Cyclopædia
Assuming sea is required, the following 49 results were found.
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AZIMUTHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/AZIMUTH
10 or 15 degrees high, either in the forenoon or afternoon. See AZIMUTH COMPASS. AZIMUTH COMPASS is an instrument used at sea for finding the sun’s magnetical azimuth. See MAGNETICAL AZIMUTH. The description and use of the azimuth compass, see under the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Astronomy
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ALOETICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALOETICS
is the chief and fundamental Ingredient. See ALOES. The Word is formed of aloes, which is further derived from alas, the Sea, or Salt; that Plant being chiefly found near the Sea-Coasts. ALOETICS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ABLUTION
that Solomon plac'd at the Entry into the Temple which he erected to the true God, a great Laver, which the Holy Text calls a Sea of Brass, where the Priests wash'd themselves before they offer'd Sacrifice ; having beforehand sanctify'd rhe Water, by...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ARMAMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMAMENT
a large Body of Forces, raised and provided with the Furniture of War, either for Land or Sea Service. See ARMY. ARMAMENT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASSURANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSURANCE
whereby one or more Persons oblige themselves to make good any Damages which a Ship, a House, or the like, may undergo, by Sea, Fire, or the like Dangers.—The Nature and Laws hereof see under the Article of Policy of Assurance. We have several Offices...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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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
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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
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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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CHERSONESUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/CHERSONESUS
CHERSONESUS, in Geography, a Peninsula; or a Continent almost incompass'd round with the Sea, only joining to the main Land by a narrow Neck, or Isthmus. See PENINSULA. This Term is us'd by the Moderns, in Complaisance to the Antients, who call'd all...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography