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  • HANGINGShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/HANGINGS

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

  • ARRAS-Hangingshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRAS-Hangings

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

  • HANGS-Overhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/HANGS-Over

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

  • AXILLAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AXILLA

    See ULCER. By the ancient laws, criminals were to be hanged by the axilla, if they were under the age of puberty. See HANGING, PUBERTY, etc. AXILLA, in botany, is the space comprehended between the stems of plants and their leaves. See PLANT, STEM,...

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

  • APPENDANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/APPENDANT

    may be appendant to a Manor, a Common of Fishing to a Freehold, etc. Appended Remedies, such as are outwardly applied, by hanging about the Neck. Such are divers Amulets, Necklaces, Phylacteries, etc. See AMULET. The Word comes from the Latin ad, and...

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    in Places abounding with Marcasites, a fretting vitriolick Salt is observed to predominate in the Air, which rots the Hangings, and is often seen lying on the Ground in a whitish Efflorescence. At Falun in Sweden, noted for Copper Mines, the mineral...

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

  • Lawhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law

    &c. Prosecuted by Indictment, Accusation, Actions of Conspiracy, and upon the Case, Habeas Corpus, &c. Punish'd, with Hanging, Crucifixion, Wheel, Furca, Scala, Pillory, Transportation, Divorce, Scaphism, &c. Or Civil, and to Things; as Trespass,...

    • Type: Category

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    &c. Prosecuted by Indictment, Accusation, Actions of Conspiracy, and upon the Case, Habeas Corpus, &c. Punish'd, with Hanging, Crucifixion, Wheel, Furca, Scala, Pillory, Transportation, Divorce, Scaphism, &c. Or Civil, and to Things; as Trespass,...

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

  • DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS

    : In the highost Part of the Roof of those Passages in a Mine, which branch out from the main Grove, they see a round Thing hanging, about as big as a FootBall, covered with a Skin of the Thickness and Colour of a Cob-web : Is this Bag, by a Splinter,...

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    apt to be too busy, and especially with his shoulders, is said to have reformed himself by speaking in a narrow pulpit, and hanging a spear pointed just over his shoulders; that if in the heat of his discourse he should forget himself, the puncture...

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

  • ALBhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALB

    ALBE, ALSA, anciently called Camisia, a Robe or Vestment of white Linen, hanging down to the Feet; wherein the Roman Priests perform divine Service. The Alb corresponds to the Surplice among us.—It takes its Name from its Colour, albus, white. ALB

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

  • AGLETShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGLETS

    Acuers, or ACLEETS, among Florists, the pendants hanging on the edges of Chives, and Stamen; as in Tulips, Roses, and like-grass, etc. See CHIVE, STAMEN, etc. AGLETS

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

  • AUNCEL-WEIGHThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUNCEL-WEIGHT

    quasi, Handled-Weight, is a kind of Balance, consisting of Scales hanging on Hooks fastened at each End of a Beam or Staff, which a Man lifts up on his Hand or Fore-finger, and so discovers the Equality or Difference between the Weight and the Thing...

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

  • ARMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/ARMY

    ARMY, a body of soldiers, horse and foot, divided into regiments, under the command of a general, with several ranks of subordinate officers under him. See SOLDIER, GENERAL, OFFICER, REGIMENT, etc. See also CAVALRY, INFANTRY, etc. This is to be...

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

  • ARSENIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARSENIC

    ARSENIC, Arsenicum, in natural history, a ponderous mineral substance, extremely caustic or corrosive, to the degree of a violent poison. See FOSSIL, CORROSIVE, etc. The word is compounded of the Greek ἀρσεν, man, and νικᾶ, I overcome, kill; alluding to...

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

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    ADULTERY, Adulterium, in our ancient law-books called Advowtry, a crime committed by married persons, against the faith pledged to each other in marriage; by having carnal commerce with someone else: or even by a person not married; by having to do with...

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

  • AURICULA JUDAEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURICULA%20JUDAE

    AURICULA 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....

    • 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

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    AGE, the natural duration of anything; and particularly of the life of man. See DURATION, and LIFE. The ordinary age of mankind has been occasionally varied, in such manner as to afford a fine instance of the wisdom of Providence. See the article...

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

  • ATOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATOM

    ATOM, ἄτομος, in Philosophy, a Corpuscle; or a Part or Particle of Matter so minute as to be indivisible. See CORPUSCLE. The Word is Greek, ἄτομος; formed of the privative ἀ, and τέμνω, I cut, I divide. Atoms are properly the minima naturae, the last or...

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