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  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOCATE

    none are to be named ordinary Lords of Session, except those who have been Advocates, or principal Clerks of Session for five years, etc. In Doctors Commons, the advocates are usually called Proctors, or Procurators. See PROCTOR, and PROCURATOR. In...

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

  • ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER

    otherwise called Attainder by Default, or Attainder by Outlawry, is where a party flies, or does not appear after being five times publicly called in the county-court, and at last, upon his default, pronounced, or returned outlawed. See OUTLAWRY. Bill...

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

  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    the Neck, and Shoulders. See NERVE, VAGUS, &c. In its Ascent towards the Head, it receives Branches from each of the first five Pair of Cervical Nerves, near their rise from the Medulla; and sends forth Twigs to the Muscles of the Larynx, Gula, etc. -...

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

  • ARÆOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARÆOMETER

    N° 262. thus: A (fig. 19.) is a glass bottle or matrass, with so slender a neck, that a drop of water takes up in it about five or six lines, or ⅛ of an inch. Near that neck is a small capillary tube D, about six inches long, and parallel to the neck....

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

  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    not agreed about the number of the judgeswho composed this august court. Some reckon thirty-one,others fifty-one, and others five hundred. In effect, theirnumber seems not to have been fixed, but was more or lessevery year. By an inscription quoted by...

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

  • ARMONIACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMONIACK

    have divers ways of preparing a Sal-Ammoniac, in imitation of this—The common way is by putting one part of common Salt, to five of Urine; to which some add half that quantity of Soot: The whole being put in a vessel, they raise from it by sublimation a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    a Column of Air 27000 Foot high, on which footing the Height of the Atmosphere would only be 27000 Foot, or little more than five English Miles high. See TORRICELLIAN. But the Air, by its elastic Property, being liable to expand and contract; and it...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    Creation, we see extraordinary Instances of long Abstinence.---— 'Tis the natural Course for divers Species to pass four, five, or six Months every Year without either eating or drinking : Accordingly, the Tortoise, Bear, Dormoule, Serpent, Swallow,...

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

  • AMPUTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMPUTATION

    etc. The Method of performing it, in the Instance of a Leg, is as follows—The proper Part for the Operation being four or five Inches below the Knee; the Skin and Flesh are first to be drawn very tight upwards, and secured from returning by a Ligature...

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

  • ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN

    enumerates his Books, to the Number of 400; of which scarce above 20 have survived to our Age: They may be reduced to five Heads; the first, relating to Poetry and Rhetoric; the second, to Logics; the third, to Ethics and Politics; the fourth, to...

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

  • AURORA BOREALIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURORA%20BOREALIS

    which appeared for three nights successively, but by far more strongly on the first—Indeed, in the years 1707 and 1708, five small ones were observed in little more than eighteen months. Hence it should seem that the air or earth, or both, are not at...

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

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

    in an 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...

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

  • AUGURhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGUR

    a college or community, which at first consisted of three persons, then four, and lastly nine; four of them patricians, and five plebeians.—Cicero was of the college of augurs. See COLLEGE. They bore an augural staff, or wand, as the ensign of their...

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

  • CHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce/CHEST

    A Chest of Glass, from 200 to 300 Foot; of Castle Soap, from 2½ to 3 hundred Weight; of Indigo, from 1½ to 2 hundred Weight; five Score to the hundred. CHEST

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

  • ABSURDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ABSURD

    Notions and Apprehensions. See ABSURDITY. Thus, a Proposition would be absurd, that should affirm, that two and two make five ; or that should deny 'em to make four. See PROSOSITION. The Logicians have a way of proving the Truth of a Proposition, by...

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

  • ÆOLIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ÆOLIC

    or Aeolian, in Grammar, the name of one of the five Dialects of the Greek Tongue. See GREEK, and DIALECT. It was first used in Boeotia; whence it passed into Lesvos, and was that which Sappho and Alcaeus wrote in. The Aeolic Dialect throws out all the...

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

  • ATTIREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology/ATTIRE

    of three pieces.—The outer part of the suit is the Floret, whose body is divided at the top, like a cowslip flower, into five parts or distinct leaves. See THRUM, etc. Attire, in hunting, the head or horns of a deer. See HEAD. The Attire of a stag, if...

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

  • CHEVALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CHEVAL

    CHEVAL de Frise, a large piece of Timber pierc'd, and travers'd with wooden Spikes, arm'd or pointed with Iron, five or fix Foot long. Its Use is to defend a Passage, slop a Breach, or make a Retrenchment to slop the Cavalry. 'Tis sometimes also...

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

  • ACROSTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACROSTIC

    and proceeding upwards. Some refiners in this trifling way have even gone to Pentacrostics; where the name is to be repeated five times. See PENTACROSTIC. The name Acrostics is also applied by some authors to two ancient epigrams in the first book of...

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

  • ABLATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABLATIVE

    from which the Notion of Cases is borrow'd, the Ablative is only a sort of Supernumerary, or Supplement to the Cases. The five proper Cases not being sound sufficient to express all the Relations of Things to each other recourse was had to an expedient...

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