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kp-eb0709-050004-1758 | FELUDJE, Felugia, a village of Asiatic Turkey, situated on the eastern shore of the Euphrates, north of Hil-Iah, in a fertile soil, productive in dates, grapes, grain, and cotton. Here a palace was erected by Soliman the Great, pasha of Bagdad. It was anciently a place of celebrity, and taken by the Romans under the Em... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050005-1758 | FELUDSJE, Feluja, a small island in the north-west part of the Gulf of Persia, near the Arabian shore. It ⅛ ten miles east of Koueit. Long. 48. E. Lat. 29. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050006-1758 | FEMALE (foemina), a term peculiar to animals, signifying that sex which conceives and generates its young. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050007-1758 | FEMERN, an island in the Baltic Sea, a part of the kingdom of Denmark, the centre of which is in latitude 54. 29. north, and longitude 10. 24. east. The extent of it is fifty-two square miles, or 33,280 acres. It contains a city and market-town, and forty villages, with 7626 inhabitants. The soil is productive, and the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050008-1758 | FEMME Covert, in Law, signifies a married woman.
Femme Sole, an unmarried woman, whose debts, contracted before marriage, become those of her husband after it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050009-1758 | FEMININE, in Grammar, one of the genders of nouns, namely, the second.
The feminine gender is that which denotes that the noun or name belongs to a female. In the Latin the feminine gender is formed from the masculine by altering its termination, particularly by changing us into a. Thus, of the masculine bonus equus, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050010-1758 | FEN, a place overflowed with water, or abounding with bogs. Fens are either made up of a congeries of bogs, or consist of a multitude of pools or lakes, with dry spots of land intermixed, like as many little islands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050011-1758 | FENCE, in Gardening and Husbandry, a hedge, wall, ditch, bank, or other inclosure, made round gardens, fields, woods, and the like.
Fence - Month, the month in which deer begin to fawn, and during which it is unlawful to hunt in the forest. It commences fifteen days before midsummer, and ends fifteen days after it. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050012-1758 | FENCING, is the proper use of the small-sword or foil· The small-sword is a light court-dress sword, made to taper gradually from the hilt to the point, and of a size regulated by the judgment of the wearer, if he understand the use of the weapon. The foil, with which the art o fencing is practised, is a small quadrang... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050401-1810 | FENELON, François de Salignac de Lamotte, was descended of an ancient and illustrious family, and born at the castle of Fénélon in Perigord, on the 6th of August 1651. Under the eyes of a virtuous father, he advanced in his literary studies with equal rapidity and success; and being from childhood nurtured in classical... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050801-1862 | FENTON, SíR Geoffrey, an eminent writer and statesman during the reigns of Elizabeth and James L, was brother to Edward Fenton, the navigator, who accompanied Sir Martin Frobisher in his expeditions, and was afterwards sent out independently to endeavour to discover a north-west passage. The time of Sir Geoffrey’s birt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050901-1875 | FEOD, or Feud. See Feudal Law. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050902-1875 | FEODOSIA, one of the circles into which the Russian province of Taurida is divided. It stretches along the eastern side of the peninsula which separates the Black Sea from the Sea of Azoph. It is a fertile tract of land, and was formerly much more thickly peopled, and much better cultivated, than it is at present. The ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050903-1875 | FEOFFMENT, in Law (from the verb feoffare or infeu- (lαre, to give one a fief), the gift or grant of any corporeal hereditament to another. He who so gives, or enfeofs, is called the feoffer, and the person enfeoffed is denominated the feoffee. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050904-1875 | FERALIA, in Antiquity , a festival observed amongst the Romans on the 21st February, or, according to Ovid, on the 17th of that month, in honour of the manes of their deceased friends and relations.
