Cyclopædia
Assuming bird is required, the following 22 results were found.
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BIRDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/BIRDS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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FRUGIVOROUS Birdshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/FRUGIVOROUS-Birds
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AVERNIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVERNI
called also Mephites. See MEPHITES, AIR, POISON, etc. The Word is Latin, formed of the Greek privative, α, and ὄρνις, Bird; as intimating that Birds could not fly over them, but dropped down dead. Averni are said to be frequent in Hungary on account of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK
of Species of Animals will be found much smaller than was imagined, not amounting to 100 Species of Quadrupeds, nor 200 of Birds; out of which, in this Case, are to be excepted such Animals as can live in the Water.—Zoologists usually reckon but 170...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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AUGURhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGUR
in Antiquity, an officer or minister among the Romans, appointed to observe the chattering and feeding of birds; and by means thereof, form conjectures about future events. See AUGURY. The augurs made a college or community, which at first consisted of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS
&c. Arms are also the natural Weapons, or Parts of Defense of Beasts; as Claws, Teeth, Tusks of Elephants, Beaks of Birds, etc. See BIRD, TUSK, TUSK, etc. Some Animals are sufficiently guarded against all common Dangers by their natural Clothing, their...
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AVIARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVIARY
a House or Apartment for the keeping, feeding, and propagating of Birds. See BIRD. The Word is formed of the Latin, Avis. AVIARY
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER
particularly the learned Father Camelli. Philosoph. Transact. N° 290. Some have imagined it a Concretion of the ‘Tears of Birds; others, the Urine of a Beast; others, the Scum of the Lake Cephiside, near the Atlantic; others, a Congelation formed in the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Natural History
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AUGURYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGURY
in Antiquity, the art of divining, or foretelling events, by the chattering, singing, and feeding of birds. See DIVINATION and AUGUR. The observation of auguries is very ancient, as having been prohibited by Moses in Leviticus—The cup put in Benjamin's...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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AETITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AETITES
of use in discovering a Thief; for by mixing it with his Meat, he'll be unable to swallow it.— Matthiolus informs us, that Birds of Prey never hatch their young without this Stone; and that they seek it as far as the Indies. : The Use now made of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Natural History
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ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE
in the Clefts of Trees ; others bury themselves under Water, &c. See MIGRATION, PASSAGE, &c. In effect, several Species of Birds, the whole Tribe almost of Insects, and many among the other Tribes, are able to subsist all Winter, not only without Food,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION
common to all living Creatures, frames the Idea of Animal ; which abstract s or participates not only of all Men, but all Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Insects. The constituent Parts of such Abstract Idea of Animal, are Body, Life, Sense, and spontaneous...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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AUSPICYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUSPICY
auspicium, a kind of augury amongst the ancients, which consisted in considering the flight and feeding of birds, in order to know whether any undertaking they were about, would prove happy or unfortunate. See AUSPICES and AUGURY. Pliny attributes the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AUSPICEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUSPICES
in antiquity, a sort of priests or soothsayers, appointed to observe the flight of birds, and thence to form presages of future events. See DIVINATION. The auspices were thus call’d, quasi avispices, ab avibus inspiciendis—They are ordinarily confounded...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/zoology/AERY
or Airy, of Hawks, is what we call a Nest in other Birds. See HAWK, and HAWKING. AERY
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Zoology
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ARMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ARMEN
in Heraldry, is used in respect of Beasts and Birds of Prey, when their Teeth, Horns, Feet, Beak, Talons, or Tusks, are of a different Colour from the rest—He bears a Cock, or a Falcon, armed, Or, etc. ARMEN
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARTICULARIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ARTICULARIS
LETTER, ALPHABET, &c. Brutes cannot form articulate Sounds, cannot articulate the Sounds of their Voice; excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c. See VOICE.
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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Zoologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/zoology
Their Origin in Egg, Embryo, Fœtus, Generation, Conception, Gestation, Hatching, Migration, &c. Their Kinds, as Quadruped, Bird, Fish, Insect, Reptile, Ruminant, Carnivorous, &c. Extraordinary Species, as Unicorn, Torpedo, Tarantula, Tortoise, Cameleon,...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Their Origin in Egg, Embryo, Fœtus, Generation, Conception, Gestation, Hatching, Migration, &c. Their Kinds, as Quadruped, Bird, Fish, Insect, Reptile, Ruminant, Carnivorous, &c. Extraordinary Species, as Unicorn, Torpedo, Tarantula, Tortoise, Cameleon,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS
several Toes or Claws, as the Dog, Lion, etc. See QUADRUPED, INSECT. The other Divisions will be found under the words FISH, BIRD, REPTILE, etc. But, for a complete and general Account of the various kinds of Animals, we shall here subjoin Mr. Ray’s...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified