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kp-eb0710-024111-7100 | FULDA, a province of the principality of Hesse Cassel, in Germany. It was formerly an independent ecclesiastical state, governed by its own bishop, and was consigned to Hesse by the congress of Vienna. It extends over 880 square miles, and comprehends five cities, 223 villages, and thirty-three hamlets; and the populat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024201-7113 | FULHAM, a large village of the county of Middlesex, in the hundred of Ossulton, four miles from London. It is beautifully situated on the left bank of the Thames, over which is a bridge to Putney in Surrey. The palace of the Bishop of London, and several other houses scarcely inferior to it, with the grounds and garden... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024202-7113 | FULLER, Da Thomas, an eminent historian and divine of the church of England, was born at Aldwinckle, in Northamptonshire, about the year 1608. After receiving the rudiments of education at home, he was sent to Cambridge, where he took the degree of bachelor of arts in 1624. and that of master of arts in 1628, after hav... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024203-7113 | FULLERY, a place where cloths, &c. are fulled. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024204-7113 | FULLING, the art of cleansing, scouring, and pressing cloths, stuffs, and stockings, to render them stronger, closer, and firmer: called also milling. Pliny (lib. vii. cap. 56) assures us that one Nicias, the son of Hermias, was the first inventor of the art of fulling; and it appears by an inscription, quoted by Sir G... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024301-7126 | FULMINATION, in Chemistry. Many chemical combinations are accompanied by a loud report. This is termed fulmination, or more commonly detonation.
Fulmination, in the Romish canon law, is a sentence of a bishop, official, or other ecclesiastic appointed by the pope, by which it is decreed that some bull sent from the po... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024302-7126 | FULTA, a large village of Hindustan, ip the province of Bengal, situated on the east bank of the river Hooghly, twenty miles south-south-west in a straight line from Calcutta, but much more by the windings of the river. It has safe anchorage for ships, where they are protected from the swell of the sea, and where the a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024303-7126 | FULNEK, a town of the circle of Prerau, in the Austrian province of Moravia. It contains 400 houses, and 3045 inhabitants, among whom are many cloth manufacturers. This was the original spot whence issued the respectable Protestant sect of the United Brethren, known in Germany by the name of Hernhutters or Zin-gendorfe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024304-7126 | FUMIGATION, in Chemistry, a kind of calcination, when metals or other hard bodies are corroded or softened by receiving certain fumes for that purpose. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024305-7126 | FUNAMBULUS, among the Romans, was what we call a rope-dancer, and the Greeks schoenobates.
There was a funambulus, it seems, who performed at the time when the Hecyra of Terence was acted; and the poet complains that the spectacle prevented the people from attending to his comedy. Ita populus studio stupidus in funamb... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024306-7126 | FUNCHAL, a sea-port town on the island of Madeira, of which it is the capital. It is situated in the centre of a large bay, the extremities of which are formed by two steep promontories. The city is by no means handsomely built, the only respectable looking houses being those belonging to English merchants. The streets... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024401-7139 | FUNCTION, the act of fulfilling the duties of any employment.
Function is a term used in analytics for an algebraical expression in any way compounded of a certain letter or quantity with other quantities or numbers: and the expression is said to be a function of that letter or quantity. Thus α — 4 X, or ax + 3 x i , ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024402-7139 | FUND, in general, signifies any sum of money appropriated for a particular purpose. Thus, that part of the national revenue which is set apart for the payment of the national debt is called the sinking fund. But, when we speak of the funds, we generally mean the large sums which have been lent to government, and consti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024403-7139 | FUNDAMENTAL, in general, something that serves as a base or foundation for another.
Fundamental, in Music. A fundamental sound is that which forms the lowest note of the chord, and from which are deduced the harmonical relations of the rest; or which serves for a key to the tone. The fundamental bass is that which ser... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024404-7139 | FUNDI, in Ancient Geography, a town of Latium, on the Via Appia, near Cajeta, enjoying all the privileges of Roman citizens, except the right of suffrage and of magistracy. Now Fondi, a city of Naples, on the confines of the pope’s dominions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-024405-7139 | FUNDING SYSTEM.
