A Technological Dictionary: Explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Professions, and TradesW. Tegg, 1846 - 755 σελίδες |
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... covered with warts . The sown field . In English it retained its snake which gave rise to the institution original signification , that of any open of this genus is a native of Java . It is field , until it was limited to a definite ...
... covered with warts . The sown field . In English it retained its snake which gave rise to the institution original signification , that of any open of this genus is a native of Java . It is field , until it was limited to a definite ...
Σελίδα 21
... covered by locusts . The water of a wide river was scarcely visible in con- sequence of the innumerable dead which floated on it , apparently drowned in their attempts to reach the reeds along its shores ; except these reeds they had ...
... covered by locusts . The water of a wide river was scarcely visible in con- sequence of the innumerable dead which floated on it , apparently drowned in their attempts to reach the reeds along its shores ; except these reeds they had ...
Σελίδα 24
... covered with a greenish down , under which is a ligneous rind . It hangs to the tree by a pedicle two feet long , and contains a white spongy substance . The tree is named from M. Adanson , who first described it . native name is baobab ...
... covered with a greenish down , under which is a ligneous rind . It hangs to the tree by a pedicle two feet long , and contains a white spongy substance . The tree is named from M. Adanson , who first described it . native name is baobab ...
Σελίδα 26
... covered with long glandular hair . ADEPHAGE , the first primary and numerous division of coleopterous insects , all of which agree in being voracious ; whence the name from αδηφαγος , τονα- cious . The adephaga of Clairville , corres ...
... covered with long glandular hair . ADEPHAGE , the first primary and numerous division of coleopterous insects , all of which agree in being voracious ; whence the name from αδηφαγος , τονα- cious . The adephaga of Clairville , corres ...
Σελίδα 30
... covered , applied the right hand to his lips , the forefinger resting on the thumb , which was erect , and then bowing he turned round from left to right . The Gauls thought it more religious to turn from right to left : the Greeks to ...
... covered , applied the right hand to his lips , the forefinger resting on the thumb , which was erect , and then bowing he turned round from left to right . The Gauls thought it more religious to turn from right to left : the Greeks to ...
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Σελίδα 250 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Σελίδα 309 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Σελίδα 136 - The person who writes or draws the bill is called the drawer. The person to whom it is addressed is called the drawee.
Σελίδα 156 - Bow, is the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stem or prow. On the bow, an arch of the horizon, not exceeding 45 degrees.
Σελίδα 153 - Alfred : who, to prevent the rapines and disorders which formerly prevailed in the realm, instituted tithings ; so called from the Saxon, because ten freeholders with their families composed one. These all dwelt together, and were sureties or free pledges to the king for the good behaviour of each other ; and if any offence was committed in their district, they were bound to have the offender forthcoming b.
Σελίδα 227 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another.
Σελίδα 390 - The power or faculty of the mind, by which it conceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by the organs of sense.
Σελίδα 36 - affray" is denned to be "the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror of the people.
Σελίδα 4 - For I perceived that, if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction than that of the line passing through the eye and...
Σελίδα 243 - ... when there are four proportionals, and it is inferred, that the excess of the first above the second, is to the second, as the excess of the third above the fourth, is to the fourth.