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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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PHITSIOLOOT, Physicks, ox Nacural Philo- che Horse in a Camp; r0 eie Heir LIOxtCS tO.
Tophy, is che Science oF Natural Bodies, and
cheir various Affections, Motions, and Opera-
tiens. This is cither
General, Which relares co che Properties and
afections oE Matrer or Body in general. OE,
Special and Particular, which considers Mat.
And Pickets are also drore into che Ground be.
Fore the Tenrs of the Foor, wrhere they rest their
Muskers or l’ikces round abour chem in a Rins
Wrtien an FTorseman hach commicted (Ome COn-
siderable ORence, He is otren sentenced to stanc
on the Picket; Wvhich is, to have one Hland
rer as Formed, or distinsuistred into such and such dramn up as histi as ir can be strerche, ana them
Species, ox determinate Combinarions.
PEIZSIOLOOT, is by some also accountec
a FarF OF PhySick, char ceaches the Consticurion
oF the Body lo tar as ic is Cound, or in its Na-
cural Scate; and endearours to find ReaIOnS FOF
ies Functions and Operarions, by the FTelp OF
Anacomr and Nacural Philolopty.
ME. Keil, in his Tnrroductio ad Physicam, reck-
he is co stand on che Point oF a Picket Ox STaKC
ontr Wwich che Poc oE his opposite FOOr; (0 caL
he can neicher Rand, or hans vell, nor easchim
Celt by chansis Fcet.
Pillar, difterins trom a Pillaset  s Leplel.
chac ic hach no Base nor Capiral: IE is tatcen al-
ons Four Classes or Soris ot Philolophers which (0 For pare oF che faumbs OF a DOOF OF WV in.
have treared of PhysickS Ox Nacural Philo(opHY.
2. Those Wwho delivered the Properries ot
Nacural Bodies under Geomerrical and Nume.
ral Symbols; as che Pythasoreans and Platonists.
2. The Peripateticks, wto explained theNTa-
don.
to vield sunttce 10 Burers and sellers, and FOF
Bodies, ot conicace pascieutas Colours. Irheis
tures oF Things by Macter, Forms, and Prira OlaIS iS HaM e CONOUTCd, aS I PaIMEIMS Or
tions; by Flementary and Occule Oualiries;
by Sempachies, Ancipactries, Faculries, and AE
tractions, Cot. And these did nor lo muchi en-
deavour ro tind our the erue Realons and C auses
OF Things, 25 r0 sire chem proper Names and
Terms; (o chactheir Phylicks is a kind ot Me.
raphy siCkS.
Trequent and wvellMade Lnals and Experiments
as by Chrmister, (90. Toughr into che Natures
and Causes oF Phings: And eo chese almost all
our Discoreries and Improvements are due; and
much more vould chez hare done, it ther had
nor Fallen into Theories and Hypotheses, vhict
chey Forced ostentimes cheir Experiments 10
maintain, Whecher cher could Or nOt.
4. LHC scchanm Philosophers, WHO CXPI
care aIl che Phaenomena OF IFacure by. Matrer
and Motion, by che Texture ot Bodies, and che
Ctals, Or For rhe Coiunterteitins oF GemS OF Pre.
cious Stones, the Pigment is ulually oF a Metal
line or a Nineral NaturC.
tras a caperins Datt, about tre
Foor lons, and Marpened ac che
Doine With Stecl. The Pile is Born invected, en
grailed, ec. like ocher Ordinaries, and istues in-
disserens srom ans Poinc oE che Verse ot che
Fscocheon.
He bencerti à Bile Gules, bY ele Name ol.
Sbandois
PILLAR ox Column, in Archirecture, is oI
Ot the principal Things in Wrhich the Beauty and
Proporrion oF a Fabrick dorh consist. A Pillar
Figure oE ehicir Parrss by Esuvia, and ocherhach Three Parrs, che Pedestal, hc SBasE Or
Tubrile Parricles, (90. And in Morr, vould acconne
Pillar ic selF, and che Ornamenes: And cact ot
Tor all Ffects and Phaenomena, by che knovn and chese is 25nin subdivided into Three ortet
establimed Laws ot Morion and Mechanicks
And chese are, in Conjunction irh che lastna-
med, The Onty Truc Philosophers.
ParIS; the Pedestat hath ies Base, Drc, and Cor-
nich; che Pillar ies Base, Shase, and Capital;
and che Ornaments have cheir Architrave, Prieze,
and Cornich.
EIL. L ASLELES, in Archirecture, Signitie
Square Pillars, thar ulually sand behind C0.
lumns ro bear up Arches: Therhare che verz
PTEDBDOIE, in Archirecture, is a licrle same Dimention, Chapirer, and Bale, wich rhe
Square Bale sooneu ate Mroussit ith Mould- Colums, according ro Their several Order. WHeri
ines, wrhich serres ro supporr a Bust OP ScatuC
chese Pillasters do nor stand alone by themselres.
dravon halE WaY, OE any mall Figure in RC-ches are uluallr made to jer our cot ihe WVall,=
lieto
Third pare Or a Ouarrer oF cheir Breadct, wich
COp aS aE bOETOIM.
EILLOM, is thac piece ot Timber in a Chip
Whercon che Boliprie bearech or resteth aE iis
comins our ot the Hull, alott clole by lehe
PTCKA. Sec TTiera piera.
PIED.DROIE, i MChirecture, iS a Square
PTE Ponder-Court, is a Coure held in F’airs.
Redre(S OF aADHOTCCLS COMMHALCCLL AI MMMCMI
LLOMLL LS ALC IUCM prepared MaterialS aS
Paintets, Dyers, Oc. make e BI, IOIMPATETO
PTLE, in Feraldry, signities
an Ordinary, consistino ot a
Trotold Line, Formed ascer che
MaNMeF OF a Wedge; DeinC
probablr Comethins like the Fi
Sure oF che Roman Pilum, Which
3. Tne Experimental Philosopbers, WlO B
PTA Mater. SeC Mater tenuis.
PlCA. Sec CittE.
PTCATIO. Sec Propacismus.
ihe Engincer is lavins donn che Plan OE ic;
chele are uluallr poinced wich lron. Therc are
alo larger Pickets, Which are drove into che
Farch, eo hold rogether Fascines Or FasgOrs, in
ans trea Can u s atce nuskes alo ale
PTCKLiT, in Forrisicarion, is Pomerimes used set ro the Varieer oF disterent WVOrKS: Sc
For 2 Scake, Marp ac one end, ro mark out the rhac lome ot chem projeet our only a Sixth Or ar
Cround and Ansles oF a Forrificarion, wrhen Fistch pare, and’ chez are generally as broad ac
StC.
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BIAODE.