American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Arts |
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... muscles , on account of their serving to withdraw , open , or pull back the parts to which they are affixed . See ANATOMY . ABERRATION , in astronomy , an ap- parent motion of the heavenly bodies , pro- duced by the progressive motion ...
... muscles , on account of their serving to withdraw , open , or pull back the parts to which they are affixed . See ANATOMY . ABERRATION , in astronomy , an ap- parent motion of the heavenly bodies , pro- duced by the progressive motion ...
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... muscular parts is made isin- glass ; they feed on worms , and other fishes ; the females are larger than the males . There are five species : A. sturio , or common sturgeon , inhabits European , Mediterranean , Red , Black , and Caspian ...
... muscular parts is made isin- glass ; they feed on worms , and other fishes ; the females are larger than the males . There are five species : A. sturio , or common sturgeon , inhabits European , Mediterranean , Red , Black , and Caspian ...
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... muscles as serve to draw one part of the body towards another . See ANATOMY . ADELIA , in botany , a genus of the Dioecia Gynandria class and order . Male : calyx three - parted ; no corolla ; stamina numerous ; united at the base ...
... muscles as serve to draw one part of the body towards another . See ANATOMY . ADELIA , in botany , a genus of the Dioecia Gynandria class and order . Male : calyx three - parted ; no corolla ; stamina numerous ; united at the base ...
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... muscular fi- bres being still visible ; but where the VOL . I. conversion had been complete , the bonea throughout the ... muscles , membranes , vessels , tendons , or nerves : the ligaments of the articulations had been in like manner ...
... muscular fi- bres being still visible ; but where the VOL . I. conversion had been complete , the bonea throughout the ... muscles , membranes , vessels , tendons , or nerves : the ligaments of the articulations had been in like manner ...
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... muscular fibre takes place by maceration in very diluted nitrous acid . Dr. Gibbes has not mentioned whether the fatty matter pro- duced by running water is pure adipocire , or ammoniacal soap ; it appears proba . ble , however , that ...
... muscular fibre takes place by maceration in very diluted nitrous acid . Dr. Gibbes has not mentioned whether the fatty matter pro- duced by running water is pure adipocire , or ammoniacal soap ; it appears proba . ble , however , that ...
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