A Technological Dictionary: Explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Professions, and TradesW. Tegg, 1846 - 755 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 9
... employed in de- monstrating converse propositions . The proposition is not proved in a direct manner from principles before laid down , but the contrary of the proposition is proved to be impossible or absurd , and this indirectly ...
... employed in de- monstrating converse propositions . The proposition is not proved in a direct manner from principles before laid down , but the contrary of the proposition is proved to be impossible or absurd , and this indirectly ...
Σελίδα 15
... employed in fabricating spears , pikes , & c . There are 24 species , two of which are natives of Britain - the syca- more ( A. pseu'do - pla'tanus ) , and the com- mon maple ( 4 campestre ) . The wood of sycamore is chiefly used in ...
... employed in fabricating spears , pikes , & c . There are 24 species , two of which are natives of Britain - the syca- more ( A. pseu'do - pla'tanus ) , and the com- mon maple ( 4 campestre ) . The wood of sycamore is chiefly used in ...
Σελίδα 18
... employed in the Romish church . ACON , an instrument , resembling the discus , used in ancient exercises ; also the name of an ancient order of knight- hood . ACO'NDYLOUS , or ACONDYLOSE , Lat . acon . dylus , without joint ; applied to ...
... employed in the Romish church . ACON , an instrument , resembling the discus , used in ancient exercises ; also the name of an ancient order of knight- hood . ACO'NDYLOUS , or ACONDYLOSE , Lat . acon . dylus , without joint ; applied to ...
Σελίδα 26
... employed in the manufacture of syrup of capillaire ; a hardy perennial . Flowers from May to July ; class cryptogamia , order filices . Name , adiavrov , from a , not , and diava , to grow wet ; the leaves not being easily wetted ...
... employed in the manufacture of syrup of capillaire ; a hardy perennial . Flowers from May to July ; class cryptogamia , order filices . Name , adiavrov , from a , not , and diava , to grow wet ; the leaves not being easily wetted ...
Σελίδα 50
... employed in movements used in the church or chapel . AL'LANITE , a mineral named in honour of Mr. Thomas Allan of Edinburgh . It is a siliceous oxide of cerium , and is found in Greenland . ALLANTO'IC , pertaining to the allantois . The ...
... employed in movements used in the church or chapel . AL'LANITE , a mineral named in honour of Mr. Thomas Allan of Edinburgh . It is a siliceous oxide of cerium , and is found in Greenland . ALLANTO'IC , pertaining to the allantois . The ...
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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.