Wheel
Wheel A Mechanical Contrivance, By Means Of Which The Inter Mittent And Limited Action Of The Hiver Is Extended To Any Distance, And Made To Act Continuously And Uniformly. The Direction And The Velocity Of Movement Of A Machine Are Commonly Regulated By The Disposition And Character Of The Whcelwork ...
Whig
Whig. This Term, Like That Of Tony, Was Adopted As A Term Of Reproach, Although Its Origin Is By No Means Certain. North, In His • Examen,' Says It " Was Very Siguitieativo As Well As Ready, Being Ver Nacular In Scotland (from Whence It Was Borrowed) For Corrupt And ...
Whirling Machine
Whirling-machine Is An Apparatus Invented By 3i R. Robins For The Purpose Of Determining The Resistance Of The Air Against Bodies Moving With Velocities Less Than Those For Which The Resistance Can Be Determined By The Ballistic Pendulum. It Consists Of A Brass Cylinder, 2 Inches In Diameter And About ...
Whirlpool
Whirlpool, A Place In A River, Or In The Sea, Where In Con Sequence Of Obstructions From Banks, Rocks, Or Islands, Or The Oppo Sition Of Winds And Currents, The Waters Acquire A Revolving Motion. The Agitation Of The Waters Which Is Constantly Observed Near Messina, And Which Is Usually ...
Whispering Places
Whispering Places Are Veldts Or Galleries In Which The Sound Of Words Uttered With A Low Voice Is Augmented, So Rr To Become Audible At A Considerable Distance From The Speaker. When The Air Is Agitated By Any Impulse, As The Utterance Of A Word At Some Spot, The Undulations ...
Whitby
Whitby, North Riding Of Yorkshire, A Market-town, Parliamentary Borough And Sea-port, And The Scat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Parish Of Whitby, Is Situated On Both Aides Of The River Esk, Where It Falls Into The German Ocean, In 54' 29' N. Lat., 0' 35' W. Long., Distant 45 ...
White Kennet
Kennet, White, Distinguished As A Divine, Antiquarian Writer, And Prelate Of The Church Of England, Was Born In 1669. He Was The Son Of A Kentish Clergyman ; Was Educated At Westminster And Oxford ; Had The Living Of Ambrosden Early Bestowed Upon Him With A Prebend In The Church ...
White Sea
White Sea, A Large Gulf Of The Arctic Ocean, Which Enters Deeply Into The Northern Parts Of European Russia, Between 64° 30' And 68° 30' N. Lat. It Has Nearly The Shape Of A Semicircle, Opening Towards The North-west, And Separated From The Open Sea By A Large Peninsula, Which ...
White Swelling
White Swelling, A Disease Of The Joints, So Called On Account Of The Unaltered Colour Of The Skin. Under This Term Are Included Nearly All Those Diseases Of The Joints Which Are The Result Of Chronic Inflammation In The Bones, Cartilages, Or Membranes Constituting The Joint. These Inflammations Are Constantly ...
Whitegate
Whitegate. [coax.] Willtehaven, Cumberland, A Market-town, Sea-port, Parlia Mentary Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Parish Of St. Bees, Is Situated On The Western Coast, On A Level Inlet Between Rocky And Precipitous Cliffs, In 54° 33' N. Lat., 3° 35' W. Long., Distant 38 Miles ...
Whitlow
Whitlow Is An Inflammation Affecting The Phalanges Of The Fingers, And Generally Proceeding To Suppuration. The Part Attacked, However, Is Not Confined To The Fingers ; The Same Disease May Also Appear In The Toes. Paronychia And Onychia Are Terms Which Are Used To Express The Same Disease. Surgical Authors ...
Whitsuntide
Whitsuntide Is Probably A Contracted Form Of White Sunday Tide Or Time. In The Early Ages Of Christianity The Favourite Seasons For Administering The Rite Of Baptism Were Easter Sunday, The Anni Versary Of The Resurrection Of Christ, And Whitsunday, That Of The Jewish Feast Of Pentecost, When The Apostles ...
Wick
Wick, Caithness-shire, Scotland, A Royal And Parliamentary Burgh, Sea-port And Market-town, And The Chief Town Of The County, Is Situated On The Bay Of Wick, 140 Miles N.n.e. From Inverness By Road, In 53° 24' N. Lat., 3° 5' W. Long. The Population Of The Royal Burgh In 1851 Was ...
