English Cyclop<ae/dia,

1795-1801

Cited as Eng. Cyc. — 6 quotations

Builder

In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it.

Buoyancy

Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships.

Dowse

Adams had the reputation of having dowsed successfully for more than a hundred wells.

Postulate

The distinction between a postulate and an axiom lies in this, -- that the latter is admitted to be self-evident, while the former may be agreed upon between two reasoners, and admitted by both, but not as proposition which it would be impossible to deny.

Reformatory

Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons.

University

The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and others.