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  • Physicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics

    PHYSICS, or the Doctrine of CAUSES; as Nature, Law, &c. Occasions or Means, as Principle, Matter, Form, &c. Their Composition or Constitution, in Element, Atom, Particle, Body. Chaos, World, Universe, Space, Vacuum, &c. Properties of Body, as...

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  • ADVOWhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOW

    or Avow, Advocare, in law, to justify or maintain an act formerly done. Thus, if one takes a distress for rent, or other thing, and he that is distressed sues a replevin; the distressor, justifying or maintaining the act, is said to avow. See DISTRESS,...

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

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

    in Gardening, a straight parallel Walk, bordered or bounded on each hand with Trees, Shrubs, or the like. See GARDEN, WALK, ESPALIER, etc. Alleys are usually laid either with Grass or Gravel. See GRASS-WALK, and GRAVEL-WALK. An Alley is distinguished...

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

  • ALMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMS

    Eleemosynaria, something given out of Charity or Liberality, to the Poor. See CHARITY, ALMONER, &c. The Romanists also extend the Term to what is given to the Church, or other pious Uses.—Hence, what the Church holds on this footing, is called Tenure in...

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

  • APPUIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPUI

    in the Manage, q. d. rest or stay upon the Hand; is the reciprocal Effort between the Horse’s Mouth and the Bridle-Hand; or the Sense of the Action of the Bridle in the Hand of the Horseman. See HEAD, BRIDLE, etc. A just Appui of the Hand, is the nice...

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

  • AUTHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHOR

    AUTHOR, AUTOR, properly denotes one who created or produced any thing; and is applied by way of eminence to the first cause, viz. God—Thus we say the author of nature, etc. See CAUSE, GOD, NATURE, etc. The word is Latin, formed of the Greek, αὐτός,...

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

  • ASSURORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSUROR

    ASSUROR; a Merchant, or other Person, who assures a Ship, House, Life, or the like. See ASSURANCE. Assurors are not answerable for what Damages arise through the Negligence, or other Fault of the Master or Seamen; or even those which arise from any Vice...

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

  • ABACTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABACTOR

    barbarous Latin Word, retain'd in our Dictionaries as a Law-Term, tho never yet naturaliz'd, nor its Idea agreed on. Literally, it imports the same with Abigeus, or as others write it, Abigevus, or Abigens ; form'd of Abigo, I drive away, q. d. a Driver...

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

  • ABETTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABETTER

    or ABETTOR, in Law, one who incites, incourages, or sets another on to perform something criminal ; or some way seconds and assists him in the Performance it self. Thus, they who procure others to sue out false Appeals of Felony, or Murder against Men,...

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

  • AZIMUTHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/AZIMUTH

    in astronomy.—The azimuth of the sun, or a star, is an arch of the horizon; comprehended between the meridian of the place, and any given vertical. See MERIDIAN and VERTICAL. The azimuth is the complement of the eastern and western amplitude to a...

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

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

    among farriers, signifies a knock, or hurt in a horse’s leg; proceeding either from a blow with another horse’s foot, or from an over-reach in frosty weather, when a horse being rough-shod, or having shoes with long calks, strikes his hinder feet...

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

  • ANTIENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIENT

    or Ancient, usually stands opposed to Modern. See MODERN. The Word comes from the French ancien, of the Latin Antiquus. Thus, we say the ancient Architecture, ancient Monuments, ancient Church. See ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE, etc. When we say absolutely, the...

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    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ABOMASUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ABOMASUS

    ABOMASUM, or ABOMASIUM, in Comparative Anatomy, one of the Stomachs, or Ventricles of Animals of the ruminating Kind. See RUMINATING. Beasts that chew the Cud are sound to have four Stomachs ; viz. the Rumen, or Magnus Venter or Stomach, properly so...

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

  • APPENDIXhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPENDIX

    or Appurtenance, a thing accessory to, or dependent on, another. See ACCESSORY. The Term is chiefly used in matters of Literature, for an additional Discourse, placed at the end of any Piece, or Writing; to explain or prosecute something there left...

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

  • AVERMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVERMENT

    in Law, usually signifies an Offer of the Defendant to make good, or justify an Exception pleaded in Abatement or Bar of the Plaintiff's Action. The Word also signifies the Act as well as the Offer of justifying the Exception. Averment is twofold,...

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

  • ALLUSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLUSION

    Allusio, in Rhetoric, a Figure whereby something is applied to, or understood of, another, by reason of some Similitude of Name, or Sound. Camden defines Allusion as a dalliance, or playing with Words like in Sound, but unlike in Sense; by changing,...

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

  • ATTACHINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTACHING

    or ATTACHMENT, in law, the taking or apprehending a person or thing by commandment or writ. See COMMANDMENT and WRIT. The word is formed of the French attacher, to fasten, tie; and that from the corrupt Latin attachiare, of attexere, to weave to; or...

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

  • ASSISTANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSISTANT

    is used for a Person or Officer appointed to attend a principal Officer, for the more regular Discharge of his Function.—Such a Bishop or Priest had seven or eight Assistants. ASSISTANT, ASSISTANTS,are particularly used for a kind of Councillors, or...

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

  • ACROTERIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ACROTERIA

    ACROTERIA, or Acroteres, in Architecture, little pedestals, usually without bases, placed at the middle, and at the two extremes of frontispieces or pediments; and serving to support statues. See PEDESTAL and STATUE. Those at the extremes ought to be...

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

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

    See TREE, NURSERY, etc. This, Switzer observes, is now the general method of raising such trees as can’t be raised from seed, or that bearno seed; as elm, abele, lime, alder, sallows, etc. SeeSeed, Pruning, etc. The first thing here done, is to procure...

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