Weaving
Weaving. If We Take The Term Wearing In Its Broadest Sense, As Applied To The Process Of Combining Longitudinal Threads Into A Super Ficial Fabric, It Will Have Relation To The Whole Series Of Textile Manu Factures; Not Only Those Which Are Prepared In The Loom, But Likewise Net-work, Lace-work, ...
Wedge
Wedge, In Mechanics, Is A Prism Of Wood Or Metal Whose Base Is A Triangle : It Is Employed To Remove Two Objects From One Another Laterally, Or To Rend Asunder The Parts Of A Body ; An Edge Which Is Parallel To The Geometrical Axis Of The Prism Being ...
Weeds
Weeds. Every Plant Which Grows In A Field Other Than That Of Which The Seed Has Been Sown By The Husbandman Is A Weed, And, Inasmuch As It Interferes With The Intended Crop, Should Be Carefully Eradicated. One Of The Principal Uses Of Summer Fellows Is To Destroy The Weeds, ...
Week
Week. This Well-known Period Of Seven Days, Now Universally Adopted Over The Christian And Mohammedan World, Appears To Be Of Hebrew Or Chaldwan Origin. It Has Been Commonly Regarded As A Memorial Of The Creation Of The World, According To The Mosaic Account, In That Space Of Time ; But ...
Wehroeld Or Wehre
Wehroeld Or Wehre (in Latin ." Werigelclum," And In Some Cases " Compositio "), Was A Kind Of Fine For Manslaughter, Wounds, &c., In Use Among The Ancient Teutonic Nations, By Paying Which The Offender, If A Freeman, Got Rid Of Every Further Obligation Or Punish Ment. The Serf Or ...
Weighing Machine
Weighing-machine Is Any Contrivance By Which The Weight Of An Object May Be Ascertained. Under Balilnce The Principles Of The Machines By Which Materials Of Comparatively Small Magnitude Are Weighed Are Explained. The Scales With Equal Arms And Equipoised Weights Require No Further Elucidation ; But A Short Notice May ...
Weight
Weight. There Is Nothing To Say On The Feeling Of Weight After What Has Been Said In Pressure; Nor Is It Possible To Give Any Idea Which Will Be Half So Good As That Which Presents Itself In Raising A Heavy Body From The Ground. The Measure Of Weight Is ...
Weight Of Observations
Weight Of Observations. This Article, Is Only For The Reference Of The Mathematical Student; In Mean Will Be Found As Much Of It As An Arithmetician Can Use By Rule. This Term Was First Applied In The Manner Stated In The Article Mean. An Observer Decided The Relative Merit Of ...
Weights And Measures
Weights And Measures. The Subject Of Weights And Meaeures Is One The Actual State Of Which Is Prosperous In The Inverse Ratio Of The Number Of Books Or The Length Of Articles Which Are Written Upon It. There Is Nothing Iu It Which Might Not, If The Most Natural And ...
Weimar
Weimar, The Capital Of The Grand-duchy Of Saxe-weimar-eisenach, Is Situated In 51* N. Lat., 11° 20' E. Long., On The Um, And On The Rail Way From Halle To Eisenach, From Which Towns It Is Distant 53 And 49 Miles Respectively, And Has About 10,000 Inhabitants. It Stands In A ...
Weirs
Weirs. The Constructions, Whether Of Stonework, Timber, Or Earth, By Means Of Which The Waters Of A River Are Retained To A Given Height, Or Are Diverted In Any Required Direction, Are Known In The Arts By The Name Of Weirs, Or Dams ; And They Are Principally Used For ...
Wells
Wells, Somersetshire, An Aucient City, The Seat Of A Bishopric, A Municipal And Parliamentary Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, Is Situated In A Valley At The Foot Of The Mendip Hills, In 51° 12' N. Lat., 2° 38' W. Long., Distant 19 Miles S.w. From Bath, And ...
Wells
Wells. The Term Well Is, Generally Speaking, Applied To Any Excavation Sunk In The Ground, For The Purpose Of Obtaining, Or Of Getting Rid Of Water ; The Technical Distinction Between The Two Kinds Of Wells Being That The Former Are Known By The Simple Name Of Well, The Latter ...
Welsh Language And
Welsh Language And Literature.—lasasuaos. The Welsh Language Is That Which Is Now Spoken, And Has Been So Far Back As Historical Records Extend, In The Principality Of Wales. The Name Of " Welsh " Was First Given To The People Who Speak It By The Anglo Saxons, And The Same ...
Wenceslas Kaunitz
Kaunitz, Wenceslas, Prince Of, An Austrian Statesman, Was Born At Vienna In 1710. Being One Of Nineteen Children, He Was Educated For The Church ; But The Deaths Of His Elder Brothers Occa Sioned A Change In His Vocation, And He Became Chamberlain In The Palace Of The Emperor Charles ...