Wicklow
Wicklow, The Capital Of The County Of Wicklow, A Market- And Post-town And Seaport, In The Parishes Of Kilpoole, Drunikay, And Rathnew, Is Situated Ou The Right Bank Of The Reatuary Of The Vartrcy, Which Here Forms A Small Port, In 52* 53' N. Lat., 6* 3' W. Long., About ...
Wicklow
Wicklow, A Maritime County In The Province Of Leinster, Ireland, Is Bounded N. By The County Of Dublin, N.w. And W. By Kildare, S.w. By The County Of Carlow, S. By The County Of Wexford, And E. By The Irish Channel It Lies Between 52° 40' And 53° 14' N. ...
Wiener
Wiener. (deem) 1tlietlgas. (lusurr-vtaa Le Al Rl11n, Bas (lower Rhine), A Department Of France On The Eastern Frontier, Moped From The River Rhine, On The Left Bank Of Which It Lies, Is Bounded N. By The Department Of Moselle And Rhenish-1antria; K By Baden, From Which It Is Separated By ...
Wife Husband
Wife; Husband And Wife. Many Of The Legal Incidents Attached To The Relation Of Husband And Wife, Or, As They Are Called In Our Law Books, Baron And Few, Have Been Already Noticed Under Their Several Heads : The Mode Of Contracting The Connection May Be Found Under )1anatatte, And ...
Wigan
Wigan, Lancashire, A Market-town, Municipal And Parliamentary Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Parish Of Wigan, Is Situated In 33' N. Lat., 2° 38' W. Long., Distant 40 Miles S. By E. From Lancaster, 200 Miles N.w. By N. From London By Road, And 1044 Miles ...
Wilhelm Von Coeln
Coeln, Wilhelm Von, Or William Of Cologne, A Celebrated Old German Painter, Of The Latter Part Of The 14th Century, Called Also Meister Wilhelm. There Are Several Documents Which Satis Factorily Prove The Existence Of This Painter, But There Are No Data By Which Any Of His Works Can Be ...
Will And Testament
Will And Testament. Before The Passing Of The 32 Hen. Viii. C. 7, Commonly Called The Statute Of Wills, And The 34 & 35 Hen. Viii. C. 5, There Was No General Testamentary Power Of Freehold Land In England, But The Power Of Making A Will Of Personal Property Appears ...
William Benjamin Carpenter
*carpenter, William Benjamin, M.d., One Of The Most Distinguished Physiologists Arid Writers On The Science Of Physiology Of The Present Day. He Is The Son Of The Late Dr. Lant Carpenter Noticed Above. On Leaving School He Commenced A Course Of Study Preparatory To Entering Upon The Career Of A ...
William Camden
Camden, William, One Of The Most Illustrious Names In The Whole Catalogue Of Learned Englishmen. His Father Was A Paper Stainer, Living In The Old Bailey, Where Camden Was Born On The 2nd Of May, 1551. It Is Supposed That His Father Died When He Was But A Child, Having ...
William Carstares
Carstares, William, A Scottish Ecclesiastic, Distinguished For His Political Exertions In Furtherance Of The Revolution Settlement, Was Born At Cathcart, Near Glasgow, On The 11th Of February 1649. His Father Was The Rev. John Caretares, Minister Of The High Church, Glasgow, Who, Like His Son, But In A Leas Degree ...
William Cave
Cave, William, An Eminent Scholar And Divine, Was Born December 30th, 1637, At Pickwell In Leicestershire, Where His Father Was Rector Of The Parish. He Was Admitted At St. John's College, Cambridge, In 1653, Took The Degree Of B.a. In 1656, And That Of M.a. In 1660. In 1662 Be ...
William Caxton
Caxton', William, To Whom England Owes The Introduction Of Printing, Was Born, According To His Own Statement, In The Weald Of Kent. Of The Date Of His Birth Nothing Is Known With Certainty, Though Oldys Places It In 1412. Lewis And Oldye Suppose That Between His Fifteenth And Eighteenth Years ...
William Cecil
Cecil, William, Baron 13urleigh, Was Born At Bourne In Lincoluehire, On The 13th Of September, 1520. His Father Was Master Of The Robes To Henry Viii. He Was Placed Successively At The Grammar Schools Of Grantham And Stamford, And At The Age Of Fifteen Ho Was Removed To St. John', ...
