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kp-eb0709-057901-2785 | FILIGRANE, Filigree, or Fillagree, Work, a kind of enrichment on gold or silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or both intermixed. The word is compounded of fil οrjilum, a thread, and granum, a grain, and in Latin is called filatim elaboratum opus, argentum, aurum.
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kp-eb0709-057902-2785 | FILIPPO D’ARGYRO, a city of the province of Catania, in the island of Sicily. It is situated on the summit of a lofty insulated hill, abounds in churches and monasteries, contains 6118 inhabitants, and produces near it much saffron and good wine. It was the birth-place of the celebrated historian Diodorus Siculus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-057903-2785 | FILLET, or Filet. See Architecture, Index. Fillet, in Heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, containing only a third or fourth part of the breadth of the common bordure. It is supposed to be withdrawn inwards, and is of a different colour from that of the field. It runs quite round, near the edge, as a lacc over a cloak.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-057904-2785 | FILM, a thin skin or pellicle. In plants it signifies that thin woody skin which separates the seeds in the pods, and keeps them apart. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-057905-2785 | FILOTI, a town of the Turkish province Yanina, and the capital of a district of the same name. It contains [7:9:580]4000 inhabitants, who make excellent oil, and cultivate a considerable extent of tobacco. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058001-2798 | FILTER, an instrument or apparatus contrived for clearing liquids from any impurities mechanically combined with them. Filters are of various kinds, according to the nature of the liquor requiring to be clarified; but they all act on the same general principle, namely, straining the liquor by passing it through earth o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058501-2863 | FIN, in Natural History, a well-known part of fishes, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058502-2863 | FINAL, in general, whatever terminates or concludes a thing; as final judgment, final sentence, and the like.
Final Cause, is the end for which a thing is done. The final cause is the first thing in the intention of an agent, and the last in the execution.
Final Letters, among Hebrew grammarians, five letters so call... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058503-2863 | FINALE, a sea-port in the duchy of Genoa, and kingdom of Sardinia. It is divided into two parts, one called the Hill, the other the Marina. It is strongly fortified, especially against maritime attacks. The inhabitants amount to 3974, who carry on a brisk trade in olives and in oil, which the surrounding district copio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058504-2863 | FINANCES, in political economy, the revenues of a king or state; analogous to the treasury or exchequer of the English, and ∖ λ ∖ cfiscus of the Romans. The word is derived from the German finantz, scraping or usury; though Du Cange ch uses rather to deduce it from the barbarous ∖ α!iνΛfinancia, prestatio pecuniaria. S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058505-2863 | FINCH, Heneage, first Earl of Nottingham, and Lord High Chancellor of England, was the son of Sir Heneage Finch, recorder of London, and born in December 1621. He received his education at Westminster school, and at Christ Church College, Oxford, of which he was a gentleman commoner; and he studied law in the Inner Tem... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058506-2863 | FINE, that which is pure and without mixture. The term is particularly used in speaking of gold or silver.
Fine, in Law, has different applications. Sometimes it is used for a formal conveyance of lands or tenements, or of any thing inheritable, being in esse temporis finis, in order to cut off all controversies. Othe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058507-2863 | FINERS of Gold and Silver are those who purify and separate these metals from other coarser ones, or their ores, by means of fire and acids. They are also called porters in our old law books, and sometimes departers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058508-2863 | FINEERING. See Veneering. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058509-2863 | FINGAL, king of Morven, in ancient Caledonia. See Ossian. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058510-2863 | FINKENWERDER, an island in the river Elbe, belonging to the kingdom of Hanover, in the bailiwick of Harburg, and between that city and Hamburg. It is fertile, and contains a small town of the same name, with o60 [7:9:586]inhabitants, who furnish the market of both cities with fruits and vegetables. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058601-2876 | FINISTERRE, a maritime department of France. It is bounded by the sea on three sides, and on the east by the departments of the Côte du Nord and of Morbihan. It is in the shape of a triangle, and extends over 2890 square miles, or, according to the Almanac-Royal, 693,384 hectares, of which 252,704 are under the plough,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058602-2876 | FINLAND, a province formerly of Sweden, but at present under the dominion of Russia, of which it is called a stadtholdership. It extends from 19. 35. to 33. 1. east longitude, and from 59. 50. to 69.55. north latitude; and, including Lappmark, extends over the vast space of 140,844 square miles, although the inhabitant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058603-2876 | FIRE, Nature of. See the article Heat. Wild Fire, or Grech-FiRE, a kind of artificial or factitious fire, which burns even under water, and that with greater violence than out of it. It is composed of sulphur, naphtha, pitch, gum, and bitumen; and is only extinguishable by vinegar mixed with sand and urine, or by means... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058801-2902 | FIRKIN, an English measure of capacity for liquids, being the fourth part of the barrel, and containing eight gallons of ale, soap, or herrings, and nine gallons of beer, old measure. Imperial measure contains one sixtieth part less in the gallon. See Weights and Measures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058802-2902 | FIRLOT, a dry measure used in Scotland. The wheat firlot contains 21j- pints of that country, or about 2214 cubic inches; and the barley firlot, 31 standard pints, or 3232 cubic inches. Hence the Scotch wheat firlot exceeds the old English bushel by 33 cubic inches, and the imperial bushel by 4 cubic inches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058803-2902 | FIRMAMENT, in the ancient astronomy, the eighth heaven or sphere, in which the fixed stars were supposed to be placed. It is called the eighth, with respect to the seven heavens or spheres of the planets which it surrounds.
The firmament is supposed to have two motions; a diurnal motion, given to it by the primum mobi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058804-2902 | FIRMAN is a passport granted to travellers and others m the dominions of Turkey, and usually bearing the signet of the grand signior himself. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058805-2902 | FIRMICUS, Maternus Julius, a Latin writer who flourished under the successors of Constantine. About the year 345 he composed a work entitled De Erroribus Profanarum Religionum, which he inscribed to Constantius and Constans, the sons of Constantine, and which is happily still extant, accompanied with the annotations of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058806-2902 | FISC (Fiscus), in the Civil Law, the treasury of a prince or state, or that into which all things due t° Jae public fall to be paid or delivered. The word is derive from the Greek φιΰχος, a great basket, used when they « en to market. By the civil law, none but a sovereign prince has a right to have a fisc or public tr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058901-2915 | FISCAL, in the Civil Law, something relating to the pecuniary interest of the prince or people. The officers appointed for the management of the fisc were called procuratores fisci, and advocati fisci ; and among the cases enumerated in the constitutions of the empire, where it was their business to plead, one is again... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-058902-2915 | FISH. See Ichthyology. Fishes, in Heraldry, are the emblems of silence and watchfulness, and are borne upright, imbowed, extended, endorsed respecting each other, surmounting one another, fretted, and so on.
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kp-eb0709-058903-2915 | FISHER, John, Bishop of Rochester, was born at Beverley, in Yorkshire, in the year 1459, and educated in the collegiate church of that place. In 1484, he removed to Michael House in Cambridge, of which college he was elected master in the year 1495. Having applied himself to the study of divinity, he took orders; and b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-059001-2928 | FISHERIES.
We propose in the present article to take a general and extended view of this important branch of employment, and at the same time to give a sketch of the present state both of the home and foreign fisheries.
HOME FISHERIES.
The alleged neglect of the fisheries, on the part of Great Britaiu, has been the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-060901-3175 | FISHGUARD, a market-town of Pembrokeshire, in South Wales, within the hundred of Komyss, 151 miles from London. It is situated on the shore, at the spot where the river Gwaine falls into the sea. It is governed by a mayor and corporate body. The trade is but trifling, but there is a well-supplied market on Friday. A co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-060902-3175 | FISHING, in general, is the art of catching fish, whether by means of nets, spears, or the line and hook. See Angling and Fisheries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-060903-3175 | FISSURES, in Geology, certain interruptions, which divide the several strata of which the body of our globe is composed, in a horizontal or parallel manner.
Fissure of the Bones, in Surgery, is when they are divided either transversely or longitudinally, not quite through, but cracked like glass, by any external force... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-060904-3175 | FISTULA, in the ancient music, a wind instrument resembling our flute or flageolet.
