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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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Fnolist CaKCH LH AH III SCMMC, AHa IS IPORCHOI
a Meclar, Bulie Bodr, or foolis Prater anc
Taccler about Imperrinene Fhings chac do nor
belone eo him. BuE in PhpsickS, OF Natural
Philolophy, the WVord is Pomerimes uled in 2
sood Signification, and signities the lame a5
Practical, Mechanical, or Problemarical. Thus
Scevinus, in his Pydrostatical Elements Calls Porre
Mechanical Or Practical Experiments, wtich he
prerends ro instruct his Reader hou io make.
by che Name Ot Pragmatical Examples; anic
in che lame Sense ris lomerimes uled by octiet
Naturalists.
PRAY- AZC. Sec AZC- prior
PRFAMBLE, in the General, iS FaKCH LOLC
Incroduction or Beginnins oF any Discourse
And by che Lawyers, che Beximiris ot un ACt
is called The Preamble.
PREBLL H, 1s che Porrion whicherery Met.
ber or Canon oF a Cathedral Church receirerM
in the Righe of his Place For his Maintenance:
And these Prebends are cither simple, or mith Dig.
nity. Simple Prebends are thole chat have no
inore bur the Rerenue rovards their Maince
mance. Prebends mith Dignity, are Tuch ashare
Furisdiction annex d ro chem, accordins co che
divers Orders in erery several Churci.
PREBEHDARZ, is he rhac MIH d Lr
and is (0 called, a Prabendo auxilium aut consi–
lium Fpiscopo vel Decano.
PRLCF Parcium, is wrhen a Suic is continuec
by the Allen Or Asreement of. Boch Parties.
PRECEET, in LaW, is diverAY TaKCM, 2
Pometimes tor a Commaicses I CIS LeC
out by a sunclee ot Pcace, or oiet sne 
cer, For the bringins OF a Peron or Records be-
Fore him. Somerimes it is laken tor the Provo-
cation, wherebs die Man incires alocher r0
commit a Lel, as Thetr, Murder, C.
PRECESSION of the Equinox: In the Nem
AstrOnOMY, IIC LLLCd STarS are SuppON DC
Solred, and by some méans is precipicared o
immorable, and char the Farth eut toc CC
Sun by ies LMdal Morion; (0 chac ses AIS
makres alvass an Ansle oF 66 Desrees and halt
Wwich the trahe OF irs Orbit. NNOW II CIIS LLal
evere alvass exactlr directed ro rhe lame Poine
ot the FIcarls, se mored alvars precilely pa-
made fail donn ro the borromi, oF the Vessel
may property be called Precipitate. Sec Preci
pitation. Buc che Chymisto and WVricers OE
Pharmacy commonly sire chis Name by way ot
Fminence to che Mercurr dissolred in Acid Men
Aruums, and ihen atcerwards precipitated dorym
to che bonom in sine Pouders ol whichcher
reckon rhese Follovinis:
P. Irhire Precipitace, Wtich is Mereury dis-
solved in aqua forris; or, utrich is better, Spi-
rit oF Nirre; and chen precipitated 1o the bor-
com Wich Salt Nacer, ard a lirele Spiric OF Sal
Armoniack. Buc it instead oF Salt W acer, and
char Volarile Spirit, rou had used hor Vrine, 2
Poudex vouldhare Fallen donn, irhich may be
callec,
2. Rose Precipieate, Ance it vill be or a Pale
Rose Colour.
3. Red Precipitare, is Mereury dissolved in
Spirit OF NitrC, and then che Moisture is craxo-
cared in a Sand. Fleat; and then che Fire beine
gradually enereased ro the Third Degree, the
NTAEECE EIIEnS RCd. Tho chis be called a Preci
pitate, ris improperly so here, beins no Precipi-
tarion ac aII. IF Spirir OF Vicriol BC dropt into
a lierle oF chis Red Precipitate, ic prelenety curns
ic irtiue; buc spiric of dal armoriack isl cuem
E CreY
There is also anorher COrE OF Red Precipitate
which the Chrmists call Philosophieat Precipitate
and ofren Precipitate per se; ertrich is by inclu-
dins Rummins Mercurr in 2 Marrass, Wohich id
set in a Sand. Hlear For Forrr Days; Or rill allche
Mercurs be reducedro a Red Pouder.
4. Creen Precipitate, is made by mineline che
Dissolutions oF Mercurr and Copper rogerter
boch made in Spirie ot Nicre; the Mixture is
craporared to Diynels, and then theMass at the
borrom is pondered, and hath distilled Vinegar
poured uxon ic, and digested wich ic For TWvents
Toux ITours, ox rill che Liquor looks Crcen, and
a lirele Blevist; chen the Liquor is poured oA
and more Vinesar pur om and (0 repeated ril
al be dissolved: Then all chese Dissolutions are
s
mixed and craporared in a Sand- IPeat rill the
rallel ro it selt, as ic dorh nearly; ehen chetixd Mairer be ot the Consittence of Hloner; chen
Scars vould appear ro have no ocher Morion (raken of the Fire, it will harden as it cools, and
but the Diurnalonc. Bur because in Realies srou pulverizable. The Pouder OF it is chis
the Axis oE che Farrh dorh à lierte var trom (Oreen Precipitate, as improperlr (o named as che
such an exact Parallelism, and dort nor poire ocher Red ones.
alivars precisely rorhe same Scat WCH ILIS III
ehe lanse Llace ot is Orbit, buc makes a Imall
Ansle Wich a Line imaoined to lie in che POM-
cion ut lad Formeriy in che Came Place: IPence
AE BaPPCHS CaL the Eguinoctial POInES, Or the
5. Telom Precipirate. Sec Turbich Mineral.
I Sublimate Corrosive Be dissolved in W acer
a lirele Oil oF Fartar, per Deliquium, poured
common incerlections of che Rquarorand Pclip.  into che Solution, Will matce à Red Precipitate
ricke, do terrocede or more backmards trom Past and Spirit oF Sal- Armoniack Will sive trom lome
r0 Wett, abour 50 Seconds cach Xear; and
more of the lame Solurion a White Precipitate:
ehis Motion Backrards is by fome called che and Lime varer will sire the Solution a Yel-
Recession of ZBC Lquinox, by ochers the Retroce-
son; and ehe actrancins et M. LGuIOZCSTOF-
EheM.
Iou Colour, a5 you mar sec in che Phasedenicte
Water: And a licele Spirir of Virriot will clear
Os chese Precipirates and Colours, and render
che Liguoi preaur cransparen, and estourtels
PRASFPTA, che FIOIC
in are contained the Lceth.
PRAOMALICAL. A I
ed commonty in
vaid by etiis means is called ihe Procession ol
EKLCIPTTATE. Wiaterer is Porten ouc ot likee Fair Water.
he Pores OE 2 Menctruum, in which it was dis-