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kp-eb0710-022606-6905 | FRAUENBURĠ, a city of the province of East Prussia, in the government of Königsberg, on the Frische Haff, at the foot of a hill on which stands the cathedral of which Copernicus was a canon, and where he was buried in 1545. It contains 195 houses, and 1720 inhabitants. Long. 19. 49. 20. E. Lat. 54. 21. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 21' 54" N 19 49' 20" E | FRAUENBURĠ |
kp-eb0710-022607-6905 | FRAUSTADT, a town of the Prussian province of Posen, the capital of the circle of the same name, with 607 houses, and 6850 inhabitants, who carry on considerable trade in cloth, corn, wool, oil, and timber, and conduct distilleries and breweries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022608-6905 | FRAY literally signifies to fret; as cloth or stuff does by rubbing, or too much wearing. Among hunters, a deer is said to fray his head when he rubs it against a tree to cause the skins of his new horns to come off. Fray likewise signifies a battle, broil, or quarrel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022609-6905 | FREA, or Frigga, the wife of Odin, was, next to him, the most revered divinity among the Saxons, Danes, and other northern nations, during the reign of heathenism. As Odin was believed to be the father, Frea was esteemed the mother, of all the other gods. In the most ancient times, Frea was the same with the Ŗoddess He... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022610-6905 | FREATS, or Freits, a term used in Scotland for il [7:10:227]omeiu, and sometimes denoting accidenta aupematurally unlucky. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022701-6918 | FRECKLES, Lentigines, spots of a yellowish colour, of the size of a lentile seed, scattered over the face, neck, and hands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-022702-6918 | FREDERICK II. king of Prussia, one of the greatest warriors of the age in which he lived, was the son of Frederick-William, then hereditary prince of Brandenburg, and Maria Dorothea, a princess of the house of Brunswick. He was born in 1712, the year before his father Frederick I. mounted the throne of Prussia. The lat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023001-6957 | FREDERICKSBURGH, a post-town of Virginia, in North America, and capital of a county. It is situated on the south-west side of the Rappahannoe, about a hundred and ten miles from its mouth, and filly-seven miles south-west of Washington. It is regularly laid out, well built, and contains eight public buildings and four ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023002-6957 | FREDERICKSHAM, one of the circles into which the province of Finland is divided. It extends over 798 square miles, and contains 25,029 inhabitants. It is on ' the Gulf of Bothnia, and generally a level district. The chief town has the same name, is built on an isthmus between the mouths of two rivers, is fortified, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 60 35' N 26 58' E | FREDERICKSHAM |
kp-eb0710-023003-6957 | FREDERICKSTAD, a strongly fortified city of Norway, in the province of Aggerhuus and bailiwick of Mos. It stands at the mouth of the river Glommen. It contains 420 houses, with 2352 inhabitants, who carry on an extensive trade in deals and in other timber, and are extensively employed in the fisheries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023004-6957 | FREE, in a general sense, is used in opposition to whatever is constrained or necessitated. When applied to things endowed with understanding, it relates in a particular manner to the liberty of the will.
Free Bench signifies that estate in copyhold which the wife, being espoused a virgin, has, after the decease of he... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023005-6957 | FREEBOOTER, or Flibuster, a name given to the pirates who scour the American seas, particularly such as make war against the Spaniards. It is also applied, in a general sense, to robbers and other plunderers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023006-6957 | FREEDOM, in general, the state or quality of being free.
Freedom of a Corporation, the right of enjoying all the privileges and immunities belonging to it.
Freedom of Conscience. See Toleration. Freedom of the WiU, that power or faculty of the mind by which it is capable of acting or not acting, choosing or rejecting... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023007-6957 | FREEHOLD, Frank Tenement (liberum tenementum), is land or tenement which a man holds in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for a term of life. Freehold is of two kinds, in deed and in law. The first is the real possession of land or tenement in fee, fee-tail, or for life; the other is the right a man has to such land or tenement... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023008-6957 | FREEW ILI. Islands, three small islands in the Eastern Seas, discovered by Captain Carteret in 1767, and almost entirely surrounded by a reef, except on the east, where there is a narrow passage that will admit a canoe. Long. 137. 51. E. Lat. 0. 50. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 0 50' S 137 51' E | FREEW ILI |
kp-eb0710-023009-6957 | FREEZE, in Architecture. See Architecture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023010-6957 | FREEZING. See Cold and Congelation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023011-6957 | FREIBERG, a bailiwick in the circle of the Erzgeberg, in the kingdom of Saxony. It is combined with the bailiwick of Grillenburκ, and contains five cities, one markettown, eighty-one villages, with 55,000 inhabitants. It is a mountainous and woody district, watered by the Mulda, the Flohe, and various smaller streams. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023101-6970 | FREIGHT, in Navigation and Commerce, the hire of a ship, or a part of it, for the conveyance and carriage of goods from one port or place to another; or the sum agreed on between the owner and the merchant for the hire and use of a vessel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023102-6970 | FREIND, John, a learned English physician and writer of the eighteenth century, was born at Croton, Northamptonshire, in 1675. In 1696 he published, in conjunction with Mr P. Foulkes, an edition of two Greek orations, one of Aeschines against Ctesiphon, and the other of Demosthenes De Corona, with a new Latin version. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023103-6970 | FREISING, a bailiwick of the circle of the Isar, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over 143 square miles. It contains one city, one market-town, 164 villages, and 151 hamlets, with 16,840 inhabitants. The chief place is the city of the same name on the river Isar. It is a walled town, containing 534 houses and 3900 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 23' 56" N 12 40' 8" E | FREISING |
kp-eb0710-023104-6970 | FREJUS, a town on the shore of the Mediterranean, in the department of the Var, in France. It is in a district rich in citrons, oranges, figs, and pomegranates, but marshy and unhealthy. It was enlarged, if not built, by Julius Caesar, who gave it the name Forum Julii. It has been since celebrated as the landing-place ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 25' N 6 38' E | FREJUS |
kp-eb0710-023105-6970 | FRESCO Painting is a method of painting in relievo on walls. It is performed with water-colours on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry. This species of painting has a great advantage by its incorporating with the mortar, and drying along with it; thus becoming very durable, and capable of resisting... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023106-6970 | FRESHES, in sea language, denotes the impetuosity of an ebb tide, increased by heavy rains, and flowing out into the sea, often discolouring it to a considerable distance, and forming a line that separates the two colours, and which may be distinctly perceived for a great length along the coast. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023107-6970 | FRESNOY, Charles Alphonse du, a poet and painter, was born at Paris in 1611. He was instructed by Perrier and Simon Vouet in painting; but he did not long adhere to Vouet’s manner of colouring; for as soon as he had fixed himself at Rome, he made the works of Titian the models for his imitation. He was, however, more c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023201-6983 | FRET, or Frette, in Architecture, a kind of knot or ornament, consisting of two lists or small fillets variously interlaced or interwoven, and running at parallel distances equal to their breadth.
F ret- Work, that which is adorned with frets. It is sometimes used to fill up and enrich flat empty spaces, but it is mos... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023202-6983 | FRETTS, in Mineralogy, a term used by our miners to express the worn side of the banks of the rivers in mine countries, where they search for the shoad stones or grewts washed down from the hills, in order to trace out the running of the shoad up to the mine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023203-6983 | FREUDENBURG, a market-town, now of the province of Hoya, in Hanover, being, with the canton around it, recently acquired by exchangé with Hesse-Cassel. The canton contains about 4500 inhabitants. The capital has 250 houses and 1560 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023204-6983 | FREUDENSTADT, a bailiwick in the circle of the Neckar, in the province of the Black Forest, belonging to Wirtemburg, extending over 204 square miles, comprehending two cities, three market-towns, and sixty-six villages, with 21,005 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is on the river Murg, contains 299 houses, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 27' 7" N 8 20' 2" E | FREUDENSTADT |
kp-eb0710-023205-6983 | FREYBURG, a bailiwick of the circle of the Treisam, in the grand duchy of Baden, comprehending one city and eighteen villages, with 1650 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is in the Black Forest, on the river Treisam. It contains 980 dwelling-houses and 8535 inhabitants. It is the seat of a university with eig... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023206-6983 | FRIABLE, among naturalists, an appellation given to bodies that are easily crumbled to pieces, such are pumice and all calcined stones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023207-6983 | FRIAR, or Frier, by the Latins called frater, the Italians fra, and the French frire, that is, brother. It is a term common to the monks of all orders, founded on the circumstance that there is a kind of fraternity or brotherhood presumed between the several religious persons of the same convent or monastery. Friars ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023208-6983 | FRICASSEE, a dish or mess hastily dressed in a frying pan, and seasoned with butter, oil, or the like. The word is French, formed of the Latin frixatura, frying. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023209-6983 | FRICTION, the act of rubbing or grating the surface of one body against another. It is likewise called attrition. Friction, in Mechanics, denotes the resistance which a moving body meets with from the surface on which it moves. Friction arises from the roughness or asperity of the surface of the body moved on and that ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023210-6983 | FRIDAY, the sixth day of the week, so named from Freya, a Saxon deity. By the Romans it was called dies | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023211-6983 | FRIDERICA, a fortified city of Denmark, in the province of Jutland, on a promontory on the Little Belt, where a toll is collected on such vessels as pass through that strait. It contains 600 houses, and about 3700 inhabitants. The harbour is only calculated for small vessels, and the commerce is considerable. Long. 9. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 32' N 9 41' E | FRIDERICA |
kp-eb0710-023212-6983 | FRIDSTOL, mentioned, in our ancient writers, among the immunities granted to churches, signifies a seat, chair, or place of peace and security, where criminals might find safety and protection. Of these there were many in England; but the most celebrated were that at Beverley, and that in St Peter’s church at York, gra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023213-6983 | FRIEDBERG, a bailiwick in the circle of the Upper Danube, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over 178 square miles. It contains one city, eight towns, and 111 villages and hamlets, with 14,949 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, stands on the Acha, with 330 houses, and 1871 inhabitants, among whom are ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023214-6983 | FRIEDLAND, a town of the province of East Prussia, in the circle of the same name. It stands on the river Alle, contains 263 houses, and 1916 inhabitants employed in tanning and weaving. It is celebrated for the battle fought near it in June 1807, between the united Russian and Prussian troops and the French. Long. 20.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023215-6983 | FRIEDRICHSBORG, a small city of Denmark, in the northern part of the island of Zealand. It is surrounded with extensive woods, and stands on the border of a lake of the same name. It contains 1600 inhabitants; but is only remarkable for the royal palace built on an island on the lake, which is a fine specimen of the ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023216-6983 | FRIENDLY Islands, a cluster of islands io the Pacific Ocean, so named by Captain Cook in the year 1773, on account of the friendship which appeared to subsist among the inhabitants, and from their courteous behaviour to strangers. Abel Jansen Tasman, an eminent Dutch navigator, first landed on these islands in 1643, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023217-6983 | FRIENDSHIP may be defined a mutual attachment [7:10:233] subsisting between two persons, and arising not merely from the general principle of benevolence, from emotiona of gratitude for favours received, from views of interest, or from instinctive affection or animal passion, but from an opinion entertained by each of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023401-7009 | FRIESLAND, one of the provinces of the Netherlands, bounded on the north by the German Ocean, extending over 1027 square miles, comprehending eleven cities and 337 towns and villages, with a population, in 1835, of 217,882 inhabitants, the greater part of whom are Protestants. It is a low, flat district, below the sea ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023402-7009 | FRIGATE, a ship of war usually of two decks, light built, designed for swift sailing. Frigates mount from twenty to forty-four guns, and are esteemed excellent cruisers. The name was formerly known only in the Mediterranean, and applied to .a long kind of vessel navigated in that sea with sails and oars. The English we... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023403-7009 | FRIGATOON, a Venetian vessel, commonly used in the Adriatic, built with a square stern, and without any foremast, having only a main-mast, mizen-mast, and bowsprit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023404-7009 | FRIGID (frigidue), in a general sense, denotes the quality of being cold.
