Anemometer
Anemometer, From Aveg,g, The Wind, And Witov, A Measure, Is An In Strument Or Machine For Measuring The Force And Velocity Of The Wind: The Direction Of The Wind Is Determined By The Ancmoscope. The First Instillment That Seems To Have Been Inven Ted For Measuring The Force Of Wind, ...
Angel
Angel, An Order Of Spiritual Beings Superior In Dignity, Intelligence, And Power, To Man. The Word Avv(aac In Greek, From Which Angel Is Derived, Signifies No More Than A Messenger, And The Corresponding Term In Hebrew, Has Precisely The Same Meaning. The Name, Therefore,by Which We Denote This Class Of ...
Angelo
Angelo, Initennet., See Bonarotti. Angelos, La I'uebla De Los, A Town Of Mexi Co, And Capital Of The Province Of Tlascala, Situated In A Fine Valley On The River Zacatula, About 65 Miles South East Of Mexico. • This City Is Next To Mexico In Popula Tion, And Is One ...
Anger
Anger, A Painful Emotion, Or Excited In The Human Mind On Receiving Any Injury. Or Affront, And Which Prompts Us To Repel The Injury, .and To Avenge It On The Offending Person. When Moderate In Degree, It Is More Commonly Known By The Name Of Resentment ; And When It ...
Anglo Saxon An
Anglo-saxon An Appellation Given To The Language Spoken By The English Saxons, In Contradistinction From The True Sax On, As Well As From The Modern English. Also The Name Given To The People, Who Conquered England, After The Romans Had Left It, And Who Spoke The Language So Call Ed. ...
Angola
Angola On The Western Coast Of Africa, Extends From The Mouth Of The River Danda, On The North, To Cape Negro On The South; Lies Between Lat. 30', And 16°, 21', S.; And Forms A Coast Of More Than 480 Miles ; But Its Breadth From West To East Has ...
Angora Angora
Angora, Angora, Ankaria, Angura, Enguri, The Modern Names Of The Ancient Celebrated City Of An Cyra, The Former Capital Of Galatia. It Is Situated In Natolia, A Province Of Asiatic Turkey, And Still Exhibits Numerous Traces Of Its Ancient Splendor. The Castle Of Angora, Which Resembles A Town, And Is ...
Angra
Angra, From Angra, A Creek, Is The Capital Of Tercera, The Chief Of The Azores Islands. It Is Situated On A Bay, On The South Side Of The Island, Between Two Mountains. The Town Is Well Built, Surrounded With Walls, And A Dry Ditch Of Great Depth, And Defended By ...
Anhalt
Anhalt, A German Principality In The Circle Of Upper Saxony, Lying Chiefly Between The Rivers Elbe And Saal. It Is About 65 Miles Long, And 8 Bread; And Bounded On The North By The Duchy Of Magdeburg, And The Principality Of Halberstadt; On The North-east By The Marche Of Brandenburg; ...
Animal
Animal, One Of The Great Classes Of Natural Objects, Generally Defined An Organized Body, Possessed Of Life, Sensation, And The Power Of Spontaneous Motion. The Branch Of Natural History Relating To Animals Is Denomi Nated Zoology. It Might Be Expected, That A Term So Familiar, And Sufficiently Intelligible To The ...
Animalcule
Animalcule In A General Sense, Signifies A Small Ani Mal; But Here It Is Used To Denote One So Minute, That Its Form And Parts Cannot Be Distinguished, Without The Aid Of The Microscope. If Particles Of Animal Or Vegetable Matter Are A Few Days Infused In The Most Limpid ...
Anjou
Anjou, From Its Ancient Inhabitants The Andes Or Andegav1, Formerly A Province Of France, But Now A Portion Of The Department Of The Mayenne And Loire. It Is About 70 Miles Long, And 60 Broad, And Is Bounded On The North By Le Maine, On The East By Touraine ; ...
Anlaf
Anlaf. See Hume. Ann, Or Annat. All Ecclesiastical Benefices Were Formerly Taxed By The Holy See, To The Extent Of A Year's Revenue, On The Papal Bulls Being Issued To A New In-'. Cumbent ; And The Aggregate Of The Sum So Levied, Was Applied To The Maintenance Of The ...
Ann Salvias Nidccxlix
Ann() Salvias Nidccxlix Eont Set Iv. It Stands On The Summit Of The Mountain, Which Is Called The Puerto De Guadarrama, And From It The T Ye Can Take In At Once The Whole Extent Of Country Included In The Sister Provinces. The Difficulties Of Exportation, However, In This Province, ...
Anna Comnena
Anna Comnena, The Daughter Of The Emperor Alcxius Comnenus I. By His Wife Irene, Was Born At Constantinople, In 1083, And Was So Distinguished By Her Literary Talents, That She Acquired The Reputation Of Being The Most Learned Female Of Her Age. Superior To The Luxurious Indolence Of The Court ...
Annabon Annobon
Annobon, Annabon, Anoboon, Or Annaboa, An Island In The Atlantic Ocean, Near The Western Coast Of Africa, Discovered By The Portuguese On The First Of May, Of The Year 1473, From Which Circumstance Its Name Is Derived. This Island, Which Is About Thirty Miles In Circumference, Is Inhabited By Negroes, ...
Annan
Annan, A Royal Borough, The Capital Of Annandale, A District Of Dumfries-shire, In Scotland ; Is Situated In N. Lat. 3'. And Nv. Long. 3°., Near A Degree To The South, And Two Miles To The West Of The Meridian Of Edinburgh. It Is Built On A High Bank On ...
