Repulsion
Repulsion Is That Power By Which Bodies Or The Particles Of Bodies Are Made To Recede From One Another. Both Attraction And Repulsion Exist In All The Particles Of Material Substances, And Seem To Be Properties By Which Those Particles Act Upon One Another When Not In Contact. The Cause ...
Rescue
Rescue, In Law (` Rescous,' From The Old French Word Rescourser, To Recover '), Is The Unlawful And Forcible Setting At Liberty A Person Or Goods, In Lawful Custody. A Rescue May Be Either A Criminal Offence Or A Civil Injury, According To The Circumstances Under Which It Is Effected. ...
Reservoirs
Reservoirs. In Engineering Works The Word Reservoir Is Under Stood Generally To Apply To The Large Collections Of Water Which Are Made For The Purpose, Of Feeding Canals, Or Of Supplying Tho Head Waters Of A Mill, Or Of Supplying The Water Required For Municipal Services. The Water, In Almost ...
Resins
Resins, A Large Class Of Substances, Existing Chiefly In The Vegetable Kingdom, And Of Which Common Resin, Rosin, Or Colophony, Is The Type. They Are Generally Obtained By Incising The Bark Of Trees ; Oleo-resin, Or A Mixture Of A Volatile Oil And Resin, Then Exudes, And Gradually Hardens. It ...
Resistance
Resistance Is A Power By Which Motion, Or A Tendency To Motion, In Any Body Is Impeded Or Prevented. When A Weight Or Pressure Acts Upon A Beam Or Bar In Any Direction, The Tenacity By Which The Particles Of Such Material Oppose That Action Constitutes A — — — ...
Resistance Of Materials
Resistance Of :materials. When Solid Bodies Are Exposed To The Action Of External Forces, They Are Capable Of Resisting Those Forces By Reason Of The Cohesion Or Of The Elasticity They May Possess, Until Their Own Powers Are Exceeded, When The Particles Of Which The Solid Body In Question Is ...
Resuscitation
Resuscitation (from Resuscito, To Arouse, To Revive), The Re. Storing To Animation Of Persons Apparently Dead. Under This Term, Strictly Speaking, Should Be Considered The Restoration Of All Cases Of Suspended Animation, Whether Arising From Disease Or As A Result Of Asphyxia ; Yet It Is Chiefly Made Use Of ...
Retable
Retable, Called Moat Commonly By English Architectural Writers Reredos, The Screen Of Wood Or Stone Placed At The Back Of And Above The Altar In Mcdheval Churches. Retables Do Not Appear To Have Oome Into Use Tal Towards The Cud Of The 13th Century, The Throne Of The Bishop Having ...
Retaining All
Retaining 'all Is The Term Used For A Wall Erected To Resist The Thrust Of A Masi Of Earth, Or Of A Volume Of Water Stored In A Reservoir. In Consequence Of The Variable Nature Of The Materials To Be Sustained, As Well As Of The Materials Of Which The ...
Retort
Retort, A Chemical Vessel Iwwhich Distillation Or Decomposition Is Effected By The Application Of Beat ; For Different Purposes Retorts Are Made Of Glass, Earthenware, And Metal. Glass Retorts Are Usually Of The Annexed Form, With A Receiver This Formula Would Give Thicknesses Considerably Less Than Those Usually Adopted In ...
Retrenchment
Retrenchment, In Fortification, Is A Work Constructed Within Another, In Order To Prolong The Defence Of The Latter By Impeding Or Preventing The Formation Of Lodgment/ When The Enemy Has Gained Possession Of It ; Or To Afford Protection To The Defenders Till They Can Retreat With Safety Or Obtain ...
Reuss
Reuss La A Principtdity In The Interior Of Germany, Consisting Of A Part Of The Ancient Volgtland, Which Was Governed By The Ancestors Of The Princes And *mute Of Rents. It It Situated Between 50° 20' And 51' N. Ise, And Between 11' 40' And 12' 20' E. Long. It ...
Rev Charles Kingsley
* Kingsley, Rev. Charles, Rector Of Eversley, Haute, And Canon Of Middleham, Was Born At Holne Vicarage, Devonshire, On The 12th Of June, 1819. His Father, The Rev. Charles Kingsley, Senior, Is At Present Rector Of Chelsea. The Kingeleys Are An Old Cheshire Family (of Kingsley In Cheshire), Tracing Their ...