William Chambers
* Chambers, William And Robert, The Well-known Publishers Of Ediuburgb, Claim A Notice Here As Among The Most Zealous And Successful Labourers In The Great Effort Which Has Been Made During The Past Thirty Years, To Place Sound And Wholesome Literature Within The Reach Of All Classes Of The Population ...
William Cheselden
Cheselden, William, A Distinguished Surgeon And Anatomist Of The Last Century, Was Born In Leicestershire, In 1688. At Fifteen He Commenced His Medical Studies In London, Under The Best Instructors; And Began Himself To Give Lectures In Anatomy In 1711, Which He Continued For Twenty Years With A Reputation Not ...
William Chillingworth
Chillingworth, William, Was The Son Of William Chilling Worth, Mayor Of Oxford, Where He Was Born In October, 1602. In 1 618 He Was A Scholar, And In 1628 A Fellow, Of Trinity College In That University. Some Curious Memoirs Of Him Are Preserved By Anth. Wood Athen. Oxon.' C. ...
William Clowes
Clowes, William, Printer, Was Born At Chichester, January 1, 1779 ; Died January 26, 1847. The Father Of Mr. Clowes Was Educated At Oxford, And Kept A Large School At Chichester ; But He Died When The Subject Of This Notice Was An Infant, Leaving His Widow To Support Two ...
William Cobbett
Cobbett, William, Was The Son Of A Farmer And Publican At Farnham In Surrey, Where He Was Born In March 1702. He Has Himself Related The Incidents Of The First Portion Of His Life In ' The Life And Adventures Of Peter Porcupine,' First Published In 179d. This Tract Coetains ...
William Collins
Collins, William, The Son Of A Hatter At Chichester, Was Born December 25, 1720. He Was Educated At Wiuchester, From Which Lie Went To Queen's College, Oxford ; But Iu About Half A Year He Removed To Magdalen, On Being Elected A Demy,' Or Scholar, Of That Body. Soon After ...
William Collins
Collins, William, Ila., Was Born In Great Tachfield-street, London, September 18, 17b7. His Father, A Native Of Wicklow, Was The Author Of Varlet's Works Which Attracted Some Notice In Their Day ; Among Others A Poem On The Slave Trade, A Novel Entitled Memoirs Of A Picture,' And A 'life ...
William Conoreve
Conoreve, William, Was The Second Son Of Richard Congreve Of Congreve In Staffordshire, And Was Born At Barden, Near Leeds, In Yorkshire. His Father, Who Held A Commission In The Army, Took Him Over To Ireland At An Early Age, And Plecad Him First At The Great School At Kilkenny, ...
William Core
Core, William, Archdeacon Of Wilts, Was Born In London, March 1747. In 1768 He Was A Fellow Of King's College, Cambridge. In 1771 He Was Appointed To The Curacy Of Denham, Near Uxbridge, But Soon After He Went To Travel On The Continent As Tutor To The Marquis Of Blandford, ...
William Cowpfr
Cowpf:r, William, Was Born On The 15th Of November (old Style) 1731, At Great Berkhampstead In Hertfordshire, Of Which Place His Father, The Rev. John Cowper, Wan Rector. He Was First Placed, When Be Um But Six Years Old, At A School Kept By Dr. Pitman, At Market Street, In ...
William Croft
Croft, William (mus. Doc.), Who As A Composer Of Cathedral Music Has No Superior, Was Born In Warwickshire In 1677, And Educated In The Chapel-royal Under Dr. Blow. His Earliest Preferment Was To The Place Of Organist Of St. Anne's, Soho, When An Organ Was For The First Time Erected ...
William Crotch
Crotch, William, Doctor Of Music, Was Born In 1775, In The City Of Norwich. While Yet Is Child, He Exhibited Faculties Of Musical Perception And Execution Which Were Quite Marvellous, And Rival Those Of Mozart. An Account Of His Precocious Talents Was Given By Dr. Burney, Author Of The ' ...
William Cullen
Cullen, William, Was Born In Lanarkshire, In The Year 1712. His Parents Being In Humble Circumstances, He Commenced Tho Study And Even The Practice Of Physic Under Certain Disadvantages; And After Serving An Apprenticeship To A Surgeon-apothecary In Glasgow, Be Became Surgeon To A Merchant Vessel, Trading Between London And ...
