Cyclopædia
Assuming ear is required, the following 22 results were found.
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AURICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AURICLE
Auricula, in Anatomy, the external Ear; or that Part of the Ear which is prominent from the Head. See EAR. The Word is a diminutive of Auris, Ear; q. d. little Ear. For the Structure and Variety in the Auricle; with the several Parts thereof, their...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Anatomy
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JULIAN I EARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/JULIAN-I-EAR
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AUDITORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITORY
something belonging to the sense of hearing. See HEARING. AUDITORY, AUDIENCE, is also a collective name, denoting an assembly of persons, hearing, or attending to a person who speaks in public. See ASSEMBLY, ORATION, etc. AUDITORY is also used for the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AQUEDUCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEDUCT
Hours, Rome received, from these Aqueducts, no less than five hundred thousand Hogsheads of Water: The Aqueduct built near Maintenon for carrying the River Eure to Versailles, is the greatest in the World. It is 7000 Toises long; and its Elevation 256...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AURISCALPIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURISCALPIUM
an instrument wherewith to pick and cleanse the ear from wax. See EAR, CERUMEN, etc. The word is compounded of the Latin, auris, ear, and scalpo I scratch. AURISCALPIUM
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EAR-Ringhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/EAR-Ring
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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JEWS-EARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/JEWS-EAR
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EAR-Warhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/EAR-War
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACOUSTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICS
Phonics.Phonics.Acoustics, or Acoustica, or Acoustic Medicines, are Remedies against the Imperfections and Disorders of the Ear; or of the Sense of Hearing. See EAR, and HEARING.The Word is formed from the Greek ἀκοή (akoē), Hearing.Acoustic is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AURICULA JUDAEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURICULA%20JUDAE
JUDAE, or Jew's Ear, a kind of Fungus or Mushroom, resembling in Figure, a human Ear. See FUNGUS and MUSHROOM. It grows on old Elder Trees, which is the Tree whereon, 'tis pretended, Judas hanged himself; which has given occasion to the Name. This...
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ACOUSTICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICKS
Phonics.Phonics.Acoustics, or Acoustica, or Acoustic Medicines, are Remedies against the Imperfections and Disorders of the Ear; or of the Sense of Hearing. See EAR, and HEARING.The Word is formed from the Greek ἀκοή (akoē), Hearing.Acoustic is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AURICULARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURICULAR
Auricularis, something known or learnt only by the Ears. See EAR. We say, an Auricular Witness, Auritus Testis, a Witness by hearsay. See WITNESS, EVIDENCE, TESTIMONY, etc. AURICULAR Confession. See CONFESSION. The little Finger is also called...
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AURIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURIS
an ear. See EAR. The cutting off the ears was a punishment inflicted by the Saxon laws on those who robbed churches; and afterwards on every thief, and at length on divers other criminals. See PUNISHMENT. AURIS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they understood a different...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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Anatomyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy
Urine, Milk, Sweat, Marrow, &c. Membranes ; Pannicle, Cutis, Cuticula, Papilla, &c. Venters, Head, Meninges, Brain, &c. Eye, Ear, Pupil, Tympanum. Tongue, Teeth, Palate, Larynx, Glottis, Oesophagus, &c. Viscera, Stomach, Lungs, Heart, &c. Liver, Spleen,...
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ASPIRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIRATION
as Harangue, Hook, Holland, Hero, etc. whereas the like Syllables are sounded much softer and easier without the H, as in Ear, Eat, etc. See H. The Aspirate, by the Greeks called Spiritus, and marked over their Vowels, seems to be very different from...
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ATTENTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTENTION
a due application of the ear, or the mind, to anything said, or done. Attention of mind is not properly an act of understanding, but rather of the will, by which it calls the understanding from the consideration of other objects, and directs it to the...
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DEFORMITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/ethics/DEFORMITY
the Absence of Beauty, or a Deficiency in the Beauty expected in any Species: Thus bad Music pleases Rusticks, who never heard any better; and the finest Ear is not offended with tuning of Instruments, if it be not too tedious, where no Harmony is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND
the Heat and Fumes of the Wine.The expressed Oil of Bitter Almonds, is much used to soften and deterge the Wax out of the Ear.—Some affirm, that Bitter Almonds bruised, kill or stupify Fowl; so that they may be taken with the Hands: which, they say, is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT
may give offense with the softest and most soothing words imaginable, by a proper management of the accent and manner of rehearsing them. The accent frequently gives a contrary sense to what the words themselves naturally imported. See WORD, FIGURE,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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