Cyclopædia
Assuming wall is required, the following 13 results were found.
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OF A WALL, in Architecture, is the Point, or Corner, where the two Sides or Faces of a Wall meet. See WALL, CORNER, &c. ANGLES OF A WALL
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Architecture
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COPING of a Wallhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/COPING-of-a-Wall
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Tomb, &c. Forms thereof. Rotondo. Platform, Pinnacle, &c. Plans, Design, Ichnography, Prosile, Sic. Parts, as Foundation, Wall, Roof, &c. Door, Window, Stairs, Chimney, &c. Orders, as Tuscan, Doric, Corinthian, &c. Caryatides, Rusiic, Gothic, &c....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ACCIDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCIDENT
Such is any common Quality; as, Whiteness, Heat, Learning, or the like. See QUALITY. Thus, a Man may be sick or well; and a Wall white or black; yet the one be still a Man, and the other a Wall. These are called in the Schools Predicable...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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Gardeninghttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening
GARDENING, including the Culture of HERBS, Flowers, Fruits, &c. as Dwars, Standard, Stone, Wall, Espalier, Salted, &c. The Operations of Planting, Transplanting, Replanting, Watering. Engrasting Inoculating, Primal, Pinching, Variegating, &c....
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Architecturehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture
Tomb, &c. Forms thereof. Rotondo. Platform, Pinnacle, &c. Plans, Design, Ichnography, Prosile, Sic. Parts, as Foundation, Wall, Roof, &c. Door, Window, Stairs, Chimney, &c. Orders, as Tuscan, Doric, Corinthian, &c. Caryatides, Rusiic, Gothic, &c....
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Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A
; and comes far short of the groff a of the Germans, which wou'd make our au, or aw, or 0. In some Words, however, as talk, wall, stall, &c. the a is broad, and deep enough. But this, 'tis observ'd, may not be the mere Sound of a ; but the Effect of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Grammar
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AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE
Back, overstraining of the Fillets, etc. Some endeavour to make him Amble in hand, ere they mount his Back, by means of some Wall, smooth Pale or Rail, and by checking him in the Mouth with the Bridle-hand; and correcting him with a Rod on the hinder...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Manage
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ANTAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ANTA
or Ante, in the ancient Architecture, a square Column, or Pilaster, placed at the Corners of the Walls of their Temples and other Edifices. See PILASTER, TEMPLE, etc. The Antae stood out of the Wall, with a Projection equal to one eighth of their Face,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Architecture
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ARIEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIES
also denotes a Battering Ram; being a military Engine much in use among the ancient Romans, to batter and beat down the Walls of Places besieged. See MACHINE. Of this there were two kinds; the one rude and simple, the other artificial and compound. The...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARABIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABIC
assures us, in his Work de Re Diplomatica, that he has not found them anywhere earlier than the fourteenth Century. Yet Dr. Wallis insists on their being of a much older Standing; and concludes they must have been used in England at least as long ago as...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT
Idea's being attach'd to same particular Subject, or consider'd as combin'd with some other Ideas ; as, great House, white Wall. See CONCRETE. The School Philosophers define an Abstract Term from the Simplicity of its Signification.— Abstracts,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC
situation, foundation, distribution, covering, apertures, etc. See the article BUILDING. For particulars; see FOUNDATION, WALL, ROOF, WINDOW, DOOR, CEILING, etc.; see also BEAUTY, etc. There are several arts subservient to architecture, ascarpentry,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified