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kp-eb0709-074903-4995 | FORM, in Physics, denotes the manner of being peculiar to each body; or that which constitutes it such a particular body, and distinguishes it from every other. But Mr Harris uses the term form in another sense, as an efficient animating principle; to which he supposes Ovid to refer in the first lines of his Metamorpho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074904-4995 | FORMALITY, as defined in the schools, is any manner in which a thing is conceived; or a manner in any object, importing a relation to the understanding by which it may be distinguished from another object-Thus animality and rationality are formalities. The Scotists made great use of formalities, in opposition to the vi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-074905-4995 | FORMAN, Andrew, archbishop of St Andrews, Earl of Pittenweem, and of Cottingham in England, one of the lords of the regency appointed by the states during the minority of King James V. of Scotland, legate a latere, primate of all the kingdom of Scotland, and archbishop of Bourges in France, was descended from the famil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075001-5008 | FORMATION, in Philosophy, an act by which something is formed or produced.
Formation, in Geology. See Mineralogy. Formation, in Grammar, signifies the manner of forming one word from another. Thus accountantship is formed from accountant, and this last from account. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075002-5008 | FORMEDON, in Law (breve de forma donationis), a writ that lies for a person who has a right to lands or tenements, by virtue of any entail, arising from the statute of Westminster. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075003-5008 | FORMENTERA, one of the Balearic Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to the crown of Spain. It lies to the south of Ivica, is twelve miles in length, in some parts eight miles, and in others, from great indentations, not more than half a mile in breadth. Its name is derived from the abundant crops of wheat whic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075004-5008 | FORMICA, the Ant. See Entomology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075005-5008 | FORMING is used for the act of giving being or birth to any thing. The word is also simply used for giving figure to any thing. The potter forms his vessels as he pleases. Geometry teaches how to form all kinds of figures.
Forming of a Siege, is the making lines of circumvallation, to fortify the camp, and disposing t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075006-5008 | FORMOSA, a large island in the Eastern Seas, more properly called Tywan. It is about 180 miles in length by 50 in breadth, is distant 100 miles from the south-east coast of China, and lies between the twenty-third and twenty-sixth degrees of north latitude. The Dutch at an early period established a settlement on this ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075007-5008 | FORMULA, or Formulary, a rule or model, or certain terms prescribed or decreed by authority, for the form and mannet of an act, instrument, proceeding, or the like.
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Formula, in Ecclesiastical History and Theology, signifies a profession of faith.
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kp-eb0709-075101-5021 | FORMULARY, a writing containing the form or formula of an oath, declaration, attestation, or abjuration, to be made on certain occasions. There are also formularies of devotion, of prayers, and the like. Liturgies are formularies of the public service in most churches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075102-5021 | FORNACALIA, or Fornicalia, in Roman antiquity, a festival instituted by Numa, in honour of Fornax, the goddess of ovens, in which certain cakes were made, and offered in sacrifice before the ovens. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075103-5021 | FORNICATION (fornicatio, from the fomices in Rome, where the lewd women prostituted themselves for money), the act of incontinency between single persons. Upon this subject we find the following observations in Paley’s Moral and Political Philosophy :—
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kp-eb0709-075104-5021 | FORNIX, in Anatomy, is a part of the corpus callosum in the brain, so called on account of a distant resemblance to the arch of an ancient vault when viewed in a particular manner. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075105-5021 | FORQUALQUIER, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Alps, in France, extending over 369 square miles. It is divided into six cantons and fifty-two communes, and contains 32,411 inhabitants. The capital is a town of the same name, situated on a plain through which the river Laye flows, and which yields wine, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075106-5021 | FORRES, a royal burgh of Scotland, in the county of Moray. It stands on a rising ground, at the distance of three miles from the mouth of the Findhorn, and is neat and well built. The trade carried on here is not very extensive; amongst other articles, straw plait for bonnets is manufactured. In this town there is a fi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-075201-5034 | FORSTER, John Reinhold, a celebrated naturalist and geographer, and an accomplished scholar and linguist, was born on the 22d October 1729, at Dirschau, in Polish Prussia, where his father was burgomaster or mayor. His family was of English descent, and had quitted Great Britain in the time of Charles I.
