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  • ANILhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANIL

    ANIL, in Natural History, the Plant from which Indigo is procured. See INDIGO. ANIL

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

  • AQUAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AQUA

    AQUA, in natural History, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, etc. See WATER. The Word is pure Latin, and supposed to be compounded of a and qua, q.d. from which; alluding to the Opinion that Water is the Basis or Matter of all Bodies. Aqua fortis, is a...

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

  • ALCHYMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCHYMY

    ALCHYMY, or Alchemy, a higher or more refined kind of Chemistry, employed in the more mysterious Researches of the Art. See CHEMISTRY. The Word is compounded of the Arabic Particle of Augmentation, Al, and the Latin Chymia, Egyptian Kenia, or Greek...

    • 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

  • APOSTROPHEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/APOSTROPHE

    APOSTROPHE, in Rhetoric, a Figure, whereby the Orator, in an extraordinary Commotion, turns his Discourse from the Audience, and directs it to some other Person, or thing. See FIGURE. Thus, Cicero, in his Oration for Milo, addresses himself to the Great...

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

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

    ACCESSORY, or Accessary, something that accedes, or is added to another more considerable thing, or arises as a natural Consequence therefrom. See ACCESSION. In this Sense, the Word stands opposed to Principal. See PRINCIPAL. Accessory, or Accessary,...

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

  • AZUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZURE

    AZURE; the blue color of the skies. See BLUE, COLOR, SKY, etc. Azure, in heraldry, signifies a blue color, in the coats of arms of all persons under the degree of a baron. See COLOR. In the escutcheons of noblemen, blue is called Saphir; and in those of...

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

  • ASSISAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSISA

    ASSISA, or Assize, Assize. See ASSIZE. ASSISA CADERE,to fall from the Assize, in Law, is to be non-suited. See NON-SUIT. Assisa Cadit in Furatam,is where the Thing in Controversy is so doubtful, that it must necessarily be tried by a Jury. See JURY....

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

  • ARCANUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCANUM

    ARCANUM literally signifies a secret; and is therefore very pertinently applied by quacks and impostors in medicine, who conceal their ignorance and fraud under a pretence of secrecy. Hence legions of arcana. There are also standing officinal...

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

  • ANNIS SEEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIS%20SEED

    ANNIS SEED, or Aniseed, a medicinal Seed or Grain; produced by an Umbelliferous Plant of the same Name, common in our Gardens. See SEED. It has a sweetish Taste, intermixed with something pungent and bitter: Is reputed an Aromatic, and prescribed not...

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

  • ASSA-FOETIDAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSA-FOETIDA

    ASSA-FOETIDA, or Asa-Foetida, a Gum or Resin,brought from the East-Indies, of a brownish Colour, a sharp Taste, and a very strong, offensive Smell; whence it is also called Stercus Diaboli, or Devil’s Dirt. It is not known from what Plant this Gum is...

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

  • AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE

    AMBLE, Ambling, in Horsemanship, a peculiar kind of Pace, wherein a Horse’s two Legs of the same Side, move at the same time. See PACE. The ambling Horse changes Sides at each remove; two Legs of a side being in the Air, and two, on the ground, at the...

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

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

    ARCUATION, in Gardening, is the raising of trees bylayers. 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....

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

  • AMBARVALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMBARVALIA

    AMBARVALIA, in Antiquity, a Feast, or Ceremony among the Romans; celebrated annually, to procure of the Gods a happy Harvest. See FEAST, etc. At these Feasts, they sacrificed a Bull, a Sow, and a Sheep; which, before the Sacrifice, were led in...

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