Cyclopædia
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CRENATED Leaveshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CRENATED-Leaves
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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PROCUMBENT Leaveshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PROCUMBENT-Leaves
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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DISSIMILAR Leaveshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DISSIMILAR-Leaves
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ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM
into Pits of Water at the bottom of the Plain; the Heat of the Ground, without any other Fire, evaporates the Water, and leaves an Alla behind. Allum dissolves in Water, and what remains undissolved at bottom, is a sort of Calx, which dissolves readily...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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TAKE and Leavehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/TAKE-and-Leave
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACANTHUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ACANTHUS
ACANTHUS, in Architecture, an Ornament in the Corinthian and Composite Orders; being the Representation of the Leaves of an Acanaceous Plant, in the Capitals thereof.See CAPITAL, and LEAVES. It takes its Name from δKανθος, the Name given the Plant...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Architecture
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ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION
ABSTRACTION, an Operation of the Mind, whereby we separate Things naturally conjunct, or existing together ; and form and consider Ideas of Things thus separated. See ABSTRACT. The Faculty of Abstracting, stands directly opposite to that of Compounding...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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ALOEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALOES
West Indies; and is also found in some Countries of Europe, as Spain, and particularly the Mountains of Sierra Morena.Its Leaves are green, very thick, hard, and prickly; yielding a kind of Cotton, whereof Laces may be made.Out of the middle of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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AXILLAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AXILLA
of puberty. See HANGING, PUBERTY, etc. AXILLA, in botany, is the space comprehended between the stems of plants and their leaves. See PLANT, STEM, LEAF, etc. Hence we say, those flowers grow in the axilla of the leaves, i.e. at the base of the leaves or...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Anatomy
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SEGMENT-LEAVEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SEGMENT-LEAVES
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY
ALKALY, Alkali, or Alkathy, in Chemistry, a Name originally given, by the Arabians, to a Salt extracted from the Ashes of a Plant called Kali; and by us Glass-wort because used in the making of Glass. See KALI, and GRASS. Afterwards, the Term Alkaly...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chymistry
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ABLACTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ABLACTATION
ABLACTATION, in Gardening, a Method of Engrafting, more usually call'd Inarching, or Grafting by approach. See GRAFTING. Ablactation is only practicable where the Stock to be grafted on, and the Tree from which the Graft is to be taken, stand so near,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Gardening
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AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER
Letters very well formed; and even Hebrew, and Arabic Characters.—Within some pieces of Amber, have likewise been found Leaves, Insects, etc. included;which seems to indicate either that the Amber was originally in a fluid State; or that having been...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Natural History
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ANNUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUAL
are to be recruited every Year. See PLANT. Annuals stand contradistinguished from Biennials, Perennials, etc. Annual Leaves, are such Leaves as come up afresh in Spring, and perish in Winter. See LEAF. These stand opposed to Perennials. See PERENNIAL....
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DEGENERATION,https://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/zoology/DEGENERATION,
or Sun, may be depraved; so as a Florid Caulis, e. g. may produce only a Brassica Capitata; and a Dutch Rose of an hundred Leaves, another Rose f ar short thereof in Number of Leaves, Colour, Smell, &c. such a Depravation is possible, and frequently...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Zoology
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ABOMASUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ABOMASUS
the Place wherein the Chyle is form'd, and from which the Food descends immediately into the Intestines. It is full of Leaves like the Omasus ; but its Leaves have this particular to 'em, that beside the Membranes they consist of, they contain a great...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Anatomy
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ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID
ACID, Acidum, anything which affects the Tongue with a Sense of Sharpness, and Sourness. See TASTE.Acids are usually divided into manifest and dubious.The Manifest Acids are those above defined, which impress the Idea sensibly. — Such are Vinegar, and...
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ARCANUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCANUM
ARCANUM literally signifies a secret; and is therefore very pertinently applied by quacks and impostors in medicine, who conceal their ignorance and fraud under a pretence of secrecy. Hence legions of arcana. There are also standing officinal...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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