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  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    Company, toward the close of the last century; and kept in their house for some years. It was almost round; measured two feet in diameter, and weighed one hundred eighty-two pounds. The great Duke of Tuscany offered fifty thousand crowns for it....

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

  • ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS

    to the Height of 60 or 70 Inches, and therefore acts with a Force which would keep Water suspended to the Height of above 60 Feet.—By the same Principle, a Sponge sucks in Water, and the Glands in the Bodies of Animals, according to their several...

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

  • ACREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACRE

    or the Latin Ager. Though Salmasius derives it from Acra, used for Agera, a Land-Measure among the Ancients, containing 10 Feet.The Kingdom of England contains by Computation 39,038,500 Acres: The United Provinces 4,382,000, &c. See POLITICAL...

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

  • ALBhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALB

    ALBE, ALSA, anciently called Camisia, a Robe or Vestment of white Linen, hanging down to the Feet; wherein the Roman Priests perform divine Service. The Alb corresponds to the Surplice among us.—It takes its Name from its Colour, albus, white. ALB

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

  • ALLEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ALLEY

    Alley there must always be room enough for two Persons, at least, to walk abreast: So that it must never be less than five Feet in breadth; and there are some who hold that it ought never to have more than fifteen. Counter-Alleys, are the little Alleys...

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

  • ARMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ARMEN

    in Heraldry, is used in respect of Beasts and Birds of Prey, when their Teeth, Horns, Feet, Beak, Talons, or Tusks, are of a different Colour from the rest—He bears a Cock, or a Falcon, armed, Or, etc. ARMEN

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

  • ÆGIPANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ÆGIPAN

    given to Pan, and the Pans. See PANS. The Word is compounded of aix, aigos, Goat; as being represented with the Horns, Legs, Feet, etc. of that Animal. The Ancients also gave the Name Aegipan to a sort of Monsters mentioned by Pliny, Solinus, and...

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

  • AEGIPANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEGIPAN

    given to Pan, and the Pans. See Pans. The Word is compounded of aix, aigos, Goat; as being represented with the Horns, Legs, Feet, etc. of that Animal. The Ancients also gave the Name Aegipan to a sort of Monsters mentioned by Pliny, Solinus, and...

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

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

    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 among the Ancients. ANAPEST

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

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

    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 attaints, given by the toe of the hind-foot upon the sinew of the...

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

  • ABLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ABLUTION

    perform'd by washing the Body, ere they enter'd on Sacrifice. See SACRIFICE. Sometimes they wash'd their Hands and Feet, sometimes the Head, and oftentimes the whole Body : For which purpose, at the Entrance into their Temples were plac'd Vessels made...

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

  • ARENATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARENATION

    among physicians, a kind of dry bathwhen the patient sits with his feet upon hot sand. SeeBath, Balneum. ARENATION

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

  • ACOUSTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICS

    can be made, to the Distance of a Furlong;and that he knows a way of hearing any Person speak through a Stone-Wall three Feet thick. See WHISPERINGPlace, and ECHO.Acoustic Nerve. See AUDITORY NERVE. ACOUSTICS

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

  • ACOUSTICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICKS

    can be made, to the Distance of a Furlong;and that he knows a way of hearing any Person speak through a Stone-Wall three Feet thick. See WHISPERINGPlace, and ECHO.Acoustic Nerve. See AUDITORY NERVE.

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

  • ANACREONTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ANACREONTIC

    but have Anacreontics in Imitation hereof. They are most of them composed in Verses of seven Syllables; or rather, of three Feet and a half, Spondees and Iambus's, though sometimes Anapests,—Hence, Verses in that Measure are usually called Anacreontics,...

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

  • ACATALECTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ACATALECTIC

    ACATALECTIC, Acatalectus, in the ancient Poetry, a Term applicable to such Verses as have all their Feet and Syllables; and are in no wise defective at the End. See VERSE, and FOOT. As, on the contrary, Catalectic Verses are those which end too...

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

  • ANTHROPOCOMORPHITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOCOMORPHITE

    of a too great Simplicity, taking everything spoken of God in the Scriptures in a literal Sense, imagined He had real Hands, Feet, etc. The Passage they chiefly insisted on, was that in Genesis, where it is said that God made Man after His own Image....

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