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kp-eb0710-023405-7009 | FRIGIDITY, in Medicine, the same with Impotence. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023406-7009 | FRIGORIFIC Particles, small particles of matter, which, according to Gassendus and others, being actually and essentially cold, and penetrating other bodies, produce in them that quality which is called cold, or, according to others, merely the absence or diminution of the particles of heat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023407-7009 | FRILAZIN, the name of a class or rank of people among the Anglo-Saxons, consisting of those who had been slaves, but had either purchased, or by some other means obtained their liberty. Though these were in reality freemen, they were not considered as of the same rank and dignity with those who had been born free, but ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023408-7009 | FRINGYBAZAR, a small town of Hindustan, in the Crovince of Bengal, situated on the west side of the Dul-ιsery, near its junction with the Megna. During the height of the rainy season, the inundation here exhibits the appearance of an inland sea. It is thirteen miles southwest from Dacca. Long. 90. 23. E. Lat. 23. 33. N... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023409-7009 | FRIPPERY, a French term, sometimes used in our language to signify the trade or traffic of old clothes or goods. The word is also used for the place where such sort of commerce is carried on, and even for the commodities themselves. The company of frippiers or fripper-ers at Paris formed a regular corporation, of ancie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023410-7009 | FRISI, Paul, a profound mathematician and astronomer, was born at Milan the 13th April 1728; his family had formerly emigrated from Strasburg, and was established at Milan in an humble station of life.
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kp-eb0710-023601-7035 | FRISII, a people who dwelt on the east bank of the Rhine, near its mouth, occupying, as far as the scanty notices of them will allow us to determine, West Friesland, Gröningen, and the north part of Upper Yssel; also the islands which lie to the north, and those which are formed by the mouths of the Rhine. Tacitus divi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023602-7035 | FRIT, or Fκιττ, in the glass manufacture, is the matter or ingredients of which glass is to be manufactured when they have been calcined or baked in a furnace.
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kp-eb0710-023701-7048 | FRITZLAR, one of the provinces into which the prin∙ cipality of Hesse-Cassel is divided. It extends over 136 square miles, comprehends four cities, twenty-five villages, and thirteen hamlets, with 15,328 inhabitants. It is generally a fertile district, depending on agriculture chiefly, which yields corn nearly equal to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023702-7048 | FRIZE, or Freeze, in Commerce, a kind of woollen cloth or stuff for winter wear, being frized or knapt on one side; whence, in all probability, it derives its name. Of frizes some are crossed,' others not crossed; the former are chiefly of English manufacture, the latter of Irish. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023703-7048 | FRIZING of Cloth. See Woollen Manufacture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023704-7048 | FROBENIUS, John, a distinguished printer in the sixteenth century, was born at Hamelburg in Franconia, and settled at Basil. He had before studied in that university, where he acquired a reputation for great learning; and having set up a printing-house in that city, he was the first of the German printers who brought t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023705-7048 | FROBISHER, or Forbisher, Sir Martin, a celebrated navigator and naval officer, was born near Doncaster in Yorkshire, about the middle of the sixteenth century, and was from his youth brought up to navigation. He was the first Englishman who attempted to find a north-west passage to China; and to put this design into ex... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023706-7048 | FRODSHAM, a market-town of the county of Chester, in the hundred of Eddesbury, 191 miles from London. It stands on a plain on the banks of the river Weaver, by which, through the Mersey, it is in water communication with Liverpool. It is chiefly remarkable for its salt-works, where, from rock salt dissolved in sea wate... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023707-7048 | FROG. See Reptilia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023708-7048 | FROME, a river which rises from several springs in the western parts of Dorsetshire, in England, the principal of which is near Evershot. Directing its course almost due west, it passes under Frampton Bridge, washes the town of Dorchester, and falls into a bay of the English channel called Poolhaven, near Warcham.
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kp-eb0710-023709-7048 | FRONDESCENTIA, from frons, a leaf; the precise time of the year and month in which each species of plants unfolds its first leaves. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023710-7048 | FRONT, the forehead, or that part of the face above the eyebrows. The word is formed of the Latin frons ; and that from the Greek pfo>s∕>, to think, perceive; of <pξr,>, mens, the mind, thought. Martinius, to make out this etymology, observes, that from the forehead of a person we perceive what he is, what he is capabl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023711-7048 | FRONTAL, in Architecture, a little fronton or pediment, sometimes placed over a small door or window.