The principal wind instruments of the ancients were the tibia and the fistula. But how they were constituted, in what they differed, or how they were played upon, does not appear; indeed all that we know is, that the fistula was at fir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-060905-3175 | FITCHES, in Husbandry, a sort of pulse, more generally known by the name of chick-pea. Fitches are cultivated either for the purpose of feeding cattle or improving the land. They are a wholesome and nourishing food, whether given in the straw or thrashed out. When sown only to improve the soil, they are ploughed in jus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-060906-3175 | FITCHET, a name used in some places for the weasel, which is also called the foumart. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-060907-3175 | FITCHY, in Heraldry (from the French fiche, fixed), a term applied to a cross when the lower branch ends in a sharp point. The origin of this device is supposed to be, that the primitive Christians were accustomed to carry about crosses with them wherever they went; and when they stopped at any place on a journey, they... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-060908-3175 | FITERO, a town of Spain, in the province of Navarre. It is situated on the banks of the Alhama, which, though a river of short course, is highly beneficial, by its irrigating capabilities, to the country through which it passes. The monastery of Fitero is very richly endowed; and the town, which contains 3500 inhabitan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-060909-3175 | FITZHERBERT, Sir Anthony, a learned lawyer in the reign of Henry VIII. was descended from an ancient family, and born at Norbury in Derbyshire, but in what year is not known. After receiving the rudiments of his education in the country, he was sent to Oxford, on leaving which he entered himself in one of the inns of c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061001-3188 | FITZSTEPHEN, William, an English monastic historian of the twelfth century, and author of the earliest description extant of London, was of Norman extraction, but born of respectable parents in the city of London. Being a monk of Canterbury, he attracted the notice of Archbishop Becket, who made him one of his clerks, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061002-3188 | FIUME, a circle in the Austrian province of Trieste, extending over 1364 square miles, containing thirty-four cities and towns, and 193 villages, with 24,930 houses, and 131,484 inhabitants. The principal products are wine, olives, fruit, and silk. The capital is a sea-port situated on the Gulι oł Quarnaro. It consists... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061003-3188 | FIXATION, in Chemistry, the rendering of any volatilesubstance fixed, so as not to fly off or evaporate upon being exposed to a great heat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061004-3188 | FIXED BODIES are those which sustain a considerable degree of heat without evaporating, or losing any of their weight. Some of the most fixed bodies are diamons, gold, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061005-3188 | FIXITY, or Fixedness, in Chemistry, is in a peculiar manner used for the affection opposite to volatility; in other words, it is the property by which bodies sustain the : action of the fire, without being dissipated in fumes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061006-3188 | FIXLMILLNER, Placidus, a learned astronomer, was ' born at Achleuthen, near Linz, in Austria, on the 28th of May 1721. He received the rudiments of his education in the monastery of Kremsmunster, of which his uncle Alexander was abbot; afterwards went to Salzburg, where he studied a regular course of philosophy, but tu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061101-3201 | FLACCUS, Caius Valerius, an ancient Latin poet, of whom personally but little is known. He is supposed to have been born at Setia, a town of Campania, now Sezzo, whence he has derived the surname of Setinus. But Martial, his contemporary and friend, seems to intimate that he was a native of Padua, or at least lived the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061102-3201 | FLAGS, in the army, are small banners of distinction stuck in the baggage waggons, to distinguish the baggage of one brigade or battalion from that of another, in order ffiat they may be marshalled by the waggon-master-general, so as to avoid the confusion that might otherwise ensue.
