# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0675 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0675?run=74 # Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71) # Folio - , page id 806933011:0675 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=806933011&page=675 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/806933011/jpgs/default/00000675.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 145 lines, status machine # Lines: 145 recognised, mean confidence 0.90 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. ehem ro do, chey do ic wrich very grear riolence and (degrees Four rimes its eighe oF Ancimony in Pou noile. POMe Brake, at Sea, isthe Plandle oEche Pump. DOME Can is rhe Bucket Whereby chey pour WVacer inco the Pump ro terch ir and malie ic wvork wrhen chey incend co uleic. And PDME Vale, is the Froushi by whichche Wacei runs from che Pump alons che Shrip-sides, thar ic may 50 out ac the Scoper-holes PONCTOM Lachrymale. Sce Lachrymale Punctum. WDHETOM Saliens: In che GrOWTH OF an LBB rou sec a licele Speck or Cloud as ic vere in che in- nermost Tunic oFic, called Amnios, Which groving graduallu chicker, acquires a kind of llimy Matrer. in the midale whereof rou sec Erstchis Punctum Sa- liens, (2 licrle Speck chac lecns ro leap) atrervaret the rude Body oF an Embrio, Which cends everz day more and more ro Pertection. Blanchard. PVNX. See Puisne PDPTLLA, Or Pupula, is che openins oF the Tu- nic oE the Eyc, called Lvea, Or Choroides; ic is round in Mar, and is capable ol beins contracted or dilared litre a Muscle, accordins ro che ditterene degree oE LishrtheEre is expoledio. POPPIS Vena, is thac Vein which spreacs it lel abour the hinderpart os the Flcad. PORLCHIACE: This word has che lame sence at Sea 25 Dram has a Shore; thus ther CaY, The Capstan Purchaces apace; chac is, drans in the C a- ble apace. And wtien cher cannor drai or hale in any chins wich che Tackle, thes CaY, Jhe Lackle Will not Purchace. PORELEN; theterm in Heraldes to exprese Ermines, Pean, Ox any oFthe Furrs when chercom pose a Bordure round a Coat of Arms. Thuschez Par he Bearech Oules, a Bordure Purstem, Verry: meanins chac the Boraureis Verrr. PDRSATION, Purgins, is an ExCretSEY MO. tion quick and frequent, proccedins trom a quicke and orderly Contraction ot che Carneous Fibres ot che Scomach and Incestines, Whereby che Chyle and Fxcrements, aud corrupred Hlumours, cirher bred or senr chere trom orher Parrs, are protruded Erom ParE tO Parr, till cher be quire excluded the Bodr. Blanchard. PDROATION, in Law, is che clearins ot a Nans selfot a Crime Whereor he is generalls Cu(- Pected, and olthe lame accus d betore che Judse; and is cicher Canonical or Vulsar. The Canoni- cal, is thac wrtich is prescribed by Canon- L aW, the Form chereot is uluallr thus in the Spiritual Courr: The Man suspected, takes his Oath, that heis clear of che Faulc objected, and brines (oma- ny oE his honest Neisbours, beins noc abore Pivelve, as the Coure Mall assion him, t0 Sevear upon their Conscience and Credulitr, Thac he Sveareth rruIY. Vulgar Purration, Was by Fire OE Water, Or by Combat, uled boch by Infidelo and Christians, till by che Canon- L ar abolimed Buc Combat. mar be still practised by the Laws oF the Realm in Causes doubetul, and irhere chere is Want of Fvidence and orher Proot, it cheDetendant signities its beins purped or cleansed trom the mix cure oF all ocher Metals. best der; the Cold Will presenely melt; continve a vere Arong Pire eill you perceire che Mecal ed SpALRL. ic, char the Cold mas sink rothe borromi; break it wrhen ris cold, and separare the tine CoId; WhICH Atceecis, inelleC Legce aedioret a Fire in a Crucible, and When it begins to mett chron inco ic, by licele and liccle, chree cimes Ir weighe of Salt-peter; continue a very ArONB Fire r lecep che Matrer in constane Fusion; and when che Fumes are aIl gone, and the Mecal appears bristi and clear, cast ic into an TrOn MOrTaY Greaied ane warmed; or else is vou dont ralue che Crucible leare ic in chacro cool, and break the Crucible be. Eore ris quire cold, and then separare che Regule trom ius Drols remainins ac the Fop, the Cold Will Berery pure. 25 the Depart and Cementation, Which sec under thole ords: Buc cis is The best oF alI. Copper; the Zellon is betrer, and it Mould re main Tellon wrhile ris in che Fire. Chus: OF hc Calcinarion Il Math enauCu, is oF dirers Co- attermards, by Perambularions, serered again HOII the lame, and exempred From thac Serritude thas vas Formerty laid upon ic: And hC FMAE WV ALKCCIL or Coursech ichin that Circuit, is nor liable eo rhe Laws and Penalties incurred by them wwtich FTune wichinthe Precincts of che Porest. rhen cake the Crucible ouce ele Fire, and knoch s Called the Regule, From che drossy Parr. Phere are several ocher ays ot culus oo Red Cold is less raluable, as containing mont Pursteation oF Silver, is made le Coppet Fleat the Coppel senely and by degrees, rill ir srow red hoc, then cast inco ic four or hrerimes as much Leac as vou delion ro puritie Silver: Lhe Lead W omele and sII etie sides oF the COP. Del; chess purche Silver inco the midst oF che met red Lead, and ir also will presentI) HICIL, CIICH L) Nrood all abour and over the Coppel, ane _oW the Flame 10 thac it mas reverberdre on the Mar Fet, IC Impurities OF Which, Will by this means mix WslThe Lead, and chesilrer ill remain pure and umxed in the midale of the Coppel; ala CMC L eachaacu Wichthe dross Parts oF the Siiver, WIII lic onthe sides Ie a Scum: ThisScum isto berakem Os ich a Spoon Or ocher lnltrumene, anet ls WL 15 called Litharee. Which accordins ro che degree lours, and Wces Is Cassed Licharse oF Gold and lonetimes Licharge of Silver PORLDF, or Purlieu, Trom the Prench Pur, I. C. Furis, aHa Lieu, L. C. Locus, I5 all thac Cround ned any Forel, Wen a ac sace forest, 15 PURPORE, cheFTeralds Term o a Colour contistine oF much Rea and a licele Black: And chis Leru to ired in the Coats. oF al Perlons belo the degree ot No- ble; buc in the Coars oF Noble men, tis called amethist; and in Purification os Cold, is by Antimony, in this called Meroury. chole oE Sovereion Princes, ris Tines dravn actuvare ne LICusseon, beginning ar the Dexter Point, thuS PORSEK, an Oficer in a KEingS Ship, Wvhore certes her Victuals from the Victualler, and is re cakre care thac ir be in g00d Condirion, and wel laid up and Roved: Ilis Office is alio to Keep Tist oF che Hen and Boys belongins ro che Strip, and ro sec donn exactlr ihe Days ot eachMans Tis expressed in Fngravins by chuse rather the Combat than ochier Pryal. PDRIELLAFION a Merat, in Chrmistrs Tis chiesy used abour Gold and Silver. The adceance inio Par, illat l0 ilte Ld) alter Or be, arc nohen X begiis 20 met, pouc uxon bY JTrealuree dl che vars nd ueotorunc aen manner: Pur the Gold in a Crucible, makre ic red