A B C
A B C D Point Out A Compartment Of A Road Laid Partly With Broken Stones, In Which E E And F F Are The Aisler-causeway Tracks, A B Being The Sky Or Open Drain Upon The Side Of The Road, Which, If Situated Within, Or. Near A Populous Town, ...
A C 2bc
A C 2bc 2 And From Which We Deduce, That So Long As The Velo City Is Not Sufficient To Produce An Elevation Of The Water Before, And A Depression Abaft The Greatest Breadth, So As To Increase The Fore Resistance And Di Minish The Aft, The Body Will Experience ...
A Chimney
A Chimney (see Plate Cnc.) Consists Of An Aperture In The Wall, To Receive A Stove Or Grate, With Fire To Heat The Apartment ; And On This Account It Is Also Named A Fire-place. From It A Vacant Space, Named A Vent, Shaft, Or Flue, Is Carried, Within The ...
A Groin
A Groin, Is The Excavation Nr Hollow Formed By One Simple Vault Piercing Another At The Same Height, Such, That Two Geometrical Solids Being Transversely Applied One After The Other ; A Portion Of The Groin May Love Been In Contact With The First Solid, And The Remaining Part In ...
A Passenger
A Passenger. As The Captain Positively States That The Safety Valve Was Open, He Must Be Believed: The Doubt Expressed By " A Passenger," As To The Fact, Except Until About Three Minutes Of The Explosion. May Be Explained By The Facts Discovered By Mr Perkins, Viz: 1. That " ...
A Pendfntivf
A Pendf.ntivf. Is A Portion Of A Spheric Surface, Ter Minated On Two Sides By Two Vertical Planes Or Straight Walls, And A Horizontal Plane At The Top. A Pendentive Is Therefore Bounded On All Sides By Three Circular Lines, Two Of Which Are In Vertical Planes, And One Horizontal. ...
A Place
A Place, As Its Name Imports, Destined For Observing Thc Heavenly Bodies; Or, A Building, Usually Erected On An Eminence, For The Purpose Of Making Astronomical Observations. Almost All Nations, In Every Age, Have Had Their Ob Servatories, Either Public Or Private, In Various Degrees Of Perfection. The Determination Of ...
A Reference
A Reference To Time Is Inseparably Connected With The Narration Of Events, And Therefore Many Parts Of The Verb Arc So Contrived As To Indicate In Their Structure A Connec Tion With Sonic Portion Of Time, In Contradistinction To Another. The Point Of Reference Naturally First Assumed Is The Instant ...
A Swan
A Swan, When He Has A Ducal Coronet On His Head, And A Chain Thrown Over His Back, Is Termed A Cygnet Royal. When A Swan's Head Is Borne, It Is Always Blazoned A Swan's Neck Couped, Erased, &c. Birds On Wing Are Said To Be Volant. Fist', When Placed ...
A White
A. White. This Is The Lightest Of All The Colours; Hence The Slight Est Intermixture Of Other Colours Becomes Perceptible. The White Colour Occurs Principally In Earthy And Saline Minerals, Seldom In Metalliferous Minerals, And Very Rarely Amongst Inflammable Minerals. The Fol Lowing Are The Varieties Of This Colour : ...
Abacus
Abacus, From The Synonymous Greek Word Ag4, Or From The Phenician Word Abek, Dust, Is The Name Of A Smooth Table Covered With Dust, On Which The First Ma Thematicians Made Their Calculations, And Traced Their Diagrams. See Persius, Sat. 1. V. 131. Hence It Be Came The Appellation Of ...
Abaris
Abaris, The Philosopher, A Native Of Hyperborean Scythia, And The Son Of Seuthus. The Period When He Flourished Is Extremely Doubtful, (bishop Lloyd's Chronological .•1ccount If Pythagoras, V. 7.) And His History Is So Completely Involved In Fables, That Hero Dotus Himself Did Not Venture To Record Them. This Historian ...
Abassi 1 Abyssinia
Abyssinia, Abassi .1, Or Upper Ethiopia, Called I;',(ewise Rill By The Surrounding Nations, Is An Em Pire Of Afi Ica, Comprehended Between The 7th And 16th Degrees Or N. I,at. And The 30th And 40th Degrees Of E. Long. All Nations Of A Black Complexion Were Called, By The Ancients, ...
Abbey
Abbey, A Religious House, Governed By An Abbot, Or Abbess. In Britain, Religious Houses Were Of Various Denominations, Such As Abbeys, Priories, And Hospitals ; And Differed Chiefly In The Extent Of Their Possessions, Powers And Privileges. At First, The Endowments Of Abbeys Were Probably But Of Limited Extent ; ...
Abbot
Abbot, The Superior Of An Abbey Of Monks, And Next In Dignity To A Bishop. This Appellation, Signify Ing Father, Is Derived From The Hebrew, And Was An Ciently Applied To All Monks. The Rulers Of The Early Monasteries Assumed The Title Of Abbot, Or Archiman Drite. Some Of The ...
Abc Efg Gdehr
Abc + Efg - Gde - Hr R =0, And Which Condition Furnishes For The Value Of The Area Of The Triangle Sought, 'ir R --abc + Efg -cde = 72 + 118 - 108 = 82. Hence We Shall Have By Proportion, As 82 X Or Numerically 119 : ...
Abdera
Abdera, A Maritime Town Of Thrace, Situated At The Mouth Of The River Nessus, And Chiefly Remarkable For The Marvellous Stories Which Arc Related Of It By An Cient Authors. During The Reign Of Lysimachus, The In Habitants Of Abdera Were Said To Be Afflicted With A Burn Ing Fever, ...
Abdollatipii
Abdollatipii, A.) Arabian Physician, Born At Bag Dad In 11 I I . To Whom 1,osu City Is Ilidtlitc(i For A Minut And Interesting Account 0. Egypt. After Having Studied Gramina.r, Rhetoric, Y, Poetry, And The Dogmas Of The Mahommedan Law, Began To Travel At The Age Ol 28. He ...
Abdul Ham1d
Abdul-ham1d Made Extraordinary Efforts To Main Tain His Position On The Danube; But Though His Forces Were Superior In Numbers To The Enemy, They Shrunk From The Contest, And Marshal Romanzow Passed The River And Proceeded To Attack The Turkish Camp At Schumla. By A Masterly Movement He Cut Off ...
A Cornelius Celsus
Celsus, A. Cornelius, An Eminent Phy-ician And Philosopher, Who Is Supposed To Have Y. Rittcn Tow Ards The End Of The Reign Of Augustus, Or, At Latest, In The Begin Ning Of That Of Tiberius. All That Is Known Of His His Tory, Is Merely That He Was A Roman ...