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in;

wh~t

cdllcalion is m lly fuitable to them; what

IVill be the

cOl1r~quencc

?f nrgletlior, that; aod wh.t

eh:!"ce a [uperior education wdl give Ihcm, for Iheir

advancement in the worlJ. Their ehid lIudy Ihould

giro. their children fueh a degree of knowledge,

as will qu,!ily them ro fill fome cerrain poll or Ilallon

in life: in !l;,rt, to fit Ihem for an enlploymeol fuiud

to thdr condition and capacily, fuchas willruake thet)1

haprYio tI:emftlves and ufcfullO focielY.

EDU LCOR.'\. nON. in chcOlillry, the (eparating, bya

wafhing or folution in water, the falt that any body may

be impregnared wirh, or Ihole rhat may be left adheeing

to a body afrer any opcration. See CHEMISTRV.

"EEL, in ichthyology, a fpecies of murrena. See

Mu–

RA:NA.

EEL ' SPEAR,

foeked inlleuOlent wilh three or foue

jagged teeth, ufed for cmhing of eels: that with tr.e

foue teeth is bell, which they Ilrike into the mud at

the bottom of the

eivee,

and if it Ilrike agaioJl any

eels ir never fails tO bring them up.

EFFARE'..,or EHUYE', in heraldry,

term applied

to a bean eming on its hind-Iegs, as if it weee feight–

provokeQ

EFFECT, in a geneeal fenfe, is that which eefu!ts from,

is produced by, any caufe. S·e CA

USE.

ErrEcTs, in commerce, law,

&c.

the goods pnlfelfed

by any perfon, whelhee moveable Or immoveable.

EFFERDING, a town of Upper Aunria, about ten

miles wdl of Lintz.

EFfERVESCENCE, in a general fenfe, fignifies

Oight degree

01'

ebullilion in liquo,s expofed tOadue

degree of heat: but the chemills apply it to Ihat in–

tenine motion excited in vaeious

Bui~s,

either by the

mixture of fluids with othees of a diffeeent natllee; or

by deopping fa!ts or powdees of various kinds ioto

fluids. See POIVDERS.

EFFIGY, the pomait, figuee, or exatl eepeefentation of

a peefon.

EFFLORESCE ICE, among phyficians, the fame with

exantllema. See EXANTHHI.\.

EfFLUVIUM, in phyGology, a teem much ufed by

philofophm and phyGcians, tO exprefs the minute

partirles which exhale from mon, if not all, terre–

IIrial bodies in form of infenfible vapours.

EFFUSION, in

geneeal (enfe, the poueing out of any

rhing liquid, and that wilh (ome violence.

EFT, in zoology, the EngliOt name of the common li–

zard. Sec

L.lCE k

T US.

EGER~IOND,

a nwket-town of Cumberland, ten

miles fouth of Cockeemouth

EGG, in phyfiology, a budy formed in cenain femaks,

in which is contained an embeyo,

(retus of the

fame fpecies, under a

cortic~1

furface or fhel l. The

exterior par! of ao egg is the fhell, wlllch in

hen,

for inn. nce, is a ",hile, tllln, and fnable conex, in–

c1udlOg all the olhu pam .

he fhdl becomes mo'e

beiuL by belOg expof.d

a dry hc.n.

hned e–

veey wheee

~ith

a vcry thio but

pretty tough mem–

brane, which dividiog al,

"eryotae, the obture cnd

of tbe ege, (oe0l11Gn.1I bag, "heeeonl)'

ate

is eomain-

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ed. In neIV Iaj,1cr,gs Ihis follicult:s 'ppcJr$ .eey !inle,

uut beco",es largte when the egg is I:ept.

Within this

e cunlaincd the alhumen or white,

~nd

the vHellus

)'elk; each of which h.,e their dllfe.

rt:nt vinues.

The albumen is a cold, .ircuous, ",hite !iquoe in

the egg, diffeeent in confillence in its diffmnt pans.

is oblt:f\'ed, tI!>t theee aee t.'Odillintl albumens,

cach of which aee inclofed in its peopeemembrane;

of the(e, one is

veey

Ihin and liquid, and the othee

more denfe and .ifcuoos, and of a fomewhat whiter

coloue; but, in old and lIale eggs, after (ome da)'s in–

Cub~llon,

inclining tO

y,lIow. As this fecood

~Ibu

men covm the yelk bo all (¡des, fo it is itfclf fur–

rounded by the other external liquid. The albumen

of a

fecund~ted

egg, is as (weet and free

(eom

COflUp–

tion, during all the time of iocub.tion, as it is in new–

I.id

eggs; as is all"o the ,ilellus. As theeggs of hens

confif! of tWO liquors feparated one from anodlee, and

dillinguilhed by tWO braoches of umbdical veins, one

of which goes tO the vitellus,

~nd

the other tOthe al–

bumen ; fo it is

veey

peobable that they aee of different

natures, and confequently appointed for diOúent pur–

pofe!.

When the vitellus grows lVaem with incuhation, it

becomes more bumid, and like me!ting wax, or (lt;

whence it takes up more fpace; foeas the frelus increl–

fes, the albumen infenfibly wanes-¡way, and condeno

fes: the vitellus, on the conteary, feems tOlo(e !iule

nothing of its bulk when the fretus is per(elled,

and only appeaes moee liquid and humid when the

abdomen of the (retus begios to be formed.

The chick in the eeg is Gen noueiflled by the albu–

men; and when this is confumed, by the vitellus, as

with milk. If we compare the chalazx to Ihe

e~te~mities of 3n axis p,ffing through ,the vitellus, whteh

of a fpheeical form, this (pheee will be compofed .of

two unequal portions, its axis not paffing Ihrough .1II

centre; con(equently, (¡nce it is hea. ierthan the ",hm,

its fmaller portion mua always be uppermoll in aJI po–

(¡tioos of the

e~g.

The yellowifll white eound fpot, called ciwricula,

is placrd on the middle of the fmaller portion of the

yelk; and therefoee, from what has been faid in roe

lart pmgeaph, mun always appear on Ihe fupeeior part

of lhe vitellus.

ot long befoee the excluGon of the chick, the

wlll,le )'elk tStaken ioto its abdomen; and the fhell,

at rheobtufe end of rhe egg, frequeollyappears

mc~Id fOOJe time before the exclufion of Ihe chirk. The

chickISfomctimes ob(" ved to peeforate the fhell wilh

its bcak. Mt' r exclufion, the yolkis geadudllywall–

eJ, being conveyed into the (OJdll guts by

fmall

dutl.

Eggs

difTer very much aceording to the bi,ds that

lay theOJ, accolding

their colour, form,

bi~nefs,

age,

and Ihe dllfeeent way of deeffing them : Ihole moa u–

fed In food aee hens eggs : of thefe, fuch as are o.w–

laid are bea.

As tOthe peeftemioD of eggs, it is obf¡ md that

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