Rev Daniel Lysons
Lysons, Rev. Daniel, 31.a., Was The Eldest Son Of The Rev. Samuel Lysons, Rector Of Rodmarton In Gloucestershire, A Family Living, To Which He Succeeded In 1804, Acid Resigned To His Eon In 1833. He Was Educated At Gloucester, And At St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, At Which Uuiversity He Attained ...
Rev Dionysius Lardner
* Lardner, Rev. Dionysius, Lld., Was Born April 3rd, 1793, In The City Of Dublin, Where His Father Was A Solicitor. At The Age Of Fourteen He Was Placed In His Father's Office, But Having Taken A Dislike To The Profession, In 1812 He Was Entered Of Trinity College, Dublin, ...
Rev Dr Iiiilip Francis
Francis, Rev. Dr. I'iiilip, Was The Eon Of The Rev. John Francis, Dean Of Lismore, And Rector Of St. Mary's, Dublin, Iu Which City Philip Was Born In The Early Part Of The Last Century. Philip Was Educated At The University Of Dublin, And Thou Entered The Church, The Profession ...
Rev Edward Copleston
Copleston, Rev. Edward, D.d., Was Born February 2, 1776, At The Rectory-house, Offwell, Devonshire. His Father, The Rev. John Bradford Copleston, Was The Rector Of That Parish, And He Educated At His Owu Residence A Limited Number Of Pupils, Amoug Whom Was His Son Edward. In 1791 Edward Copleston Was ...
Rev Edward Irving
Irving, Rev. Edward, Was Berm August I5th 1792 At Annan, In Dumfriesshire, Where His Father Was A Tanner. He Was Eluc %tad At The University Of Edinburgh, And Took The Degree Of M.a. He Is Stated To Have Joined A Theatrical Company, But To Have Left It After A Very ...
Rev George Stanley Faber
Faber, Rev. George Stanley, Was Born On The 25th Of October 1773. He Was The Eldest Son Of The Rev. Thomas Faber, Who Was Descended From A French Refugee Who Came Over To England After The Revocation Of The Edict Of Nantes. Ho Was Educated At The Grammar-school Of Heppenholme, ...
Rev Henry Francis Cary
Cary, Rev. Henry Francis, Was Born At Birmingham In 1772, And Was Entered A Commoner Of Christ Church, Oxford, In 1790; Having However Already Commenced Author By The Publication Of 'an Irregular Ode To General Elliott' In 1787, And Of A 4to Pamphlet Of Sonnets And Odes' In 1788. 'while ...
Rev James Dallaway
Dallaway, Rev. James, Was Bore At Bristol February 20, 1763. He Was Educated At The Grammar-school, Cirencester, And At Trinity College, Oxford, Where He Became Known By His Talent For Versifica Tion. Ho Took His M.a. Degree In 1784, But Failed In Being Elected Fellow Of His College On Account, ...
Rev James Granger
Granger, Rev. James. So Little Is Known Of The Personal History Of Granger, That Even The Date Of His Birth Appears To Be Unrecorded. He Studied At Christchurch, Oxford, And Was Presented To The Vicarage Of Shiplake, In Oxfordshire, Where, According To The Dedication Of The Work Which Brought Him ...
Rev John Campbell
Campbell, Rev. John, Was Born At Edinburgh In March 1766, And Appienticed To A Goldsmith And Jeweller In His Native City. About, 178p, At Which Time He Was Actively Engaged In Measures For The Extension Of Sunday-schools And Itinerant Preaching In The Neglected Districts Near Edinburgh, He Began To Prepare ...
Rev John Howe
Howe, Rev. John, A Distinguished Nonconformist, Was Born On The 17th Of May 1630, At Loughborough, In Leicestershire, Where His Father Was The Incumbent Of The Parish Church, But Having Become A Nonconformist, He Was Ejected From His Living, And Retired To Ireland. Lie Did Not Remain Long There, But ...
Rev John Linoaiid
Linoaiid, Rev. John, D.d. And Ll.d., Was Born February 5, 1771, In The City Of Winchester. He Belonged To A Roman Catholic Family Iu Humble Circumstances, And Studied At The Roman Catholic College At Denny, In France, Whither He Was Sent By The Roman Catholic Bishop Talbot, And There He ...
Rev Joiin Foster
Foster, Rev. Joiin, Was The Sou Of It Small Farmer Residing Between Wainwright And Liebden Bridge, Halifax, Yorkshire, Where He Was Born September 17,1770. Lie Was, As A Youth, Pieced With A Weaver; But Haying In His Seventeeuthyear Joined The Church Of The Rev. Dr. Fawcett, Baptist Minister, Of Liebden ...
