Cyclopædia
Assuming worm is required, the following 14 results were found.
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WORMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/WORMS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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WORM-SEEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/WORM-SEED
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANGLINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLING
To invite the Fish to the place intended for Angling, by casting in from time to time proper Foods, as boiled Corn, Worms, and Garbage: To keep them together in the time of Angling, by throwing in Grains of ground Malt; or sinking a Box of Worms, with...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASCARIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCARIDES
Medicine, a kind of little Worms, sometimes found in the Rectum, and adhering to the Fundament. See WORMS and VERMIS. They are thus called from the Greek ἀσκαρίζω, I leap; on account of their continual troublesome Motion, causing a most intolerable...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACEPHALUS
ἀ, and κεφαλή, Caput, Head. Pliny represents the Blemmyes as a headless or Acephalous nation. See BLEMMYES. Acephalous worms are frequent. See WORM, and VERMES. Acephalus is more frequently applied, in a figurative sense, to those destitute of a leader...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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DEGENERATION,https://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/zoology/DEGENERATION,
into other more imperfect ones: Thus, says he, the Soul of a Calf, after its Death, degenerates into the Souls of the Worms, Bees, &c. arising out of his Carcass; But the other School-Men laugh at the Notion.Others hold, that in the same Matter there...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Zoology
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ANTHELMINTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHELMINTICS
Medicines good to destroy Worms. The Word is compounded of ἀντί, contra, against, and ἕλμινς, Vermis, Worm. ANTHELMINTICS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
depend on the doing of things by Twilight, or even Moon-light, or the still more dubious Light of, perhaps, a Rush or a Glow-worm. PYTHAGORAS, in all probability, was not ignorant of the Equality of the Square of the Hypotenuse, &c. before he...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ALOEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALOES
bad for thin and hectic Constitutions. It is accounted efficacious in promoting the Menses; and is also good to destroy Worms.M. Boulduc, by his Analysis of Aloes, has found that the Succotrine sort contains half the Resin or sulphurous Part, but one...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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ETHEREALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ETHEREAL
Sulphur, in a Stone or Iron Mortar; till they become incorporated into a black Powder. See MERCURY.It is prescribed for the Worms, and all Crudities and Acrimony of the Humours; and is reputed infallible against the Itch, and other cutaneous Diseases....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS
the Ancients, wherewith the Walls of Babylon were laid. See MORTAR, etc. It yields an Oil which defends Ships from Water,Worms, etc. much better than the ordinary Composition; and which is also of good Service for the cleansing and healing of Ulcers,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACRIDOPHAGIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ACRIDOPHAGI
they salted, and kept for their standing Food all the Year: They lived to forty Years of Age, then died of a sort of winged Worms generated in their Bodies. See ST. Jerome against Jovinian, L. II. and on St. John, C. 4: Diodorus Siculus, L. III. c....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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ABSINTHIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/absinthium
ABSINTHIUM, Wormwood, a Medicinal Plant, of considerable Efficacy in quality of a Bitter and Stomachic. See STOMACHIC, &c. There are divers Kinds hereof enumerated by Botanists; at least 30. Those which obtain in Medicine, are, 1°, the Roman or small,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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ABSYNTHIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSYNTHIUM
ABSYNTHIUM, Wormwood, a Medicinal Plant, of considerable Efficacy in quality of a Bitter and Stomachic. See STOMACHIC, &c. There are divers Kinds hereof enumerated by Botanists; at least 30. Those which obtain in Medicine, are, 1°, the Roman or small,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine