The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... angles with the keel , and that point of the compass , which is directly op- posite the ship's course . ABAS , a weight used in Persia for weigh ing pearls , being one - eighth part lighter than the European carat . ABASED , in heraldry ...
... angles with the keel , and that point of the compass , which is directly op- posite the ship's course . ABAS , a weight used in Persia for weigh ing pearls , being one - eighth part lighter than the European carat . ABASED , in heraldry ...
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... angle to the handle ; chiefly used for taking thin chips off timber , & c . It is used by carpenters , but more frequently by coopers . Its ÆCIDIUM , in botany , a genus of the Cryptogamia Fungi class and order . characters are , that ...
... angle to the handle ; chiefly used for taking thin chips off timber , & c . It is used by carpenters , but more frequently by coopers . Its ÆCIDIUM , in botany , a genus of the Cryptogamia Fungi class and order . characters are , that ...
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... angles . It differs from the cross fitchée , in as much as the latter goes tapering by de- grees to a point , and the former only at the ends . AILANTHUS , in botany , a genus of plants of the Decandria Trigynia class and order : it has ...
... angles . It differs from the cross fitchée , in as much as the latter goes tapering by de- grees to a point , and the former only at the ends . AILANTHUS , in botany , a genus of plants of the Decandria Trigynia class and order : it has ...
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... angles are con- cerned , are best effected by the geometri- cal analysis . Sir Isaac Newton gives these , among many other remarks on this branch . Having any problem proposed , compare to- gether the quantities concerned in it ; and ...
... angles are con- cerned , are best effected by the geometri- cal analysis . Sir Isaac Newton gives these , among many other remarks on this branch . Having any problem proposed , compare to- gether the quantities concerned in it ; and ...
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... angles are want- ing , and three small triangular faces in place of each ; sometimes in polyhedrons with twenty - four faces . Specific gravity 2. Co- lour white , sometimes red . When rubbed it acquires only a small degree of ...
... angles are want- ing , and three small triangular faces in place of each ; sometimes in polyhedrons with twenty - four faces . Specific gravity 2. Co- lour white , sometimes red . When rubbed it acquires only a small degree of ...
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