Columba
Columba, Lit]. &c. Pigeon. Bill Middle-sized, Compressed, Arched, Tip-curved, Base Of The Upper Mandible Covered With A Soft, Inflated Skin ; Legs Generally Red ; Wings Middle-sized Or Short. With Even Tails. C. Palumbus, Lin. &c. Ring Pigeon Or Ring Dove, Prov. Queset, Cushat, Or Ivood Pigeon. Grey, With The ...
Columbine Birds
Columbine Birds, Or Pigeon's Bill Of Moderate Dimensions, Compressed, Base Of The Upper Mandible Covered With A Soft Skin, In Which The Nostrils Are Perforated, The Tip More Or Less Curved; Feet, With Three Toes In Front, Quite Divided, And One Behind. The Columbine Family Are Pretty Generally Dispersed Over ...
Colyinibus
Colyinibus, Tem. And Including Part Of The Linnean Colymbi. Diver. Bill Of Moderate Dimensions, Straight, Very Pointed, Compressed ; Nostrils Basal, Lateral, Concave, Oblong, Half Closed By A Membrane, And Pervious; Legs Placed Far Be Hind, Tarsi Compressed, The Three Fore Toes Very Long, And Quite Webbed, The Hinder Short, ...
Comets
Comets Are Bodies Which Arc Only Occasionally Seen In The Heavens. They Have No Visible Disc, And Shine With A Faint And Nebulous Light, Accompanied With A Train, Or Tail, Turned From The Sun. They Appear In Every Re Gion Of The Heavens, And Move In Every Possible Direc Tion. ...
Commerce And Navigation
Commerce And Navigation. The First Settlers Of Virginia Encountered Many Difficulties: But Such Were Their Industry And Per Severance, That By The Year 1619, Only Twelve Years After The Commencement Of The Building Of James Town,they Not Only Stocked The English Market With Their Staple, Tobacco, But Opened A Trade ...
Common Law
Common Law, Is That Branch Or Department Of The Municipal Law Of Any State Which Is Opposed To The Edic Tal, Legislative, Or Other Written Constitutions. It Con Sists Of Those Maxims, Customs, And Established Usages, Which, Originating In The Peculiar Genius, Local Situation, Military Institutions, Or Other Circumstances Of ...
Common Measures
Common Measures Of Musical Intervals. In Our Article Co :6iniens On A Le Intervals, We Have Shewn, That, Strictly Speaking, There Elm Be No Such Thing As A Com Mon Measure Or Unit, By Means Of Which All Other In Tervals Might Be Expressed In Whole Numbers, Or In De ...
Como
Como, Content, Or Novocomum, Is A Town Of Italy, And Capital Of The Department Or Latiu, Beautifully Si Tuated Uu The Southern Exttemity Of The Lariat Lake, Or The Lake Of Como. Excepting Towards The Lake, It Is Surrounded On All Sides With Fertile Hills, And Stands At The Bottom ...
Company
Company, (fr. Compagnie, Derived From The Latin Ruin And Panis,) Means Properly " An Assemblage Of Se Veral Persons In The Same Place, Or For The Same Purpose." In The Sense In Which It Is Generally Taken, And In Which It Becomes An Object Of Explanation In This Article, It ...
Compensation
Compensation Against The Effects Of Heat And Cold In Time-keepers, Has Been One Of The Greatest Improvements That Could Have Been Applied To Thorn. Without This They Would Have Been Far From Keeping Time, And Would Have Varied Continually With The Temperature Of The Atmosphere, So That No Fixed Or ...
Complexion
Complexion Has Remarked, That The Extraordinary Pheno Menon Of The Great And Extreme Variety In The Human Complexion, As In Sonic Instances It Appeared To Proceed From The Influence Of Climate, And In Other Instances To Resist It For A Long Series Of Years, Which Has Roused And Exercised The ...
Compound
Compound S•ors, In Music, Is A Term For Those Sets Of Ranges Of Pipes On An Organ, Whose Notes Are Made To Sound At The Same Time, By Touching A Single Finger Key. Or, Compound Stops Are Such, Wherein Each Fin Ger-key Acts Upon Two, Three, Four, Or Even Five ...
Con Dillac
Con Dillac, S It.runs Bonne L' Ne, A Celebrated French Metaphysician, Whose Writings Throw Around His Name A Distinguished Lustre, While His Private History Is Involved In Singular Obscurity. 11c First Became Known To The World As An Author In 1746, When He Published His "essay On The Origin Of ...
Conception
Conception, Conenre Ion, Or Pen Co, Is The Chief City Of Chili, In South America, And Principal Place Of A Province And Co•regiomento Of The Same Name, Was Founded By Pedro The Valdivia, In The Year 1550. The Old City Was Situated On A Gentle Declivity, At The Mouth Of ...
Conception
Conception, In Pnemnatology, Is Thus Defined By Mr Stewart : " By Conception I Mean That Power Of The Mind, Which Enables It To Form A Notion Of An Absent Ob Ject Of Perception, Or Of A Sensation Which It Has Former Ly Felt." (elem. Of The Philosophy Of The ...
Concert
Concert Prren, In Music, Is That Particular Pitch, Or Degree Of Acuteness, Of The Several Notes Which Is Used In The Best Concerts Of This Period. This //itch Is Entirely A Matter Of Convention, Or Agreement, Among Musicians, There Being Nothing In The Nature Of Sounds That Can Fix Or ...
Conchifera
-conchifera The Molluscous Animals Which Are Destitute Of A Head, Were Separated At An Early Period, By Cuvier, Into A Distinct Order, To Which He Gave The Name Of Acephala. Subsequent Observations Having Pointed Out The Charac Ter Of Being Acephalous, As Common To Animals Which Differ Widely From One ...
Conchology
Conchology Is That Branch Of Natural History Which Treats Of Shells, Distributes Them Into Genera And Species, And Describes The Character And Economy Of The Animals Which Inhabit Them. To Some, The Examination Of This Department Of Sci Ence Has Appeared Useless, And Unworthy To Occupy The Time And Talent ...
Concords
Concords, In Music, Or Consonant Intervals, Arc Such As Have A Pleasing Effect On The Ear, Whether Their Limiting Notes Are Heard In Succession Or Melody, Or Arc Sounded Together In Consonance Or Harmony. A Knowledge Of The True Principles, On Which This Peculiar Property, Of Certain Consonances Or Intervals, ...
Confession Of Faith
Confession Of Faith, Simply Considered, Is The. Same With Creed, And Signifies A Summary Of The Prin Cipal Articles 01 Belief Adopted By Any Individual Or Society. In Its More Common Acceptation, It Is Restrict Ed To The Summaries Of Doctrine Published By Particular Christian Churches ; With The View ...
Congo
Congo, A Kingdom Of Africa, Bounded On The North By The River Zair, Or Congo, Which Divides It From Lo Ango ; On The South By The River Danda, Which Separates It From Angola ; On The Cast By The Kingdoms Of Fungono And Melamba, And The Burnt Mountains Of ...