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  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    Ambergrease, Amber-Grise, Ambarum, a fragrant drug, that melts almost like wax; commonly of a greyish or ash-color, used both as a perfume and a cordial. It is found on the sea-coasts, in several countries; as along the southern and eastern parts of...

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

  • AGRICULTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGRICULTURE

    of colo, I till. Among the Ancients, it is frequently called Georgica. We forbear to say any thing about the Antiquity or Usefulness of this Art. Every Reader's Imagination will supply that Defect. It has been cultivated by many of the greatest Men...

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

  • ANALEMMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALEMMA

    Distance; and in the East or West Points of the Horizon. See PLANISPHERE, PROJECTION, and SPHERE. The Analemma is also used for an Astrolabe; or kind of Instrument, consisting of the Furniture of the same Projection, drawn on a Plate of Brass or Wood;...

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

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

    Year 1300; though others will have it to been known in the Time of Avicenna. Aqua fortis is a Liquor of various and extensive Use.— Aqua fortis is very useful to Refiners for parting or separating Silver from Gold and Copper. See PARTING, REFINING, etc....

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

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    Allegoria, a Figure in Rhetoric, whereby we make use of Terms which in their proper Signification, mean something else than what they are here intended to denote: Or, it is a Figure, whereby we say one thing, expecting it shall be understood of another,...

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

  • DECADAL ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DECADAL%20ARITHMETIC

    by a Series of ten Characters, so that the Progression is from 10 to 10—Such is the common Arithmetic among us, which makes Use of the ten Arabic Figures, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; after which we begin 10, 11, 12, etc. This Method of Computation is...

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

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

    α, and βυθός, I enter, reach - q. d. something impenetrable, or not to be fathomed. In Scripture, the Word Abyss, ἄβυσσος, is used by the Septuagint, for the Waters which God created at the Beginning with the Earth, which encompass'd it round; and which...

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

  • ALEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALE

    Ale is chiefly distinguished from beer, another potable liquor made from the same ingredients, by the quantity of hops used therein; which is greater in beer and therefore renders the liquor bitterer and fitter to keep. See BEER, HOPS, &c. The brewers...

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

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGEL

    mighty Council; a Name, says Tertullian, de Carne Christi. C. V., which speaks his Office, not his Nature.—So the Hebrew Word used in Scripture, for Angel, is also a Name of Office, and not of Nature; ἄγγελος, e.g., Legate, Envoy, Minister: and yet...

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

  • ARBORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARBOR

    the figure or resemblance of root, stock, branches, etc. See CONSANGUINITY, GENEALOGY, STOCK, etc. Arbor is also figuratively used in mechanics, for the principal part of a machine, which serves to sustain the rest. It is also used for a spindle or axis...

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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    which is taken from a Part of the human Body, proportionably larger. But this does not avail, since the same Reason will cause an equal Augmentation of other Animals. —Others suppose the sacred Cubit here spoke of, which was a Hand’s-breadth longer than...

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

  • AShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AS

    etc. Hence, also, the Word As came to signify a whole or entire Thing, or the Totality of any Thing; in which Sense it was used, principally, in Matters of Succession, and signified the whole Succession, or Inheritance. Thus, to inherit ab as, was to...

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

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

    a Name originally given, by the Arabians, to a Salt extracted from the Ashes of a Plant called Kali; and by us Glass-wort because used in the making of Glass. See KALI, and GRASS. Afterwards, the Term Alkaly became a common Name for the lixivious Salts...

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

  • ASPECThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/perspective/ASPECT

    in Perspective, Gardening, etc. See PROSPECT, EXPOSURE, etc. Aspect, in Astronomy, is used for the Situation of the Stars, or Planets, in respect of each other; or certain Configurations, and mutual Relations between the Planets, arising from their...

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

  • ACADEMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMY

    ACADEMY, is also used among us for a kind of Collegiate School, or Seminary; where Youth are instructed in the Liberal Arts, and Sciences; in a private way. See SCHOOL, SEMINARY, COLLEGE, etc. The Nonconformist Ministers, etc. are many of them bred up...

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

  • AUDITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITOR

    a hearer, or one who listens or attends to anything. See HEARING, ATTENTION, and AUDITORY. AUDITOR is also used for several officers, appointed to audit, or hear accounts, pleadings, etc. See ACCOUNT. Anciently the word AUDITOR was also used for judge,...

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

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

    and Carriages. See SERVICE. The Word is derived from the base Latin, Averia, or the French, Oeuvre, Work. AVERAGE is also used in Navigation and Commerce, for the Damage which a Vessel, or the Goods and Loading thereof, sustains, from the time of its...

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

  • ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMIRAL

    Admiratus, Admiralty, a great officer, who commands the naval forces of a kingdom or state; and before whom all causes are cognizable, relating to the sea. See NAVY, SEA, etc.Authors are divided about the origin and denomination of this important...

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

  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    unartful; the second, performed by means of Instruments for the Purpose; and the third by Shadows. The Instruments chiefly used in measuring of Altitudes, are the Quadrant, Theodolite, Geometrical Quadrat, or Line of Shadows, &c. the Descriptions,...

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

  • ACEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACEPHALUS

    of canons of councils, capitulars of princes, etc. against Acephalous clerks, etc. In our ancient law-books, the term is also used for those poor people who had no proper lord; as holding nothing in fee, either of king, bishop, baron, or other feudal...

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