Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -
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- STOPPEK, is a piece oF RopC (in a Ship) ha-p che pare whieli che Men are coFtale by, Mould
- rins a WVale-KrOE ac one endu wich a Lannier spli- be pur inro cheir Hando, in order eo cheir Ftoisine
- ced inco it, and at che orter end ris made Fast in
- thie Place where ris co be uled. Iis ule is to AOP
- ihe main Hlalliards, or che Cable. ThC ScODPer
- For che Flalliards is Fastned ac che Main- Knishe,
- and icferres wrhen ther are HloisinscheMain- Lard,
- 1o Aop ic, Wrhile che Men char Elale may Aay and
- rest a lirele. Bur ris chieAr uled For che Cablc, 10
- sop it, chac it donc run out too Fast: Ther bind
- the Wale-bnor abourthe Cable wirh the Lanniers,
- and rhar AODS ir, C0 rhac ic cannor Dip aWvaY. This
- Scopper is Fastned eo the Borcom of the Birts by che
- Deck. The Word is, Lay on the Stoppers. And a
- Strip is Caid eo Ride by the Stoppers, Wten the Ca
- ble is Fastned or stazed only by chem, and noc Bit
- ted; but chis is nor Cate Riding in a Arels OF N C2
- cher.
- SERABISMOS, Squimtins, is occasioned by
- che Relaxacion, Conrraction, Distorrion, 200 grear
- Lenech, or t00 great Shornels oF the Muscles
- eotrieh nove che fiye. Blanchard.
- STRATI, Or Soreishr, in HIydrography, is a
- narroir Sea Chuc up becween Lands on cither side,
- attordins a Pa Tage From onc great Sea into ano
- Ther; ad the Strait oF Magellan, the Strait OE Ci-
- bralter, ec.
- STRAKE, in che Sea Phrale, is a Seam berreen
- tvo Plankes; a5 the Carbordstrake is che trAt Seam
- next the Kccl. Thes lay al(0 2 Ship hecls a strake,
- rhacis, hanes or inclines co one Side, the quancies
- ot an Wwhole Plantes breadch.
- STRANOORV, is a dissiculer oE VVrinc, wten
- che Ttrinc comes away by drops ouly, accompans d
- wich a constant Inclinarion of malcins WW acer:.
- STRAP, in a Ship, is che Rope wrhich is spliced
- about any Block, and made wirh an Pre rotalten
- it any vohere on occation.
- SFKATA. DE. Woodmard, in his Nacural ITI-
- Aory oF the Farch, obserres, (and thac verr rruly)
- Thac che Far grearest parr olthe Perrestrial Clobe,
- consists, trom irs Surtace downmards to the greatest
- Depth We ever Dis or Mine, OF Several Layers or
- Strata oF disserene Kirids oF Parchy Matrer, lvins
- oue ovet anocher, ichouc any resular Order. This
- disposition of che Farth into chese scrata, had been
- besore obserred by Sceno; bue ehie Obserrations and
- Deductions chat DP. Woodmard made From them,
- are holly Hew, verr Numerous, and ol greae
- Importance.
- STRATARITHMETRV, is the AEE OF DTaW
- ins up an Army OF Batration OF MCn, according eO
- any Geomerrical Figure adsigned: And al(O OF ex-
- Or Flaling.
- STRIH, wich etio Vricers oC Natural FtiRtory,
- are the (mall FTolloms, Channels Or Chamferings, wrtricte
- are tound in the Shells ot Cockles, Fscollops, and
- Other Stiell. FITheS.
- SFRIE, a Sea. vord rarionsy uled: When 2
- Ship in a Fixlit, or on meerins wich a Man OF
- Wrar, lers donn or lorvers her Top. Cails, ac leai
- halt Mast high, wrhich cher call Scrikins itic Pop.
- Cails uxon che Bune, cher Cay, Stre Scrikes, ean-
- in8. Me Zields or Submits, or pars her Deroir r0
- Thac Nan OE Nar a5 Me passes BY. When a Stip
- couches Ciround in Moal Warer, etier Pay al(o, MC
- Strikes. When any Top. mast is to be caken donn;
- che Word is, Scrite the Fop. mast: And wten any
- chins is Let Or Lomered, 25cher call ir, down ineo
- che tlold, ches call ic Scrikins donn inro che
- FTOId.
- STRIIENCMect, in a Clock, is char wohich
- by Iome is called rhe Pin-mbeet; because oc che
- Pins wrhich are placed upon che Round or Rim
- Citich in Number are chie Ouorient oFthe Pinion
- divided by che Pinion OF che Detent-wheet). In 16
- Days ClOcks, the first Ox ereat Wheel is usvally che
- Pin-mheel; but in Pieces chac g0 8 Days, chc second
- Wrheel is the Pin-wheel or Scritins wheel.
- STRDCFDRE. is che combinarion or retule of
- all chose Oualities or Moditications oF Marter in
- any NNatural Bod, which distingui it from orhers,
- and are wnat, in ocher Words, is called che Pecu-
- liar Form, Or Texture OFit.
- STROMA. Sec Scrophula
- SFOPEA, seu Scupa, is a picce oF Linnen dipr
- in a Liquor, aud applicd ro the Parr affected.
- SIYLF, Tothe Boranists call rhac midale pro-
- minene Parr ot che Flover oF a Plant. Which ad
- heres ro rhe Fruir or Sccd: Lis ulually lons and
- Aender. Whence irs Name OF Scylus.
- STTLE, in Dyallins, is chat Linc whole SMa
- dor on che Plane oF ihe Dyal, Mewsthe true LTOur-
- Line. This is alvays suppoled to be a parr oF che.
- Aris of che Farch, and chieretore must alvars De
- (o placed, 25 thac ith ies tvo extreme Points il
- Mall respect the rvo Poles oF the World, and wirti
- its Opperend, the eleraced Pole. This Line is
- the Oxper cdsC OE he Cock, CMOMOn, Ox In
- dex.
- STYEOBATA, in Archirecture, is the Pedestat
- oF a Column ox Pillar.
- SIYLOBATODI, Or Scylobata, in Archirecture.
- is che lame with che Pedectal ol a Column. This
- prestins che just Number of Men concained in such is Pomerimes caken For the Prunk ot a Pedestal,
- a Figure, as cher stand in Array, cicher near ac berween the Cornice andche Bale; and then cal-
- trand, Or ac a distance.
- STRATIELEATION, OE Stratum super Stratum
- 25 ehie Chrmists call ic, is puctins ditterene Matters
- Bed uxon Bed, Or one layer upon anocher, in a Ce
- cible in order ro Calcine a Metal Or Mineral. ThuS
- in Cementation, (ehich (ce) chere is trst laid a Bed
- oE Cemene, chen a Place oF Gold; then aniorher
- Laver oF Cemene, and chen anocher Plate oF(old;
- and ehis is done alternatels, rill che Crucible is
- full; wotich ehe Chymists vould express by (ay.
- v8. Stratisie Gold and Cemene in a Crucible.
- SFN FAMI. Anchor, is ontr a Imallone made Fastro
- astream Cable For a Strip rok ide by in senele Screams
- aud in fair Weather, when cher vould onty Aop 2
- Pide.
- led Truncus, 25 ic allo is by che Name oE Aba-
- CHS.
- STVLOOERATOTTZOIDES, are MuIcles OF
- OF the Os Froeides, etrich dram upevards the
- Tonsue and Larrnx, as also che Tans in Degluri-
- tion; Wrhereby che Masticared Alimene is nor onty
- compressed into che lacter, (the Fauces being then
- dilared) buc the Epiglorris is also depressed, and
- adequarelr corers rtre Rimula oF the Laryna, by ils
- Application eo ic; by wrhich means che descent ot
- ehie Least parc oF che Alimene into che aspera Arteria
- is hindred; wrhich is a most mondertul Mecha-
- nitm.
- Ther arise trom che outvard Appendix ot che
- Os Styliforme, and are extended eo he FTOrnS Or
- Poines oF che Os Proides. The midale Tendon a
- Hoise the Lardu Or Tale the Sheat, cher lar, Srrorch che Dizastricus ot the Lover-Ja is tranmieted
- Socuaras che Hale. Pardo or Sbeats; eanins char chroush c.Fis calid allo Sclobyoideni
- STTLOEIDES
- STRETCHI; When ac Sea thef are soZ o
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