Under this head we propose, first, to give an account of the rise, progress, and modifications of the Sinking Fund, accompanied with some observations as to the probability of its accomplishing the object for which it was instituted; and, next, briefly to consider the best mode of providingfor our annu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-025701-7308 | FUNEN, an island in the Baltic, which, with the island of Langeland and some smaller islands, forms a province of the kingdom of Denmark, which extends over 1176 square miles. These islands partake, in soil and formation, of the same character as the adjoining continental dominions of the same monarchy. The climate als... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-025702-7308 | FUNERAL Rites, ceremonies accompanying the interment or burial of the dead. The word is formed of the Latin funus, and that of funalia, on account of the torches (Junes cera circumdati) used in the funerals of the Romans. Others, however, derive funus from the Greek φonς, death or slaughter.
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kp-eb0710-026001-7347 | FUNFKIRCHEN, or Pets, a city of Hungary, in the circle of the Further Danube, situated on the river Pecs. It consists of a single street, near four miles in length, on the declivity of a hill by the river side. It is the seat of the civil and military boards which govern the province, of a college, and of several insti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026002-7347 | FUNGI, from βφoγγ‰fungus, the name of the fourth order of the twenty-fourth class of vegetables in the Linnaean system, comprehending all those which are of the mushroom kind. See Botany. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026003-7347 | FUNGIBLES, in Scotch Law, are such things as are estimated by number, weight, or measure, as corn, butter, ale, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026004-7347 | FUNNEL of a Chimney, the shaft or smallest part of the waste, where it is gathered into its least dimensions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026005-7347 | FUR TRADE.
The fur trade in Great Britain, and in most parts of the world, is divided into two distinct branches; namely, one for the preparing of fur for felting purposes, or the manufacturing of men’s hats of various descriptions; and the other for dressing the skins of animals for articles of clothing and ornament.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026801-7451 | FURBISHER, a person who furbishes, polishes, or cleans arms, as guns, swords, pistols, &c. which is chiefly performed with emery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026802-7451 | FURCA, in Antiquity, a piece of timber resembling a fork, which was used by the Romans as an instrument of punishment.
There were three methods of punishing by the furca. The first, which was only ignominious, consisted in a master, for small offences, forcing a servant to carry a furca on his shoulders through the ci... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026803-7451 | FURCHE ’, in Heraldry, a cross forked at the ends. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026804-7451 | FURETIERE, Anthony, an eminent French philological writer, was born at Paris in the year 1620. He first studied law, and was a counsellor of parliament; but he abandoned these pursuits, adopted the ecclesiastical profession, and became abbot of Chalivoi and Cluines. He now composed various works in prose and verse, by ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026805-7451 | FURIES, in pagan antiquity, were goddesses whose office it was to punish the guilty after death. They were three in number, Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, and were described as having snakes instead of hair, and eyes like lightning, carrying iron chains and whips in one hand, and in the other flaming torches; the latt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026901-7464 | FURLING, in naval affairs, signifies the operation of wrapping up and binding any sail close to the yard. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026902-7464 | FURLONG, an English long measure, equal to one eighth of a mile, or 660 feet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026903-7464 | FURLOUGH, in the military language, is a license granted by an officer to a soldier to be absent from his duty for a limited time. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-026904-7464 | FURNACE,
A general name for those contrivances used in the arts and in chemistry, by which an extraordinary degree of heat is generated, much more intense than what obtains in our ordinary fire-places. These are of very extensive use, particularly where metals and minerals are the subjects of manufacture or of examina... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027601-7555 | FURNEAUX Islands, a cluster of islands in Bass Strait, between New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land. The exact number of these islands has never been ascertained. The principal are, Great Island, which exceeds forty miles in length, Cape Barren Island, and Clarke’s and Preservation Islands. There are, besides, several oth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027701-7568 | FURNES, a city of the province of West Flanders, about two miles from the sea, on the canal from Dunkirk to Bruges. It is strongly fortified, and contains 3452 inhabitants. Long. 2. 34. 31. E. Lat. 51. 4. 23. N. It is the capital of a circle divided into four cantons, extending over 266 square miles, containing 76,547 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027702-7568 | FURNITURE, a term in dialling, which denotes certain additional points and lines drawn on a dial, by way of ornament, such as the signs of the zodiac, length of days, parallels of declination, azimuths, points of the compass, meridians of chief cities, Babylonian, Jewish, or Italian hours, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027703-7568 | FURRUCKABAD, a fortified town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, and capital of the district of the same name. The town was built by a Patan colony about a hundred years ago, and is situated about a mile from the western bank of the Ganges. It contains a small citadel, and the palace of the nabob. The streets are w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027704-7568 | FURTH, a city of the circle of the Rezat, in the kingdom of Bavaria. It stands at the junction of the rivers Rednitz and Pegnitz. It contains 1240 houses, and 13,850 inhabitants, of whom 3550 are Jews, which people have here an university with 200 students, two Hebrew printing presses, three Jewish schools, and an hosp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027705-7568 | FURTHCOMING, in Scotch Law, the name of an action competent to any person who has used arrestment in the hands of his debtor’s creditor, for having the subject arrested declared his property. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027706-7568 | FUSAROLE, in Architecture, a moulding or ornament placed immediately under the echinus, in the Doric, Ionic, and Composite capitals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027707-7568 | FUSE, or Fuze, in artillery. See Fusei. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027708-7568 | FUSEE, in clock-work, is that conical part drawn by the spring, and around which the chain or spring is wound.
