A Technological Dictionary: Explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Professions, and TradesW. Tegg, 1846 - 755 σελίδες |
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... officer in the court of chancery , who receives money , and pays it to the bank , is called accountant - general . ACCOUPLEMENT , in carpentry , a tie or brace , and sometimes the whole work when framed . ACCRETION , Lat . accretio ...
... officer in the court of chancery , who receives money , and pays it to the bank , is called accountant - general . ACCOUPLEMENT , in carpentry , a tie or brace , and sometimes the whole work when framed . ACCRETION , Lat . accretio ...
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... officer . Acknowledgment - money , in some parts of England , is a sum paid by tenants on the death of their ... officer who trimmed the lamps , prepared the elements for sacraments , waited on the bishops , & c . An officer of a similar ...
... officer . Acknowledgment - money , in some parts of England , is a sum paid by tenants on the death of their ... officer who trimmed the lamps , prepared the elements for sacraments , waited on the bishops , & c . An officer of a similar ...
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... officer whose business it was to see to the sharpening of the in- struments of the soldiers . ACY'ANOBLEPSY , Lat . acyanoblepsia , from zvavos , blue , and Chew , to see . A de- fect of vision , consisting in incapability of ...
... officer whose business it was to see to the sharpening of the in- struments of the soldiers . ACY'ANOBLEPSY , Lat . acyanoblepsia , from zvavos , blue , and Chew , to see . A de- fect of vision , consisting in incapability of ...
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... officer who assists the major by receiving and communicating orders , and therefore has sometimes been called the aid - major . Each battalion of foot and regiment of horse has an ad- jutant , who receives orders from the brigade ...
... officer who assists the major by receiving and communicating orders , and therefore has sometimes been called the aid - major . Each battalion of foot and regiment of horse has an ad- jutant , who receives orders from the brigade ...
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... officers . The office of lord high admiral was held by William IV . , while duke of Clarence , in 1827 , and following year . The admiral of the fleet is the highest officer under the admiralty : when he embarks on an expedition , the ...
... officers . The office of lord high admiral was held by William IV . , while duke of Clarence , in 1827 , and following year . The admiral of the fleet is the highest officer under the admiralty : when he embarks on an expedition , 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.