Varro derives the word from inferi, or from fero, on account of a repast carried to the sepulchres of such as had that d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050905-1875 | FER de Fourchette, in Heraldry, a cross having at each end a forked iron, like that formerly used by soldiers to rest their muskets on. It differs from the cross fourche, the ends of which were bent as well as forked; whereas, this has the same sort of fork fixed upon the square end. See Heraldry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050906-1875 | FERAH, a town of Persia, in the province of Seistan, ninety miles north-north-east of Zareng, and a hundred and fifty west of Candahar. Long. 62.22. E. Lat. 33. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050907-1875 | FERE, La, a town of the department of the Aisne, in France, at the junction of the rivers Serre and Oise. It is strongly fortified, and has in it an establishment for educating artillery officers. It contains 436 houses, and 2604 inhabitants. Long. 3. 13. E. Lat. 49. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050908-1875 | FERENTARII, in Roman antiquity, were auxiliary troops, lightly armed, whose weapons were a sword, a bow and arrows, and a sling | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050909-1875 | FERETRIUS, a surname of Jupiter, a ferendo, because he had assisted the Romans; or a feriendo, because he had conquered their enemies under Romulus. He had at Rome a temple built by Romulus, to which the spoils called opima were always carried. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050910-1875 | FERETRUM, amongst the Romans, the bier used in carrying out the bodies of the dead, a duty which was performed by the nearest male relations of the deceased. Thus, sons carried out their parents, brothers their sisters, and so on. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-050911-1875 | FERG, or Fergue, Francis Paul, a landscape painter, was born at Vienna in 1689, and there learned the first principles of his art. He successively practised under Hans Graf, Orient, and Thicle. The last of these, who was painter to the court of Saxony, having invited him to Dresden to insert small figures in his landsc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051001-1888 | FERGUSON, Adam, LL.D., a distinguished philosopher and historian, was born at Logierait, in the Highlands of Perthshire, on the 20th of June 1723. His father, the Reverend Adam Ferguson, a native of the neighbouring parish or Moulin, had been minister of Crathie and Braemar, in Aberdeenshire, from 1700 to 1714; but, on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051501-1953 | FERIA, in the Roman Catholic breviary, is applied to the several days of the week; thus Monday is the feria secunda, and Tuesday the feria tertia, though these days are not working days, but holidays. The occasion of this was, that the first Christians were accustomed to keep the Easter week holy, calling Sunday the pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051502-1953 | FERIAE, in Roman antiquity, holidays, or days upon which the people abstained from work. Proclamation was generally made by the herald, by command of the Rex Sacrorum or Flamines, that all should abstain from business; and whoever transgressed the order was severely fined.
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kp-eb0709-051503-1953 | FERIANA, the ancient city of Thala in Africa, which was taken and destroyed by Metellus in the war with Jugurtha. It was visited by Bruce in his travels through Africa, and he expected to find many magnificent ruins in the place, but was disappointed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051504-1953 | FERMANAGH, a county in the south-western part of the province of Ulster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by the counties of Donegal and Tyrone, on the east by the county of Monaghan, on the south by the counties of Cavan and Leitrim, and on the west by those of Leitrim and Donegal. It extends over a surface of 471,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051801-1992 | FERMAT, Pierre de, equally celebrated as a restorer of ancient mathematics, and an original author of modern improvements, was born at Toulouse about 1595. His public life was occupied by the active duties attached to the situation of a counsellor of the parliament of Toulouse, in which he was distinguished both for le... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051901-2005 | FERMENT, any body which, being applied to another, produces fermentation.