Fusee, Fuze, or Fuse, is a tube, generally made of very dry beech-wood, and sometimes of horn-beam, taken near the root, which, being filled with a composition of saltpetre, sulphur, and mealed powder, hard r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027709-7568 | FUSIL, in Heraldry, a bearing of a rhomboidal figure, longer than the lozenge, and having its upper and lower angles more acute than the other two in the middle. It is called in Latin fusus, a spindle, from its shape. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027710-7568 | FUSELI, Henry, a celebrated painter, was born at Zurich, in Switzerland, in the year 1741. He was the second son of Gaspard Fuessli, who had obtained some distinction as a portrait and landscape painter. Henry chose to alter the orthography of the family name, and also to place the date of his birth in the year 1745, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027801-7581 | FUSILIERS, Fusileers, or Fuzileers, are men armed with fusils or light muskets. When pikes were in use amongst the French, each regiment had only four fusileers, exclusively of ten grenadiers who also carried muskets. At present, fusils or muskets are universally adopted in all European armies, though some regiments st... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027802-7581 | FUST, John, a goldsmith of Mayence, in the middle of the fifteenth century, and a man not more distinguished for his riches than for his knowledge of the arts, shares with Guttemberg and Schoeffer the glory of having invented printing. Guttemberg is generally considered as the first inventor of this art; and, according... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027901-7594 | FUSTIAN, in Commerce, a kind of cotton stuff, tweelled or ribbed on one side. Fustians should be altogether made of cotton yarn, both woof and warp; but a great many are made, the warp of which is flax, or even hemp. Fustians are made of several kinds, wide, narrow, fine, coarse; with shag or nap, and without it.
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kp-eb0710-027902-7594 | FUSTIGATIO, in the Roman customs, a punishment inflicted by beating with a cudgel. This punishment was peculiar to freemen; for the slaves were scourged with thongs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027903-7594 | FUTTEHGHUR 1 a town of Hindustan, situated on the western bank of the Ganges, three miles from the city of Furruckabad, formerly a very extensive military cantonment, but now occupied by the civil establishment of the Furruckabad district. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027904-7594 | FUTTEHPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, twenty-four miles from the town of that name. It was enlarged and embellished by Akbar, in honour of a celebrated saint, to whose prayers the Emperor Akbar thought that he was indebted for a son. The tomb of this saint is situated on a mountain near the town, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027905-7594 | FUTTOCKS, in a ship, the timbers raised over the keel, or the encompassing timbers which form her breadth and capacity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027906-7594 | FUTWA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, situated at the confluence of the river Pompon with the Ganges, nine miles south of Patna, over which is a good bridge, built of brick. In the year 1574, when the Afghan army was retreating before Akbar, the bridge broke down, and they were mostly either drowned or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027907-7594 | FUTTYPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, within the territory of the Tcynagur rajpoots, and seventy miles north-north-west from Teynagur. Long. 75. 7. E. Lat. 27. 51. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027908-7594 | FUTURE, something to be, or to come hereafter.
Future, or Future Tense, in Grammar, denotes an inflection of verbs, denoting that a thing will be in some time yet to come. See Grammar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-027909-7594 | FYZABAD, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Oude, situated on the southern bank of the river Dewah or Gogra. This city is said to have owed its origin to the nabob Sufder Jung, who, in Í740, erected some temporary houses in an extensive garden at this place. His son Shuja Addowleh, after the battle of Buxar, remov... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028001-7607 | G, THE seventh letter and fifth consonant of our al-ŋî phabet, though in the alphabets of all the oriental languages, the Hebrew, Phoenician, Chaldee, Syriac, Samaritan, Arabic, and even Greek, G is the third letter. The Hebrews call it ghimel or gimel, a camel, by reason of its supposed resemblance to the hump on the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028002-7607 | GABALE, in Mythology, a deity worshipped at Heliopolis under the figure of a lion with a radiant head. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028003-7607 | GABARA, or Gabbara, in Antiquity, the dead bodies which the Egyptians embalmed and kept in their houses, especially those of such of their friends as had died with the reputation of great piety and holiness, or as martyrs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028004-7607 | GABARDINE, from the Italian gavardina, has been sometimes used to denote a coarse frock, or mean dress. In this sense it is used by Shakspeare in his Tempest and Merchant of Venice, and by Butler in his Hudibras. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028005-7607 | GABEL (Gabella, Gablum, Gablagium), in French Gabelle, that is, Vectigal, has the same signification among the ancient English writers which gabelle has in France. It is a tax, but the term has been variously used for a rent, custom, service, and the like. Where it was a payment of rent, those who paid it were termed g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028006-7607 | GABINIAN Laws, in Roman antiquities, laws instituted upon several occasions by persons of the name of Gabinius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028007-7607 | GABINIUS, Aulus, a Roman general, the chief events of whose life are included between his tribunate, b. c. 67, and his death, b. c. 49. He seems to have been of an active, enterprising disposition, but without principle, and ready to prostitute his talents to advance his interest«.
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kp-eb0710-028101-7620 | GABION, in Fortification, is a kind of basket made of ozier twigs, of a cylindrical form, having different dimensions, according to the purpose for which it is used. Some gabions are five or six feet in height and three feet in diameter, and serve in sieges to carry on the approaches, when these have advanced near the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028102-7620 | GABLE, or Gabel End, of a house (from gaval, Welsh), is the upright triangular end from the cornice or eaves to the top of the house. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028103-7620 | GABRES, or Gλvres, called also Gebres, Guebres, Gevres, and Giaours, a religious sect in Persia and India. The lurks call the Christians Giaours, or people of a false religion, or rather, as Leunclavius observes, Heathens or Gentiles; the word amongst the Turks having the same signification as Pagan or Infidel amongst ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028104-7620 | GABRIEL, the name of one of the principal angels in heaven. The name signifies The Strength of God. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028105-7620 | GABRIELITES, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of Anabaptists who appeared in Pomerania in 1530. They derive the 1 r name from Gabriel Scberlinr. who. after hav. mg been for some time tolerated in that country, was at length obliged to remove, and died in Poland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028106-7620 | GAD, a Jewish prophet, the seer or domestic prophet of King David, and his adviser in all matters of importance.
Gad, in Ancient Geography, a district of the Transjordan Palestine, situated between Gilead and the kingdom of Bashan on the north, and the kingdom of the Amorite* on the south, having the Jordan on the wes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028107-7620 | GADES, called by the Greeks Gadeira, an ancient city of Spain, situated on an island of the same name, now Isla de Leon, 750 stadia west of Calpe, the Straits of Gibraltar. It was placed on the western side of the island, being, it is said, founded by a colony from Tyre, 348 years before the building of Rome. It seems ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028108-7620 | GAETA, a fortified maritime city of the province Terra di Lavoro, in the kingdom of Naples. It is a very irregular and ill-built place, with a cathedral, several other churches and monasteries, and 11,000 inhabitants, who subsist chiefly on the coasting trade and the fisheries. The country around supplies good wine, oi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 41 50' N 13 27' E | GAETA |
kp-eb0710-028109-7620 | GAFFAREL, James, a French divine, and learned writer, born about 1601. He acquired great skill in the oriental and several other languages, and was particularly conversant in the cabalistic and occult sciences, which he learned, exposed, and refuted. Cardinal Richelieu made choice of him as his librarian, and sent him ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028110-7620 | GAGA, a small uninhabited island in the Eastern Seas, between the two islands of Waygiou and Gilolo. It has a harbour on the south side of the island, and produces sago and timber in abundance. Long. 126. 40. E. Lat. 0. 18. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028111-7620 | GAGE, in our ancient customs, signifies a pledge or pawn, given by way of secnrity. If the gage perish, the person who received it is not answerable for it, except in the case of extreme negligence.
