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  • ALOOFhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALOOF

    a Sea Term, signifying as much as, keep your Luff: being a Word of Command from him that conns, to the Man at the Helm, to keep the Ship near the Wind, when she sails upon a Quarter-wind. See CONNER, etc. ALOOF

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANCOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCO

    Greeks call Ὠλέκρανον. See OLECRANON. And hence, Anconaeus Muscle, in Anatomy, the sixth Muscle of the Elbow; so called, as being situated behind the Folds of the Ancon or Elbow. It arises from the back part of the Extremities of the Humerus, passes...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANKERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANKER

    MEASURE. The Anker is the 4th part of the Aam, and contains two Stekans: each Stekan consists of sixteen Mingels; the Mingle being equal to two Paris Pints. See PINT, etc. ANKER

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AORTAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AORTA

    distributed thence through all Parts of the Body. See ARTERY and HEART. The Aorta is otherwise called the great Artery; as being the Trunk, out of which the other Arteries all spring; and the great Conduit or Canal whereby the Blood is conveyed...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy

  • AThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AT

    or Ap, in our ancient Customs, signifies as much as old, ancient.—This, being prefixed to the Names of Places, expresses their Antiquity; as Aldborough, Aldgate, &c. AT

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ATAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAXY

    or irregularity of the spirits, when at a loss to account for any disorder in the body. The spirits, Dr. Drake observes, being always at hand, are forced to bear the blame of a thousand things they are innocent of. See SPIRIT. The word is compounded of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AYELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AYEL

    in law, a writ which lies where the grandfather being seised in his demesne the day he died, a stranger enters the same day, and dispossesses the heir. See WRIT. AYEL

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • AZUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZURE

    is also used for a mineral color, prepared from the Lapis Armenus. See ARMENUS. The azure is very near akin to ultramarine; being procured from the Armenian stone much after the same manner as the other is from lapis lazuli. See ULTRAMARINE and LAPIS...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADDICEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDICE

    the common ax. It is made crooked, and by that means more convenient for cutting the hollow side of any board or timber; being what the coopers generally make use of for that purpose. ADDICE

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADONIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADONIA

    offices made two distinct feasts, which were held at different times of the year, the one six months after the other; Adonis being said to pass half the year with Persephone, and half with Venus. The feast was also called Salanebon. ADONIA

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADELINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADELING

    Saxons, properly belonging to the Successor, or Heir Apparent of the Crown. See PRINCE, etc.King Edward the Confessor being without Issue, and intending to make Edgar, to whom he was great Uncle by the Mother’s side, his Heir; first called him his...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARMINGShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINGS

    in a Ship, are the same with Waist-Clothes, being Red Clothes, hung about the Outsides of the Ship's Upper-works, fore and aft; and before the Cubbridge Heads,—There are some also hung round the Tops, called Top-armings. ARMINGS

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALNAGERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALNAGER

    all which were anciently comprised in one Person.—These bear the distinct Names of Searcher, Measurer, and Alnager. A Duty being imposed on woollen Cloths, for the Maintenance of an Office to look to that Manufacture, and the Loyalty, as they call it,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASSAPEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSAPES

    Asappi, an Order of Soldiers in the Turkish Army, whom they expose to the first Shock of their Enemies, to the end that being thus fatigued, and their Swords blunted, the Spahis and Janissaries may fall on and find an easy Conquest. The Asappes are held...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANAPESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ANAPEST

    Syllable. See FOOT. Such is the Word Viceregent. The Word is derived from vice, in place of, and regere, to rule; this Verse being the Reverse of the Dactyl. See DACTYL. Anapestic Verses, i.e., Verses wholly composed of such Feet, were much in vogue...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Poetry

  • ANATRONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANATRON

    Salt, skimmed from the Composition of Glass, when in fusion. See GLASS. When pounded, it yields a kind of Powder; which being dissolved in the Air, or in a proper Liquor, becomes common Salt, after Coagulation. Natron is likewise the Name of a nitrous...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATARAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATARAXY

    The word is purely Greek, compounded of ἀ-, a privative prefix, and τάραξις, disorder; hence, Ataraxia implies a state of being untroubled.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANNULARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNULAR

    the same, much like a Ring. See MEDULLA OBLONGATA. Annular Cartilage, or Annularis, is the second Cartilage of the Larynx; being round, and investing the whole Larynx; called also Cricoides. See LARYNX and CRICOIDES. Annular Ligament, Ligamentum...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANNULEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNULET

    are also part of the Coat-Armour of several Families: They were anciently reputed a Mark of Nobility, and Jurisdiction; it being the Custom of Prelates to receive their Investiture per Baculum & Anulum. See BISHOP, INVESTITURE, etc. ANNULET

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATTAINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTAINT

    horse’s leg; proceeding either from a blow with another horse’s foot, or from an over-reach in frosty weather, when a horse being rough-shod, or having shoes with long calks, strikes his hinder feet against his fore-leg. The farriers distinguish upper...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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