Rev Richard Cameron
Cameron, Rev. Richard, Founder Of The Sect Of Carneronians, Tint Acquired Notice As One Of Those Ministers Of The Church Of Scotland Who Most Boldly Opposed The Measures Of Charles Ii. And His Advisers For Enforcing The Episoopal Form Of Worship On The Scottish People. The Arbitrary Measures Adopted By ...
Rev Samuel Lee
Lee, Rev. Samuel, D.d., Was Born May 14, 1783, At Longnar, A Village In Shropshire, About Eighteen Miles From Shrewsbury. He Received The Rudiments Of Education At A Charity-school In That Village, Where At The Age Of Twelve Years He Was Apprenticed To A Carpenter And Joiner. At The Age ...
Rev Theophilus Lindsey
Lindsey, Rev. Theophilus, Was The Youngest Son, By A Second Marriage, Of A Respectable Mercer And Proprietor Of Salt-works, Residing At Middlewich, In Cheshire, Where He Was Born June 20, 1723 (old Style). He Entered St. Johg's College, Cambridge, Iu 1741; And, After Taking His Degrees, Was Elected Fellow In ...
Rev Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
Fosbroke, Rev. Thomas Dudley, The Only Child Of Mr William Foebroke, Whose Progenitors For Several Generations Had Been Clergymen, Was Born Iu London 27th May 1770. He Was Educated At St. Paul's School, Whence He Was Elected In 1785, To A Teesdale Scholar Ship At Pembroke College, Oxford. Lie Took ...
Rev Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Dibdin, Rev. Thomas Frognall, The Most Conspicuous English Writer On Bibliography In The Earlier Half Of The Nineteenth Century, Was Born At Calcutta In 1776. His Father, Captain Thomas Dibdin, The Commander Of A Sloop Of War In The Indian Ocean, Was The Elder Brother Of Charles Dibdin, The Celebrated ...
Rev Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Gallaudet, Rev. Thomas Hopkins, To Whom America Is Indebted For The Introduction Of Instruction For The Deaf And Dumb, Was Born At Philadelphia, December 10,1787. Having Passed Through Yale College, He Commenced The Study Of The Law, But Being Forced To Abandon It, In Consequence Of Ill-health, Engaged For Awhile ...
Rev Vicesimus Knox
Knox, Rev. Vicesimus, D.d., Was Born At Newington Green, Middlesex, December 8, 1752. His Father Was The Rev. Vicesimus Knox, Ll.b., Fellow Of St. John's College, Oxford, And Head Master Of Merchant Taylors School, London. Vicesimns Knox, The Son, Was Also Educated At St. John's College, Oxford, Where He Pursued ...
Rev William Derham
Derham, Rev. William, D.d., An Eminent English Divine And Philosopher, Was Born At Stowton, Near Worcester, In Novem Ber 1657, Arid Received His Early Education At Blockley In The Same County. He Was Admitted Of Trinity College, Oxford, Iu 1675. Having Completed His Academic Studies, He Was Ordained, And In ...
Rev William Ellis
%ellis, Rev. William, Whose Name Has Become Associated With The Progress Of Christian Missions In The Sandwich And South Sea Islands, Became Officially Connected With The Loudon Missionary Society In 1815. In November Of That Year Mr. Ellis Married Miss Mary Mercy, A Young Lady Who, Under Deep Religious Convictions, ...
Rev William Gilpin
Gilpin, Rev. William, Was Born In 1724. Having Taken Orders, He Lived For Some Time On A Curacy In The North, Among His Relations; But Having Only A Small Fortune, And Marrying A Young Lady, His Cousin, Whose Fortune Also Was Small, And Having But Little Hope Of Patronage In ...
Rev William Gordon
Gordon, Rev. William, Was Born At Hitchin, Hertfordshire In 1729. At An Early Age He Became An Independent Minister A Ipswich, And Subsequently In London; But He Had Adopted Republicai Views, And, From Personal And Political Discontent, Ho Emigrated Ii 770 To America ; And In 1772 Was Appointed Minister ...
Rev William Jay
Jay, Rev. William, Was Bore On The 8th Of May 1769 At Tiabury, Wiltshire. His Father, Who Was The Son Of A Small Farmer, Worked As A Stone-cutter Aud Mason, And Young Jay's First Employment Was That Of Mason's Boy. While Still Young He Was Placed Under The Tuition Of ...
Rev William Knibb
Knibb, Rev. William, Baptist Missionary, Was Born At Ketter Ing In Northamptonshire Abont The Commencement Of The Present Century. In Dne Time He Was Apprenticed To A Printer At Bristol, Where He Early Joined A Baptist Church. His Elder Brother, Thomas, Left England In December 1822, To Undertake The Charge ...
Revel
Revel, The Capital Of The Russian Government Of Esthonia, Is Situated In 59' 26' 22" N. Lat., 21' 39' 38" E. Long., On The Gulf Of Finland. It Is Very Strongly Fortified, And In 1824 The Harbour, Which Is One Of The Beet In The Gulf Of Finland, Was Made ...
Revelation
Revelation (removal Of A Covering, Or Discovery) Signifies, In Theololov, A Preternatural Or Extraordinary Communication Made By The Deity To Men. The Evidence Of A Revelation May Be Considered With Reference To The Party To Whom It Is First And Immediately Made ; To Those Who Have Their Knowledge Of ...
Reverend Robert Hall
Hall, Reverend Robert, Was Born On The 2nd Of May 1764, At Arnaby In Leicestershire, Where His Father, Of The Same Names, Had Been Settled Since 1753 As Pastor Of A Congregation Of Particular Baptists. He Had Come From Northumberland, Where His Forefathers Belonged To The Class Of Yeomanry ; ...
Reversion
Reversion. " Reversion Of Land Ie A Certain Estate Remaining In The Lessor Or Donor, After The Particular Estate And Possession Cons-eyed To Another By Lease For Life, For Years, Or Gift In Tail. And It Is Called A Reversion In Respect Of The Possession Separated From It ; So ...
Reversion
Reversion. By A Reversion, In The Widest Sense, Is Meant N Right Of Property The Enjoyment Of Which Is To Commence At Some Future Mood, Fixed Or Depending On Contingencies, And Is To Continue Either For Ever Or During A Term Either Fixed Or Depending On A Contingency : Anything ...
Revolvers
Revolvers Are Fire-arms In Which The Barrels, Or A Portion Of The Barrels, Being Made To Turn Round On The Cocking Of The Piece, Are Brought Successively Under The Hammer, And Permit Of A Rapid Succes Sion Of Discharges (rout The Same Piece. Revolvers, Or Repeating Fire Arms, Are Not ...
Rfmainde111
[rf.mainde111.) As The Statute Of Uses Was Mado Previously To The Statute Of Wills (32 & 34 Hen. Viii.), It Has Been Questioned Whether The Former Can Be Held To Apply To The Latter ; But As, Before The Statute, Devises Of The Use Were Permitted, So, Since The Statute, ...
Rhapsody
Rhapsody *4na) Was A Poem Sung By A Rhapsodist, Generally Applied To Detached Parts Of The Homeric Poems, The Iliad And The Odyssey. But The Word Rhapsodist Properly Signifies One Who Sews Or Fastens Things Together ; And It Was Specially Applied To Those Who Arranged Or Are Supposed To ...
Rhein Provinz
Rhein Provinz ('province Of The Rhine'), The Most .western Province Of Prussia, Lies Between 49° 10' And 51° 55' N. Lat.,.5° 55' And 8° E. Long. It Is Situated On Both Sides Of The Rhine, And Com Prises The Grand-duchy Of The Lower Rhine, And The Duchies Of Juliers, Cleves, ...
Rhetoric
Rhetoric (i5nropitch)is A Greek Word Of Similar Import To The Latin Oratory ; But A Rhetorician Is A Teacher Of Or Writer On Oratory, And An Orator Is One Who Practises The Art ; Demosthenes Was An Orator, Aria. Totle Was A Rhetorician, And Cicero Was Both. English Writers, In ...
Rheum
Rheum (rhabarbs Afedieal Properties Of As The Particular Species Which Yields The Officinal Rhubarb, And Even The Precise Place Of Its Growth, Are Not Known, The Varieties Met With In Commerce Are Here Described, Without Attempting To Ensign Them To Any Ascertained Species. There Are Six Well-marked Varieties, Namely, Russian ...
Rhine
Rhine (ancient Rhenus), A Large And Important River In Europe, Rises In The Alps Of Switzerland, In Several Parts Of Its Course Separates That Country From Germany, Afterwards Divides Germany From France, Traverses The Territories Of Several Princes Belonging To The German Coufederation, And Lastly Drains The Plains Of Holland, ...
Rhode Island
Rhode Island, One Of The United State, Of North America, Lies Between 41' Is' And 42' 2' N. Lat., 71' 6' And 71' 58' W. Long., Except Block Island, Which Lies Between 41• 6' And 41° 15' N. Lat. 'l'he State Is Bounded E. And N. By Massachusetts; W. By ...
Rhodes
Rhodes, An Island Off The Coast Of Carla In Asia Minor, Opposite To Cape Volpe, Between The Gulfs Of Syme And Macri. The Harbour Of The City Of Rhodes Is In 30* 26' N. Let., 28* 12' E. Long. Rhodes Was Inhabited In Very Early Times, And Had Acquired Considerable ...
Rhodez
Rhodez, Properly Rodez, A City Of France, Capital Of The Depart Ment Of Aveyron, 312 Miles S. From Paris, Is Situated In 44' 21' 5* N. 1st., 2' 34 48' E. Long., At An Elevation Of 2073 Feet Above The Level Of The Sea, And Had 8267 Inhabitants In The ...
Rhodium
Rhodium (ito), A Metal Discovered By The Late Dr. Wollaston In 1803, And Named From Fluxion (0443or, A Rose), On Account Of The Colour Of One Of Re Solutions. This Metal Exists In Combination With Plati Num. According To The Analysis Of Berzelitia, The Ore Of Colombia E Egoism Nearly ...
Rhone
Rhone, One Of The Principal Rivers Of France, Takes Its Rise In Switzerland, In A Glacier Near The Fiarka Pass, Not Far From The St-gothard And The Source Of The Rhine. It Runs With • Rapid Course In A South-west Direction Through The Canton Of Valais, In Which It Receives ...
Rhone
Rhone, A Department Of France, The Smallest Except The Metro Politan Department Of Seine, Is Bounded N. By &one-et-loire, E. By The Department Of Ain, S.e. By That Of Ieere, And S. And W. By That Of Loire. Its Greatest Length From North To South Is About 00 Miles ; ...
Rhyme
Rhyme. Johnson Derives This Word From The Greek Rhythmus (j14111). Others Derive It From The Swedish And Danish Rim, The Dutch Roe And The German Rein. All The Principal European Nations Use The Same Word To Signify The Same Thing. Thus, The French Have Rime, The Italians Rime, And The ...
Rhythm
Rhythm (pue,141, Measure, Proportion), In Music, Is Time; First, In A Limited Sense, As Ili The Relative Proportions Of Notes In A Single Ear; And, Secondly, In A More General Sense, As In The Relative Propor Tion Of A Number Of Bars In Any Given Portion Of A Composition, As ...
Ri Laen Nec
Laen Nec, Ri Nh-t1le0pllile-hyacintiie, Was Born At Quimper, In Lower Brittany, In 1781. The First Part Of His Medical Education Was Conducted By His Uncle, Dr. Laeunec, A Physician Of Repute At Nantes, And In 1800 He Went To Paris, Where He Attended The Several Medical Courses, And Attached Himself ...
Ribbon Manufacture
Ribbon Manufacture. Ribbon, Or Riband, Signifies A Long Narrow Web Of Silk Worn For Ornament Or Use. Ribbons Of Linen, Worsted, Gold, Or Silver Thread Were Formerly Included In The Term, But The Designation Is Now Geuerally Confined To Those Made Of Silk. Ribbon, In German, Is Band; Danish, Baand ...
Rice Rice Mill
Rice; Rice-mill. In The Article Orme, In Sat. Idrst. Drv., An Recount Is Given Of The Botanical Character, And Under Onvzi In The Present Division The Mode Of Cultivation Is Described. In Order To Remove The Husk, Which Adheres Very Closely, Without Breaking The ;min Itself, Several Ingenious Machines Have ...
Richard Cobden
* Cobden, Richard, Was Born In 1804, At Dunford, Near Mid Hunt, Sussex. His Father, Who Possessed A Small Property In Land Which He Himself Cultivated, Died While Richard Was Yet Young, And He Was Taken Charge Of By An Uncle, Who Kept A Wholesale Warehouse In The City Of ...
Richard Crashaw
Crashaw, Richard, An English Poet, The Eon Of The Rev, William Crsehaw, A Divine Of Some Note In His Day, Was Born In London, But In What, Year Is Uncertain. In Early Life He Was Placed, Through The Kindness Of Sir Henry Yelverton And Sir Randolph Crew, Upon The Foundation ...