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kp-eb0709-061103-3201 | FLAGELLANTES, a set of wild fanatics who chastised and disciplined themselves in public by means of the lash. The sect of the Flagellantes took its rise in Italy in the year 1260; its author was one Rainier, a hermit, and it was thence propagated throughout almost all the countries of Europe. The formation of this sect... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061201-3214 | FLAGEOLET, or Flajeolet, a little flute, made of box or other hard wood, and sometimes of ivory, and having six holes besides that at the bottom, the mouth-piece, and the one behind the neck. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061202-3214 | FLAIL, an instrument for thrashing corn, consisting, first, of the hand-staff, or piece held in the thrasher’s hand; secondly, of the swiple, or that part which strikes out the corn; thirdly, of the caplins, or strong double leathers, made fast to the tops of the hand-staff and swiple; and, fourthly, of the middle band... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061203-3214 | FLAIR, in nautical language, to incline or hang over. Seamen say that the work flairs over when a ship is housed in near the water, so that the work hangs over a little too much, and is let out broader aloft than is warranted by the due proportion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061204-3214 | FLAMBEAU, a kind of torch made of several thick wicks, covered with wax, and serving to burn at nights in the streets, as also at funeral processions, illuminations, and such like occasions. Flambeaux differ from links, torches, and tapers, in being made square, sometimes of white wax and sometimes of yellow. They usua... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061205-3214 | FLAMBOROUGH HEAD, a cape or promontory on the eastern coast of Yorkshire, five miles east of Burlington, and 215 from London. This was the Fleamhurg of the Saxons, having, it is supposed, been so called from the lights made on it to direct the landing of Ina, who, in 547 joined his countrymen in these parts with a larg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061206-3214 | FLAME is a general name for every kind of luminous vapour, provided the light it emits has any considerable degree of intensity. Flame, however, is most generally applied to such as are of a conical figure, like those arising from our common fires; the others are commonly called luminous vapours, or simple lights. See ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061207-3214 | FLAMEN, in Roman antiquity, the name of an order of priests, instituted either by Romulus or Numa, authors not being agreed which of the two was its founder.
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kp-eb0709-061208-3214 | FLAMINIA Via, an ancient Roman road, constructs by C. Flaminius, during his censorship, 220 b. c. Proceeding from Rome through Etruria in a direct line o Narnia, now Narni, in Umbria, it was divided into two [7:9:613]branches, the one to the east leading through Terni and Spoleto to Foligno, where it met the other, whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061301-3227 | FLAMINIUS, C., a Roman senator, one of the most distinguished men of his family, the chief transactions of whose life are comprehended between his tribuneship, 232, and death, 217, b. c. He was one of the most powerful supporters of the liberal party in Rome, and was amongst the first to suggest the idea of dividing th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061302-3227 | FLAMSTED, a village and parish of England, in the county of Hertford, anciently called Verlamstedt, from its vicinity to the river. The population amounted in 1831 to 1462. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061303-3227 | FLAMSTEED, John, an eminent English astronomer, and the first who obtained the appointment of astronomerroyal, was born at Derby in the year 1646. He was educated at the free school of Derby, where he was head scholar at fourteen years of age, at which period his constitution, naturally delicate, sustained a severe tri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061401-3240 | FLANDERS, a province of the Netherlands, bounded by the German Ocean and the United Provinces on the north, by the province of Brabant on the east, by Hainault and Artois on the south, and by another part of Artois and the German Sea on the west; being about sixty miles long and fifty broad. See Netherlands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061402-3240 | FLANEL, or Flannel, a kind of slight, loose, woollen stuff, composed of a woof and warp, and woven on a loom with two treddles, after the manner of baize.
Dr Black assigns as a reason why flannel and other substances of the same kind keep the body warm, that they compose a rare and spongy mass, the fibres of which tou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061501-3253 | FLANK, or Flanc, in the manege, is applied to the sides of a horse’s buttock. In a strict sense, the flanks of a horse are the extremes of the belly, where the ribs are wanting, and are immediately below the loins.
