Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -
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- Ere OE The Farch abbu 603. oF rhe FarrhiS Semi-) is MoOred upon. Ther donc Cay a Stip is
- roseconds, and iEs apparenEdiameteF aE a meaM
- distance trom che Farch, L mabie 32 minures.
- 25 scconds.
- The Amosphere oF ihe FarcH, by dispersine
- and retractins che Suns Lighe, casts a Shacton as
- is it vere an Opake Body, at least ro the heighe
- OF 40 or 50 Geographical Miles (by a Ccoora
- phical Mile, Imean che lixriech parr ot a Dc.
- erec ot a great Circle, on the Parchs Surtace.
- This Shado Fallins uxon che Pioon in a Lunar
- Fclixse, makes the FarchS Strado De chelarger
- Or broader. And ro cach Mile oF che Rarttis
- Aemosphere, is correspondent a Second in the
- Mcons Disk, (o that The Semi-diameter of che
- Farchs Strado projected upon the Disk of the
- Moon, is to be encrealed abour 50 seconds: Or
- eotrich is all onc, in a Lunar Belipse, the IIori
- zontal Parallax ot the Noon is to bc encrealed
- in the RatIO et abOUE 70τ069.
- Thus Farche Theory ofchis Incomparable Ma
- chematician. And it ve had mans Places oF the
- Moon accurarels obletred, especially abour her
- Ouadratures, and these well compared wich her
- Places ac che same tinte Calculated accordins 10
- this Theory; ir would then appear wheches
- chere ret remain any ocher sensible Eguations
- wotich when accounred for, mighr serre 1o im
- prore and entarse chis Theorr.
- Dr. b, 3. . Lem. Phys. C Geor
- Anchors oF a Ship (0, a5 is best and (atest For her
- Riding. There are sereral wazs oE Moorine 2
- Shrip. Sometimes chey Moor Ber a Thwart, b7
- laving one Anchor on one side ot a River, and
- anocher rishr against ic on the ocher side; in Or
- dex to makie boch che Cables bear rogether, 2c
- aveil ac Tide oE Ebb, 25 ac Flood.
- Tdmore Alonest, is to lay one Anetter Lstc in
- the midele ot the Scream, and anocher right 2
- tread oF che Strip, Wrhich is done erhon they are
- in danger ot dririns a Moar; For by chis means
- boch her Anchors do bear rogether, and (0 will
- Pare het Latis on cicher Shont.
- Yo Ioor Vater-sbot, Is E0 Moor a Strip in che
- midale becween che EWO FOrMeF WaYS, Quarter-
- ins 25 it vere, neither acrols the Tide, nOr 2-
- Moored, untets Me hare aE least EVO ANCHOrS
- out; exceptin one Cale, and chac is, wvhen tho
- the hare but one Anchor out, vet chere is 3
- Fraruser astroar; and chen ther Cay Me is NIOOT-
- ed wich her Llcad ro the Stoac.
- MOORSTIEAD, isthe IlCadOE a C OpPeF, OP
- Glas. Still, Or Alembick, Wvhich is luced on 10
- the Body, or Cucurbit; and hath a Beak, Nose.
- or Pipe, 10 sec che raised Spiric run domn into
- thC Receirer.
- NOOT, is a cerm well understood in che tnns
- OF COuTE, ro be thac Fixercile or Arguing ot Ca
- les, which rouns Scudents pertorm at appointed
- rimes, the berrer to enable them for Practice.
- and Detence oF Clients Causes. In che Inns ot
- Conrr, there is a Bayliff, Or Surveror of the Moots
- rearly cholen by che Bench, to appoine che
- Noor.men For che Inns oE Chancery, and to kcer
- account ot pertormance ot Exerciles, both there
- and in the Fouse.
- MOOT.MESI, are those chac argue Readers
- Cases (Or MOOr-C aseS) in the Houles ot Chan-
- cery, boch in Term-rime, and also in Vaca-
- TIOAS.
- NIORAL Ouantity. Sec Ouantity.
- NIORATDR, Or Demoratur in Lese, Signities
- 25 much as Ise demurs, because the Parry goes
- noc formard in Pleadins, bur retts upon che
- Judoment oFche Courr in che Poine, who delibe-
- rate, and calre rime ro argue and adrise chere-
- UpOn.
- MORBOS Resius, che Pame hat teterus.
- NIORTAR-PIECE, is a kind of rery MOKE
- Piece ot Cannon, or Ordnance, chick ard vide,
- proper for che dischargins ot Bombs, Carcasses.
- Scones, (9c. Ic is ulually mounred on a Carri-
- 28c, the Whcels Whereot arc verr lorr. MI. An
- aerson, in his Book oF che Cun, Cairh, That 30
- Or 80 Decrees ot Lleration, is the bek For ren
- drins Morrars serviceable, 10 cast Shells into
- TOWNS, FOrES, (9C. And he Paich, Thar is MOr-
- car pieces ivere all, as cher oustir to be, exactly
- Similar, and cheir Requisires ot Porrder 25 che
- Cubes ot the Diameters of cheir sereral BOres;
- and if also their Strells, Bombs, C arcasses, (90
- vere Similar, chen comparine litre wich like,
- their Ranges upon the Plane oE che Floriron un-
- der the lame degree of Elerarion, vould be c-
- qual; and consequener one Piece being vell
- prored, chac is, che Range ot the Granado,
- Bomb, Carcals, (5c. beins tound r0 any deoree
- ot Fleration, the whole Wori ol the MOrTar-
- lonsst ic, buc becreen boch. WVhen a Strip comes picce ould become very casie and exact: But
- into a Place of Ridins, the Master and hisMates Tince Morrars are nor thus Similar, there is re-
- obserre on whar Poinc ot che Compals che Wind Guired che Range oF che Piece ar any convenient
- is litceliest ro endanger the Strip, and there ther degrec ot Fleration, With its requisite DE PO
- lay our an Anchor; and chis is called Moorine der; and then vou must work by che la
- for Fast, North, ec. accordins 10 che Poine Be bles.
- aLAeTCIS.
- The Suris Forironral Parallax L matie 20 be
- Pa5. 336.
- MOOR at Sea, signilies che lavins out che
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