Ferments are either matters already in the act of fermentation, or those which soon pass into this state. Of the first kind are the flowers of wine, yeast, fermenting beer, θr fermenting wine, and of the second are the newly-expressed vegetable ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051902-2005 | FERMENTATION may be defined a sensible internal motion of the constituent particles of a fluid, mixed, or compound, body; by the continuance of which motion ese particles are gradually removed from their former si- ι mtion or combination, and again, after some visible separation is made, combined together in a differen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051903-2005 | FERMO, one of the delegations of the papal dominions, in Italy, 580 square miles in extent. It contains one city, eleven market-towns, and thirty villages, with 77,089 inhabitants. It is situated on the shore of the Adriatic, and on that side is fruitful in wheat, maize, pease, břans, and fruit, and produces some silk.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051904-2005 | FERM0SELLE, a town of Spain, in the province of Leon, with an ancient castle adjoining it. The river Duero passes by it a little above the part at which the Tormes, that flows by Salamanca, joins that river. This town possesses a population of 3000 souls. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051905-2005 | FERNANDO, or Fernandes, an island in the Pacific Ocean. See Juan Fernandes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051906-2005 | FERNANDO DE NORONHA, or Naronho, an island in the Atlantic Ocean, situated about 210 miles from the coast of Brazil. It is only about three miles in length, and is full of mountains, which, however, are clothed with verdure. It possesses a fort, which is garrisoned; but the island is of little use, except as a place of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051907-2005 | FERNANDO PO, an African island, situated near the coast of Benin. It was discovered in 1471 by a Portuguese navigator, whose name it bears. It is about sixty miles in circumference, and is both fertile and beautiful, yielding abundance of rice, fruit, sugar canes, and tobacco. It is however little frequented by strange... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051908-2005 | FERNANDO SAN D’APURE, a town of South America, in the province of Caraccas. It is situated on the great river Apure, and is chiefly inhabited by shepherds; who pasture their flocks and herds upon the surrounding plains. The population has been estimated at about 6000. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-051909-2005 | FERNELIUS, John, physician to Henry II. king of France, was born at Picardy towards the close of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. Being sent to Paris to study rhetoric and philosophy, he applied himself so intensely that all other pleasures became insipid, and he cared neither for play, nor walking,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052001-2018 | FERNEY, a town of France, in the department of the Ain, and arrondissement of Gex. It is situated on an elevated spot, not far from the lake of Geneva, and contains 750 inhabitants. It is only remarkable from the château there having been the residence of Voltaire from 1762 to 1777. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052002-2018 | FEROKABAD, a town of Hindustan, on the coast of Malabar, which was taken by the British under Colonel Hartley, in 1790. It is ten miles south of Calicut. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052003-2018 | FERONIA, the pagan goddess of woods and orchards. This deity took her name from the town of Feronia, situated at the foot of Mount Soracte in Italy, where a wood and temple were consecrated to her worship. Both are mentioned by Virgil in the catalogue of Turnus’s forces. Strabo relates that those who sacrificed to this... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052004-2018 | FEROZEGUR, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the Nizam, in the province of Beeder, 120 miles south-west by south from Hyderabad. Long. 77. 22. E. Lat. 16. 8. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052005-2018 | FEROZEPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the Sikk territories, in the province of Laliore, fifty-two miles south by east from the city of Lahore. Long. 75. 58. E. Lat. 31. 5. N | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052006-2018 | FERRAH, a large walled town of Afghanistan, situated in a fertile valley, which was visited by Captain Christie. It gives name to a considerable river, which falls into the lake of Zarra, and is supposed to be the Parrah of ancient Parthia, a place of great splendour and extent. Lone. 61. 40. E. Lat. 33. 7. N.
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kp-eb0709-052007-2018 | FERRARA, one of the delegations of the papal dominions in Italy, which extends over 1210 sonare miles. It contains two cities, thirteen market-towns, and 254 villages, with 170,727 inhabitants. The greater portion of the district is the delta formed by the mouths of the Po, and is very unhealthy; but it is fertile, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052008-2018 | FERRARS, George, was descended from an ancient family in Hertfordshire, and born about the year 1510, at a village near St Alban’s. He was educated at Oxford, and thence removed to Lincoln’s Inn, where, having applied with uncommon diligence to the study of the law, he soon became distinguished for his elocution at the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052009-2018 | FERREANAH, a town of Tunis, in Africa. It bears evident traces of great antiquity, and of having been formerly the largest city of this portion of the Tunisian territory. This, it is usually affirmed, is somewhat unaccountable, because, though the town enjoys a good climate, and is well supplied with water, yet the sur... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052010-2018 | FERRETTO, in glass-making, a substance which sen es to colour glass. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052011-2018 | FERRO, ôr Hiero, the most westerly of the Canary Islands, and, besidesbeing the smallest, also the most an
