A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids : together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world : illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty : the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages (1763)
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen, Jefferys, Thomas, -1771, Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, Wale, Samuel, d. 1786, Owen, W. (William), d. 1793 · London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street · leaf 922
e with the para,bolic (pindle. See the article Parabolic.PYRATE. See the article Pirate.PYRENEAN Mountains divide France ;from Spain, and are not inferior to the jAlps in height : they extend from theMediterranean to the ocean, upwards oftwo hundred miles in length ; the greateitbreadth being about… … PYR r 2659 1 P Y R the root of a fpecies of the buphthalmum,called, among us, pellitory of Spain.See the article Buphthalmum.The pyrethrum is a fmall and firm root,about two or three inches in length, andfrom a quarter of an inch to a little morein diameter; its furface is very much cor-rugated 5…
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