Anne
Anne, Queen Of Great Britain, Was Born In 1664, And Was The Second Daughter Of King James Ii, By Anne Hyde, His First Wife. In Order To Increase The Popularity Which He Then Enjoyed, James Reckoned It Expedient To Marry His Daughter Anne To Prince George, Brother Of The King ...
Annexation
Annexation, In Its General Acceptation, Signi Fies The Act Of Uniting One Subject To Another Of Greater Extent, Value, Or Importance, From Which It Had Previ Ously Been Distinct And Separate. In The Law Of Scotland, This Term Is Used To Denote The Uniting Of Lands Unalienably To The Crown. ...
Annibale Caracci
Caracci, Annibale, Brother To Agostino, Was Born At Bologna In 1560, And Died In 1609. From His Cousin Ludovico, Who First Put The Pencil Into His Hands, He Not Only Learned The Best Principles Of The Art Of Painting, But Caught An Ardent Ambition To Excel In Its Various Branches. ...
Annihilation
Annihilation, The Act Of Reducing Into Nothing, What Originally Was Brought Into Being By The Exertion Of Infinite Power. As The Production Of Such An Effect Requires Omni Potent Agency, The Comprehension Of This Term Exceeds The Capacity Of Any Created Understanding. We Can Attach No Definite Idea To The ...
Annuities
Annuities, In The Strict Meaning Of The Term, Signifies A Stated Sum Of Money Payable At Regular Periods, And Derived From A Fund, Or Source, In Which The Annuitant Has No Further Property Than The Claim For The Payment Of His Annuity. By This Definition, Annuities Arc Distin Guished From ...
Anselm
Anselm, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Was Born In The Year 1033, At Aosta, A Town Of Piedmont, Situated On The River Doria, At The Foot Of The Alps. He Was Descended Of Noble And Pious Parents, And Received A Liberal Educa Tion. While Travelling In France, He Was Attracted By The ...
Antediluvian
Antediluvian, A Word Employed To Denote Any Thing That Happened Or Existed Before The Flood. The Records Respecting The Antediluvian World Are Exceedingly Scanty, But Contain, Nevertheless, Many Im Portant Intimations Concerning The Religion, Arts, And Policy, Of The First Race Of Men. The Creation Of The World, And Of ...
Antelope
Antelope, A Genus Of The Mamnialia Pecora, In The Linnman System Of Gmelin. See Maiumatin. The Method Of Hunting The Antelope, Which Is The Chief Amusement Of The Tonjuses, Who Inhabit The Heaths Of Daouria, On The Other Side Of The Lake Baikal, Has Been Described By Professor Pallas. About ...
Antenne
Antenne, The Articulated Flexible Horns, On The Head Of Insects ; Commonly Two In Number, And Very Rarely Four. These Are Such A Peculiar And Prominent Feature, That Most Of The Older Entomologists Have Found Ed One Of The Leading Characters Of The Different Genera Of Insects On Their Situation, ...
Anthony Arnaud
Arnaud, Anthony, Was Born At Paris, On The 6th Day Of February 1612. He Was The Twentieth Child Of Anthony Arnaud, The Celebrated Advocate, Who Pleaded The Cause Of The University Of Paris Against The Jesuits, In 1594. He Seems To Have Inherited All His Father's Sentiments Respecting That Society ...
Anthony Frederick Busciiing
Busciiing, Anthony Frederick, Was Born At Stadthagen, In Germany, In 1724. After Having Been Instructed In The Greek, Chaldaic, And Syriac Languages, And Also In Mathematics And Astronomy, By M. Ilauber, The Pastor Of A German Congregation At Copenhagen, He Went, In 1744, To Study Divinity At Halle. In 1745, ...
Anthony Lawrence Lavoisier
Lavoisier, Anthony Lawrence, The Celebrated French Chemist, Was Horn At Paris, On The 26th Of Au Gust, 1743. His Father, Being In Opulent Circumstances, Gave His Son Every Advantage Which A Liberal Education Could Bestow ; And The Genius Of Lavoisier Was Directed, At An Early Period, To The Study ...
Anthony Wayne
Wayne, Anthony, Eminent During The War Of The American Revolution For His Abilities And Ser Vices As A Soldier And A General, And Through Life As A Patriot, Was Born In The Township Of Eastown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, On The First Day Of January 1745. His Ancestors Were Natives, Origi ...
Anthropophagi
Anthropophagi, Cannibals, Or Such As Feed On Human Flesh. It Is With Difficulty We Can Bring Our Selves To Believe, That Such Monsters Ever Existed; And Yet There Is Scarcely Any Fact More Fully Established By The Concurring Testimony Both Of Ancient And Modern Authors. There Is An Evident Propensity ...
Anthus
Anthus. Bech. Tem. Vieill. Bill Straight, Slender, Cylindrical, Awl-shaped Near The Tip, Edges Inflected Towards The Middle ; Base Of The Upper Mandible Ridged, Point Slightly Notched ; Nostrils Basal, Lateral, And Half-closed By An Arched Membrane; The Hind Claw More Or Less Bent, And Generally Longer Than The Hind ...
Antichrist
Antichrist Is A Word Derived From The Greek Avrimis-65, And Signifies "one Who Assumes The Place Of Christ, Or Acts In Opposition To Him." In This General Sense, Every Person Who Is Hostile To His Authority Or His Religion May Be Called Antichrist. But The Term Is Usually Employed By ...