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kp-eb0709-062802-3422 | FLORIN is sometimes used to signify a coin, and sometimes a money of account. Florin, as a coin, is of different values, according to the different metals, and different countries where it is struck. See Money. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062803-3422 | FLORINIANI, or Floriani, a sect of heretics of the second century, so denominated from its author Florinus, or Florianus, a priest of the Roman Catholic church, deposed along with Blastus for his errors. Florinus had, along with Irenaeus, been a disciple of St Polycarp. He made God the author of evil; or rather asserte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062804-3422 | FLORIS, Francis, an eminent historical painter, was born at Antwerp in 1520. He followed the profession of a statuary till he was twenty years of age, when, preferring painting to sculpture, he entered the school of Lambert Lombard, and afterwards went to Italy, where he completed his studies. The great progress he mad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062805-3422 | FLORIST, a person curious or skilled in flowers, their kinds, names, characters, and culture. It is also applied to an author who writes what is called the flora of any particular place, that is, a catalogue of the plants and trees which are found spontaneously growing there. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062806-3422 | FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus, a Latin historian. Respecting the time when he flourished, and the country from which he sprung, we have no certain information. Some have supposed him to be of Spanish origin, connected with the family of Seneca; others have imagined that he came from Gaul. It has been suggested that he may be ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062807-3422 | FLORY, Flowery, or Fleury, in Heraldry, across which has flowers at the end circumflex and turning down, and which is different from the potence, in as much as the latter stretches out more like that which is called patee. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062808-3422 | FLOTSON, or Flotsom. Goods which by shipwreck are lost, and floating upon the sea, are, with jetsom and ligan, generally given to the lord admiral. But this is the case only where the owners of such goods are not known. It is also to be observed Üiatjetsom signifies any thing which is cast out of a ship when in danger,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062809-3422 | FLOUNDER, Fluke, or But. See Ichthyology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062810-3422 | FLOUR, the meal of wheat-corn, finely ground and sifted. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062811-3422 | FLOUR, St, an arrondissement of the department of Cantal, in France, extending over 660 square miles. It Ģ divided into six cantons and eighty-two communes, and contains 65,079 inhabitants. The capital is a city built on a hill of basalt, 300 feet high, and only accessible on one side, at the foot of which flows the ri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062901-3435 | FLOWER (Flos'), among botanists and gardeners, the most beautiful part of trees and plants, containing the organs or parts of fructification. Flowers were in great request at the entertainments of the ancients, being provided by the master of the feast, and brought in before the second course; or, as some think, at the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-062902-3435 | FLUDD, Robert (called in Latin De Fluctibus), a person of some celebrity in his time, was the son of Sir Thomas Fludd. treasurer of war to Queen Elizabeth in France and the Low Countries, and was born at Milgate, Kent, in the year 1574. He received his education at St John’s College, Oxford, and afterwards spent six ye... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-063001-3448 | FLUENT, or Flowing Quantity. See Fluxions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-063002-3448 | FLUID, an appellation given to all bodies, the particles of which easily yield to the least pressure or force impressed. See Hydrodynamics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-063003-3448 | FLUTE, an instrument of music, the simplest of all those of the wind kind. It is played on by blowing it with the mouth; and the tones or notes are changed by stopping and opening the ventiges arranged along its side. There is a very ancient instrument. It was at first called the flute a bec, from bee, an old Gaulish w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-063004-3448 | FLUX, in Medicine, an extraordinary issue or evacuation of some humour. Fluxes are of different kinds and variously denominated, according to their seats or the humours thus voided; as a flux of the belly, uterine flux, hepatic flux, salival flux, and the like. See Medicine. Flux, in Hydrography, a regular periodical m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-063101-3461 | FLUXIONS.
INTRODUCTION.
The calculus of fluxions, the most important addition that ever was made to the fabric of abstract science, was invented in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Considered as a purely intellectual speculation, it far transcends any theory that had been previously known in pure mathemati... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-070901-4475 | FLY, a term usually applied to two-winged insects. See Diptera, in Entomology, Index. Fly, in Mechanics, a cross with leaden weights at its ends; or rather, a heavy wheel at right angles to the axis of a windlass, jack, or the like, by means of which the force of the power, whatever it be, is not only preserved, but eq... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-070902-4475 | FLYERS, the performers in a celebrated exhibition amongst the Mexicans, made on certain great festivals, which are described by Clavigero in his history of that people. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-070903-4475 | FLYING, the progressive motion of a bird, or other winged animal, through the air.
The parts of birds chiefly concerned in flying are the wings and tail; by the former the bird sustains and wafts itself along, and by the latter it is assisted in ascending and descending, keeping its body poised and upright, and obviat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-070904-4475 | FOAL, or Colt and Filly, the young of the horse kind. The word colt, among dealers, is understood of the male, and filly of the female. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-070905-4475 | FOCHAN, a town of China, near Canton, situated on the banks of the river on which the city stands, and extending three miles along the river in a single row of large well-built houses. It has a temple and two custom-houses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-070906-4475 | FOCUS, in Geometry and Conic Sections, is applied to certain points in the parabola, ellipsis, and hyperbola, where the rays reflected from all parts of these curves meet.
Focus, in Optics, a point in which meet any number of rays, after being reflected or refracted. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-070907-4475 | FODDER, any kind of meat for horses or other cattle. In some places, hay and straw mingled together is peculiarly denominated fodder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-070908-4475 | FOENUS Nauticum. Where money was lent to a merchant to be employed in a beneficial trade, on condition of being repaid with extraordinary interest, in case such voyage was safely performed, the agreement was sometimes called fan us ņauticum, sometimes usura maritima. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-070909-4475 | FOETOR, in Medicine, foetid effluvia arising from the body, or any part thereof. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-070910-4475 | FOETUS, the young of all viviparous aftimals whilst in the womb, and of oviparous animals before being hatched. The name is transferred by botanists to the embryons of vegetables. See Anatomy.
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kp-eb0709-071001-4488 | FOG, or Mist, signifies the gross vapours floating near the surface of the earth. See Meteorology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071002-4488 | FOGARAS, a market-town situated on the river Alt, in Hungary, the chief place of a district of the same name, in the division of the Seven Mountains. It contains a Catholic, a Lutheran, a Reformed, and two Greek churches, and 3200 inhabitants. Long. 24. 55. 9. E. Lat. 45. 48. 47. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071003-4488 | FOGGIA, a city of the kingdom of Naples, the capital of the province Capilanata. It stands on an extensive plain, where several roads from the interior meet. It is extensive, has broad streets, and is surrounded with walls. It has several large fairs and markets, upon which the prosperity of the city chiefly depends. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071004-4488 | FOHR, or Fora, an island belonging to the kingdom of Denmark, in the German Ocean, near the mouth of the river Illwe. It extends in north latitude from 54. 41. to 54. 46. and in east longitude from 8. 19. to 8. 31. It contains one market-town, called Westerlandfohr, and sixteen villages, forming sixteen parishes, and i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071005-4488 | FOIBLE, a French term, frequently used in our own language. It literally signifies weak, and in that sense is applied to the body and its parts, as foible reins, foible sight, and the like. It is derived from the Italian βevol<∙, which again is the Latin flebilis, to be lamented or pitied. But it is chiefly used with u... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071006-4488 | FOIL, in fencing, denotes a blunt sword, having a button at the end covered with leather, which is used in learning the art of fencing. See Fencing. Foil, amongst glass-grinders, a sheet of tin, with quicksilver, or the like, laid on the bačk of a looking-glass, to make it reflect.
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kp-eb0709-071007-4488 | FOIX, an arrondissement in the department of Arriège, in France, extending over 803 square miles. It is divided into eight cantons and 104 communes, inhabited by 78,280 individuals. The chief place, which gives name to the circle, is situated in a wide and fruitful valley, on the left bank of the Arriège. It is old and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 2' N 1 30' E | FOIX |
kp-eb0709-071008-4488 | FOKIEN, a large province of China. On the north it is bounded by the province of Tche-kiang, on the east by the Chinese Sea, on the south by Quang-tong, and on the west by Kiang-si. It comprehends under its jurisdiction the Pang-hon or Piscadore Islands, and also the island of Formosa. It has a fertile soil, and an agr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071009-4488 | FOKSCHANI, a city of Wallachia, in the circle Slam Rimnick, situated on the rivei∙ Milkow. It contains fourteen churches and a monastery, with 4000 inhabitants, who trade in corn and cattle largely, and produce some good wine. Long. 26. 57. 25. E. Lat. 45. 38. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 38' 50" N 26 57' 25" E | FOKSCHANI |
kp-eb0709-071010-4488 | FOLARD, Jean-Charles de, a distinguished French officer and military writer, descended of a noble but not affluent family, was born at Avignon on the 13th of February 1669. Even in his infancy he evinced a strong predilection for the profession of arms; and this inclination was confirmed by the perusal of Caesar’s Comm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071401-4540 | FOLCLANDS, or Folklands. Copyhold lands were so called in the time of the Saxons, as charter lands were called boclands. Falkland was terra vulgi or terra popularis, the land of the common people, who had no certain estate therein, but held it under the rents and services accustomed or agreed, at the will only of their... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071402-4540 | FOLCMOTE, or Folkmote (Saxon, Folcgemote, that is, conventus populi), is composed of folk, populus, and mote or gemote, convenire, and originally signified a general assembly of the people called together to consider of and order matters of the commonwealth. According to Spelman, the folemote was a sort of annual parli... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071403-4540 | FOLENGO, Theophilus, better known by his assumed name of Merlin Cocaio, an eccentric genius, and burlesque poet, was descended of a noble family of Mantua, and born at a place called Cipada, beyond the suburb of St George on the lower lake, in the year 1491.^[1. Folengo, in his verses, has several times mentioned the p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071501-4553 | FOLIATING of Looking-Glasses, the spreading the plates over with quicksilver, after they have been polished, in order to reflect the image. The mode in which it is performed may be shortly described. A thin blotting paper is spread on the table, and sprinkled with fine chalk, and a fine lamina or leaf of tin, called fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071502-4553 | FOLIGNO, a city of the delegation Perugia, in the papal dominion, in Italy. It is situated in a rich and fertile plain, near the river Topino, whence it receives the waters of the Maroggia. It contains eight churches, twelve monasteries, eight nunneries, and a magnificent state-house, in which is a museum of antiquitie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071503-4553 | FOLIO, among printers and booksellers, the largest form of books, when each sheet is so printed that it may be bound up in two leaves only. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071504-4553 | FOLKES, Martin, a philosopher and antiquary of considerable eminence, was born at Westminster, in the year 1690. A Mr Cappel, once professor of Hebrew at Saumur, was his private tutor. When about seventeen years of age he was sent to Clare-hall, Cambridge, where he applied himself to the study of philosophy and the mat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071505-4553 | FOLKINGHAM, a market-town of the county of Lincoln, in the hundred of Aveland and Kesteven, 107 miles from London. It is beautifully situated on the ascent of a hill, which affords a fine prospect over the plains below it. The church has a lofty tower, which is visible at a great distance. A county jail has been recent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071506-4553 | FOLKSTONE, a market-town of the county of Kent, on the sea-shore, in the hundred of its own name, of the lathe of Shepway, seventy-two miles from London. It is a member of the Cinque Ports under Dover, but returns no members to parliament. It is built on the ascent of a steep hill, the foot of which forms the sea beach... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071507-4553 | FOLKLAND, and Folkmote. See Folclands and Folemote. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071508-4553 | FOLLICULUS (from follis, a bag), a species of seedvessel, first mentioned by Linnaeus in his Delineatio Plantarum. It generally consists of one valve, which opens from bottom to top on one side, and has no suture for fastening or attaching the seeds within it.