William Dampier
Dampier, William, Was Born In 1652, Of A Somersetehire Family; He Want Early To Pea, Served In The War Against The Dutch, And Afterwards Became Overseer Of A Plantation In Jamaica. Lie Thence Weut To The Bay Of Casapenchy With Other Logwo.xl Cutters, And Remained There Several Years. Ho Kept ...
William Davenant
D'avenant, William, Was Born At Oxford In 1605. His Father, Who Appears To Have Spelt His Name Davenent, Kept The Crown Inn At Oxford, And Some Have Gathered From Wood's Words (‘ Athey. Oxon.') Hints Of A Connection Having Existed Between His Mother And Sliakeepere, Who Frequented That Place Of ...
William Delisle
Delisle, William, A French Geographer Of Great Celebrity In His Own Day, Was Born At Paris In 1675. His Inclination For The Pursuit In Which He Afterwards Because So Eminent, Was Displayed At An Early Age, And He Made Considerable Proficiency In The Art Of Can Strueting Maps Before He ...
William Dobson
Dobson, William, Was Born In The Parish Of St. Andrews, Holborn, In 1610. Lie Was A Very Distinguished Painter, And Suc Ceeded Vandyck In The Favour Of Charles I., Who Used To Call Him The English Tintoret. His Father Was Of A Good Family Of St. Albans, But Being At ...
William Drummond
Drummond, William, The Son Of Sir William Drummond Of Hawthornden, Was Born December 13, 1585. He Was Educated At Edinburgh, And Studied Civil Law In France. On His Father's Death Iu• 1610, He Relinquished His Profession And Devoted Himself To Literary Pursuits At Hiapaternal Mansion Of Hawthornden. He Did Not ...
William Dunbar
Dunbar, William, Is Supposed To Have Been A Grandson Of Sir Patrick Dunbar, Of Pell, In The Shire Of Iltvidington. This Sir Patrick Dunbar Was A Younger Eon Of Coot Go, Teeth Earl Of March. Lie Was Thus Also A Younger Brother Of George, Eleventh Earl, Who Was Attainted In ...
William Elford Leach
Leach, William Elford, Was Born At Plymouth In The Year 1790. He Was First Educated At Plympton Grammar School, But Was Afterwards Removed To Chudleigh, A School Which At That Period Enjoyed Much Local Repute. Though Not Noticed As Idle, His Inclination Was Shown At This Early Period More In ...
William Ellery Channing
Channing, William Ellery, D.d., Was The Sou Of An Eminent Merchant Of Newport, Rhode Island, United States, Where He Was Born On The 12th Of April, 1780, He Was Educated At Harvard College, And His First Views Are Said To Have Been Directed To The Medi Cal Profession; But He ...
William Ellis
Ellis, William, Claims A Place In This Work, Not Merely As A Writer On Social Science, But As Having Been The Means Of Intro Ducing It Into Schools As An Important Branch Of Elementary Educa Tion. He Was Born In The Vicinity Of London In 1800. The Eon Of A ...
William Elph1nstone
Elph1nstone, William, Founder Of King's College, Aberdeen, Was Born At Glasgow In 1437. His Father, Whose Name He Bore, Entered Into Holy Orders On The Death Of His Wife, And Was First Rector Of Kirkmichael, And At Length Archdeacon Of Teviotdale, In Which Station He Died In 1486, Being Then ...
William Elstob
Elstob, William, Descended From An Ancient Family In The County Of Durham, Was Born At Newcastle-upon-tyne, January 1,1673. Hia Father Was Mr. Ralph Elstob, A Merchant Of That Place. He Received His Earliest Education In His Native Town, But Was Afterwards Sent To Eton, And Thence To Catherine Hall, Cambridge. ...
William Emerson
Emerson, William, An Eminent Mathematician, Philosopher, And Mechanist, Was Born At Hurworth, A Village About Three Miles From Darlington, In June 1701. He Died May 20th, 1782, At His Uative Place, Aged Nearly Eighty-one Years. His Father, Dudley Emerson, Was A 'schoolmaster, And Is Said To Have Been A Tolerable ...
William Enfield
Enfield, William, Was Born Et Sudbury, In Suffolk, On March 29, 1741, Of Humble But Respectable Parents. The Disadvantages Of His Early Education Were Made Amends For, In A Groat Degree, By A Fondness For Reading And Incessant Labour Towards Improving His Mind. This Disposition To Literary Application Introduced Him ...
William F1tzstephen
F1tzstephen, William, Autlfor Of The Earliest Description Of London Extant, Was Of Norman Extraction, But Born In The Metropolis. He Became A Monk Of Canterbury, And Was Much Connected With Archbishop Becket; He Was One Of His Clerks, And An Inmate In His Family, Filling Different Offices At Different Times ...
William Faithorne
Faithorne, William. This Distinguished English Engraver Of The Time Of Charles I. Was Born In London, But In What Year Is Not Known. He Was Instructed By Mr. (afterwards Sir Robert) Peaks, Painter And Priutseller, With Whom Ho Worked Three Or Four Years Before The Breaking Out Of The Rebellion ...
William Falconer
Falconer, William, Ild. This Eminent Physician, Who Resided Many Years In Path, Was The Anther Of Many Professional And Literary Productions, Which Obtained For Him From Dr. Parr The Charac Ter Of "a Man Whoa° Knowledge Is Various And Profound, And Whose Discriminations Upon All Topics Of Literature Are Ready, ...
William Findey
Findey, William, Line Engraver, Was Born In 1787. He Was Apprenticed To Mr. Mitan, An Engraver Of Shop-bills, Coats Of Arms, &c., But By Devoting His Leisure To The Study Of The Works Of James Heath, And Others, He Acquired, By His Own Industry And Intelligence, So Much Facility In ...
William Forbes
Forbes, William, Bishop Of Edinburgh, Was Born At Aberdeen In 1580. Lie Studied At Idarischal College In Aberdeen, Which He Entered When Ho Waa Twelve Years Old. Ho Held For Some Time A Chair Of Logic In Aberdeen ; And Afterwards Travelled In Germany And Poland, Studying At Helmatiidt And ...
William Gifford
Gifford, William, A Political Writer And Critic Of No Small Influence In His Lifetime, Was Born At Ashburton. In Devonshire, Iu April 1757. He Was Descended Of A Family Oneo Of Some Name In The County; But The Indiscretion Of His Ancestors Gradually Wasted The Property, And The Early Death ...
William Godwin
Godwin, William, Was Born On The 3rd Of March 1756, At Wis Beach Irecambridgeshire, Where His Father Had Then The Charge Of A Dissenting Congregation. He Was Placed When Eleven Years Old With A Private Tutor At Norwich : And When Seventeen Was Sent To The Inde Pendent Theological College ...
William Griffith
Griffith, William, Was Born In The Year 1810, And Having Been Destined For The Medical Profession, He Completed His Education At University College, Then Called The University. Ile Diatin Guithed Himself In The Medical Einem, But More Especially In That Of Botany, Of Which Dr. Lindley Was The Professor. He ...
William Grocyn
Grocyn, William, Ono Of The Revivers Of Literature, Was Born At Bristol In 1442, And Received His Early Education At Winchester School. He Was Elected Thence To New College, Oxford, In 1467, And In 1479 Was Presented By The Warden And Fellows Of That Society To The Rectory Of Newton ...
William Guthrie
Guthrie, William, Was Born At Brechin, In The County Of Angus, Scotland, According To One Account, In 1701, According To Another In 1708. He Was Educated At The University Of Aberdeen ; But Little Or Nothing Is Known Of His Early Years, Except That It Is Said He Was Induced ...
William Habington
Habington, William, Was The Son Of Thomas Habington, A Roman Catholic Of Family And Fortune In Worcestershire. Ilia Mother, The Of Lord Morley, Has Been Supposed To Have Been The Writer Of The Famous Letter Which Revealed The Gunpowder Plot [fawkes, Guino); And Her Husband (who Had Been Imprisoned As ...
William Harvey
Harvey, William, Was Born At Folkstone On The 1st Of April 1578, And After Having Been Some Years At The Grammar-school Of Canterbury, Was Admitted At Cahn College, Cambridge, In Being Then In His Sixteenth Year. Having Devoted Himself To The Study Of Logic And Natural Philosophy For Six Years ...
William Haugiito
Haugiito\, William, A Dramatic Writer, Was Probably Some What The Junior Of Shekel:ere. In Heualowe's Diary, Under The Date Of November 1597, He Is Called ' Young Naughton :' And His Name Occurs Frequently In That Curious Record, Till The End Of The Year 1600, But Not Later. In March ...