A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprehending All the Branches of Useful Knowledge, with Accurate Descriptions as Well of the Various Machines, Instruments, Tools, Figures, and Schemes Necessary for Illustrating Them, as of the Classes, Kinds, Preparations, and Uses of Natural Productions, Whether Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Fossils, Or Fluids; Together with the Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, Towns, and Other Remarkable Places Throughout the World, Band 4W. Owen, 1764 - 3506 Seiten |
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... means diffolve and condenfe each other into their former fubftance of water ; alfo the coldness of the air is a great means to collect , compact , and condense clouds into water ; which being heavier than the air , muft of neceffity ...
... means diffolve and condenfe each other into their former fubftance of water ; alfo the coldness of the air is a great means to collect , compact , and condense clouds into water ; which being heavier than the air , muft of neceffity ...
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... means , provided there be a con- fiderable difparity in the age and cir cumftances of the parties . See the article RAVISHMENT . RAPE of the foreft , a trespass committed in a foreft by violence . See FOREST . RAPE is also a name given ...
... means , provided there be a con- fiderable difparity in the age and cir cumftances of the parties . See the article RAVISHMENT . RAPE of the foreft , a trespass committed in a foreft by violence . See FOREST . RAPE is also a name given ...
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... means , it is come into another's poffef- fion . RECLAIMING , in falconry , is taming a hawk , & c , and making her gentle and familiar . A partridge is faid to reclaim , when the calls her young ones together , upon their fcattering ...
... means , it is come into another's poffef- fion . RECLAIMING , in falconry , is taming a hawk , & c , and making her gentle and familiar . A partridge is faid to reclaim , when the calls her young ones together , upon their fcattering ...
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... means it may become the narrower , and not draw fo much wind ; which contracting or taking up the fail they call a reef , or reefing the fail : fo alfo when a top - malt is fprung , as they call it , that is , when it is cracked , or ...
... means it may become the narrower , and not draw fo much wind ; which contracting or taking up the fail they call a reef , or reefing the fail : fo alfo when a top - malt is fprung , as they call it , that is , when it is cracked , or ...
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... means to be looked on as a mere hypothefis , fince Sir Ifaac has vinced , by experiments , that this is the cafe . The first experiment he mentions is the compreffion of two prifms hard to- gether , whofe fides were a little convex , by ...
... means to be looked on as a mere hypothefis , fince Sir Ifaac has vinced , by experiments , that this is the cafe . The first experiment he mentions is the compreffion of two prifms hard to- gether , whofe fides were a little convex , by ...
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