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kp-eb0710-028201-7633 | GAHRAH, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Sinde, situated on the banks of a salt-water creek communicating with the sea, and navigable for small boats. The surrounding country is barren and sandy; and the dry and parching wind blows up the sand in clouds, so as nearly to blind both man and beast. Long. 67. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028202-7633 | GAILDORF, a bailiwick of the circle of the Jaxt, in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, extending over 148 square miles, and comprehending one city, two market-towns, and 253 villages, with 21,498 inhabitants. It is a mountainous district, better adapted to the breeding of cattle than the growth of corn. The capital, of the sam... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028203-7633 | GAILLAC, an arrondissement of the department of the Tarn, in France, extending over 451 square miles. It is divided into eight cantons and seventy-nine communes, and contains 72,001 inhabitants. The chief place is a city of the same name, situated on the Tarn, which is navigable as far as this town. The ware made near ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 30' N 1 45' E | GAILLAC |
kp-eb0710-028204-7633 | GAIN, the profit or lucre a person reaps from his trade, employment, or industry.
Gain, in Architecture, is the workmen’s term for the bevelling shoulder of a joist or other timber.
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kp-eb0710-028205-7633 | GAINAGE, Gainagium, in our ancient writers, signifies the draught oxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture, for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser sort of Sokemen and villeins.
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kp-eb0710-028206-7633 | GAINSBOROUGH, a market-town of the county of Lincoln, in the hundred of Corringham, and the Lindsay division, 148 miles from London. It is situated on the right bank of the Trent, which divides it from Nottinghamshire, and consists principally of one street running parallel to the river. The tide comes in with more rap... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028207-7633 | GALACTOPHAGI, and Galactopotae, in Antiquity, persons who lived wholly on milk, without corn or the use of any other food. The words are compounded of yαλα, yaaaxro{, milk ∕ φaγut, to eat ; and τornj, from ⅞itiκs, I drink. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028208-7633 | GALASHIELS, a town of Scotland, situated in a parish of the same name, which lies partly in the county of Roxburgh, and partly in that of Selkirk. The town stands upon a low piece of ground on the right bank of the Gala, about a mile above its embouchure into the Tweed. The old village of the same name is now abandoned... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028209-7633 | GALATAEA, or Galathaea, in fabulous history, a sea nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris. She was passionately belovea by the Cyclops Polyphemus, whom she treated with coldness and disdain; whilst Acis, a shepherd of Sicily, “enjoyed her unbounded affection. But the happiness of these two lovers was disturbed by the jeal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028210-7633 | GALATIA, or Galloghaecia, a considerable province in the central part of Asia Minor, the boundaries of which it is impossible to determine with any degree of exactness[7:10:283]. It lay towards the sources of the river Sangarius, being bounded on the north by Bithynia and Paphlagonia, on the east by Cappadocia, and on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028301-7646 | GALATZ, a city of Moldavia, in the circle of Kohur-lui. It is built on the banks of the Danube, is surrounded with walls, and is by far the best-constructed city in the whole principality. It contains seven Greek churches, 1200 houses, and 7000 resident inhabitants, besides nuitie-rous strangers always resorting t o it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 24' N 28 17' E | GALATZ |
kp-eb0710-028302-7646 | GALAXY, in Astronomy, the long white luminous track which seems to encompass the heavens like a coronal or girdle, and which is easily perceivable in a clear night, especially when the moon does not appear. The Greeks coll it yαλαξ<αs, galaxy, on account of its colour and appearance. The Latins, for the same reason, ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028303-7646 | GALBA, Sergius Sulpicius, a Roman emperor, who was born B. c. 3 and died a. ð. 69. He was descended from a family which had first risen to notice towards the latter years of the republic. His father, who was of consular rank, had some pretensions to be considered as an orator; he married Mummia, the grand-niece of L. M... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028401-7659 | GALE, in nautical language, a term of various import. When the wind blows, but not so hard that a ship may not carry her top-sails a-trip, then they say it is a loom gale. When it blows very strong, they say it is a stiff, strong, or fresh gale. When two ships are near each other at sea, and, there being but little win... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028402-7659 | GALEN, Claudius, prince of the Greek physicians after Hippocrates, was born at Pergamus, in Asia Minor, about the year 131. His father was possessed of a considerable fortune, and not only well versed in polite literature, philosophy, astronomy, and geometry, but skilled in architecture. He instructed his son in the ru... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028501-7672 | GALENIC, or Galenical, in Medicine, is the manner of considering and treating diseases, founded on the principles of Galen, or introduced by Galen.