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kp-eb0709-071601-4566 | FOLLICULI are likewise defined by the same author to be small glandular vessels distended with air, which appear on the surface of some plants, as at the foot of watermilfoil, and on the leaves of aldrovanda. In the former the leaves in question are roundish, and furnished with an appearance like two horns; in the latt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071602-4566 | FÓLLIS anciently signified a little bag or purse, and hence it came to be used for a sum of money; nay, different sums were called by the same name. Thus the scholiast on the Basilics mentions a follis of copper which was worth but the twenty-fourth part of the miliarensis ; the gloss<ε nomic<ε, quoted by Gronovius and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071603-4566 | FOMAHAUT, in Astronomy, a star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Aquarius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071604-4566 | FOMENTATION, in Medicine, is a fluid externally applied, usually as warm as the patient can bear it. The degree of heat should never exceed that of producing a pleasant sensation; great heat produces effects very different from those intended by the use of fomentation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071605-4566 | FONG-HOA-TCHING, a large, populous, and commercial town of Chinese Tartary, on the borders of Corea. It has manufactures of white and transparent paper, fabricated from cotton, which is used in windows instead of glass. Long. 143. 42. E. Lat. 40. 31. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071606-4566 | FONG-TCHING, a town of China, of the third rank, in the province of Pe-tche-li. It is situated on the banks of the Grand Canal, in a fine and fertile country, and is said to be rather in a state of decay. It is twelve miles north of Kiang. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071607-4566 | FONG-YANG, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Kiang-nang. It is situated on a mountain, near the Yellow River; and being the birth-place of one of the Chinese emperors, he resolved to embellish the city, and render it the seat of government. But he afterwards transferred the seat of government to Na... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071608-4566 | FONT, among ecclesiastical writers, a large basin, in which water is kept for baptizing infants or other persons.
Font, in the art of printing, denotes a complete assortment of letters, accents, &c. used in printing. See Fount. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071609-4566 | FONTAINE, Jean de La, a celebrated French poet, was born at Château-Thierry, in Champagne, on the 8th of July 1621. At the age of nineteen he entered into the congregation of the Oratory, but quitted it about eighteen months afterwards. He was twenty-two years of age before he knew his own talents for poetry; but heari... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071701-4579 | FONTAINES, Pierre-Francois Gyot Des, a French critic, the son of a councillor in the parliament of Rouen, was born in that city on the 18th December 1685, and terminated his career at Paris on the 16th December 1745. At the age of fifteen he entered into the society of the Jesuits, where he received orders; and at thir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071702-4579 | FONTANA, Felix, a distinguished physiologist and experimental philosopher, was born at Pomarolo, a little town in the Tyrol, on the 15th April 1730.
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redo, and continued them in the schools of Verona and Parma, and afterwards in the universities of Padua and Bolog... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071901-4605 | FONTENAY, an arrondissement of the department of Vendée, in France, extending 1116 square miles. It is divided into eleven cantons, and subdivided into 161 communes, and contains 117,524 houses. The capital is a city called Fontenay Le Comte, situated in a valley through which the Vendée runs. It is an ill-built, old-f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-071902-4605 | FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de, was born at Rouen on the 11th February 1657, and died at Paris on the 9th January 1757. It was during this interval of time, comprehending an entire century, that the greatest writers France has produced commenced or terminated their career; and amongst these illustrious men, who were ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-072001-4618 | FONTENOY, a village of the Netherlands, in the province of Hennegau, and circle of Tournay, containing 580 inhabitants. It is memorable for the battle fought there in 1745, in which the allies commanded by the Duke of Cumberland were defeated by the French under Marshal Saxe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-072002-4618 | FONTEVRAUD, or Fontrvraux, Order of, in Ecclesiastical History, a religious order, instituted about the latter end of the eleventh century, and taken under the protection of the holy see by Pope Pascal II. in 1106, confirmed by a bull in 1113, and invested by his successors with very extraordinary privileges. The chief... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-072003-4618 | FONTINALIA, or Frontanalia, in Antiquity, a religious feast held amongst the Romans in honour of the deities who presided over fountains or springs. Varro observes that it was the custom to visit the wells on certain days, and to cast crowns into fountains. Scaliger, in his conjectures on Varro, supposes that this was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-072004-4618 | FOOD.
Our observations upon this subject may be conveniently arranged as relating to the Selection, Preservation, and Preparation of the various substances which are commonly used for food.
SELECTION.
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kp-eb0709-073601-4826 | FOOSHT, an island in the Red Sea, situated, according to the observations of Mr Bruce, in lat. 13. 59. 43. N. It is described by him as about five miles in length from north to south; and it is low and sandy in the southern part, but in the north rises a black hill of inconsiderable height. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-073602-4826 | FOOT, a part of the body of certain animals, on which they stand, walk, or run. See Anatomy. Foot, in the Latin and Greek poetry, a metre or measure, which is composed of a certain number of long and short syllables.
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kp-eb0709-073603-4826 | FOOTE, Samuel, was born at Truro, in Cornwall, and descended from an ancient and respectable family. His father was member of parliament for Tiverton in Devonshire, and enjoyed the post of commissioner of the prize office; his mother was heiress of the Dinely and Goodere families. Foote was educated at Worcester Colleg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-073701-4839 | FOP, probably derived from the vappa of Horace, applied in the first satire of his first book to the wild and extravagant Naevius, is used amongst us to denote a person who cultivates to excess a regard to adventitious ornament and beauty. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-073702-4839 | FORAGE, in the military art, denotes hay, oats, barley, wheat, grass, clover, and the like, brought into the camp by the troopers for the sustenance of their horses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-073703-4839 | FORBES, Duncan, an eminent Scottish lawyer, and Lord P resident of the Court of Session, was born at Culloden, Itwerness-shire, in the year 1685. His natural disposition inclined him to the army; but, as he early discovered a superior genius, he was induced by the advice of friends to apply himself to learning. Having ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074101-4891 | FORCE, in Philosophy, denotes the cause of the change in the state of a body, when, from being at rest, it begins to move, or has a motion which is either not uniform or not direct. Whilst a body remains in the same state, either of rest or of uniform and rectilinear motion, the cause of its remaining in such a state i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074102-4891 | FORCEPS, in Surgery, a pair of scissors for cutting off, or dividing, the fleshy membranous parts of the body, as occasion requires. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074103-4891 | FORCER, in Mechanics, is properly a piston, without a valve. For by drawing up such a piston, the air is drawn up, and the water follows; and by pushing the piston down again, the water, being prevented from descending by the lower valve, is forced up to any height by means of a side branch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074104-4891 | FORCHEIM, a bailiwick of the circle of the Upper Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over eighty-eight square miles. It contains one city, one market-town, and forty-one villages, with 11,500 inhabitants. It is an undulating country, productive in corn and pasture, and yielding some wine. The capital, of the sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074105-4891 | FORDINGBRIDGE, a market-town of Hampshire, in the hundred of its own name, ninety-two miles from London. It is situated on the river Avon, on the borders of the New Forest. There are some manufactures of printed linen and calico. The market is held on Friday. The population amounted in 1801 to 2335, in 1811 to 2259, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074106-4891 | FORDUN, John, the venerable father of Scotish history, apparently derives his surname from a village in the county of Kincardine, where he is supposed to have been born. He was not, as he has sometimes been represented, a monk, but a secular priest; and in some manuscripts of his history', he is described as a chaplain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074201-4904 | FORDYCE, David, professor of moral philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen, was born in that city in 1711. Having received the early part of his education at the grammar school, he, at the age of thirteen, entered the Greek class in Marischal College, Aberdeen; in 1728 he took the degree of master of arts, and in 174... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074301-4917 | FORECASTLE of a Ship, that part where the foremast stands. It is divided from the rest by a bulkhead. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074302-4917 | FOREIGN, something extraneous, or that comes from abroad. The word is formed from the Latiniores, doors; or forts, out of doors; or forum, the market-place. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074303-4917 | FOREIGNER, the natural-born subject of some foreign prince. Foreigners, though made denizens, or naturalized, are disqualified from bearing any office in government, being of the privy council, or members of parliament, &c. This is by the acts of the settlement of the crown. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074304-4917 | FOREJUDGER, in Law, signifies a judgment by which one is deprived or put by a thing in question. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074305-4917 | FORELAND, or Foreness, in Navigation, a point of land jutting out into the sea.
