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  • AShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AS

    Quadrans, the fourth Part of the As, or three Ounces; Triens, the third Part of the As, which was four Ounces; Quincunx was five Ounces; Semis, half the As, that is six Ounces; Septunx, seven Ounces; Bes, two Thirds of the As, or eight Ounces; Dodrans,...

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

  • AQUEDUCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEDUCT

    Diameter. Blasius has observed, that in the space of twenty-four Hours, Rome received, from these Aqueducts, no less than five hundred thousand Hogsheads of Water: The Aqueduct built near Maintenon for carrying the River Eure to Versailles, is the...

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

  • ARCUATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCUATION

    be begun to lay about Michaelmas following; at which time, if the stools have been carefully managed, they will have shot five, six, or more main branches out of the root, and on every one of these,as many side or collateral branches. These main...

    • 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

  • ASPECThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/perspective/ASPECT

    from meteorological Observations; as, the Semi-Sextile, containing the twelfth part of a Circle; and Quincunx, containing five twelfths.—Lastly, to the astrological Physicians we owe Octile, containing one eighth; and Trioctile, containing three...

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

  • 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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    all their Synagogues, have an ark, or Armory, called Aron; in Memory of the Ark of the Covenant. In this are preserved the five Books of Moses, written on Vellum, with Ink made on Purpose, etc."Tertullian calls this Ark, Armarium Judaicum; whence the...

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

  • 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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    of the volute. See IONIC and VOLUTE. The axis is otherwise call’d cathetus. See CATHETUS. Axis in Peritrochio, is one of the five mechanical powers, or simple machines; contrived chiefly for the raising of weights to a considerable height. See...

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

  • 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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    in comparison to those that are expressly limited by statute; yet is there a means to prescribe against Real Actions, after five years, by a fine levied, or a recovery suffered. See PRESCRIPTION; see also FINE, RECOVERY, and LIMITATION OF ASSIZE. Action...

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

  • ADVENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ADVENT

    obtained. In the Ambrosian Office, there are six weeks marked for Advent; and St. Gregory, in his Sacramentary, allows five. The first week of Advent, in our way of reckoning, is that wherein it begins; but it was anciently otherwise, the week next...

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

  • 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

  • ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND

    the Effects of Drunkenness.Accordingly, Plutarch relates, that Drusus’s Physician, a stout Drinker, took down at every Cup five Bitter Almonds, to allay the Heat and Fumes of the Wine.The expressed Oil of Bitter Almonds, is much used to soften and...

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

  • ARABIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABIC

    speaks much of the Beauty and Copiousness of the Arabic. He assures us it has no less than a thousand Names for a Sword; five hundred for a Lion; two hundred for a Serpent; and eighty for Honey. See WORD, ALPHABET, etc. Arabic Figures, or Characters,...

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

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    The fourth year, the teeth next to these are changed, and no foal's teeth are left, but one on each side above and below. At five years, his foremost teeth are all changed; and the tusks on each side are complete:those which come in the places of the...

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

  • 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

  • ACADEMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMY

    He adds, that the greatest Master Italy ever produc'd, was a Neapolitan, Fignatelli by Name; that La Broue rid under him five Years; Pluvinel nine; and S. Antoine many Years: and that these three Frenchmen fill'd France with French Masters; which till...

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