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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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Pares oF Sixceen make Dut Fitreen, and oE Forry, oE che Operations, Furnaces. Vestels, Quantirs
tive make bur Thirry chreC
DEFILE, in Forriscarion, is a Araiehe narrow
Lane or Passase chrough Which a Company ot
FlOrse Or Foor can pals onsy in File, by makins a
Small Front, (o thas che Enemy may cakre an op
porrunier co Kop cheir March, and ro charse chem
rich (o much che more advantage in regard chat
chose in the Frone and ReaE Cannor reciprocallu
OF Matrer, C9C
DETECTION, che lame wich Ejection; I5 e0-
ne to Stool, or an Fvacuation ot che LXCremenES
by che Peristalciek Morion Otthe CUrS
DELEOATES, (in LaWV) are Commistioners
delexated or appoinced by the KingS Commission
to sic upon an Appeal cohim in rhe Courrot Chan-
cery, and is granced in chree Cales; First, When
come ro che Reliet ot one anorher. Hlence 10 g0oH) a denrence is eiven in any Fccleliastical C ause by
File by Eile is called Desiline
DEFINTTION, is an exact Description, ex
plainins che Nacure oF che chins by Fssential AF.
cribures: And chere are chree chines necestary ic
make a Definition 800d
est. Ir must be univertal, Chac is, ix mus con
eain etre whole chins defined; theretore (a5 the
Auchor oFche Arr of Thinkins vould have ic) the
common Definirion oF Time, to berhe Measure0
Motion is not eood; tor Time may be che Mea
sure oE Rest a5 vell as Norion.
2a17. Ie must be proper, char is, ic must apree
wich che chins defined.
3dly. It must be clearer phan the mhins detinee
That is, ic ouphe eo render the Idea ot ie more plair
and dictinct, and makre us as mueh as may be re
understand che Nature oF ic, and be serviceable
tous to give a Realon ot ics principal Properries
vohict is chac wtiich we ouxti chiehy e0 contidet
in Desinitions.
DEFLACRATION, in Chrmictey, is the en
Kindling and burnins os in a Crucible, a mixture
oF a Salc or some Plineral Body, wich a Sulphu-
reous one, in order ro make a Purificarion oF che
Salc, or 2 Regulus oC rhe Mineral; ot wtrich sec
Sal Prunellae and Rerulus of Antimony.
DEFLECTION, is chetendency oF a Stix frOr
her erue Cousse b) ille reason of Currents, (0
ivtich divere het, or cum hex out ot hec rixtio
the Archbishox or his Osticial. Secondly, When 2
Senrence is Biven in any Ecclesastical Cause in
Places exempr. Thiraly. When Sencence is given
in any Admiraley in Suirs Ciril or Marine, by Or-
dex ot che Civil L aW
DELETERIODS, OE Deletery Medicines, are
suct Thines. Or Parrieles, as ate ot a Poilonous
NaturE.
DELF, one oE rhe AbaremenES OE Llonour in
Fleraldry. beins a Square in the midele ot the F.
Ccurcheon. Sec Abatements of Honour
DELIGATIO, Swaching. Is a pare ot Chyrur
gery chac concerns che bindine ux ot Wounds
VIcers, broken Bones, (50. and ir is cirher Sim
Dle or Compound. The Simple is cicher equal or
unequal; che equal is ontr round, wtich lvaches
the affected Member wirhoue any declension rC
cirtier side; the unequal is divided into ascia and
Sima, Wtich ac least differ upon the acCOUHE O
one beins grearer, and the ortier lels; Ascia de
clines lirele trom a Round, bur sima much. There
are a preac many more Distinctions oF Swachins
caken trom che likenels ot che Pares wtrich arc
smached, or trom cerran animals and orher
Thines. Blanchard.
DELIOVIOM animi, Sioonins, ehc same
wich Ecipsis, Lipochymia, Syneoxe, Asphyxea, Li-
popsychiam dc
DEEIODIOM Chymicum, is cicher a Distilla-
tion by ihie Force ot Pire; or a meltine ot the
CalX, erhich is suspended in moist Cellars, and 2
Resolurion ot it inco a Lixivious Llumour; chus
when Salc oF Tarrar, or any such Aix d Alkali id
ser in a Cellar ox lome such cool place in an open
Vesset, ic will rum into a kind ot Wacer; Wvtrich
ihe Chymis caIIS Ort of Partar per Deliquium.
DELIRTOM, is a Depravarion oFthe Imagina
tion and Judemene, arisins trom a cumultuar
and disorderly Morion oF che Animal Spirits, Oc
calioned by a Fever; Wwhereupon the Perlons al
sected speak sereral ablurd and inconeruous chines
Blanchard.
DEEPLIINOS. che Dolphin, a ConRellarion in
the Northern Hlemisphere, containins 10 STarS
DELTOIDES, is che Name ot a Triangular
Muscle in form like che Creek Lerter A; it pro-
cecds trom che Clavicula Or Channel-Bone, From
the upper Process of the Stroulder- blade, and from
the Processot che lame, which is called spiniforme:
and beins Fastned ro che midale of che Os FTumeri
Eites ic direety upvards, or lomentat torvards
Or backwards, accordins ro che direction oF its
differins Series or Fibres
DELOOF che same wich an nundation or
oversomins oF the Farth, cither in parr, or in ctie
Whole, by Wacer. There have been several very
are recorded in Flistory; as char of Oerges whict
boil char is FuII OF 5 Or 6 Guarrs ot Wacer. lion wrhich drowned all Thessaly in Greecc; bur
che mos cerrible one char ever Was, Was char
etrich is ulually and very propertr called che 2
lome Vaciacions, accord  El Curcumltances) niversat Deluse, er Noabis Eloed, irtict overstona
DEEL DVIOM, is a Ontemper in Frees, where
B LHC) IC CHe BarK; ris caused by a Marr
Flumbur, thac dilsolves che Cleu wticreby che
e0omuch Drouxhe.
DEFLDZION: SeC CatarHI
DEGLVTETION, Siatomine, is an Anima
Bark is Fasten d coche Wood; and lomerimes b.
Action Whereby Meac charved in che Mouch, O
at chinu more Liquid, aescends inco che Sto-
macitby che Morion and Comraction oF che Fibre.
ot che Guller. Blanchard.
DEGRADATION, is a ect M laincI
aiteh expresses the lesenins and rendrine contus
ihe Appearance oF distant Objects I a La BaSKIP
as Thar chey Malt appear chere as chey oule
2d an Liye placed ac rhac distance Nom chem.
DEGREE, is the 3GOTh PaLC OF rhe Periphery 0
a Lirele, ir is subdirided into 60 pares, called Ni
Mures, and each ot chem again inIB BO PATISMOTC.
Called Seconds, and (o into Thirds, eC
DEGREE Parodick: Sec Parodical.
DFGRFESof Fire: The Chymilts reckol lOu
Desrees oF Firc. The first is made by only 20r
3 Coals, and is the most genele Hlear ot all. Thc
2d. is wich 4 or 5 Coals, or only jus ro warm
the Vessel sensiblr, buc lo chac vou may endure nocorions Deluses or Eloods, whole Memorials
vour Fland uxon it tor lome cime. Lhc 3d. DC.
4. Tte Fourth DCOreC IS AS BPCAF A heAE aS Can BC
made inche Furnace; bur aIl chesc us aamit ot
srec is hen there is Flear enoueh ro make a Por overAomed almost all arrica, and chat oF Deuca