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ren\edies . glinfl harrennefs. Someof them, likewife, CYI'SIF.S. See ECYP TIA NS.
rrmnded to praa ife n1ar,ic, and tO foretell future e· CYI'SUM, or PLAS TH .STONE , in natural hiaor)', a
YelllS. genus of foffils, naturally and en~ntially lil1lple, not in.
In general, thegymnofophins were w'fe and learned flammable nor foluble in wmr, and compoCcd of fl.t
men : their maxims and dilcourfes, recorded by hino · fmaUparticles, which form hright, glofl'y, ~nJ in fonle
rians, Jo not lO the lean favoor of a barbarous educa· degree t<aaCparent n,,/Tes, not nexi~lc or d.l(lic, not r,i.
tion, bllt are plainly the tefult of great fenCe and ving 6re IVith.neel, nor fermentiog IVith, orhcing folu~le
dtep thooght. They keep up the dignity of their in, acid menllrua, anJ veryeafi ly c.lcineJ in the Jile.
charaaer tu fo high a degree, that it was never their Of thefegypCums, C"me areharder, othcrs CoCter, anu
cuflom to wait upon any body, not even upon princes are of fever.1 colours ; as, white, grey, reJ, freen,
themCelves ; for "hich re,Con Alexander, IVho would &c. fometimes diainél, alld fometimtS variouOy blend.
not cond&end to \'iGt themiDperfon, fentfome of td together.
It s courtiers tOthem in order tO fatisfy his curioGty. The texture of 311 the gypfum! being ultimatel)' the
Thcir way of educating their diftiples is very rem. rk· fame, it mayhe fufficient to obC..ve, that thtir origin
able: everyday, at dinner, they examined themhow is pl.inly from partides of a determinate oature and
they had fpeot the morning ; aod ever'f ooe was obli· fubllaoce, and of a cenaio aod invariable figure, an
ged tOOle\\', that he had difcharged fome good oflice, oblong, flat, aod irregularly angular ooe. Thefe IVe
praa iCcd fome vinue, or improved in fome pan of fometimes fee, as indeed is mol! natural to them, diC.
brni"g : if nothing of this appeared, he IVas feot p~Ced " itho.morder or regulality, into loofe, complex,
back without h,s dinoer. They hcld a tranCmigration fna~le manes; at others, they are gening OUt of their
of fou ls; , nd It ;s probable tlw Pythagoras borrowed native order, and emul. ting the Ilrua ure of other
l\ls doétrine from them. cla/T~, of bodies, of which they are indeed properly
Cn INOSPERMLi., io botany. SeeBOTAN Y, p.636. the bafis, and appearing COloewhat in the fi~ure of the
G YitJ~iOTUS, 10 chthyology, a geous of fi fhts be· fibmia:; "od at other.times, of the foliaceous compo.
longin~ tv the orJer of apodes. They have t\Vo pofite aakes of the feIcnita: : the Cpecies II hieh have
l, ntacula at the uppcr lip; the eyes are eovered \Vith thefe llruaures, are Iruly varying from the g)'pfum9
the eommon n,in; there are five rays in the membrane ioto thoC. ~oJies th~y emulate ; for lhe fi brari., are
01 tne gills ; the body is comprc/Ted, and C'drioated 'only a peculiar' a",ngement of theCe very panides,
on lhe hell y with a fin. There are five Cpecies. and the Celenit:!! only more broad fl. kes of the fame,
GYNlECEUM, among the ancients, the apartment of like thofe of the foliaceous talcs.
the IVOOlén. a Ceparate room in the inoer par! of the T he gypfums are much uCed in plaller, for llucco.
hcufe ",ha e they employed themCdves in fpioning, ing roOOlS, and caUing buUs and lIatue!.
weavillg, and needk·work. CYRFALCON. See FAL co.
CYNA::COCRACY, deootes the government of women, GYSHORN. a town of germany, in the dutchy of Lu.
or a fl m IVhere woméO are capable of the fupreme nenburg, fitumd On the river Aller, fony.five mile.
command. Such are Brilain and Soain. nonh·eall of Haoove<: E. loog. 10 ° 45', aou N. lat.
GYNAN DRIA, in botany. See BO~ANv, p. 635. 52° 50'.
H
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..J ABAT, the nonh·wen province of the cmpire oC
. --:i 1Ilorocco, (¡Iuated on lhe flreightS of Gibr~ltarl
HAB .~KKUK, or the propheey of Hab.kkuk, a ca·
nonical book of the Old Tefl.meo!.
There is no meotion mad. in feriplure, either of
the tim! IVhen this prophet IiVéd, or oi the parenu
from ",hom he was delcended; but aecordiog tOthe
.uthors of the lives of tbe prophets, he IV" of the
trihe of Simeoo, . od a native of Bethzacar.
lE nEAS CORPUS, in law, is a IVrit of t\Vo kiods ;
the ooe being the greal writ of the Englifh libeny,
which lies where a perfoo is indiaed for 30y crime or
trefp. fs beCore jufliw of the peace, or in a eour! of
any f<anehi re, aod. oo hcinU Itllprifoned has o/Tered
fuflieien: bale, whieh bas beeo refufed, though the
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caCe be bai lable; in which eafe he may have this writ
OUt of the king's heneh, in order to remove himCdf
thither, 10 anCIVer the caufe at the bar of that coun.
The pr.aice in this is, firUtOprOcure a c«.
tiorari OUt of the court of chaneery, direaed to ,11 the
jllflices for removing the in~la:nent into the kiog's
beneh ; anu IIpon thal to obtain this writ, direaed to
tite flleriff, for eallfing the body of the party to be
brought at a cerrain day.
The other kind of habeas corpus is uCr1 for brinco
ing the body oCa perroninto ellIlTl, IVho is cOlllmiued
to any go,1 or prifon, either in civilor r,"fe~ ;
which writ wi ll remove the perfon and cauCe froln one
coun a,nd prifon to another.
corpus, or other wlit, to relllore a rallfe
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