Volume 1

Universal technological dictionary, or, Familiar explanations of the terms used in all arts and sciences containing definitions drawn from the original writers, and illustrated by plates, epigrams, cuts, &c. / by George Crabb.

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1823
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    MQV ^OLUS Harp. (Mus.) or iEolian Harp; a musical insti'U- ment, producing melody by the wind. iE'ON (Med.) 1. The natural age or life of man from his birth to his death. Gal. Exeges, Hippocrat. Vocab.; Hesychius. 2. The spinal marrow. Erot. Lex Hippocrat.; Hesycliius ; Foes. Oeconom. Hippocrat. iEONE'SlS (Med.) Uior/ia-ic,; the moistening external parts by perfusion or fomentation. Grot. Lex Hippocrat.; Foes. Oeconom. Hippocrat. .(E'ONION (Bot.) uU'niov; a Greek name for a sort of sedum. Gorr. Def. Med. M'ORA {A7it.) uia^'/.; a festival in honour of Erigone. Hygin. Fab. 116; Hesych. in Voc. ct^'af^; Voss. de Orig. S)^ Pro- gress. Idol. 1. 1, c. 13; Meurs. GrcBc. Fer. 1. 1. ^ORA [Med-) a species of exercise by gestation, as swing- ing, riding, &c. adapted for weak persons ; so called from ata^ioi, to lift up. Cels. 1. 7, c. 26 ; Erotian Lex Hippo- crat.; Aet. Tetrab. 1. serm. 3> c. 6; Gorr. Def. Med.; Foes. Oeconom. Hippocrat. jEQUA'BILIS {Phy.) equable ; an epithet applied to mo- tion, celerity, &c. [vide Equable] Ex lEQVA'hl, sc. distantia [Math.) or ex ccquo, at equal dis- tance : a term applied to any number of magnitudes more than two, and as many others, so that they are proportionals when taken two and two of each rank, in such wise that the first is to the last of the first rank of magnitudes as the first is to the last of the second, &c.—Ex JEqicali, ex ceqiialitate, or ex cequo ratio, S'd'<ris .>ioyo?, is when the first magnitude is to the second of the first rank as the first to the second of the other rank; and as the second is to the third of the first rank, so is the second to the third of the other; and so on in order: whence this is called ordinate proportion : thus, suppose there be three magnitudes, a, b, c, and as many others, d, e, J, which taken two and two have the same ratio, that is, such that as a is to 6 so is d to e; and as 6 is to c so is e to y; then a shall be to c as d is tojl—Ex JEquali. i7i proportione perturbata, seu inordinata, i.e. from equality in perturbate or disorderly proportion, is when the first magnitude is to the second of the first rank as the last but one is to the last of the second rank, and so on; as, sup- pose there be four magnitudes, a, b, c, d, and other four, e, g, h, which taken two and two, in cross order, have the same ratio, that is, a to 6 as />■ to h; b to c as y to o- ; and c to as e to f; then a will be to d as e to h. Euclid. Def Elem. 1. 5. .(^IQUA'LIS [Bot.) equal; an epithet applied to the gills, anthodium, and filaments—Lai^iella cequales, when all the gills reach from the stalk to the margin.—Anthodium cequale, when the leaves of the anthodium are all of equal length.—Filamenta cequalia, when the filaments are of equal length. ^QUALis Polygamia, the name of the first order in the Class Sy7igenesia, of Linnaeus, containing those compound flow- ers which have all the florets hermaphrodite and alike. It includes the following genera.— The Genera of ^q\ Scolymus, Golden Thistle Cichorium, Succory Catananche Seriola Hypochceris, Cat's-ear Gcropogon, Old Man's beard Roihia Andrijala Triptilion Tragopodon, Goat's beard Helmintia Picris, Ox-tongue Apargia \ialis Polygamia. Scorzoncra, Viper's-grass Leontodon, Dandelion C7-epis, Hawk's-beard Chondrilla, Gum Succory Prenanthes Lactuca, Lettuce Heracium, Hawk's-weed Sonchus, Sow-thistle Lacintha Lapsana, Nipple-wort Rhagadiolus Krigia Hyoseris, Swine's Succory Hedypnois, Hawkbit Thrineia Tolpis Atractylis Acarna Serratida, Saw-wort Carthamus, Bastard Saffron Carlina, Carline Thistle Arctium, Burdock Pteronia Stobcea Lach nosperniu)7i Barnadesia Cynara, Artichoke Johannia Cnicus Carcluus, Thistle 0 noser is Stokesia Leatris Vernonia Onopordon, Cotton Thistle Stehcelina Haynea Galea, Halbert-weed Bidens, Bur Marygold Spilanthes Athanasia Santolina, Lavender-cotton Ccesulia Tarchonanthus, African Flea-bane Kuhnia Eupatorium, Hemp Agrimony Chrysocorna, Goldilocks Mikania Klei7iia Cacalia Lave/iia Ageratani Stevia Hymenopappus Cephalophora Pe7itzia Ethulia Piqueria Balsamiia ^Equalis (Math.) vide Equal. ^QUALis (Med.) consistent with itself, or always the same ; as an equal pulse, that keeps the same tenor ; an equal tem- perament, or constitution^ that is, not subject to alterca- tions or excesses. yEQUA'LITAS (Math.) vide Equality. iE'QUANS (Math.) a particular circle, [vide Equanf] ^LQUA'TI'O (Alg.) vide Equation. iEQUA'TOR (Astron.) vide Equator. ^QUA'TUS, (Astron.) vide Equated. ^aUIANGULA'TUS (Math.) vide Equiangular. yEQUI'DICI versus (Poet.) tVoMxroi; verses, different mem- bers of which have an opposite diction, as, alba ligustra cadunt; vaccinia Jiigra legiintur. Virg. E. 2, 18. i^:QUILA'TERUS (Math) vide Equilateral. ^QUILFBRIUM (Math.) vide Equilibrium. ^QUIMU'LTIPLEX (Math.) vide Equimultiple. iEQUINOCTIA'LES (Bot.) equinoctial solar flowers ; i. e. flowers so called by Linnaeus, which open and usually shut at certain determinate hours of the day, observing, therefore, equal or European hours, as some species of the Alysstm, Anagallis, Convolvulus, Hieraciuni, Sfc. iEQUINOCTIALIS (Math.) vide Equinoctial iEQuiNOCTiALis (E7it.) an epithet for a species of Scarabceus. iEQUINO'CTIUM (Astron.) vide Equi7iox. iEQUIPO'LLENS (Math.) vide Equipolle7it. iEQUIPOLLE'NTiA nominum (Log.) the equivalence in the the sense of two propositions differing in certain syncata- goremata, as Not every man is learned, or Some man is not learned. iE'QUITAS (Numis.) Equity, according to Cicero, is three- fold, as regards superos, the gods above, which is piety ; the manes, or gods below, which is sanctity; and as regards men, which is justice. Equity is mostly represented on medals under the figure of a female, as in fig. 1, holding a pair of scales in her right hand, and a lance or cornucopia Fig.l. Fig. 2. in the left; sometimes as in fig. 2, under the triple figure of