North Foreland, in the Isle of Thanet, Kent, of which it is the north-eastern point, is the promontory ascertained by act of parliament to be the most southern part of the port of London, which is thereby extended north in a right line to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074306-4917 | FORE-LOCKS, in nautical language, little flat wedges made of iron, used at the end of bolts, to keep them from flying out of their holes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074307-4917 | FOREMAST of a Ship, a large round piece of timber, placed in her fore part or forecastle, and carrying the foresail and fore-top-sail yards. Its length is usually eight ninths of the main-mast, and the fore-top-gallant mast is half the length of the fore-top. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074308-4917 | FOREST, in Geography, a large extent of ground covered with trees. The word is formed from the Latin foresta, which first occurs in the capitulars of Charlemagne, and which is itself derived from the German frost, signifying the same thing. Spelman derives it from the Latin foris restat, by reason forests are out of to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074401-4930 | FORESTALLING, in Law, buying or bargaining for ’ any corn, cattle, victuals, or merchandise, when on the way i to fairs or markets to be sold, before they get thither, with an intent to sell the same again at a higher price. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074402-4930 | FORESTER, a sworn officer of the forest, appointed by the king’s letters patent, to walk the forest at all hours, and watch over the vert and venison; also to make attachments and true presentments of all trespasses committed within the forest. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074403-4930 | FORFAR, a county in Scotland, bounded by the shires of Aberdeen and Kincardine on the north, the German Ocean on the east, the Frith of Tay, which separates it from Fife, on the south, and the county of Perth on the west. It is situated between 56° 27' and 57° north latitude, and between 2° 28' and 3° 22 ’ west longitu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074701-4969 | FORFEITURE originally signifies a transgression or offence against some penal law. The word is formed from the base Latin forisfactura, whence forfaitura and forfaic-tura, and the French forfait. Forisfactura comes from fo-risfacere, which, according to Isidore, signifies to hurt or offend, facere contra rationem ; and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074702-4969 | FORFEX, in Roman antiquity, was a method of drawing up an army in the form of a pair of sheers, and intended to receive the cuneus or wedge, if the enemy should make use of that formation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074703-4969 | FORFICULA, the Earwig, a genus of insects belonging to the order of coleoptera. See Entomology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074704-4969 | FORGE properly signifies a small furnace, in which smiths and other artificers of iron, steel, or other metals, heat these metals red hot, in order to soften them and render them more malleable and manageable on the anvil.
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kp-eb0709-074705-4969 | FORGERY (from the French forger, signifying accudere, fabricare, to beat on an anvil, forge, or form), may be defined at common law to be the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing, to the prejudice of another man’s right; or it is the crime of imitating the subscription of another, adhibiting it to a deed, and p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074801-4982 | FORGING, in smithery, the beating or hammering iron upon an anvil, after having first made it red hot in the forge, in order to extend it into various forms, and fashion it into various works.
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kp-eb0709-074802-4982 | FORISFAMILIATION, in Law. When a child, upon receiving a portion from his father, or otherwise, renounces his legal title to any further share of his father’s succession, he is said to be forisfamiliated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074803-4982 | FORK, a well-known instrument, consisting of a handle and blade, divided at the end into two or more points or prongs. The table-fork did not come into use in England till the reign of James I., as we learn from a remarkable passage in Coryat. The reader will probably smile at the solemn manner in which this important ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074804-4982 | FORLI, one of the delegations of the papal dominion, in Italy, 1232 square miles in extent. It contains six cities, nineteen market-towns, and a great number of villages, [7:9:749]with 150,930 inhabitants. It extends from the foot of the Appennines to the sea-shore, and is watered by several streams descending from tho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074901-4995 | FORLIMPOPOLI, an open city of the delegation Forli, in the papal dominions, in Italy, which, united with Bertinoro, forms a bishopric. It contains 5806 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074902-4995 | FORLORN HOPE, in the military art, signifies men detached from several regiments, or otherwise appointed, to make the first attack in day of battle; or, at a siege, to storm the counterscarp, mount the breach, or the like. They are so called from the great danger to which they are unavoidably exposed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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