Frontal, Frontìet, or Brow-band, is also used in speaking of the Jewish ceremonies. This frontal consists of four several pieces of vellum, on each of which is written a text of scripture. They are all laid on a piece... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023801-7061 | FRONTIER, the border, confine, or extreme of a kingdom or province. Thus we say, a frontier town, frontier province, &c. Frontiers were anciently called marches. The word is derived from the French frontière, and that from the Latin frontaria, as being a kind of front opposed to the enemy. Skinner derives frontier from... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023802-7061 | FRONTIGNAN, acity of the department of the Hérault, in France. It is on a lake surrounded with an amphitheatre of vine-clad hills, from which the celebrated muscatel wine is made. Much rosin and table-salt is also made. In 1837 the population amounted to 4877. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023803-7061 | FRONTINAS, Sext. Julius, a Roman citizen, who, though not of a noble family, rose by his merits to the highest dignities of the state. He was city praetor 70 a. d. the year that Vespasian succeeded to the empire, consul 74, and the year afterwards proceeded to Britain to act as governor of a restless people. He subdued... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023804-7061 | FRONTISPIECE, in Architecture, the principal face of a fine building. The word is formed of the Latin frontis-picium, q. d. frontis hominis inspectio. Hence also, by a figure, we say, the frontispiece of a book, meaning an ornament with an engraven title on the first page. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023805-7061 | FRONTO, Marcus Cornelius, a celebrated orator, who was born, probably under Domitian or Nerva, at Cirta, a town of Numidia, considerably to the west of Carthage, descended, it is said, on the mother’s side from Plutarch. He soon became distinguished for his eloquence; and having taken up his residence at Rome, he was a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023806-7061 | FROSINONE, one of the delegations of the papal dominions in Italy, extending over 1360 square miles, comprehending eleven cities, nine market-towns, and many small villages, with 123,300 inhabitants. The northern part is a branch of the Appennines, enjoys a good climate, and, though the cultivation is negligently condu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023807-7061 | FROST, such a state of the atmosphere as occasions the congelation or freezing of water and other fluids. See Climate, Cold, and Meteorology. Hoar Frost is simply vapour which has been frozen during the night by the coldness of the atmosphere, and descended to the earth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023808-7061 | FROTH, a white and very light substance, formed on the surface of fluids by violent agitation.
Froth Spit, or Cuckoo Spit, a name given to a white froth or spume, very common in the spring and first months of summer, on the leaves of certain plants, particularly on those of the common white field lychnis, or catchfly,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023809-7061 | FROWDE. Philip, an English poet, was the son of a gentleman who had been postmaster in the reign of Queen Anne. He was sent to the university of Oxford, where he had the honour of being distinguished by Addison, [7:10:239]who took him under his protection. While he remained there, he wrote several pieces of poetry, som... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023901-7074 | FROZEN OCEAN, or the Icy Sea. By this name the ocean is distinguished which bounds the continent of Asia on the north, and which extends towards the north into the unknown regions of the pole, and of which the boundaries on the east and west are calculated to be Nova Zembla and Fohutski Noss. This sea has always been o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023902-7074 | FRUCTESCENTIA (from fructus, fruit), comprehends the precise time in which, after the fall of the flowers, the fruits arrive at maturity, and disperse their seeds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023903-7074 | FRUCTIFEROUS signifies properly any thing that produces fruit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023904-7074 | FRUCTIFICATION of Plants is defined by Linnaeus to be the temporary part of a vegetable appropriated to generation, terminating the old vegetable and beginning .the new. It consists of the following seven parts, vİł the calyx, corolla, stamen, pistillum, pericarpium, semen or seed, and receptaculum. See Botany. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-023905-7074 | FRUIT, in its general signification, denotes whatever the earth produces for the nourishment and support of animals. These may be divided into herbs, grain, pulse, hay, corn, and flax, and consist of every thing which the Latins expressed under the name fruges. Fruit, in Natural History, denotes the last production of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024001-7087 | FRUITERY, a place for keeping fruit; a fruit-house or fruit-loft. A sruitery should be kept as free from humidity as possible. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024002-7087 | FRUMENTACEOUS, a term applied by botanists to all such plants as have a conformity with wheat, in respect of their fruits, leaves, ears, or the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024003-7087 | FRUMENTARII were a species of soldiers or archers under the Western Empire. They are first mentioned in the reign of the Emperor Adrian, who made use of them as a kind of spies. They did not form any particular corps distinct from the rest of the forces, but there was a certain number of them in each legion. It is supp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024004-7087 | FRUMENTATION, in Roman antiquity, a largess of corn bestowed on the people. This practice of giving corn to the people was very ancient among the Romans, and frequently used to soothe the turbulent passions of the populace. At first the number of those to whom this largess was given was indeterminate, but it was fixed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024005-7087 | FRUSTUM, in Mathematics, a part of some solid body which is separated from the rest.
