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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ABLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ABLUTION

    Feet, sometimes the Head, and oftentimes the whole Body : For which purpose, at the Entrance into their Temples were plac'd Vessels made of Marble Triumphant (as Du Choul calls it) fill'd with Water. This Custom, without doubt, they learnt from the...

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

  • APERIENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APERIENTS

    or Aperitive Medicines, are such as open the obstructed Passages of the small Vessels, Glands, and Pores; and by that means promote a due Circulation of the contained Juices. See OBSTRUCTION, CAPILLARY, GLAND, CIRCULATION, etc. Aperients, then, coincide...

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

  • ACCRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCRETION

    stones, shells, etc. are supposed to grow. See STONE and SHELL. The other is by some solid matter received into proper vessels and gradually brought to adhere or grow to the sides thereof. This is what we call Intussusception; and thus, plants and...

    • 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

  • 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

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

    'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...

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

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

    ALE, a popular beverage drink, made from malt. See MALT, and DRINK. For the method of brewing ale, see Brewing. Ale is chiefly distinguished from beer, another potable liquor made from the same ingredients, by the quantity of hops used therein; which is...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    AXIS properly signifies a line or long piece of iron or wood passing through the centre of a sphere, which is moveable upon the same. See SPHERE. In this sense we say the axis of a sphere, or globe; the axis, or axle-tree of a wheel, etc. See GLOBE,...

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

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

    ALKALY, Alkali, or Alkathy, in Chemistry, 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...

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

  • ADJUNCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJUNCT

    ADJUNCT, Adjunctum, in philosophy, something added to a being from without. See ADJUNCTION. Or, an adjunct is an additament or accession to a thing, not essentially belonging to it, but only accidental thereto.See ACCIDENT. There are two kinds of...

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

  • ARÆOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARÆOMETER

    ARÆOMETER, Aræometrum, an instrument wherewith to measure the density or gravity of fluids. See FLUID, GRAVITY, and DENSITY. The word is formed of the Greek ἀραιός (araios), rare, thin; and μέτρον (metron), measure. The ARÆOMETER, or Water-poise, is...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    ASTROLOGY, Astrologia, the Art of foretelling future Events, from the Aspects, Positions, and Influences of the Heavenly Bodies. See ASPECT, INFLUENCE, etc. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἄστρον, Star, and λόγος, Discourse; whence, in the literal...

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

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

    ARMONIACK, or rather Ammoniac, in natural History, a sort of volatile Salt; whereof there are two Kinds; ancient and modern. See SALT. The ancient Sal Ammoniac, called also Sal Cyrenaica, described by Pliny and Dioscorides, was a native Salt, generated...

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

  • ACETABULUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ACETABULUM

    ACETABULUM, in antiquity, a little vase or cup used at table to serve up things proper for sauce or seasoning, much after the manner of our salts and vinegar cruets. See VASE, and VESSEL. Hence, Agricola, in his treatise of Roman measures, L. I., takes...

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

  • AMALGAMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAMATION

    AMALGAMATION, in Chemistry, the Operation of making an Amalgama; i.e., of calcining, or rather dissolving some Metal, especially Gold, by means of Mercury. See AMALGAMA. Amalgamation is performed by fusing, or at least igniting the Metal; and in this...

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

  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    ANTIPERISTASIS, in Philosophy, the Action of two opposite Qualities, one whereof, by its Opposition excites and heightens the Force of the other. See QUALITY. This Word is Greek, Ἀντιπερίστασις; formed of ἀντί, contra against, and περιίστημι, to stand...

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