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  • 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

  • ATLANTIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIS

    as far as Egypt, and all Europe to Asia Minor. At length the Island sank under Water; and for a long Time afterwards, the Sea thereabouts was full of Flats and Shelves." The learned Rudbeck Professor in the University of Upsal, in an express Treatise...

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

  • ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS

    simple Principles as the rest. See BITUMEN and SULPHUR. It is found swimming on the Surface of the Lacus Asphaltites, or Dead Sea, where anciently stood the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.—It is cast up from time to time, in the Nature of a liquid Pitch,...

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

  • ANTIDILUVIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIDILUVIAN

    before the Deluge was the same as it is now, viz. unequal, distinguished into Mountains and Dales, and having likewise a Sea, Lakes, and Rivers; that this Sea was salt as ours is; was subject to Tides; possessed nearly the same Space and Extent that it...

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

  • 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

  • ALIENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIEN

    are of Countries at war with us. A Man born out of the Land, so it be within the Limits of the King’s Obedience beyond the Seas; or of English Parents out of the King’s Obedience, so the Parents at the Time of the Birth be of such Obedience, is no...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • DEFORMITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/ethics/DEFORMITY

    when Experience, or Reason has removed the Fear, may become the Occasion of Pleasure; as in ravenous Beasts, a tempestuous Sea, a craggy Precipice, a dark shady Valley, &c.This Association of Ideas makes many Objects beautiful and pleasant. The Beauty...

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

  • ARMONIACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMONIACK

    with several longitudinal clefts; and on these clefts are laid several long-necked glass bottles, filled with Soot, a little Sea Salt, and the Urine of Cattle; well stopped. This done, they cover them up with a body of Clay and Brick, all but the Necks,...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    the Demonstrations of the Mathematicians, say they, the Philosophers too added their Conjectures; and asserted that the Sea made two great Circles around the Earth, which divided it into four parts; that the vast Extent of this Ocean, and the burning...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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