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  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    ALKALY, Alkali, or Alkathy, in Chemistry, a Name originally given, by the Arabians, to a Salt extracted from the Ashes of a Plant called Kali; and by us Glass-wort because used in the making of Glass. See KALI, and GRASS. Afterwards, the Term Alkaly...

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

  • ARTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ARTERY

    ARTERY,Arteria, in Anatomy, a hollow fistulous Canal, appointed to receive the Blood from the Ventricles of the Heart, and distribute it to all Parts of the Body, for the Maintenance of Heat and Life, and the Conveyance of the necessary Nutriment. See...

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

  • AQUEOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEOUS

    AQUEOUS, Aquosus, something that partakes of the Nature of Water, or abounds therein. See WATER. Thus, Milk is said to consist of an aqueous or serous, and a butyrous Part. See MILK. The Chemists separate the aqueous Part or Phlegm from all Bodies by...

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

  • ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN

    ALCORAN, the Mahometan Gospel; or the Revelations, Prophecies, &c. of the Impostor Mahomet. See MAHOMETANISM. The Word Alcoran is Arabic, and literally denotes either Reading, or Collection; but 'tis in the first of these Senses that the Alcoran of...

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

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    ANTIMONY, Antimonium, in Natural History, a Mineral Substance, of a Metallic Nature; having all the seeming Characters of a real Metal, excepting Malleability. See MINERAL and METAL. Antimony is what we properly call a Semi-Metal; being a Fossil Glebe,...

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

  • ANIMALCULEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALCULE

    ANIMALCULE, Animalculum, is a Diminutive of Animal; and expresses such a minute Creature as is scarce discernible by the naked Eye. Such are those numerous Insects which crowd the Water in the Summer Months; changing it sometimes of a deep, or pale red,...

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

  • ABUSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ABUSE

    an irregular Use of a thing; or something introduced contrary to the proper Order, and Intention thereof. The Business of Reformations, Visitations, &c. is to correct Abuses secretly crept into Discipline, &c. — Constantine the Great, by introducing...

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

  • ADVERBhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ADVERB

    ADVERB, Adversum, in Grammar, a particle joined to a verb, adjective, or participle, to explain their manner of acting or suffering; or to mark some circumstance or quality signified by them. See PARTICLE, VERB, etc. The word is formed from the...

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

  • ARTERIOTOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTERIOTOMY

    ARTERIOTOMY,in Surgery, etc. the Operation of opening an Artery; or of letting of Blood by the Arteries practiced in some extraordinary Cases. See ARTERY, PHLEBOTOMY, &c.—For the Effects hereof, see Aneurisma. Arteriotomy, is a very dangerous Operation,...

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

  • ALGORISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGORISM

    Specious Arithmetic, or Algebra. See ALGEBRA. Sometimes it is also used for the Practice of common Arithmetic, by the ten numeral Figures. See ARITHMETIC. ALGORISM

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