Cyclopædia
Assuming wall is required, the following 23 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
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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
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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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FENCE-Wallshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/FENCE-Walls
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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BOULDER-WALLShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/BOULDER-WALLS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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
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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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ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY
to the Stars that the one kills, as that the other is killed. And when a Man is overwhelmed by the fall of a House, did the Walls become faulty because the Stars had doomed him to die thereby; or rather, was not his Death owing to this, that the Walls...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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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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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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
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
Fabrick must be invisible of course ; all the lesser Parts, one might say all the Parts whatsoever, must be in some measure swallowed up in the Whole. The Imagination, stretch'd and amplified to take in so large a Structure, can have but a very general,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
utmost Condensation. The Dilatation of the Air, by Virtue of its elastic Force, is found to be very surprising; and yet, Dr. Wallis suggests, that we are far from knowing the utmost it is capable of.—In several Experiments made by Mr. Boyle, it dilated...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH
and amphitheaters. See PORTICO, THEATER, CEILING, etc. They are also used as buttresses and counter-forts to support large walls laid deep in the earth, for foundationsof bridges and aqueducts, for triumphal arches, gates,windows, etc. See BUTTRESS,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARCHONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARCHON
of the Archon of the Antimensis, Archon of Archons, Grand Archon, Archon of Churches, Archon of the Gospel, Archon of the Walls, etc. The word comes from the Greek ἄρχων, which signifies a commander, or one that governs. ARCHON
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS
by Air, and impenetrable by Water; supposed to be the Mortar so much celebrated among 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...
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AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS
existing, in the middle of the Temple of Theseus, which was heretofore in the middle of the city, but is now without the walls. The foundation of the Areopagus is a semicircle, with an esplanade of 140 paces around it, whichproperly made the hall of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ANCONEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ANCONES
in Architecture, are the Corners or Quoins of Walls, Cross Beams, or Rafters. See QUOIN, &c. ANCONES
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Architecture
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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