Wenceslaus Hollar
Hollar, Wenceslaus, Was Born At Prague, Iu Bohemia, Iu 1607. He Was First Intended For The Profession Of The Law ; But Partly From Disinclination To That Pursuit, And Partly From The Ruin Of His Family After The Taking Of Prague In 1619, His Views Iu Life Became Changed, And ...
Weser
Weser, The Roman Risurgis, Ono Of The Largest Rivers Of Germany, Is Formed By The Junction Of The Werra And The Fulda : The Werra Rises In Saxe-ilildburghausen, And The Fulda Iu The Ithon-gebirge In Bavaria. The Course Of The Werra Is 175 Miles, And That Of The Fulda 125 ...
West Indies
West Indies, A Term Applied To The Archipelago Which Separates The Atlantic From The Caribbean Sea And The Gulf Of Mexico. The Name Perpetuates The Notion Of Columbus That By Sailing West He Should Reach India, Or Hinduatan; It Was For Some Time Synonymous With America. Geographers Sometimes Call These ...
Westbu1iy
Westbu1iy, Wiltshire, A Market-town And Parliamentary Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, Is Situated In 52° 15' N. 1st., 2° 9' W. Long., Distant 12 Miles S.w. From Devizes, 100 Miles W. By S. From London By Road, And 1094 Miles By The Nvilts And Somerset Branch Of ...
Western Australia
Western Australia, In Its Widest Sense, Extends Over The Western Portion Of The Australian Continent, And Comprehends All The Countries Lying West Of 132° E. Long., The Boundary West Of South Australia And North Australia ; So That The Boundary-line Between It And The Other Parts Of The Continent Joins ...
Westminster Assembly Of Divines
Westminster Assembly Of Divines. One Of Five Bills To Which It Was Proposed By The Parliamentary Commissioners That The King (charles I. Should Give His Consent In The Negotiations At Oxford (from 30th January To 17th April, 1643) Was Entitled 'a Bill For Calling An Assembly Of Learned And Godly ...
Westmorland
Westmorland, A Northern County Of England, Bounded N. And N.w. By Cumberland, S. And S.w. By Lancashire, S. S.e.; E., And N.e. By Yorkshire, And For A Short Distance N.e. By The County Of Durham. It Lies Between 54' 10' And 54° 42' N. Lat., 2° 9' And 3° 10' ...
Wexford
Wexford, The Capital Of Wexford County, A Parliamentary Borough, A Municipal Borough, A Port, A Market- And Post-town, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, Is Situated Upon The South-western Shore Of Wex Ford I Larbour, At The Embouchure Of The River Slaney, In 52° 20' N. Lat., 6' 27' ...
Wexford
Wexford, A Maritime County In The Province Of Leinster, Ireland, Is Bounded N. By The County Of Wicklow, E. By St. George's Channel, S. By The Atlantic Ocean, And W. By The Counties Of Waterford, Kilkenny, And Carlow. It Lice Between 52° 6' And 52° 43' N. Lat., 6 8' ...
Weymouth
Weymouth And 3ielcoaibe Regis, Dorsetshire, Form Together A Municipal And Parliamentary Borough, Market-town, And Sea-port. They Together Also Form A Part Of The Weymouth Poor-law Union, Which Consists Of 18 Parishes And Townships, With An Area Of 37,232 Acres, And A Population In 1851 Of 22,017. The Borough Is Situated ...
Whalebone
Whalebone Is The Horny Laminated Substance Found In The Mouth Of The Whale. It Is Not Really Whale-bone, But Bears A Nearer Resemblance To Horn Iu Its Structure In Commerce It Is Usually Termed There Are In The Mouth Of A Whale Two Extensive Rows, Each Consisting Of Upwards Of ...
Wheat
Wheat. The Botanical Characters Of Wheat Will Be Found Under The Word Turner:at, In Ner. Hisr. Div. Some Botanists Have Divided Wheats Into Different Species, From Some Marked Peculiarity In Their Formation. Others, Considering That They Mostly Form Hybrids When Mixed In The Sowing, And That Their Peculiarities Vary With ...
Wheel And Axle
Wheel-and-axle, Is A Machine Consisting Usually Of A Cylinder To Which A Wheel Is Firmly United, So That The Mathematical Axes Of Both Are Coincident. The Wheel And Cylinder Are Of Wood Or Metal, And The Diameter Of The Former Is Greater Than That Of The Latter. A Cylinder On ...
Wheel Chttino
Wheel-chttino, A Term Applied To A Particular Branch Of Prac Tical Mechanics, Which Comprehends The Modes Of Cutting The Teeth In The Wheels Used By Watch And Clock Makers And For Other Mechanical Of Cast-iron Consisting Of Two Parallel Plates, The Stouter The Better, Firmly Connected Together, But So That ...
Wheel Manufacture
Wheel Manufacture. The Simplest Form Of Wheel That Can Be Used For Any Purpose Is That Of A Plain Circular Disc, Such As Might Be Procured By A Transverse Section Of The Trunk Of A Tree Of Tolerably Regular Form. Solid Wooden Wheels Are Still Occasionally Used In Machinery, But ...