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  • ESTUARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ESTUARY

    Æstuarium, in Geography, an Arm of the Sea; running up a good way into the Land. See SEA.Such is Bristol Channel, many of the Firths of Scotland, etc.Estuary, is sometimes also used in Pharmacy, for a Vapour-Bath, Balneum Vaporosum, See VAPOUR, and...

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

  • AVERAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVERAGE

    For gross or common Average to have place, the Author just mentioned, shows, 1°. That something must have been cast into the Sea, and this out of absolute Necessity. 2°. That the Commander have had the Consent of the Owners for so doing. 3°. That it...

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

  • ANCHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCHOR

    an Instrument used at Sea, and in Rivers; to retain and fasten a Vessel by. See SHIP. An Anchor is a large strong piece of Iron, crooked at one End, and formed into two Barbs, resembling a Hook; fastened at the other end by a Cable. See CABLE, etc. The...

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

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Hurricane, and the like. 2 HYDROLOGY, or the History of WATER ; including that of Springs, Rivers, Acida, &c. of Lake, Sea, Ocean, &c. of Tides, Deluge, and the like. 3 MINEROLOGY, or the History of EARTH; 1°, Its Parts, as Mountain, Mine, Moss, Bog,...

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

  • AZIMUTHShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZIMUTHS

    being divided into 360°; for this reason they usually conceive 360 azimuths—These azimuths are represented by the rhumbs on sea charts. See HORIZON, RHUMB, CHART, etc. On the Globe, these circles are represented by the Quadrant of Altitude when screwed...

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

  • ALLIOTHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ALLIOTH

    in Astronomy, a Star in the Tail of the Great Bear, whose Observation is much used at Sea. See STAR. Its Longitude, Latitude, &c., see among the rest of Ursa Major. To find the Latitude, or Elevation of the Pole by this Star. See LATITUDE, and POLE....

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

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

    HYDROLOGY, or the History of WATER ; including that of Springs, Rivers, Acida, &c. of Lake, Sea, Ocean, &c. of Tides, Deluge, and the like.

    • Type: Category

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    pass as any Reflection upon the Poets: A Spice of Madness is not so unreputable a thing as some imagine; and a Man that is seated on that Bench, finds himself in the best Company in the World. Some of the greatest Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, and...

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

  • ABAFThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABAFT

    in the Sea Language, denotes the Stern, or Hind-part of a Vessel ; call'd also AFT. See AFT. The Stern, strictly speaking, is only the Outside ; Abaft includes both inside and out. See STERN. ARRIERE

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

  • ABYSShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ABYSS

    that immense Cavern in the Earth where God collected all these Waters on the third Day; which in our Version is render'd the Sea; and elsewhere the Great Deep. Dr. Woodward has let some Light into this great Abyss, in his Natural History of the Earth....

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

  • AGISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGIST

    on any thing.—In this sense, we meet with Terre ad Custodiam Maris Agistate, i.e. charged with a tribute to keep out the sea. Selden. Mare Clausum—So, Terre Agistate, are lands whose owners are bound to keep up the sea-banks, Spelman.The word is formed...

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

  • ALOOFhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALOOF

    a Sea Term, signifying as much as, keep your Luff: being a Word of Command from him that conns, to the Man at the Helm, to keep the Ship near the Wind, when she sails upon a Quarter-wind. See CONNER, etc. ALOOF

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

  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    in any tournament had no arms, though they were gentlemen. See GENTLEMAN. Such of the nobility and gentry as crossed the sea in the expeditions to the Holy Land also assumed these tokens of honor to distinguish themselves. Before these times, we find...

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

  • ARMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/ARMY

    GENERAL, OFFICER, REGIMENT, etc. See also CAVALRY, INFANTRY, etc. This is to be understood of a land army:—A naval or sea army, is a number of ships of war, equipped and manned with marines, under the command of an admiral; with other inferior officers...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Military art

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

    And these alkaline Matters are in other respects of different Natures. Some, e.g., are merely Earthy; as Quick-lime, Marble, Sealed Earths, etc. Others are Metallic; among which, some have their peculiar and appropriate Acids to act on them, as Gold,...

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

  • AMABYRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMABYR

    a Sea Term, used by a Man of War, to his Enemy; and signifying, yield.—Hence, To strike Amain, that is, to lower your Top-sails. AMABYR

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

  • ACIDITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACIDITY

    and absorbing them with Alkaline bodies. Thus, Minium destroys the acidity of Spirit of Vinegar; Lapis Calaminaris that of Sea Salt, etc. See ABSORBENT, etc. ACIDITY

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

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

    Bottomry, Ajssurance, Pike, &c. Transacted by Company ; as Hans, Steel-yard, East India, Turky, Hamburg, Missisippi, South Sea, Assiento, Register. Colony, Fishery, Factory, &c. At Staple, Fair, Market, Bank, Burse, &c. By Commission, Factor, Broker,...

    • Type: Category

  • ABASINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/navigation/ABASING

    ABASING, literally denotes the taking a thing down, or bringing it lower. In this Sense the Word is us'd at Sea ; where, to abase a Flag, is to lower, or take it in, as a Token of Submission and Inferiority. See FLAG. By an Ordonnance of Philip II....

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

  • ANCHOVYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce/ANCHOVY

    in Matters of Commerce, &c., a little Sea Fish, much used by way of Sauce, or Seasoning. Scaliger describes it as of the Herring-kind, about the Length of a Finger, having a pointed Snout, a wide Mouth, no Teeth, but Gums as rough as a Saw. Others make...

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