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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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DECLIMINCI Erect Dials, how ro mate, see
Dial in Frect Declinine Dials
DECLIAWC Frect Plains: Sec Frect Declinine
Plains.
DECLMINC Smelinins
EReclinines Dials, arc hole
DEEDS, in Common Law. signifie Wrirines
chac concain the effeet ot à Courract made be.
civen Man and Man: Sec more in Fait.
DEEP Sea Line, is a sm2II Line ro sound irt
When a Strix is in very deep Water ac Sea; ae che
end ot ic is a piece ot Lead, calsed che Deep. Se
irhole Planes neicher face directly any ot che four Lead, ac che bocrom of wotrich is a Coat of Wrbire
Cardinal Poines, nor are chey cicher P’erpendicular Faltom, 10 brins up srones, Gravel, Sand, Shells
Or Parallel eothe Hlorizon.
Or che like, trom ehie Bocrom, and coknou che dif
fior etic describins of these Dials; Ars, make ferences ot che Cround, Which harine been betore
an Frect one for the given Dectination, accordins dilcovered by orher Observations and entered in
co che Direction in Frect Declinins Dials; chen lec cheir B0okS; cher Buels by cheir Soundines wtac
the Freieht of the scile abore che substile be the Coast chey are uxon chouxh chey cannor lec Land
SDiscience becween 2 he Co L gricude aniet
LSumm Ot
SInolination.
LReclination.
inclinino 5 Ptains.
IF ic happens chaE no Ground come ux upon che
Fallon chey euess chey are upon Ouzie Cronna
which cher discover by soundins agnin wich 
Woollen Cloch uxon ehe l.cad, Whereby chis
DE Essendo quierum de Tolonio, is a Wrie Whict
lieth sor them wtieh are by Privilese treed tron
DECLIVIS Musculus: Sec Obliguus descendens ihe parment oF Toll.
seu Dectivis.
DE Expensis Milirum, i5 a Wric, commanding
DECOOTION, is a boilins of some Planes, che Sherif co lery (o much a Day For che tixpences
ROOrS, Sccds, (50. for Medicinal VIe, Beins che oF a Kniphe oF cheshire, and a like Wric 10 lery
tame a5 Apozem: Which sec.
DECORTTCATION, che peclins or inhuske
ins ot ROOES, Secds, Fruirs, _C. Ox the frecing ot
ehem trom cheir Barks, Rinas, Husks, or Shells.
DECORDM Or Decency, in Archirecture, is 2
ervo Shillines a Day for every Cirixen and Bur-
Bels, called De expensis Civium C3 Burgensium.
DEEAOEY (in LaW) is a non appcarance in
Coure, Wwithour Cutticient Cause made out.
DEFECTIVE Or Deficient Nouns, in Crammar
(uirins aIl rhe Parrs and Ornamenes oF a Buildins are such 2s mane cicher a Number, a parricular
(0 25 thac chey Mall become che Scacion; a5 Vitru-
vius Mews, when he speaks ot adjustine che sc.
Cale, or are Indectinable
DEFETZANCE, Benities (in LaWV) a Condi.
veral Orders rorheir Nacural Affections; and he, rion relarine t0 a Deed, as an Obligarion, Recog
25 AIr. Fvelm oblerres, would never have placed
nilance, or Scacure, Which bens performed by che
Corinthian Column ac che Fnrrance inco a Prilon, Oblicor or Recoenizor, che Aet is disabled and
nor one ot the Tusean Order betore the Porrico ot annulled, as il ic had never been done. The dit.
a Church.
Terence berween a Proviso or a Condicion in Deco
DECREPTTATION os Sea Sal OP of Sal and a Defeizance, is chis, Thac a Proviso or C ondi
Kind ot Calcinarion ot Salt thus; an Farrhen un-
Elazed Por is heaced red hor over the Fire, and
ehen an Ounce ot Sale is chronn inro ic, and che
Poc is prelently corcred, a grear crackline Noile
ariles, Wwhence comes rhe word Decrepitation. II
more Sale be ro be decrepirared che Poc must bc
Hepe Rill red hoc, and rou must proceed as ac trH.
tion is annexed or inserred in the Decd or Grant
Whereas a Defeizance is ulually a Decd by ii
(CIF.
DEFENCKS, in Forrisication, are all Porrs et
Works chat cover and desend che opposite Poste,
As Flantes Parapets. Casemates, Fausse Brays:
Tis almost impossible ro sx the Mtiner tothe Face
et a Bastion cill che Delences oF the opposire one
The delion ot ic is eo tree che sale trom superAu- are ruincd 3 i. c. rill che Paraper oF iis Flank is
cus Moisture, bur ic renders che Sale l0 Porous
bearen down, and che Cannon in all parIS ThAT
and ape ro imbibe the Llumidiry oF ehe Air chac ic can sirc upon chac Face wrhichis actacked, are dil
must alvars be kepe in a Viol well Ropr, or elle mounced.
the Ai Will soon moisten it anew.
DEFENDAMT, (a Term in L aW) is he char
DECOPELATION, ihic Came wich Decantari- Cuerh in an Action personal, as Tenane is he wwhich
on: Which sec.
DECOSSATION, a Term in Opricks, is che
crosins ot any rvo Lines, RayS, (9C. When chey
is lued in an Action real.
DEFENDEMOS, 2 wora ulea in Feonment
Or Donarion, and bindeth the Donor and his Fleie
meer in a Point, and then g0 on apare trom one ro detend che Donec.
anocher.
DECOSSORIOM, is a Chyrurgeons Instru-
ment, wherewich che Dura Macer beins hiehly
pressed, is accurarely adjoincd ro che SkuHI
DEFENSIVES Or Desensitive Medicines, MduI.
Sery, are Remedies apply d ourwaraly co prerent
an Instammarion, or ans ocher symprome chac
leems c0 chrearen any parr, tcom arivins (0 lar 25
thac che Purulene Macrer sachered becwixt che tO ThaL pArE.
Stull and the Skin, called Dara MeninX OF Ma
DEFERENT, Cin AAronomy) an imaginar
rer, may be eracuared by a FTole made wich a Circle or Orb (in the Prolemaicte Syscem) Which is
Chyrurgeons Instrumene called Trepanum. Blan. (chere suxpoled, as it evere ro carry abouc the Body
hara.
DE DEOHERANDA pro rata Portionis, iS S
Weir chac lies where a Man is distrained FOr Rene
thac oughe ro have been paid by ochers propor
tionably.
Commission is siven ro a prirare Man, For che
Epcedins ot some Act apperraimine co a Judee
and by ihe civilians ic s called Deleeation.
OF rhe Planer. Tis che lame wich che Fccentrick.
The evo Poines wrhere che Epicicle interlects che
Deferent are called che Points of the greatest Flon-
sation.
added coperher makre lels than che Inteper whole
Parrs they be; as Fiehr, Whole Parrs beins One
Two, and Four, make bur Seven; likewile che
PatIS
DEFTCIEMT Nouns: Sec Defective.
DEFTCTENT Numbers, are such, Whose ParS
DEDIMOS Potestatem, is a Wrir Wvhereby