The frustum of a cone is the part that remains when the top is cut off by a plane parallel to the base. It is likewise called a truncated cone.
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kp-eb0710-024006-7087 | FRUTEX, a shrub. Shrubs, according to Linnaeus, make a branch of the seventh family in the vegetable kingdom; and are distinguished from trees, in their coming up without buds. But this distinction is not universal, although it is generally correct with regard to those of Europe. Nature has made no absolute distinction... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024007-7087 | FRY, in Zoology, signifies the spawn, or rather young, of fish. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024008-7087 | FRYBURG, or Freiburg, one of the cantons of Switzerland. It is bounded on the north and the east by the canton of Berne, on the south and west by that of Neufchatel, and on the north-west by the lake of NeuΓchatel.
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kp-eb0710-024009-7087 | FRYTH, John, a martyr to the Protestant religion in the reign of Henry VIII. He was the son of an innkeeper at Seven Oaks in Kent, and educated in King’s College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of bachelor of arts. Thence he removed to Oxford, and was made a junior canon of Wolsey’s College. Not long after he ente... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024010-7087 | FUAGE, in old English writers, a tax of 12d. levied during the reign of Edward III. for every fire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024011-7087 | FUCINUS Lacus, a lake in the central parts of Italy, [7:10:241]to the north-east of Rome, surrounded by a chain of lofty mountains inhabited by the ancient Marsi. Its usual circumference was about forty miles; but there were times when the volume of its waters was much increased, and it enclosed a larger space than thi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024101-7100 | FUCUS, a name given by the ancients to certain dyes and paints. By this name they called a purple sea plant used by them in dyeing woollen and linen articles of that colour. It was very beautiful, but fugitive, and in a short time wholly disappeared. Such is the account given of it by Theophrastus.
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kp-eb0710-024102-7100 | FUEGO, Fogo, or St Philips, one of the Cape de Verd Islands, situated to the west of St Jago. It is chiefly remarkable on account of a volcano issuing from the top of a mountain which may be said in a manner to constitute the whole island. The island is not of great value, there being only a few plantations along the c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024103-7100 | FUEGOS Isle, one of the most southerly of the Philippines, about forty miles in circumference. Long. 123. 25. E. Lat. 9. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024104-7100 | FUEL, in its widest acceptation, denotes all bodies which are combustible, and used in making fires, such as coal, wood, turf, peat, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024105-7100 | FUENTE-RRABIA, a city and fortification of Spain, in the province of Guipuzcoa, at the mouth of the Ðidas-soa, on the frontier towards France. The harbour has a bar at its mouth, which forbids the entrance of vessels except at high tide; and even then those only from forty to fifty tons burden can enter. It was made a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024106-7100 | FUGA Isle, one of the Philippines, about thirty-five miles in circumference, and situated due north from the large island of Luzon or Luconia. Long. 121. 30. E. Lat. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024107-7100 | FUGALIA, in Roman antiquity, a feast supposed by some to be the same with the regifugium, held on the 24th of February, in memory of the expulsion of the kings and the abolition of monarchical government. Others again distinguish the fugalia from the regifuge. And some think that the fugalia was the same with the popli... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024108-7100 | FUGITIVE, a person compelled to expatriate himself, or abandon his place of abode, on account of his debts or misdemeanours. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024109-7100 | FUGUE, in Music (from the Latin fuga, a flight), is a piece of music, either vocal or instrumental, or both, in which one part leads off a succession of notes forming the subject. This is taken up successively by the other parts, and is dispersed through the movement according to the taste of the composer. There are th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024110-7100 | FULCRUM, in Mechanics, the prop or support by which a lever is sustained. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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