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

    the other, though of greater strength and rate, shall only be accounted Vice-Admiral.It is pretty much the same with the vessels that go to Newfoundland; that which arrives there first, taking the title and quality of Admiral, which it retains during...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    &c. Naval Architecture, or Ship-Building; is that whichteaches the construction of ships, galleys, and other floating vessels for the water; with ports, moles, docks, &c. on the shore. See VESSEL, SHIP, GALLEY, BOAT, &c. see also Mole, Dock, &c....

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

  • ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS

    rising above their own Level between the Surfaces of nearly contiguous Bodies, or in slender capillary Glass Tubes, or in Vessels filled with Sand, Ashes, or the like porous Substance, See FLUID. This Effect happens as well in vacuo as in the open Air,...

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

  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    Angle which the secretory Duct makes with the Trunk of the Artery. For all Fluids press the Sides of the containing Vessels in a Direction perpendicular to its Sides; which is evident in the Pulsation of the Arteries, it being to that Pressure that the...

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

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

    AVERAGE, AVERAGIUM, in Law, that Duty or Service which the Tenant is to pay the King, or other Lord, by his Beasts and Carriages. See SERVICE. The Word is derived from the base Latin, Averia, or the French, Oeuvre, Work. AVERAGE is also used in...

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

  • AEOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEOLIPILE

    AEOLIPILE, Aeolipile, a hydraulic Instrument, consisting of a hollow metallic Ball, with a slender Neck or Pipe arising from the same; which being filled with Water, and thus exposed to the Fire, produces a vehement Blast of Wind. See Wind. This...

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

  • ÆOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆOLIPILE

    ÆOLIPILE, Aeolipile, a hydraulic Instrument, consisting of a hollow metallic Ball, with a slender Neck or Pipe arising from the same; which being filled with Water, and thus exposed to the Fire, produces a vehement Blast of Wind. See WIND. This...

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

  • ALOEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALOES

    Shops. The third is the most impure, the blackest, and the strongest.—It was formerly used by the Indians to pitch their Vessels withal: and is of little Use among us, excepting for Horses and Cattle; for which reason it is called Caballine,...

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

  • AMNIOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMNIOS

    Subjects, the Urinary Membrane, and Chorion stick so close to one another, that they appear to be but one. It hath all its Vessels from the same Origin as the Chorion. See ALLANTOIS. The Word is derived from the Greek amnios, a Lamb; and Pellis Agnina....

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

  • ARGALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARGAL

    or Argol, hard lees sticking to the sides of wine vessels; otherwise called Tartar. See TARTAR. ARGAL

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    which is widest, and usually highest, and the water under it deepest: being intended for the passage of boats or other vessels. We read of bridges in the East, which consist of 300 arches. Arch-Stone. See KEY-STONE. Triumphal Arch, is a gate, or passage...

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

  • ARACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARACK

    of its peculiar and agreeable flavour, is preferred to all the other Arracks of India. This is attributed to the earthen vessels, which alone they use at Goa to draw the spirit; whereas at Batavia they use copper stills. The Pariar Arrack, made at...

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

  • AMBRYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBRY

    or Armory, the Place where the Arms, Plate, Vessels, and everything belonging to House-keeping were kept. Hence, probably the Ambry at Westminster, was so called, because formerly set apart for that use; or rather, from Aumonery, a House adjoining to an...

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

  • ANASTOMATICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANASTOMATICS

    or Anastomatic Medicines, are those that have the ability to open and dilate the Orifices of the Vessels; and by that means making the Blood circulate more freely. The Word comes from the Greek ἀναστομόω (anastomoō), meaning to open or unstop

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

  • ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM

    deal of Sulphur and Vitriol, not to be taken away but by Calcination or Distillation. The Matter remaining in the Iron Vessels used in separating the Sulphur from the Mineral, being exposed to the Air for some time, becomes a kind of bluish Ashes, which...

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

  • AGUEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGUE

    giving the Blood a greater Momentum; and the second, by its corrugating the Nerves, and rendering the Contractions of the Vessels more brisk and forcible. Hence also its Effects upon such as are apt to sweat immoderately. AGUE

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

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

    Adductor, Erector, Depressor, Deltoides, Sartorius, Cucullaris, Orbicularis, Sphincter, &c. Their Tendons, Fibres, &c. Vessels, as Artery, Aorta, Aspera, Trachea, Pulmonary, &c. Veins, as Cava, Porta, Jugular, Carotid, &c. Glands, as Pancreas,...

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

  • ATHANORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHANOR

    It is made to communicate its Heat by Tubes or Apertures at the side of the Hearth or Fire-Place, to several adjacent Vessels; by which means different operations are carried on at the same time. We meet with divers Forms and Constructions of this...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    the natural Texture and Viscidity of the Blood, should discose it, by a further degree of Cold, to lag and stagnate in the Vessels : so that the Circulation stopping, and the Animal Functions being in great measure suspended ; there is no sensible Waste...

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

  • ASSIMILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIMILATION

    The like we see in Vegetables, where the watery Juices imbibed from the Earth, being further prepared and digested in the Vessels of the Plant, become of a vegetable Nature, and augment the Wood, Leaves, Fruit, etc. thereof. See VEGETATION, VEGETATION,...

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