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kp-eb0709-052101-2031 | FERROL, a city of Spain, in the province of Gallicia. It is one of the most important of the naval arsenals of the kingdom. Its harbour is deep, capacious, and secure; and the entrance so narrow that not more than one ship at a time can enter. From the mouth being so narrow, it is exposed to the inconvenience of not ad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052102-2031 | FERRUGINOUS, any thing partaking of iron, or which contains particles of that metal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052103-2031 | FERTE-LA-MILON, a fortified city of the department of the Aisne, in France, situated on the river Oureq, containing 480 houses and 2070 inhabitants. It was the birthplace of the celebrated dramatist. Racine in 1639. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052104-2031 | FERTE SOUS JOUARRE, a town of France, in the department of the Seine and Marne, situated at the junction of the Lesser Morin with the Marne. It contained a university, and has now 434 houses, and 3700 inhabitants. The neighbourhood is celebrated for its cheese. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052105-2031 | FERULA, a little wooden pallet or slice, reputed the schoolmaster’s sceptre, wherewith he chastises the boys by striking them on the palms of the hands. The word is Latin, and has also been used to denote the prelate’s crosier and staff It is supposed to be formed from the Latin ferire, to strike. Under the eastern emp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052106-2031 | FESCENNIA, a city of Etruria, near Falerii, supposed to have occupied the site of the modern Galese, and belonging originally to the Siceli, who were dispossessed by the Pelasgi. Dionysius (i. 21) states that some customs of this latter nation were still observed in his time (29 b. c.). It is chiefly remarkable as havi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052107-2031 | FESCENNINE Verses, Versus Fescennini, see the preceding article. The word, according to Macrobius, is formed from fascinum, a charm, because the people conceived such songs calculated to drive away witches, or prevent the effect of their witchcraft; but its more probable origin is from Fescenni, a city of Etruria, wher... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052108-2031 | FESTI Dies, in Roman antiquity, certain days in the year devoted to the honour of the gods. Numa, when he distributed the year into twelve months, divided the same into the dies festi, the dies profesti, and the dies intercisi. The dies festi were again divided into days of sacrifices, banquets, games, and feriae. The ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052109-2031 | FESTINO, in Logic, the third mood of the second figure of the syllogism, the first proposition of which is an universal negative, the second a particular affirmative, and the third a particular negative; as in the following example:
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kp-eb0709-052110-2031 | FESTOON, in Architecture and Sculpture, an ornament in the form of a garland of flowers, fruits, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together. Festoons are now chiefly used in friezes and other vacant places which require to be filled up and adorned, and are in imitation of the long clusters of flowers, which the ancient... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052111-2031 | FESTUS, Pompeius Sextus, a celebrated grammarian and philologist, who probably flourished towards the close of the fifth century of our era, and who was at all events posterior to Martial, whom he cites under the word Vespae. Festus abridged the great work of Verrius Flaccus, a learned grammarian, De Verborum Significa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052201-2044 | FETLOCK, in the manege, a tuft of hair growing behind the pastern joint of many horses; but those of a low size have scarcely any such tuft. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052202-2044 | FEUCHTWANG, a bailiwick of the circle of the Rezat, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over 115 square miles, and comprehending one city, one town, 101 villages, and 13,000 inhabitants. The chief place is the city of the same name, situated on the river Sulz. It has three churches, 226 houses, and 2150 inhabitants, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052203-2044 | FEUD, in our ancient customs, is used to signify a capital quarrel or enmity, not to be satisfied but with blood; and hence it is usually denominated deadly feud. Feud, called also feida, and faida, in the original German signifies guerran or war. Lambert writes it feeth, and says that it signifies capitalis inimicitia... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052204-2044 | FEUDAL LAW is that system of Gothic jurisprudence which reached its full maturity during the middle ages, and which long continued to regulate the tenure of real property in the principal countries of Europe. The relations of lord and vassal have undergone very essential changes, the knight no longer holds his estate o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052801-2122 | FEVERSHAM, a town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of that name, within the lathe of Scray, and forty-eight miles from London. It is a very ancient town, and from several of our early monarchs obtained various charters and privileges, especially as regards the judgment and punishment of offences committed within i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052802-2122 | FEVRE, Tannegui Le, in Latin Tanaquillus Faber, one of the most able scholars of his age, was born at Caen, in Normandy, in the year 1615. His father (who, according to Segrais, was the son of a grave-digger in the parish of St Jean de Caen), having dissipated his means, an uncle of the young Lefevre, a learned ecclesi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-052803-2122 | FEZ, an extensive country of Africa, and at one time the most flourishing kingdom in the northern part of that continent. It now, however, forms one of the four provinces or kingdoms into which the empire of Morocco is divided. It is bounded on the north by the Straits of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea, on the eas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053001-2148 | FEZZAŃ, a country of considerable extent in Northern Africa, and situated to the south of Barbary. Its northern boundary is the well of Bonjem, which is situated in lat. 30. 35. 32. N. South of this point it extends, according to Captain Lyon, six degrees and a half of latitude, or about 450 miles, and is bounded in th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053301-2187 | FIAT, in Law, a short order or warrant signed by a judge, for making out and allowing certain processes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053302-2187 | FIBRARIAE, a term anciently applied to minerals of a fibrous structure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053303-2187 | FIBRE, in Anatomy, a perfectly simple body, or at least as simple as any thing in the human structure, being fine and slender like a thread, and serving to knit together or connect other parts.
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kp-eb0709-053304-2187 | FIBROSE, or Fibrous, something consisting of fibres; as, for instance, the roots of plants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053305-2187 | FIBULA, in Anatomy, is the outer and smaller of the bones of the leg. See Anatomy.
Fibula, in Antiquity, a sort of button, buckle, or clasp, made use of by the Greeks and Romans for keeping close or fastening together certain parts of their clothes. The fibulae were of various forms, and often adorned with precious st... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053306-2187 | FICHTE, John Theophilus, an eminent German metaphysician, was born at Rammenau, a village of Lusatia, on the 19th of May 1762. His father was a ribbon manufacturer, and carried on a small trade in haberdashery. A wealthy person in the neighbourhood having been struck with the extraordinary genius which young Fichte dis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053601-2226 | FICINUS, Marsilius, a celebrated Italian, was born at Florence in 14<33, and educated at the expense of Lorenzo de’ Medicis. He attained a perfect knowledge of the Greek and Latin tongues, and became an eminent philosopher, physician, and divine. He was in the highest .favour with Lorenzo and Cosmo de’ Medicis, who app... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053602-2226 | FICUS, the Fig Tree. The ficus religiosa, or banian tree, is a native of several parts of the East Indies. It has a woody stem, branching to a great height and vast extent, with heart-shaped entire leaves terminating in acute points. Some of these trees are of amazing size and ex- . tent, as they are continually increa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053603-2226 | FIDD, an iron pin used at sea to splice or fasten ropes together, and made tapering and sharp at one end. There are also fidds of wood, which are much larger than those of iron.
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kp-eb0709-053604-2226 | FIDDES, Richard, a laborious English writer, was born at Hunmanby, near Scarborough, in the year 1671. Having received his grammatical education at a private school in the neighbourhood, he was admitted first of Corpus Christi, and then of University College, Oxford; but, after taking the degree of bachelor of arts, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053701-2239 | FIDDLE. See Violin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053702-2239 | FIDE-JUSSOR, in the Civil Law, is a surety, or one who obliges himself in the same contract with a principal, for the greater security of the creditor or stipulator. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053703-2239 | FIDEI-COMMISSUM, in the Civil Law, an estate left in trust with any person, for the use of another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053704-2239 | FIDES, Faith, or Fidelity, one of the virtues deified by die Pagans. She had a temple near the capitol, founded by Numa Pompilius; but no animals were immolated, nor was any blood spilt, in her sacrifices. During the performance of her rites, her priests appeared in white vestments, with their heads and hands covered w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053705-2239 | FIDIUS, in Pagan worship, a god who presided over alliances and promises. This deity, which the Romans borrowed from the Sabines, was also called Sanctus, Semon, and Semi-Pater. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-053706-2239 | FIELD, in Heraldry, is the whole surface of the shield or the continent, so called because it contains those achievements anciently acquired in the field of battle. It is the ground on which the colours, bearing, metals, furs, charges, and the like, are represented.
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kp-eb0709-053707-2239 | FIELDING, Henry, the prince of English novellists, was born at Sharpham-Park, Somersetshire, on the 22d of April 1707. His father, General Edmund Fielding, who had served under John duke of Marlborough, was the third son of Dr John Fielding, canon of Salisbury, who was the fifth son of George earl of Desmond, and broth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-054201-2304 | FIERI Facias, in Law, a writ that lies where a person has recovered judgment for debt or damages in the king’s court, by which the sheriff is commanded to levy the debt and damages on the defendant’s goods and chattels. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-054202-2304 | FIESOLE, a city of the grand duchy of Tuscany, in Italy, in the province of Florence. It occupies an elevated situation, is the see of a bishop, and has a cathedral, several churches, and but few inhabitants. It is a place of great antiquity, having been in remote ages one of the twelve eminent cities of Etruria. It ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-054203-2304 | FIFESHIRE is situated between 56° 3' and 56° 25'north latitude, and bounded by the River and Frith of Tay on the north, by the German Ocean on the east, by the Frith of Forth on the south, and by parts of Kinross, Perth, and Clackmannan on the west. Its greatest length is about fifty miles, and its greatest breadth abo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-054501-2343 | FIG, or Fig-tree. See Ficus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-054502-2343 | FIGEAC, an arrondissement of the department of the Lot, in France, extending over 672 squaremiles. It is divided into eight cantons and 168 communes, containing 80,178 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the river Celle, where there is some trade in corn and in wine. There are in it 1300 ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-054503-2343 | FIGUERAS, a town and fortress of Spain, in the province of Catalonia, and one of the most important of its defences on the eastern frontiers of France. It is strongly fortified, and situated in the fruitful district of Ampurdan, abounding in fruits and grain, being watered by the river Fluvia, which, though usual!y for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-054504-2343 | FIGURAL, Figurate, or Figurative, a term applied to whatever is expressed by obscure resemblances. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-054505-2343 | FIGURE, in Physics, expresses the surface or terminating extremities of any body. Figures, in Arithmetic, are certain characters by which we denote any number which may be expressed by any combination of the nine digits. Figure, amongst divines, is used to signify the mysteries represented under certain types. Figure, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-054601-2356 | FIGURE OF THE EARTH.
SECTION I.
INTRODUCTION.
The determination of the figure and dimensions of the earth is a problem of very great importance in astronomy, inasmuch as it is in reference to the earth’s diameter that the distances of the planets from the sun and from each other are estimated. It is also a problem o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-057501-2733 | FILAMENT, in Anatomy and Natural History, a term used in the same sense with fibre, and signifying those fine threads of which the flesh, nerves, skin, plants, roots, &c. are composed.
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kp-eb0709-057502-2733 | FILANDERS, in falconry, a disease in hawks, and some other birds, consisting of filaments or strings of blood coagulated; and occasioned by a violent rupture of a vein, by which the blood extravasated hardens into these figures, and incommodes the reins, hips, and other parts.
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kp-eb0709-057503-2733 | FILANGIERI, Gaétan, celebrated for íiis valuable works on political economy and legislation, was born at Naples on the 18th of August 1752. He was the third son of Cesar prince of Araniello, by Marianne Montalto, daughter of the Duke of Fragnito. His family was ancient, and rose to distinction at the first establishmen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-057601-2746 | FILE, among mechanics, a tool used in order to smooth, polish, or cut metals. This instrument is of iron or forged steel, cut transversely in little furrows, with chisels and a mallet, and of a depth corresponding to the grain or touch required. After cutting the file, it must be tempered with a composition of chimney-... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-057602-2746 | FILIAL, something belonging to the relation or son·
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Filial Piety, the affectionate attachment of children to their parents, including in it love, obedience, and assistance. These are duties prompted equally by nature and by gratitude, independently of the injunctions of religion; for where shall we find the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-057801-2772 | FILIBEG, or Philibeg. See Philibeg. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-057802-2772 | FILICAIA, Vincenzo da, a celebrated Italian poet, descended of a noble family of Florence, was born in that city on the 30th of December 1642. He commenced his studies under the Jesuits at Florence, and completed them in the university of Pisa. Grecian and Roman antiquity, philosophy, theology, and jurisprudence, were ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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