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kp-eb0709-075401-5060 | FORT, in the military art, a small fortified place, environed on all sides with a ditch, rampart, and parapet. Its use is to secure some high ground, or the passage of a river, to make good an advantageous post, to defend the lines and quarters of a siege, and the like. Forts are made of different figures and dimension... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-076201-5164 | FORT AUGUSTUS, the central fort ο/three such establishments erected for the purpose of overawing the Highlands since the Revolution. It is situated in the centre of a beautiful plain or opening in the hills, in the heart of Inverness-shire, at the western extremity of Lochness, and on the south bank of the Caledonian C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-076301-5177 | FORT GEORGE, a fortress of Scotland, in the county of Inverness. It is an irregular polygon of six bastions, mounted with eighty pieces of cannon, and is situated on the southern extremity of a low peninsula which projects into the Murray Firth, about twelve miles north-east of Inverness. The whole fortress covers an a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-076302-5177 | FORT ST DAVID, a town of Hindustan, on the seacoast of the Carnatic, situated on the river Tripapolore. Three rivers of considerable size all fall into the sea in the space of four miles within the bounds of Fort St David. The Panaur is about 1800 yards to the north of the Tripapolore, and the two streams communicate b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-076303-5177 | FORT WILLIAM, a fortress of Scotland, in the county of Inverness. It is situated on the east side of Lochiel, and the south side of the small river Nevis, where it falls into that inlet of the sea, at the distance of sixty-one miles south-west of Inverness, and twenty-nine and a half southwest of Fort Augustus. It is o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-076304-5177 | FORTALICE, in Scotch Law, signified anciently a small place of strength, built for the defence of the country, and which on that account was formerly reckoned inter regalia, and did not go along with the lands upon which it was situated without a special grant from the crown. Now, fortalices are carried by a general gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-076305-5177 | FORTAVENTURA, or Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands. It is fertile in corn and excellent fruits, and remarkable for its numerous breed of goats and prodigious quantity of goat-milk cheese. For its size and population see the article Canary Islands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-076306-5177 | FORTESCUE, Sir John, an eminent English lawyer in the reign of Henry VI. was descended from an ancient family in Devonshire, though both the time and place of his birth are unknown. He is supposed to have been educated at Oxford, and the great learning displayed in his writings does no discredit to such a supposition; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-076401-5190 | FORTH is the name of the largest river in Scotland. It is first formed of several smaller streams, rising on the north of Ben-Lomond, or flowing from the lakes in the adjacent country. It proceeds easterly in a direct course for above a hundred miles, receiving in its progress the tributary waters of the Goodie, the Te... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-076901-5255 | FORTIFICATION.
Fortification is the art of putting a town or place in such a posture of defence as may enable a comparatively small number of men within to resist, for a certain period of time, the attacks of a numerous army without; x>r it may be more simply defined the art of putting a place in a state to resist the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078301-5437 | FIELD FORTIFICATION.
Field fortification is the art of constructing all kinds of temporary works in the field. An army intrenched, or [7:9:784]fortified, in the field, produces, in many respects, the same effect as a fortress; for it covers a country, supplies the want of numbers, stops the advance of a superior enemy... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078701-5489 | FORTIFIED Island, an island in the Indian Seas, lying off the coast of Canara, about a mile from the land, a little way north from the entrance into Lake Onore. The island abounds in cocoa-nut, palms, and plantain trees, and has plenty of fresh water. It produces the best sort of cari, which is used by the natives in p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078702-5489 | FORTISSIMO, in Music, sometimes denoted by FFF, oτ fff signifies to sing or play very loud or strong. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078703-5489 | FORTITUDE, a virtue or quality of the mind, which is generally considered to be the same as courage, though in a more accurate sense the oue may be distinguished from the other. Courage may be a virtue or a vice, according to circumstances; fortitude is always a virtue. We speak of desperate courage, but not of despera... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078704-5489 | FORTUNA, the goddess of fortune, worshipped by the Greeks and Romans, became particularly celebrated after the triumphs of the latter. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the sister of the Parcae, and the protectress of cities. The sculptor Bupalus represented her with a celestial globe on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078705-5489 | FORTUNATAE Insulae, the name by which the Canary Islands were known to the ancients. The Carthaginians were no doubt acquainted with these islands at an early period, but it was the selfish nature of their policy to confine such knowledge to themselves, for the sake of the commercial advantages to be derived from it. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078706-5489 | FORTUNE (Ttm ), a name which, amongst the ancients, seems to have denoted a principle by which things came to pass, without being necessitated thereto; but what that principle was, or whence it proceeded, they do not seem to have precisely considered. Hence their philosophers often intimate that men only conjured up th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078801-5502 | FORTUNE Islands, two small islands in the Eastern Seas, one near the south-west coast of the island of Sumatra, in long. 90. 25. E. and lat. 1. 35. S.; the other near the north coast of the island of Celebes, in long. 123. 48. E. and lat. 0. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078802-5502 | FORUM, in Roman antiquity, a public place within the city of Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.
Fobum was also used for a place of traffic, and answered to our market-place. These places were generally called for a venalia, in contradistinction to the former, which were cal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078803-5502 | FOSS, or Fosse, in Fortification, a ditch or moat. The word in French is formed from the participle fossum, of the Latin verb fodio, I dig.
Foss, Fossa, in Anatomy, a kind of cavity in a bon¢, with a large aperture, but no exit or perforation. When the aperture is very narrow it is called a sinus.
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kp-eb0709-078804-5502 | FOSSA, in our ancient customs, was a ditch full of water, where women who had committed felony were drowned. Nam et ipsi in omnibus tenementis suis omnem ab antiquo legalem habuere justitiam, videlicet ferrum, fossam, furcas, et similia. In another sense it is used to signify a grave, as appears by these old verses:
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kp-eb0709-078805-5502 | FOSSANO, a city of the province Cuneo, in the kingdom of Sardinia. It is situated on the river Stura, is fortified, and contains a cathedral, five other churches, six monasteries, two nunneries, and 14,000 inhabitants. It is a place of consideration, from its extensive silk manufactures, and from its tanneries. There i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078806-5502 | FOSSARII, in Antiquity, a kind of officers in the Eastern Church, whose business it was to inter the dead. Ciaconius relates that Constantine created nine hundred and fifty fossarii, whom he took out of the different colleges or companies of tradesmen; and he adds, that they were exempted from taxes, services, burdenso... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-078901-5515 | FOSSIL, in Natural History, denotes in general every thing that is dug out of the earth, whether it be native thereto, as metals, stones, salts, earths, and other minerals, or extraneous, as the bones of animals, and the like.
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kp-eb0709-078902-5515 | FOSTER, James, a nonconformist divine, highly celebrated for his pulpit eloquence and erudition, was born at Exeter in the year 1697. At the age of five he was put to the free school of that city, where his progress in the acquisition of grammar was so rapid that his master boasted of him as the most eminent genius in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079001-5528 | FOTHERGILL, Dr George, was born in Westmoreland in 1705, where his family had long possessed a competent estate, which had descended regularly for several generations. After receiving an academical education in Queen’s College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow, he was, in 1751, elected principal of St Edmund’s Hall,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079002-5528 | FOUGASSE, in the art of war, a small mine from six to eight feet under ground, and generally placed under the glacis, or in dry ditches. It is charged with sacks of pθwder covered with earth and stones, and, like larger mines, is fired by means of a saucisson. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079003-5528 | FOUL, in nautical language, is used when a ship has been long untrimmed, so that grass weeds, or barnacles, grow on her sides under water. A rope is also foul when it is either tangled in itself, or hindered by another from running or being overhauled.
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kp-eb0709-079004-5528 | FOUCHENGE, a town of Persia, in the province of Khorassan, twenty-five miles north of Herat. Long. 76. 29. E. Lat. 34. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079005-5528 | FOUL Islands, a cluster of small islands in the Indian Sea, near the north coast of the island of Flores. Long. 121. i.2. E. Lat. b. 9. 8.
[7:9:791] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079101-5541 | FOULA, or Fowla Island, one of the Zetland Isles, lying between six and seven leagues west from the mair land. It is about three miles in length, narrow, and full ol rough, steep, and bare rocks; one of which is so large, and runs up to such a height, that it may be clearly seen from Orkney. This solitary isle, it has ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079102-5541 | FOULAHS, a people of Africa, who inhabit the confines of the Sahara, or Great Desert. The principal of the Foulah states is that within Sierra Leone, and of which Teembo is the capital. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079103-5541 | FOUMART, a species of Mustela. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079104-5541 | FOUNDATION, in Architecture, is that part of a building which is under ground.
Foundation denotes also a donation or legacy, either in money or lands, for the maintenance and support of some community, hospital, school, or other institution. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079105-5541 | FOUNDERY, or Foundry, the art of melting and casting all sorts of metal, such as brass, iron, &c. See Brass-making, and Iron-making; also the article Furnace. Fovndery of Small Works, or Casting in Sand. The sand commonly used for casting small works is at first of a pretty soft, yellowish, and clammy nature; but it be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079201-5554 | FOUNT, or Font, among printers, a set or quantity of characters or letters of each kind, cast by a letter-founder, and sorted. Thus, we say, a founder has cast a fount of pica, of english, and of pearl; meaning that he has cast a set of characters of these kinds.
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kp-eb0709-079202-5554 | FOUNTAIN, a spring or source of water rising out of the earth. Amongst the ancients, fountains were generally esteemed sacred; but some were held to be so in a more particular manner than others. The good effects resulting from cold baths gave springs and rivers this high reputation; for their salutary influence was su... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079301-5567 | FOUR BOROUGHS’ COURT, an ancient Scottish court, so called because composed of delegates from four royal burghs; originally the burghs of Edinburgh, Stirling, _ Berwick, and Roxburgh; but from the year 1348, when ’the two last burghs were in the hands of the English, the burghs of Edinburgh, Stirling, Lanark, and Linli... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079302-5567 | FOUR SADDLE Island, an islandin the Mergui Archipelago, about six miles in circumference, and separated by a narrow strait from the island of St Susannah. Lat. 10. 27. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079303-5567 | FOUR CRAG’S Island, a low flat island, of a quadrangular figure, on the south-west coast of New Holland. Long. 137. E. Lat. 36. 26. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079304-5567 | FOURCHEE, or Fourchy, in Heraldry, an appellation given to a cross forked at the end. See Heraldry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079305-5567 | FOURCROY, Antony Francis de, a celebrated chemist and physician, born at Paris on the 15th June 1755, was the son of John Michael de Fourcroy, by his marriage with Jane Laugier. His family had been long established in the capital; several of them had been distinguished at the bar, and Fourcroy de Ramcourt was well know... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079701-5619 | FOURMONT, Stephen, professor of the Arabic and Chinese languages, and one of the most learned men of his time, was born at Herbelai, near Saint Denis, about four leagues from Paris, in 1683. He studied in Mazarin College, and afterwards in the Seminary of Thirty-three. He was at length appointed professor of Arabic in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079702-5619 | FOURNESS, in Loynsdale, Lancashire, is a tract between the Kent, the Leven, and the Dudden sands, which runs north parallel with the west sides of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and on the south runs out into the sea as a promontory. Here, as Mr Camden expresses it, “the sea, as if enraged at it, lashes it more furiously... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079703-5619 | FOU-TCHANG, a city of China, in the province of Pe-tchc-li, situated on the banks of the grand canal. It is an ancient city, but the gates at the extremities are in a state of decay. It has a bridge of great antiquity, consisting of four large arches and three smaller ones, secured by parapets; the whole of which is cr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079704-5619 | FOU-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, which is celebrated for a magnificent bridge built of stone, with 100 arches, and a double balustrade along the. whole length. The city is governed by a viceroy, and has nine others under its jurisdiction. It is the residence of many literati, and has a good harbour. Fou-... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 4' N 119 4' E | FOU-TCHEOU |
kp-eb0709-079705-5619 | FOWEY, a market-town and seaport of the county of Cornwall, in the hundred of Powder, 239 miles firom Lon don. The harbour, deemed the best on that part of the coast, is formed by the river Fowey, which there empties itself into the channel. There is space and depth of water for 1000 vessels. It has, however, but littl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079706-5619 | FOWL, among zoologists, denotes the larger sorts of birds, whether domestic or wild; such as geese, pheasants, partridges, turkeys, ducks, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079707-5619 | FOWLING, the art of catching birds by means of birdlime, decoys, and other devices, or the killing of them by the gun.
Fowling is also used for the pursuing and taking birds with hawks, more properly called falconry or hawking. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079708-5619 | FOX, in Zoology. See Mammalia.
Fox, John, the martyrologist, was born at Boston in Lincolnshire, in the year 1517. At the age of sixteen he was entered a student of Brazen-Nose College in Oxford; and in 1543 he took his degree of master of arts, and was chosen fellow of Magdalen College. He discovered an early genius ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-079801-5632 | FOX, Charles James, a celebrated statesman and orator, was third son of the Right Honourable Henry Fox, afterwards Lord Holland, and of Lady Georgina Caroline Fox, eldest daughter of Charles, second Duke of Richmond. He was born on the 24th January 1749.
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kp-eb0709-080701-5749 | FRACASTOR, Jerome, one of the most learned men of his time, was born at Verona in the year 1483. Two singular circumstances are related of him in his infancy; one that his lips adhered so closely when he came into the world, that a surgeon was obliged to divide them with his incision knife; and the other, that his moth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-080801-5762 | FRACHES, in the glass trade, are the flat iron pans into which the glass vessels already formed are put when in the tower over the working furnace, and by means of which they are drawn out through the leers, that they may be taken gradually from the fire, and cool by degrees. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-080802-5762 | FRACTION, in Arithmetic and Algebra, a part or division of an unit or integer; or a number which stands to an unit in the relation of a part to its whole. The word literally imports a broken number.
Fractions are usually divided into decimal, sexagesimal, and vulgar. See Algebra and Arithmetic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-080803-5762 | FRACTURE, in Surgery, a rupture of a bone, or a solution of continuity in a bone, when it is crushed or broken by some external cause. See Surgery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-080804-5762 | FRAME, in Joinery, a kind of case, in which a thing is set or enclosed, or even supported; as a window frame, a picture frame, and the like.
Frame, among printers, is the stand which supports the cases.
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kp-eb0709-080805-5762 | FRAMLINGHAM, a market-town of the county of Suffolk, of the hundred of Loes, eighty-eight miles from London. It is an ancient but well-built town, situated on an elevated spot, near to which is the source of the river Ore. There are ruins of an ancient castle, supposed to have been built by the Saxons, the walls of whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-080806-5762 | FRAMMERSBACH, a bailiwick of the circle of the Lower Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over seventy square miles. It contains one city, thirty villages, and 764 scattered single houses, with 4650 inhabitants. The city of the same name is situated on the Lahn, and contains 452 houses, and 2460 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-080807-5762 | FRAMPTON ON SEVERN, a town of Gloucestershire, in the hundred of Whitstone, 108 miles from London. There is here a considerable manufactory of iron and of wire. At high tides the river Severn occasionally floods a large part of the parish. The population amounted in 1801 to 860, in 1811 to 864, in 1821 to 996, and in 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-080808-5762 | FRANCAVILLA, a city of the province of Otranto, in the kingdom of Naples. It is situated in the centre of the province, and surrounded with several small lakes. It contains 11,108 inhabitants, who grow much cotton, and make it into various kinds of goods. It also produces good wine, and has considerable internal trade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-000101-4032 | FRANCE.
IN treating of France, a subject in itself of great magnitude, but one which, in a work like this, embracing the entire circle of human knowledge, can only be delineated in outline, we shall endeavour to observe the same method which was followed in treating of England, and to place before our readers condense... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022001-6827 | FRANCHISE, in Law, is used as synonymous with liberty, and is defined “a royal privilege, or branch of the king’s prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject.” Being thus derived from the crown, a franchise must arise from the king’s grant; or in some cases it may be held by prescription, which presupposes a gran... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022002-6827 | FRANCIS, Philip, an English poet and dramatic writer, but more distinguished for his translations of classical authors than for his original compositions. His father was dean of Lismore, and rector of St Mary’s, Dublin, whence he is said to have been ejected on account of his principles at the Revolution. His son recei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022003-6827 | FRANCISCANS, in Ecclesiastical History, are the members of the religious order established by St Francis in the year 1208. Francis was the son of a merchant of Assisi, in the province of Umbria. After leading for some time a dissolute life, he was reclaimed by a fit of sickness, and fell into the opposite extreme of de... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022101-6840 | FRANCISCO, St, the name of a small island on the coast of Brazil. Its situation is low, and it is watered by various small rivers. On its eastern side there is a narrow lake, ten miles long from north to south, denominated the river Acarhy; and contiguous to it there is another small lake. The town of St Francisco, whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022102-6840 | FRANK Language, Lingua Franca, a kind of jargon spoken on the Mediterranean, and particularly throughout the coasts and ports of the Levant, composed of Italian, Spanish, French, Romaic Greek, and other languages.
Frank, or Franc, an ancient coin, either of gold or silver, struck and current in France. The value of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022103-6840 | FRANKED Letters. See Post Office.
[7:10:222] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022201-6853 | FRANKEN, Franciscus, usually designated OldFrank, a famous Flemish painter, supposed to have been born about the year 1544. Although his works are well known, very few of the circumstances of his life have been ascertained. This master painted historical subjects from the Old and New Testaments, and was remarkable for ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022202-6853 | FRANKENHAUSEN, a city of the duchy of Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, in Germany, die capital of the principality and of a bailiwick of die same name. It stands on the river Wipper, is surrounded with walls, and contains the ducal palace, 630 other houses, and 3100 inhabitants. It possesses a salt spring, from which is made c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022203-6853 | FRANKENSTEIN, a city, the capital of the circle, in the Prussian province of Silesia. It stands on the river Pausebach, 877 feet above the sea, and in 1831 contained 5509 inhabitants. It is a place of brisk trade in cloth, hosiery, tannery, and other articles. It is situated in long. 16. 44. 10. E. and lat. 50. 52. 30.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022204-6853 | FRANKENTHAL, a city of Bavaria, in the circle of the Rhine, and the capital of a small canton. It is situated on a canal which joins the Rhine, is an industrious city, containing 448 houses and 4109 inhabitants, who make silk, linen, and woollen cloths, and other goods, especially excellent porcelain.
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kp-eb0710-022205-6853 | FRANKFORT, the political metropolis of Kentucky, one of the United States of North America. It is situated on the northern bank of the river Kentucky, at about sixty miles above its junction with the Ohio. The environs of the plain upon which the town is built are beautiful, and remarkable for their romantic scenery. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 14' N 84 40' W | FRANKFORT |
kp-eb0710-022206-6853 | FRANKLAND’S Islands, a cluster of small islands on the north-cast coast of New Holland, about six miles from the land. Long. 146. E. Lat. 17. 12. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022207-6853 | FRANKINCENSE. See Incense. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022208-6853 | FRANKLIN, Thomas, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to his majesty, was born in London in the year 1721, and was the son of Richard Franklin, well known as the printer of an anti-ministerial paper called The Craftsman ; in conducting which he received great assistance from Lord Bolingbroke, Mr Pulteney, and other writers, who ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022501-6892 | FRANKS, Francs, Frankis, or Franquis, a name which the Turks, Arabs, Greeks, &c. give to all the people of the western parts of Europe. The appellation is commonly supposed to have had its rise in Asia at the time of the crusades, when the French made the most considerable figure among the crusaders; from which time th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022502-6892 | FRASCATI, or Frescati, a town of Italy, in the papal dominions, about ten miles from Rome. It is near the ancient Tusculum, but not quite so elevated, though sufficiently so to command a fine prospect over the Campagna di Roma. The town has an ecclesiastical seminary, founded by the late Cardinal York. It contains abou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022503-6892 | FRASERBURGH, a small sea-port town in the county of Aberdeen, situated on the point of land called Kinnaird’s Head, which is the southern extremity of the Murray Frith. During the last war a large harbour was [7:10:226]constructed here, to serve as a place of shelter for British ships of war which might suffer from str... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022601-6905 | FRATERNITY, Brotherhood, the relation or union of brothers, friends, partners, associates, and the like.
Fraternity, in a civil sense, denotes a guild, association, or society ofindividuals, united into a body for one common interest or advantage.
Fraternity, in Roman Catholic countries, signifies a society for the i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022602-6905 | FRATRIAGE, the partition among brothers, or coheirs, coming to the same inheritance or succession. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022603-6905 | FRATRICELLI, in Ecclesiastical History, an enthusiastic sect of Franciscans, which rose in Italy, and particularly in the marquisate of Ancona, about the year 1294. The word is an Italian diminutive, signifying fraterculi, or little brothers; and was here used as a term of derision, as most of those who composed the bo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022604-6905 | FRATRICIDE, the crime of murdering a brother. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022605-6905 | FRATTA-MAGGIORE, a city of the province of Naples, in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, containing 8464 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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