Galenic is more frequently used as contradistinguished to chemical. The distinction of galenical and chemical was occasioned by a division of the practitioners of medicine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028502-7672 | GALENISTS, a denomination given to physicians who practise, prescribe, or write, on the Galenical principles, and are opposed to the chemists.
Galenists, or Galenites, in Ecclesiastical History, a branch of Mennonites or Anabaptists, who adopt several of the opinions of the Socinians, or rather Arians, respecting the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028503-7672 | GALERICULUM was a cap worn both by men and women amongst the ancient Romans. It consisted of skin, which was so neatly dressed with human hair that the artificial covering could scarcely be distinguished from the natural. It was used by those whose hair was thin; and also by wrestlers, in order to keep their own hair f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028504-7672 | GALIANI, Ferdinand, an eminent Italian writer, was born at Chicti, in the Neapolitan province of Abruzzo, on the 2d of December 1728. At eight years of age he was sent to his uncle at Naples, who was then first chaplain to the king. Here he received his elementary education, along with his brother Bernard, who was a fe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028701-7698 | GALICIA, the largest province of Spain, and that which contains the greatest number of inhabitants. It is situated in the north-west corner of the peninsula. On the east it is bounded by Asturias and Leon, on the north and west by the ocean, and on the south by Portugal, from which it is separated by the river Mino. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028801-7711 | GALILEE, once a province of Judaea, now of Turkey in Asia, was bounded by Mount Lebanon on the north, by the river Jordan and the sea of Galilee on the east, by the Chison on the south, and by the Mediterranean on the west. It was the scene of many of our Saviour’s miracles; but the boundaries of the country are not no... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028802-7711 | GALILEANS, a sect of the Jews. Their founder was one Judas, a native of Galilee, from which place they derived their name. Their chief, esteeming it an indignity for the Jews to pay tribute to strangers, stirred up his countrymen against the edict of the Emperor Augustus, which had ordered an enrolment or taxation of a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-028803-7711 | GALILEO GALILEI, the founder of experimental science, was born at Pisa on the 15th of February 1564, being descended of a noble and ancient Florentine family, which, under the surname of Bonajuti, afterwards changed to that of Galilei, had filled distinguished offices in the state. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-029601-7815 | GALIPOLI, a city of Turkey, on the peninsula formerly known as the Adriatic Chersonesus, and the capital of the province of the same name. It is situated on the Dardanelles, at the opening of the Sea of Marmora. It is an open city, and is defended by an old but strong citadel on a height near to it. It contains mosques... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 25' 33" N 26 32' 10" E | GALIPOLI |
kp-eb0710-029602-7815 | GALL, in the animal economy, the same thing as bile. Gall was generally given amongst the Jews to persons suffering death under the execution of the law, to make them less sensible of pain; but gall and myrrh are supposed to have been the same thing, because at our Saviour’s crucifixion, St Matthew says that they gave ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-029603-7815 | GALL, John Joseph, the founder of Phrenology, as it is now called, was descended of a respectable family residing at Tiefenbrunn, two leagues distant from Pforzheim, in Suabia, and born on the 9th of March 1757. His father was a shopkeeper or merchant, and mayor of the village. His parents, who were of the Roman Cathol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 21' 50" N 9 21' 37" E | GALL |
kp-eb0710-029801-7841 | GALLA, an Abyssinian nation. See Abyssinia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-029802-7841 | GALLAND, Antony, a celebrated orientalist and numismatist, was born, in 1646, at Rollat, near Montdidier, in Picardy. His life shows what may be effected by the love of study, firm resolution, and irreproachable morals. By a rare perseverance in his pursuits, Galland triumphed over the caprices of fortune; by the recti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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