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kp-eb0709-061502-3253 | FLANNAN Islands, a group of small islands, some s ιx or seven in number, lying twelve miles north-west of the Isle of Skye. They are wild, rocky, and uninhabited; ut from the remains of sacred edifices found upon them, ey must formerly have been the residence of some Cul-can or other religious order. At present they ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061503-3253 | FLATS, in Music. See Interval. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061504-3253 | FLAT Island, a small island in the Eastern Seas, ι situated near the north coast of the island of Flores. Long. ’ Vθi .°9, E’ Lat. 7. 59. S. Also an island in the Mergui Archipelago, lat. 10. 27. N.; and another near the east ι coast of New Zealand, long. 183. 13. W. lat. 37. 40. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061505-3253 | FLAVEL, John, an eminent non-conformist minister, was educated at University College, Oxford. He became ì minister, first of Deptford, and afterwards of Dartmouth, in ŗ Devonshire, where he resided the greater part of his life, much respected and admired for his preaching, although he was persecuted on account of his p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061506-3253 | FLAX. For some particulars as to the culture of flax, see the article Agriculture. What more remains to be . said will be found under the connected head of Hemp. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061507-3253 | FLAXMAN, John, an eminent English sculptor, was born at York on the 6th of July 1755. He was the second son of John Flaxman, a moulder in plaster, who, besides keeping a shop in London for the sale of his figures, sought employment in the country. He was of a weakly consti- . tution, and slightly deformed, which preven... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061701-3279 | FLEAM, in Surgery and Farriery, an instrument for letting blood of a man or horse. A case of fleams, as it is called by farriers, comprehends six sorts of instruments; two hooked ones, called drawers, which are used for cleansing wounds; a pen-knife; a sharp-pointed lancet for making incisions; and two fleams, one shar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061702-3279 | FLECHE, LA, an arrondissement in the department of the Sarthe, in France. It extends over 722 square miles, is divided into seven cantons, and these into eighty communes, containing 84,995 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, is a well-built place, situated on the river Loir, in a valley surrounded with v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061703-3279 | FLECHIER, Esprit, bishop of Nismes, one of the most cbrated preachers of his age, and author of a number of works, was born at Pernes, a small town in the diocese of Carpentras, on the 10th of June 1632, and educated under the eye of his uncle, Father Audifret, general of the congregation of Christian doctrine, a learn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061801-3292 | FLECKNOE, Richard, an English poet and dramatic writer in the reign of Charles II. who has been more indebted for the preservation of his name to Dryden’s satire of Mac-Flecknoe, than to the merit of his own productions, is said to have been originally a Jesuit, and connected with some persons of distinction belonging ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061802-3292 | FLEECE, the covering of wool shorn off the bodies of sheep. See the article Wool. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061803-3292 | FLEET commonly implies a company of ships of war belonging to any prince or state; but sometimes it denotes any number of trading ships employed in a particular branch of commerce.
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kp-eb0709-061804-3292 | FLEETWOOD, William, a learned English bishop, descended of an ancient family in Lancashire, was born in the Tower of London, where his father resided, on the 21st of January 1656. He received his education at Eton, and at King’s College, Cambridge. About the time of the Revolution he entered into holy orders, and havin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061901-3305 | FLEMINGIANS, or Flandrians, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of rigid Anabaptists, who acquired this name in the sixteenth century, by way of distinction from the Waterlandians. In consequence of some dissensions among the Flemingians relative to the treatment of excommunicated persons, they were divided into two sect... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061902-3305 | FLEMISH, or the Flemish Tongue, that which is otherwise called Low Dutch, to distinguish it from the Cerrnan, of which it is a corruption and a kind of dialect, t differs from the Walloon, which is a corruption of the r onch language. The Flemish is used throughout all the provinces of the Netherlands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061903-3305 | FLENSBURG, a city of the duchy of Sleswick, in Denmark. It is fineliy situated on a fiorde or arm of the sea, om which rises hills on three sides, on which the city is uιlt, and from the sea resembles an amphitheatre. It contains 1208 houses and 13,109 inhabitants. It is a place of great trade and manufactures, the chi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061904-3305 | FLESH, in Anatomy, a compound substance, consisting of the various softer solids of the animal body, and so denominated in contradistinction to bones. See Anatomy, passim. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061905-3305 | FLETA, the name given to an unknown writer who lived about the end of the reign of Edward II. and beginning of Edward III. and who, whilst a prisoner in the Fleet, wrote an excellent treatise on the common law of England. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-061906-3305 | FLETCHER. See Beaumont and Fletcher. Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, a celebrated Scottish patriot and political writer, was descended from an ancient family, who traced their origin to some one of the followers of William the Conqueror. He was the son of Sir Robert Fletcher of Saltoun and Innerpeffcr, and was born in th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062101-3331 | FLEURY, Claude, sub-prcceptor of the young princes of France, was the son of an advocate before the council, originally from Rouen, and born at Paris on the 6th of December 1640. He studied under the Jesuits, in the College of Clermont, where he passed six years; and he ever afterwards cherished sentiments of the livel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062201-3344 | FLEURUS, a small town of the province of West Flanders, in the circle of Charleroy, containing 600 inhabitants, and remarkable for the battles fought there in 1622, 1690, 1794, and 1815, though the last is more frequently designated the battle of Ligny. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062202-3344 | FLEXIBLE, in Physics, a term applied to bodies capable of being bent or deflected from their natural figure or direction. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062203-3344 | FLEXOR, in Anatomy, a name applied to several muscles, which are so called from their office, which is to bend the parts to which they belong, in opposition to the extensors, which open or stretch them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062204-3344 | FLINDERS Island, is an island in the form of an irregular quadrangle of from three to five miles each side on the south coast of New Holland. Seals are numerous on the beach, and a species of kangaroo not larger than a cat is also found there. Long. 134. 27. E. Lat. 33. 41. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062205-3344 | FLINT, a mineral which is principally composed of silica. See Mineralogy. Flint, the county town of Flintshire, in North Wales, 204 miles from London, on the river Dee. It is an ancient corporation, and, in conjunction with the boroughs of Rhyddlan, Overton, Caerwys, and Caergoety, returns one member to the House of Co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062206-3344 | FLINTSHIRE, a county of North Wales. It consists of a narrow tract of land, about twenty-eight miles in length, but varying considerably in its breadth, though in no part exceeding ten miles. The Irish Sea partly bounds it on the north; the river Dee and part of Cheshire on the north and north-east side; and the county... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062301-3357 | FLIP, a sort of drink, composed of malt liquor, brandy, and sugar, and in great favour among sailors. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062302-3357 | FLOAT, a certain quantity of timber bound together *ιth rafters athwart, and put into a river to be conveyed down the stream. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062303-3357 | FLOATING Bodies are those which swim on the sur-ace of a fluid, the most interesting of which are ships andves- i θls employed in commerce and war. See Ship-Building. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062304-3357 | FLOOD, a deluge or inundation of waters. See the article Deluge. Flood is also used in speaking of the tide. When the water is at the lowest, it is called ebb ; when rising, young flood ; when at the highest, high flood; when beginning to fall, ebb water. ELooD-marh, the mark which the sea makes on the shore at flowing... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062305-3357 | FLOOR, in building, the underside of a room, or that part which we walk on. See Building. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062306-3357 | FLORA, the reputed goddess of flowers, was, according [7:9:624]to Lactantius, only a lady of pleasure, who having gained large sums of money by prostituting her person, made the Roman people her heir, on condition that certain g an ξ es called Floralia might be annually celebrated on her birthday. Some time afterwards,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062401-3370 | FLORAC, an arrondissement of the department of the Lozère, in France, extending over 660 square miles. It is divided into seven cantons, and these into fifty-five communes, containing 43,500 inhabitants. The capital is the town of the same name situated on the river Tornou, which falls into the Tarn. It contains 340 ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062402-3370 | FLORALES Ludi, or Floral Games, in Antiquity, were games celebrated in honour of Flora, the goddess of flowers. The ludi florales, according to Pliny (lib. xviii. c. 29), were instituted by order of an oracle of the Sibyls, on the 28th of April; not in the year of Rome ιoxvι. as we commonly read it in the ancient editi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062403-3370 | FLORALIA, in Antiquity, a general name for the feasts, games, and other ceremonies, held in honour of the goddess Flora. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062404-3370 | FLORENCE, a city, the capital of the grand duchy of Tuscany, and of the division of it of the same name. The department of Florence comprehends the extensive valley of the Arno, and a great portion of the Appennine Mountains, and extends over 3652 square miles, divided into thirty-three vicariates, and containing 643,3... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062405-3370 | FLORES, or Ende, an island in the Eastern Seas, extending about 200 miles in length by forty or fifty in breadth, at the extremity of which is a strait called Flores Strait. Near the coast is a fine open country, but the interior parts are mountainous and woody; and there is said to be a volcano in the centre. Sandal w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062406-3370 | FLORIDA, a country of North America, now belonging to the United States. It is about 450 miles in length, and has an average breadth of about 120 miles. It is comprehended between the parallels of 80. 25. and 87. 20. W. long, and 25. and 31. N. lat. Formerly it was separated into two political divisions, whose geograph... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062801-3422 | FLORILEGIUM, Florilege, a name given by the Latins to what the Greeks call aν0ο ∖ ογιον, anthology, a collection of choice pieces, containing the finest and brightest things of their kind.
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