Cyclopædia
Assuming drop is required, the following 19 results were found.
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DROPPINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DROPPING
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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DROPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DROPS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS
of Animals, according to their several Natures and Dispositions, imbibe various Juices from the Blood. Opticks, p. 367. If a Drop of Oil, Water, or other Fluid, be laid on a Glass Plane perpendicular to the Horizon, so as to stand without breaking or...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS
Impulse.""It is commonly, indeed, alleged, as a Proof of a Power Nature has given Bodies of flying their Contraries, that Drops of Water, falling on a Table, collect into little Globules, to avoid the contrary Quality in the Table, and keep themselves...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water- spout, &c. Winds, Mon-soon, Hurricane, and the like. 2...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION
great Number of Phenomena.—We shall here only mention a few easy and obvious ones; as, the Spherical Figure, assumed by the Drops of Fluids; which can only arise from such Principle: The uniting and incorporating of two Spherules of Quicksilver into...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics
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ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY
Filings of Copper, and more genuinely than the acid Liquor. So, when they see the Magistery of Pearl or Coral, prepared by dropping Oil of Tartar into the Solution of those Bodies made with Spirit of Vinegar; they ascribe the Precipitation to the fixed...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chymistry
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ABBREVIATUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABBREVIATURE
or ABBREVIATION, a Contraction of a Word, or Passage ; made by dropping some of the Letters, and substituting certain Marks, or Characters in their Place. See SYMBOL. Lawyers, Physicians, &c. use abundance of Abbreviatures ; partly for the sake of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Grammar
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AVERNIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVERNI
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 the abundance of Mines therein. See MINE and MINERAL....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Pharmacyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/pharmacy
Calomel, &c. in the Form of Electuary, Confection, Extract, Tincture, Syrup. Troche, Pill, Pouder, Lohoc, Potion, Apazem, Drops, medicated Ales, Wines, Waters. Unguent, Emplaster, Purge, Clyster, Suppository, Pessary, Collyrium, &c. From Drugs, or...
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AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER
and this, 'tis observed, it does, even in those Bodies which the Ancients thought it had an Antipathy to; as oily Bodies, Drops of Water, the Basilisk, Sweat of human Body, etc. See ELECTRICITY.Add, that by Friction it is brought to yield Light pretty...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Natural History
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ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND
and ranged in the Rose manner: The Pistil becomes a fleshy Fruit, containing a Seed, which is the Almond; and which drops out when the Fruit is arrived at Maturity. eee Almonds are chiefly of two Kinds, Sweet and Bitters. The Sweet Almonds, Amygdale...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AMMONIAChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMMONIAC
is a kind of Gum, brought from the East Indies; supposed to ooze from an umbelliferous Plant. See GUM. It ought to be in dry Drops, white within, yellowish without, easily fusible, resinous, somewhat bitter, and of a very sharp Taste and Smell, somewhat...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE
Martha Taylor, who by a Blow on the Back sell into such a Prostration of Appetite, that he took no Sustenance beside a few Drops with a Feather for thirteen Months : But this was a morbid and unnatural Case, for she slept but little ail the Time.-—-We...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE
Cape Comorin, etc., where no whales are found. 3°, Others take it for a kind of wax, or gum, which distills from trees, and drops into the sea, where it congeals, and becomes Ambergrease. 4°, Others, and particularly many of the Orientals, imagine it...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALPHOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALPHOS
in Medicine, a Distemper described by Celsus, under the Name of Vitiligo; wherein, the Skin is rough, and looks as if it had Drops of white upon it, not much differing from Morphew. See MORPHEW. ALPHOS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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Meteorologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/meteorology
including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water- spout, &c. Winds, Mon-soon, Hurricane, and the like.
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ARÆOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARÆOMETER
described in Philos. Transact. N° 262. thus: A (fig. 19.) is a glass bottle or matrass, with so slender a neck, that a drop of water takes up in it about five or six lines, or ⅛ of an inch. Near that neck is a small capillary tube D, about six inches...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ABLUTION
it the Ashes of the Victim that was slain in Sacrifice. ABLUTION, among the modern Romanists, is understood of the little Drop of Water and Wine, which they take after the Communion, to wash down and facilitate the Digestion of the Host. The same Term...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology