Cyclopædia
Assuming feet is required, the following 37 results were found.
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ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE
in the Ground, of such height as may equal the height of the Eye. Then, laying prostrate on the Ground, with your Feet to the Staff; if E and B prove in the same right Line with the Eye C; the length CA is equal to the Altitude AB. If some other lower...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE
some overload their Horse with excessively heavy Shoes; which is apt to make him interfere, or strike short with his hind Feet.——Others fold leaden Weights about the Fetlock Pasterns; which are not only liable to the Mischiefs of the former, but put the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Manage
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ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE
it follows, that every Foot square of the Superficies of our Bodies, is pressed upon by a Weight of Air equal to 35 cubical Feet of Water; and a cubical Foot of Water, being found, by Experiment to weigh 76 Pound Troy Weight, therefore the Compas of a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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CROWS-FEEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/CROWS-FEET
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Military art
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AREAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AREA
See Figure and Content; seealso Superficies. Thus if a figure, e.g., a field, be in the form of a square,and its side be 40 feet long, its area is said to be 1600square feet, or contains 1600 little Squares, each a Foot every Way. See SQUARE and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK
here spoke of, we are to understand the Egyptian Geometrical Cubit, equal, according to them, to 6 vulgar Cubits, or 9 Feet. But the Truth is, it does not appear there ever was any such Measure as a Geometrical Cubit either among Egyptians or...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS
volatile, amphibious, Insects, etc. Terrestrial Animals are either Quadrupeds or Reptiles. Quadrupeds have either the Feet cloven, as the Bullock; or entire, as the Horse; or divided into several Toes or Claws, as the Dog, Lion, etc. See QUADRUPED,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALCAICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ALCAICKS
Alcaicks, consists of two Dactyls and two Trochees: As, Exilium impositura cymbae.There is another Kind, consisting of five Feet, of which the first is a Spondee or Iambic; the second an Iambic;the third a long Syllable; the fourth a Dactyl; the fifth a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Poetry
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ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES
Notion. The latter of those Fathers is out of his wits to think how Men and Trees should hang pendulous in the Air, their Feet uppermost; as they must do in the other Hemisphere. And if we may believe Aventine, Boniface Archbishop of Mentz and Legate of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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ALLERIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ALLERION
or Arlerion, in Heraldry, a sort of Eaglet, without either Beak or Feet. See EAGLET. The Allerion appears much the same with the Martlet, except that the Wings of the former are shut, and they are represented, as it were, Passant; whereas the Martlet is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Heraldry
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ASCLEPIADhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCLEPIAD
a Greek or Latin Verse of four Feet, containing a Spondee, a Choriambus, and two Dactyls. See FOOT and VERSE. Such is the Verse, Mecenas atavis Edite Regibus. Or of four Feet, and a long Syllable; the first a Spondee, and the second a Dactyl, after...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARCHILOQUIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ARCHILOQUIAN
a term in poetry, applied to a sort of verses, whereof Archilochus was the inventor. SeeVerse. These consist of seven feet; the four first whereof areordinarily dactyls, though sometimes spondees; the three lasttrochees: for instance;Solvitur acris...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Poetry
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
themselves would have been palpable, and necessarily discovered long ago. Men lived tolerably well without knowing how many Feet a Louse had, or how many Years a Cannon Ball would be in travelling to the Sun. The Refrangibility of the Rays of Light in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Device, Emblem, Rebus, Enigma, &c. And described by Blazon. 47 POETRY, including the Consideration of VERSE ; its Measure, Feet, Quantity, &c. as Hexameter, Alexandrine, Spondee, Iambic, &c. Rhyme, Stanza, &c. Compositions, as Epigram, Elegy. Song,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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TO THE KINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/to-the-king
; and others in recording the Glories of your Reign, in immortal Verse. THE Work I here presume to lay at Your Majesty's Feet, is an Attempt towards a Survey of the Republick of Learning, as it stands at the Beginning of Your Majesty's auspicious Reign....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT
the Habit call'd Cuculla, Cowl ; putting the Pastoral Staff in his Hand, and the Shoes call'd Pedales, or Pedules, on his Feet. These Particularities we learn from the Ordo Romanus of Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury. The Title Abbot has also been...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
breaking; though the Pressure upon them be equal to that of a Column of Mercury 30 Inches high, or a Column of Water of 32 Feet.—'Tis obvious, that no other Cause can preserve such Bodies unchanged, but the equitable Pressure on all Sides, which resists...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT
who reduced Poetry into an Art; marking the Measures and Quantities of the Verses, by the Latins called Pedes, and by us, Feet. —Add that the Share Hemming gives Rabbi Judah of Fez, in completing the Hebrew Accents, is chiefly founded on the common...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND
of Melting-Pots, Tests, Bricks, etc. See FURNACE, and REFINING. The Almond-Furnace, called also the Sweep, is usually six Feet high, four wide, and two thick; built of Brick, and having a Hole in the middle of the Top, eight Inches over;which grows...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AETITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AETITES
to it, seem to be fabulous.It is found underground in several Parts: Near Treves in France, one can scarcely dig a few Feet, without finding considerable Strata or Beds thereof. :It is usually hollow, and has a kind of Core or Kernel in it, which, upon...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Natural History