Cyclopædia
Assuming sea is required, the following 49 results were found.
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AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE
that melts almost like wax; commonly of a greyish or ash-color, used both as a perfume and a cordial. It is found on the sea-coasts, in several countries; as along the southern and eastern parts of Africa, Madagascar, the Maldives, some parts of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARCHIPELAGOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ARCHIPELAGO
in geography, a sea interspersed by a great number of islands. See SEA, ISLAND. The most celebrated, and that to which the name is, to some measure, appropriated, is that between Greece, Macedonia, and Asia, wherein are the islands of the Aegean Sea:...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMIRAL
officer, who commands the naval forces of a kingdom or state; and before whom all causes are cognizable, relating to the sea. See NAVY, SEA, etc.Authors are divided about the origin and denomination of this important officer, whom we find established,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID
Juices of Citrons, Oranges; Spirit of Nitre, Spirit of Alum, Spirit of Vitriol, Spirit of Sulphur for Campanam, Spirit of Sea Salt, etc. See VINEGAR, NITRE, VITRIOL, ALUM, SULPHUR, etc. Dubious Acids, are those which do not retain enough of the Acid...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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REFLUX of the Seahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/REFLUX-of-the-Sea
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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TROUGH of the Seahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/TROUGH-of-the-Sea
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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UNDER the Seahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/UNDER-the-Sea
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER
or bituminous Form and Consistence, but a resinous Taste, and a smell like Oil of Turpentine; chiefly found in the Baltic Sea, along the Coasts of Prussia, etc. Naturalists are infinitely divided as to the Origin of Amber, and what Class of Bodies it...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Natural History
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Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL
that which arrives there first, taking the title and quality of Admiral, which it retains during the whole fishing season. See FISHERY. Admiral's Court, or the High Court of Admiralty, is a court held by the High Admiral; to which belongs the decision...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
conceive, as chiefly of the nitrous Kind; but there is no doubt but that there are of all the sorts, Vitriolic, Aluminous, Sea Salt, &c. See SALT, NITRE, etc. Mr. Boyle even observes, that there may be many compounded Kinds of Salts in the air, which we...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM
the Jaw-bones, as to prevent his bringing his Head so near his Breast. Arm, is also used in Geography, for a Branch of a Sea, or River. See SEA, OCEAN, RIVER, etc. Italy and Sicily are only parted by an Arm of the Sea. The Arm, in the Mediterranean, is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASTROLABEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLABE
at large of the Astrolabe.—For a further Account of the Nature and Kinds thereof, see the Article PLANISPHERE. ASTROLABE, or Sea Astrolabe, is an Instrument chiefly used for taking the Altitude of the Pole, the Sun, or Stars, at Sea. See ALTITUDE. The...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Sea-WATERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Sea-WATER
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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SEA-DRAGShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SEA-DRAGS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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SEA-YOKEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SEA-YOKE
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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SEA-Xawshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SEA-Xaws
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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HEAD-Seahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/HEAD-Sea
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTIDILUVIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIDILUVIAN
before the Deluge was the same as it is now, viz. unequal, distinguished into Mountains and Dales, and having likewise a Sea, Lakes, and Rivers; that this Sea was salt as ours is; was subject to Tides; possessed nearly the same Space and Extent that it...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS
simple Principles as the rest. See BITUMEN and SULPHUR. It is found swimming on the Surface of the Lacus Asphaltites, or Dead Sea, where anciently stood the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.—It is cast up from time to time, in the Nature of a liquid Pitch,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ATLANTIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIS
as far as Egypt, and all Europe to Asia Minor. At length the Island sank under Water; and for a long Time afterwards, the Sea thereabouts was full of Flats and Shelves." The learned Rudbeck Professor in the University of Upsal, in an express Treatise...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified