Sulphur
Sulphur (in Medicine) Is An Principle Which Occurs In Great Abundance In The Mineral, Sparingly In The Vegetable, And Still More Sparingly In The Animal Kingdom. In The Vicinity Of Volcanoes Sulphurous Fumes Issue Copiously From The Ground, And Many Mineral Waters Owe Their Peculiar Odours And Much Of Their ...
Sulphur Trade
Sulphur Trade. Sulphur Exists In Sicily, Iceland, Teneriffe, St. Vincent's, And Some Other Places ; But The Expense Of Obtaining It From Most Of Those Countries Is Eo Great, That Sicily Is Almost. The Only Source Of Supply. Front That Country England And France Take More Than 90 Per Cent. ...
Sulphuric Acid
Sulphuric Acid, Medical Properties Of. This, Which Is Regarded As The Most Potent Of The Mineral Acids, Is Never Taken Internally In A Concentrated State Except By Accident, Or With The Intention To Commit Suicide Or Murder. In Such Cases It Acts As A Violent Corrosive Poison, Causing Complete Disorganisation ...
Sum And Difference
Sum And Difference. There Is No Need To Define The Arithmetical Meaning Of These Terms : A Few Words Only Are Necessary To Put Them In Their Proper Position In Algebra. When Quantities Receive Their Proper Algebraical Signs, And Those Signs Their Iuterpreta Tions [algebra; Sion; Ke.], They Are Said ...
Summer
Summer. [wtyren, &e.] Sun (latin, Sal; Greek, 5aws, Relies). In The Present Article We Confine Ourselves To The Astronomical Characters Of The Sun's Orbit, And To What We •know Of Its Physical Constitution. For More Particulars On The Measurement Of Time, See Time ; On Chronology As Dependent On This ...
Sunda Islands
Sunda Islands Is A Term Formerly Used To Designate The 'elands Which Inclose The Java Sea (which Is Also Called The Sunda Sea, And Is Connected With The Indian Ocean By Sunda Strait Between Java And Sumatra), Namely, Jere, Borneo, Sumatra, And Celebes. These Four Islands Are Still Sometimes Called ...
Sunday
Sunday, The First Day Of The Week. [week.] Besides The Name Of " Sunday " (dies Soils), It Was Called By The Early Christians " The Lord's Day" (i) Iildpa Ip Savach, Dies Donziniess, Or Simply Teuptatc6, Donitagica) From Its Being The Day On Which The Resurrection Of Christ Took ...
Sunderland
Sunderland, Durham, A Market-town, Sea-port, Municipal And Parliamentary Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Parish Of Sunderland, Is Situated On The Banks Of The River Wear, At Its Mouth, In 54° 55' N. Lat.,1° 22' W. Long., Distant 13 Miles N.e. From Durham, 268 Miles N.n.w. ...
Sundial
Sundial. Up To A Comparatively Recent Period The Science Of Constructing Sundials, Under The Came Of Gnomonics, Was An Import Ant Part Of A Mathematical Course. As Long As Watches Were Scarce, And Clocks Not Very Common, The Dial, Which Is Now Only A Toy, Was In Actual Use As ...
Superficial Solid
Solid, Superficial, And Linear Dimensions. A Solid, A Surface, And A Line, When They Come To Be The Objects Of Arithmetic, Are Things As Distinct As A Weight And A Time. That A Surface Is Included By Lines, Or A Solid By Surfaces, Makes No More Of Necessary Connection Between ...
Superstitions Respecting The Moon
Moon, Superstitions Respecting The. Brand, In His ' Popular Antiquities,' Gives A Long List Of Lunar Superstitions. It Was Formerly Conceived That If Hogs Were Killed When The Moon Was Inereaaing, The Bacon Would Prove The Better In Boiling. (see The Iluzbandotan's Practice, Or L'rognoeira(ion For Eder, 8vo., Lend., 1864.) ...
Supralapsarians
Supralapsarians. In The Discussions Of The Doctrines Of Predestination And Election, Which Arose Out Of The Teaching Of The School Of Theologians At Geneva, Two Different Views Came To Be Taken By The Calvinistic Party. Some Held That All The Occurrences Which Take Place On The Earth Have Been From ...
Surat
Surat, Or, As The Natives Pronounce It, Soorut (' Beauty '), A Large City On The Western 'roast Of Hindustan, In The Presidency Of Bombay And Province Of Gujerat, Stands On The Left Bank Of The Tapty, In 21° 12' N. Lat., 72' 50' E. Long.: The River Falls Into ...
Surety
Surety. A Surety Is One Who Undertakes To Be Answerable For Another, Who Is Called His Principal. Snell Must Be In And It May Be Either By Bond Or By Simple A Con Tract Is Not In Law, Unless Made Upon Some Aullioient ; But In The Case Of A ...
Surface Solid
Solid, Surface, Line, L'oint. (geometry.) We Have Thought It Best To Bring Together The Remarks Which It Is Necessary To Make Upon These Fundamental Terms Of Geometry. According To Euclid, A Point Has No Dimensions ; A Line, Length Only ; A Surface, Length And Breadth : A Solid, Length, ...
Surface Of The Earth
Surface Of The Earth. Geology, By Teaching Us To Look Upon The Form And Distribution Of Land And Sea, The Features Of Hills And Valleys, And The Various Deposits Of Peat, Silt, Gravel, &c., As Effects Of Physical Agencies, Some Of Which Are No Longer In Operation Upon Those Areas ...
Surfaces Surface
Surface, Surfaces, Theory Of. For The Mere Definition Of Surface, See Solid, &c. We Are Here To Speak Of That Branch Of Algebraic, Geometry Which Considers The Generation And Properties Of Curve Surfaces Following An Assigned Law. If Three Planes, Each At Right Angles To The Other Two, Be Taken ...
Surfaces Of The Second
Surfaces Of The Second Degree. This Name Is Given To All Those Surfaces Of Which The Equation Is Of The Second Degree, Or Can Be Made A Case Of To Which Form Any Equation Of The Second Degree Between Three Variables May Be Reduced. These Surfaces Hold The Same Place ...
Surrender
Surrender. "sursum Redditio Properly Is A Yielding Up Of An Estate For Life Or Years To.him That Hath An Immediate Estate In Rever Sion Or Remainder, Wherein The Estate For Life Or Years May Drown By Mutual Agreement Between Them." A Surrender And A Release Both Have The Effect Of ...
Surrey
Surrey, An Inland County Of England, Bounded N. By Middlesex, From Which It Is Separated Throughout By The River Thames, E. By Kent, S. By Sussex, W. By Hampshire, And N.w. By Berkshire. It Lies Between 51' 4' And 51' 80' N. Tat., 0° 3' E. Long. Nod 0° 51' ...
Surveying
Surveying Is The Art Of Determining The Form And Dimensions Of Tracts Of Ground, The Plans Of Towns And Single Houses, The Courses Of Roads And Rivers, With The Boundaries Of Estates, Fields, &c. A Survey Is Accompanied By A Representation On Paper Of All The Above Mentioned Objects, And ...
Susa
Susa, The Capital Of The Country Called Susiana And Buis By The Greek Geographers. Susiana Comprised Part Of A Mountain Region Between Babylonia And Persia, And It Extended Also To The Coast Of The Persian Gulf, East Of The Mouth Of The Tigris. The Choaspes, Now Kerkhah, Flowed Through Susiana ...
Susanna Centlivre
Centlivre, Susanna, Was The Daughter Of Lincolnshire Gentleman Named Freeman, Who, Being A Dissenter And Zealous Parlia Mentarian, Was Compelled, Upon The Restoration Of Charles Il, To Seek Refuge With His Wife In Ireland, In Which Kingdom It Is Presumed That Susanna Was Born, About The Year 1680. At Three ...
Sussex
Sussex Is A Maritime County In England, Duo South Of Greenwich, The Meridian Of Which Passes Very Nearly Through The Centre Of The County. It Is Bounded N.e. By Kent, \v. By Hampshire, N. By Surrey, And S. And S.e. By The British Channel It Lies Between 43' And 51' ...
Sutherlandsii1re
Sutherlandsii1re, An Extensive County In The North Of Scot Land, Stretches From The Dornoch Frith And (lemma Ocean, Along Which It Has A Sea-comet Of About 24 Miles, Across The Island To The Atlantic Ocean And Tho North Sea ; Having Along The Atlantic From Lnverkirkaig Bay To Cape Wrath ...
Suttee
Suttee (batt, From The Sanskrit Sat, Good) Properly Means A Chaste Nil Virtuous Wife, And In Ordinary Use Is Applied To One Who Burns Erself On Her Husband's Funeral Pile. The Term Has Been Employed Y Europeans To Denote The Act Of Self-immolation As Practised By Hindu Widows. When This ...
Suture
Suture, In Surgery, Is The Method Of Sewing Together The Edges Of Wounds ; And The Term Is Also Applied To The Threads With Which The Operation Is Effected. The Only Wounds In Which The Application Of Sutures Can Be Bene Ficial Are Those Of Which The Edges, If Held ...
Suva
Suva, A Province Of Piedmont, Is Bounded N. And W. Ly The Alps, Which Separate It From Savoy And France. S. By The Province Of Pine Role, And E. By That Of Torino. The Area Is 539 Square Miles, And The Population In 1818 Was 81,s31. A Great Part Of ...
Swan
Swan. In England The Swan Is Said To Be A Bird Royal, In Which When At Large In A Public River Or Creek, No Subject Can Have Property, Except By Grant From The Crown. In Creating This Privilege The Crown Grants A Swan-mark (eygninota), For A Game Of Swans, Called ...
Swansea
Swansea, Glamorganshire, A Market-town, Municipal And Parlia Mentary Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, Iu The Pariah Of Swansea, Is Situated On The Right Bank Of The River Tawe, At Its Entrance Into Swansea Bay, In 51" 37' N. Lat., 3" 56' W. Long., Distant 43 Miles W.n.w. ...
Sweating Sickness
Sweating-sickness. Ephemera Sudatoria, Ephemera Mangna, &d Or A Syliens, Ilyelronones, Are The Various Names Which Have Been Given To A Severe Epidemic Disease That Prevailed In This Country And In Some Parts Of The Continent At Different Periods During The Latter Part Of The 15th And The Beginning Of The ...
Sweden
Sweden, A Country In Europe, Which Occupies The Eastern And Larger Portion Of The Scandinavian Peninsula, And Is Situated Betwecu 55' 20 And Cv N. Lat., 11' And 24* E. Long. About One-sixth Of The Country Lies Within The L'olar Circle. On The East, To 00° N. Lat., Sweden Is ...
Switzerland
Switzerland (schweitz, Suisse, Svizzera), A Mountainous Country In Europe, Situated Between 45° 48' And 47° 49' N. Lat., 5° 55' And 10° 30' E. Long., Is Bounded W. By France, Between Basel On The Rhino And Geneva On The Rhone, The Boundary Being Formed By One Of The Ridges Of ...