometimes denominated the Castles of the Fairy Morgana. The accounts of this phenomenon differ considerably from one another, and travellers are not agreed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049402-1680 | FATE (fatum), denotes an inevitable necessity depending upon a superior cause. The word is formed αfαndo, from speaking, and primarily implies the same with effatum, a word or decree pronounced by God, or a fixed sentence by which the Deity has prescribed the order of things, and allotted to every person what shall bef... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049501-1693 | FATESCH, one of the circles into which the Russian province of Kursk is divided. It is a district fertile in corn, watered by the Usoscha, and contains about 46,000 inhabitants. The chief place is of the same name, and has a population of 2450 persons. It is situated in long. 37. 5. E. and lat. 52. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049502-1693 | FATHEMITES, Fathimites, or Fatimites, the descendants of the prophet Mahommed by Fathema, or Fatima, his daughter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049503-1693 | FATHER, a term of relation denoting a person who has begotten a child. By the laws of Romulus, a father had an unlimited power over his children. Amongst the Lacedaemonians, as we learn from Aristotle’s Politics, the father of three children was excused from the duty of mounting guard for the security of the city; and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049504-1693 | FATHOM, alineal measure containing six feet, and used chiefly at sea for measuring the length of cables and cordage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049505-1693 | FATSISIO, a barren and almost inaccessible island, about eighty miles from the south coast of the isle of Niphon. Thither criminals are banished, and employed in making gθ]d brocade. Long. 140. 10. E. Lat. 33. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049506-1693 | FATUARII, in Antiquity, were persons who, appearing inspired, foretold tilings to come. The word is formed from ’ dua, wife of the god Faunus, who was supposed to inspire women with the knowledge of futurity, as Faunus himself did men. Fatua had her name from fari, used in the same sense as vaticinari, to prophesy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049507-1693 | FAUNA, a deity amongst the Romans, who was daughter of Picus, and originally called Marica. Her marriage with Faunus procured her the name of Fauna, and her knowledge of futurity that of Fatua and Fatidica. It is said that she never saw a man after her marriage with Faunus, and that her uncommon chastity occasioned her... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049508-1693 | FAUNALIA, in Antiquity, Roman feasts celebrated in onour of the god Faunus, who was the same amongst the omans as Pan amongst the Greeks.
The Faunalia were held on the day of the nones of December, or on the fifth day of that month. The principal sacrifice was a roebuck, or rather, according to Horace, a id, attended ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049509-1693 | FAUNS (Fauni), among the ancients, were a species of demi-gods inhabiting the forests, called also Sylvans (Syl-vani), and differing little from the Satyrs. They delighted more particularly in vineyards, and generally appear as attendants of Bacchus, in the representation of Bacchanalian feasts and processions. The Fau... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049510-1693 | FAUSSIGNY, a province of the duchy of Savoy, in the kingdom of Sardinia, with the title of a barony. It extends over 748 square miles, and contains three cities and seventy-two towns and villages, with 54,520 inhabitants. It is one of those provinces the neutrality of which was fixed by the congress of Vienna. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049511-1693 | FAUSTUS. See Fust. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049512-1693 | FAVERSHAM. See Feversham. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049513-1693 | FAVIGNANA, an island on the west coast of Sicily, in the Mediterranean, named collectively the Formiche. It is situated to the south of Levanso, is a very fertile spot, and contains 2500 inhabitants, who grow corn, oil, wine, and cotton. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049514-1693 | FAVISSAE, in Antiquity, were, according to Festus and Aulus Gellius, cisterns for containing water. But the faviss(v in the capitol at Rome were subterranean cellars, where old statues, broken vessels, and other things used in the temple, were usually laid up. They were much the same with the archives and treasury of m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049515-1693 | FAVONIUS, amongst the Romans, the wind which blew directly from the west. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049516-1693 | FAVORINUS, an ancient orator and philosopher of Gaul, who flourished under the emperor Hadrian, and taught with high reputation both at Athens and Rome. Many works are attributed to him, amongst which may be mentioned a Greek miscellaneous history, often quoted by Diogenes Laertius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049517-1693 | FAWKES, Francis, a poet of some note, who received his school education at Leeds, wdιence he was removed to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took the degrees in arts. Having early entered into holy orders, he settled first at Bramham in Yorkshire, near the elegant seat of that name, which he celebrated in verse in 17... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049601-1706 | FAWN, among sportsmen, a buck or doe of the first year, or the young one of the buck’s breed in its first year. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049602-1706 | FAYOUM, a province of Egypt. See the article Egypt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049603-1706 | FE, Santa, a city of Spain, on the river Xenil, in the province of Granada, which was almost entirely overthrown by an earthquake in 1807. Near to it is Sota de Roma, the estate conferred on the Duke of Wellington by the government of Spain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049604-1706 | FE, Fo, or Fohi, the name of the chief god of the Chinese, whom they adore as the sovereign of heaven. They represent him as shining all in light, with his hands hid under his robes, to show that his power does all things invisibly. He has at his right hand the famous Confucius, and at his left Lanza or Lanca, chief of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049605-1706 | FEALTY, in Law, an oath taken on the admittance of any tenant, to be true to the lord of whom he holds his land. By this oath the tenant holds in the freest manner, on account that all who have fee hold per fidem et fiduciam, that is, by fealty at the least.
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kp-eb0709-049606-1706 | FEAR is defined an apprehension of impending evil, attended with a desire of avoiding it. Fear in the extreme is called terror. Fear, in Scripture, is used in various senses. The fear of God is either filial or servile. Filial fear is a holy affection or gracious habit in the soul, by which it is inclined to obey all G... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049607-1706 | FEAST, or Festival, in a religious sense, is the ceremony of feasting and thanksgiving. The word is formed from the Latin festum, which some derive a feriari, to keep holiday; others, however, derive it from the Greek ⅛τια,(n, I feast or entertain, from i<rna, hearth, or fire. Feasts and the ceremonies connected with t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049801-1732 | FEATHER, in Physiology, a general name for the covering of birds; it being common to the animals of this class to have their whole body, or at least the greater part of it, covered with feathers or plumage. Feathers form a considerable article in commerce, particularly those of the ostrich, heron, swan, peacock, and go... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049802-1732 | FEBRIFUGE, an appellation given to such medicines as serve to mitigate or remove a fever. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049803-1732 | FEBRUARY, in Chronology, the second month of Numa’s year. This month is not found in the calendar of Romulus, but was added to the year by Numa. It had its name from Februa, Februaca, or Februalis, all names of Juno, who presided over the purifications of women; in this month also the Lupercalia were held in honour of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049804-1732 | FECHINGSE, a small and neatly-built city of China, in the province of Pe-tche-li, near Pekin. It has a good appearance, though the houses are low, from the walls and pavilions being kept in good repair. Near the town is a fine bridge crossing the river; it is built of stone, and is 216 paces in length. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049805-1732 | FECAMP, a sea-port city of the department of the Lower Seine, in France, situated at the mouth of the river of the same name. It has a good tide harbour. It contains 1000 houses and 7939 inhabitants, many of whom are employed in the herring and mackerel fisheries, some in ship-build-ing, and others in the manufacture o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049806-1732 | FECIALES, or Foeciales, an order of priests or officers amongst the ancient Romans, consisting of tw enty persons, appointed to proclaim war, to negotiate peace, and to perform various other duties.
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kp-eb0709-049807-1732 | FEE, in Law, signifies a complete feudal property. See Feudal Law. Fee also signifies a certain allowance or honοrarium to barristers, physicians, and certain other professional pesons, as a reward for their pains and labour.
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kp-eb0709-049901-1745 | FEEJEE Islands, a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, the exact number of which has not been ascertained. They are situated from about 15. 33. to 19. 15. of south latitude, and extend to about 175. east longitude. They are equally fertile with the generality of the islands in the South Pacific Ocean, and aboun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049902-1745 | FEHRABAD, or Fahrabad, a town of Persia, in the province of Mazanderan, situated on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, at the mouth of a river. Its population, formerly computed at 16,000, consisted principally of Armenians and Georgians, who are represented as having been, lively, active, and industrious. The neig... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 35 56' N 53 12' E | FEHRABAD |
kp-eb0709-049903-1745 | FELANICHE, a Spanish town on the island and in the province of Majorca, with some distilleries of brandy and wine, and with a population of 6800 souls. Long. 0. 14. W. Lat. 39. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049904-1745 | FELAPTON, in Logic, one of the six first modes of the third figure of syllogisms; the first proposition being an universal negative, the second an universal affirmative, and the third a particular negative. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049905-1745 | FELEGYAZA, a city of Hungary, in the circle of the Hither Danube, where the archives of the circle are preserved, and all the legal processes are carried on. It is also the head quarters of the army. It contains 1028 houses and 9405 inhabitants. Long. 19. 45. E. Lat. 46. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049906-1745 | FELIBIEN, Andre', was born at Chartres in 1619, and went as secretary under the Marquis de Fontenay-Mareuil, who was French ambassador at the court of Rome in 1647. On his return Μ. Colbert procured him the place of historiographer to the king, and also that of superintendent of buildings, and of the arts and manufactu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049907-1745 | FELICITAS, Felicity, or Happiness, was deified by the ancient Pagans. Lucullus built a temple to this goddess, and Lepidus erected another. The Greeks paid divine worship to Macaria, daughter of Hercules, who was the same with the Felicitas of the Romans. This deity is pictured upon medals, generally with a cornucopia ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049908-1745 | FELICUDI, one of the Lipari Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to the kingdom of Naples. It is inhabited by about 1200 persons, who grow wheat and produce wine, some of which is shipped at the small haven. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049909-1745 | FELO de Se, in Law, a person who deliberately lays violent hands on himself, and is the occasion of his untimely death, whether by hanging, drowning, stabbing, shooting, or in any other way. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049910-1745 | FELON, in Law, a person guilty of felony. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-049911-1745 | FELONY, in the general acceptation of the law, comprehends every species of crime which occasions at common law the forfeiture of lands or goods. This most frequently happens in those crimes for which a capital punishment either is or used to be inflicted; for those felonies which are called clergyable, or to which the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050001-1758 | FELT, in Commerce, a sort of stuff deriving all its consistence merely from being fulled, or wrought with lees and size, without either spinning or weaving. Felt is made either of wool alone, or of wool and hair. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050002-1758 | FELTING, the method of working up hair or wool into a species of cloth, independently of either spinning or weaving. Felting in Britain is not much practised, excepting in the manufacturing of hats. See Hat-making. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050003-1758 | FELUCCA, in nautical affairs, a little vessel rowed with six oars, and frequent in the Mediterranean. It has this peculiarity, that its helm may be applied either in the head or stern, as occasion requires. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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