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  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    in the Ground, of such height as may equal the height of the Eye. Then, laying prostrate on the Ground, with your Feet to the Staff; if E and B prove in the same right Line with the Eye C; the length CA is equal to the Altitude AB. If some other lower...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    it follows, that every Foot square of the Superficies of our Bodies, is pressed upon by a Weight of Air equal to 35 cubical Feet of Water; and a cubical Foot of Water, being found, by Experiment to weigh 76 Pound Troy Weight, therefore the Compas of a...

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

  • AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE

    some overload their Horse with excessively heavy Shoes; which is apt to make him interfere, or strike short with his hind Feet.——Others fold leaden Weights about the Fetlock Pasterns; which are not only liable to the Mischiefs of the former, but put the...

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

  • CROWS-FEEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/CROWS-FEET

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Military art

  • ALLERIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ALLERION

    or Arlerion, in Heraldry, a sort of Eaglet, without either Beak or Feet. See EAGLET. The Allerion appears much the same with the Martlet, except that the Wings of the former are shut, and they are represented, as it were, Passant; whereas the Martlet is...

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

  • AREAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AREA

    See Figure and Content; seealso Superficies. Thus if a figure, e.g., a field, be in the form of a square,and its side be 40 feet long, its area is said to be 1600square feet, or contains 1600 little Squares, each a Foot every Way. See SQUARE and...

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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    here spoke of, we are to understand the Egyptian Geometrical Cubit, equal, according to them, to 6 vulgar Cubits, or 9 Feet. But the Truth is, it does not appear there ever was any such Measure as a Geometrical Cubit either among Egyptians or...

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

  • ALCAICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ALCAICKS

    Alcaicks, consists of two Dactyls and two Trochees: As, Exilium impositura cymbae.There is another Kind, consisting of five Feet, of which the first is a Spondee or Iambic; the second an Iambic;the third a long Syllable; the fourth a Dactyl; the fifth a...

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

  • ASCLEPIADhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCLEPIAD

    a Greek or Latin Verse of four Feet, containing a Spondee, a Choriambus, and two Dactyls. See FOOT and VERSE. Such is the Verse, Mecenas atavis Edite Regibus. Or of four Feet, and a long Syllable; the first a Spondee, and the second a Dactyl, after...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    Notion. The latter of those Fathers is out of his wits to think how Men and Trees should hang pendulous in the Air, their Feet uppermost; as they must do in the other Hemisphere. And if we may believe Aventine, Boniface Archbishop of Mentz and Legate of...

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

  • ARCHILOQUIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ARCHILOQUIAN

    a term in poetry, applied to a sort of verses, whereof Archilochus was the inventor. SeeVerse. These consist of seven feet; the four first whereof areordinarily dactyls, though sometimes spondees; the three lasttrochees: for instance;Solvitur acris...

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    volatile, amphibious, Insects, etc. Terrestrial Animals are either Quadrupeds or Reptiles. Quadrupeds have either the Feet cloven, as the Bullock; or entire, as the Horse; or divided into several Toes or Claws, as the Dog, Lion, etc. See QUADRUPED,...

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

  • ANACREONTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ANACREONTIC

    but have Anacreontics in Imitation hereof. They are most of them composed in Verses of seven Syllables; or rather, of three Feet and a half, Spondees and Iambus's, though sometimes Anapests,—Hence, Verses in that Measure are usually called Anacreontics,...

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

  • ANTHROPOCOMORPHITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOCOMORPHITE

    of a too great Simplicity, taking everything spoken of God in the Scriptures in a literal Sense, imagined He had real Hands, Feet, etc. The Passage they chiefly insisted on, was that in Genesis, where it is said that God made Man after His own Image....

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

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

    to the Height of 60 or 70 Inches, and therefore acts with a Force which would keep Water suspended to the Height of above 60 Feet.—By the same Principle, a Sponge sucks in Water, and the Glands in the Bodies of Animals, according to their several...

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

  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    Company, toward the close of the last century; and kept in their house for some years. It was almost round; measured two feet in diameter, and weighed one hundred eighty-two pounds. The great Duke of Tuscany offered fifty thousand crowns for it....

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

  • AETITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AETITES

    to it, seem to be fabulous.It is found underground in several Parts: Near Treves in France, one can scarcely dig a few Feet, without finding considerable Strata or Beds thereof. :It is usually hollow, and has a kind of Core or Kernel in it, which, upon...

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

  • 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

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

  • ACATALECTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ACATALECTIC

    ACATALECTIC, Acatalectus, in the ancient Poetry, a Term applicable to such Verses as have all their Feet and Syllables; and are in no wise defective at the End. See VERSE, and FOOT. As, on the contrary, Catalectic Verses are those which end too...

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

  • ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND

    of Melting-Pots, Tests, Bricks, etc. See FURNACE, and REFINING. The Almond-Furnace, called also the Sweep, is usually six Feet high, four wide, and two thick; built of Brick, and having a Hole in the middle of the Top, eight Inches over;which grows...

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