A Technological Dictionary: Explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Professions, and TradesW. Tegg, 1846 - 755 σελίδες |
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... length into the acts of councils and the ordinary assemblies of the church . Sermons were applauded with hands and feet , by leaping up and down , and shout- ing " orthodox , " by the waving of hand- kerchiefs , & c . The acclamation of ...
... length into the acts of councils and the ordinary assemblies of the church . Sermons were applauded with hands and feet , by leaping up and down , and shout- ing " orthodox , " by the waving of hand- kerchiefs , & c . The acclamation of ...
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... length equal to 120 Roman feet . In agriculture , the length of one furrow . Lat . ACUITION , Lat . acuitio ( from acuo , to ACU'LEUS , a spine or prickle , from acus , a needle ; plural aculei , ( q . v . ) The aculei of plants are ...
... length equal to 120 Roman feet . In agriculture , the length of one furrow . Lat . ACUITION , Lat . acuitio ( from acuo , to ACU'LEUS , a spine or prickle , from acus , a needle ; plural aculei , ( q . v . ) The aculei of plants are ...
Σελίδα 24
... length , and 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 ...
... length , and 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 ...
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... length , as thick as a goose - quill , and having a hard and poisonous tail containing a sting . AHUITZOTE , a small amphibious qua- druped of tropical America : its body is a foot long , its snout long and sharp , its skin of a dark ...
... length , as thick as a goose - quill , and having a hard and poisonous tail containing a sting . AHUITZOTE , a small amphibious qua- druped of tropical America : its body is a foot long , its snout long and sharp , its skin of a dark ...
Σελίδα 46
... length to the neck . During her incubation , which was in the sands of the sea - shore , the sea remained perfectly calm : these days , forty in number , were thence called Alcydonidæ , or Halcyonei dies , that is " halcyon days . " See ...
... length to the neck . During her incubation , which was in the sands of the sea - shore , the sea remained perfectly calm : these days , forty in number , were thence called Alcydonidæ , or Halcyonei dies , that is " halcyon days . " See ...
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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.