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# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Chittim

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Chittim : Or Kittim, a plural form (Gen. 10:4), the name of a branch of the descendants of Javan, the "son" of Japheth. Balaam foretold (Num. 24:24) "that ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and afflict Eber." Daniel prophesied (11:30) that the ships of Chittim would come against the king of the north. It probably denotes Cyprus, whose ancient capital was called Kition by the Greeks.
The references elsewhere made to Chittim (Isa. 23:1, 12; Jer. 2:10; Ezek. 27:6) are to be explained on the ground that while the name originally designated the Phoenicians only, it came latterly to be used of all the islands and various settlements on the sea-coasts which they had occupied, and then of the people who succeeded them when the Phoenician power decayed. Hence it designates generally the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean and the races that inhabit them.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Chiun

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Chiun : Occurs only in Amos 5:26 (R.V. marg., "shrine"). The LXX. translated the word by Rhephan, which became corrupted into Remphan, as used by Stephen (Acts 7:43; but R.V., "Rephan"). Probably the planet Saturn is intended by the name. Astrologers represented this planet as baleful in its influences, and hence the Phoenicians offered to it human sacrifices, especially children.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Chloe

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Chloe : Verdure, a female Christian (1 Cor. 1:11), some of whose household had informed Paul of the divided state of the Corinthian church. Nothing is known of her.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Chozeba

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Chozeba : (1 Chr. 4:22), the same as Chezib and Achzib, a place in the lowlands of Judah (Gen. 38:5; Josh. 15:44).
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Chor-ashan

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Chor-ashan : Smoking furnace, one of the places where "David himself and his men were wont to haunt" (1 Sam. 30:30, 31). It is probably identical with Ashan (Josh. 15:42; 19:7), a Simeonite city in the Negeb, i.e., the south, belonging to Judah. The word ought, according to another reading, to be "Bor-ashan."
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Christ

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Christ Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered "Messiah" (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that he was anointed or consecrated to his great redemptive work as Prophet, Priest, and King of his people. He is Jesus the Christ (Acts 17:3; 18:5; Matt. 22:42), the Anointed One. He is thus spoken of by Isaiah (61:1), and by Daniel (9:24-26), who styles him "Messiah the Prince."
The Messiah is the same person as "the seed of the woman" (Gen. 3:15), "the seed of Abraham" (Gen. 22:18), the "Prophet like unto Moses" (Deut. 18:15), "the priest after the order of Melchizedek" (Ps. 110:4), "the rod out of the stem of Jesse" (Isa. 11:1, 10), the "Immanuel," the virgin's son (Isa. 7:14), "the branch of Jehovah" (Isa. 4:2), and "the messenger of the covenant" (Mal. 3:1). This is he "of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write." The Old Testament Scripture is full of prophetic declarations regarding the Great Deliverer and the work he was to accomplish. Jesus the Christ is Jesus the Great Deliverer, the Anointed One, the Saviour of men. This name denotes that Jesus was divinely appointed, commissioned, and accredited as the Saviour of men (Heb. 5:4; Isa. 11:2-4; 49:6; John 5:37; Acts 2:22).
To believe that "Jesus is the Christ" is to believe that he is the Anointed, the Messiah of the prophets, the Saviour sent of God, that he was, in a word, what he claimed to be. This is to believe the gospel, by the faith of which alone men can be brought unto God. That Jesus is the Christ is the testimony of God, and the faith of this constitutes a Christian (1 Cor. 12:3; 1 John 5:1).
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Chios

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Chios : Mentioned in Acts 20:15, an island in the Aegean Sea, about 5 miles distant from the mainland, having a roadstead, in the shelter of which Paul and his companions anchored for a night when on his third missionary return journey. It is now called Scio.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Chisleu

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Chisleu : The name adopted from the Babylonians by the Jews after the Captivity for the third civil, or ninth ecclesiastical, month (Neh. 1:1; Zech. 7:1). It corresponds nearly with the moon in November.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Chorazin

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Chorazin : Named along with Bethsaida and Capernaum as one of the cities in which our Lord's "mighty works" were done, and which was doomed to woe because of signal privileges neglected (Matt. 11:21; Luke 10:13). It has been identified by general consent with the modern Kerazeh, about 2 1/2 miles up the Wady Kerazeh from Capernaum; i.e., Tell Hum.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Chosen

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Chosen : Spoken of warriors (Ex. 15:4; Judg. 20:16), of the Hebrew nation (Ps. 105:43; Deut. 7:7), of Jerusalem as the seat of the temple (1 Kings 11:13). Christ is the "chosen" of God (Isa. 42:1); and the apostles are "chosen" for their work (Acts 10:41). It is said with regard to those who do not profit by their opportunities that "many are called, but few are chosen" (Matt. 20:16). (See ELECTION.)
# Ebony and Crystal/In November

In November
# Ebony and Crystal/In Saturn

IN SATURN
# Ebony and Crystal/Impression

IMPRESSION
# Ebony and Crystal/From a Letter

FROM A LETTER
****Will you not join me in Atlantis, where we will go down through streets of blue and yellow marble to the wharves of orichalch, and choose us a galley with a golden Eros for figurehead, and sails of Tyrian sendal? With mariners that knew Odysseus, and beautiful amber-breasted slaves from the mounttain-vales of Lemuria, we will lift anchor for the unknown fortunate isles of the outer sea; and, sailing in the wake of an opal sunset, will lose that ancient land in the glaucous twilight, and see from our couch of ivory and satin the rising of unknown stars and perished planets.***Perhaps we will not return, but will follow the tropic summer from isle to halcyon isle, across the amaranthine seas of myth and fable: We will eat the lotos, and the fruit of lands whereof Odysseus never dreamt; and drink the pallid wines of faery, grown in a vale of perpetual moonlight. I will find for you a necklace of rosy-tinted pearls, and a necklace of yellow rubies, and crown you with precious corals that have the semblance of sanguine-coloured blossoms. We will roam in the marts of forgotten cities of jasper, and carnelian-builded ports beyond Cathay; and I will buy you a gown of peacock azure damascened with copper and gold and vermilion; and a gown of black samite with runes of orange, woven by fantastic sorcery without the touch of hands, in a dim land of spells and philtres.
# Ebony and Crystal/Haunting

HAUNTING
# Ebony and Crystal/Image

1922.
IMAGE
# Ebony and Crystal/In Cocaigne

IN COCAIGNE
It was a windless afternoon of April, beneath skies that were tender as the smile of love, when we went forth, you and I, to seek the fabulous and fortunate realm of Cocaigne. Past leafing oaks with foliage of bronze and chrysolite, through zones of yellow and white and red and purple flowers, like a landscape seen through a prism, we fared with hopeful and tremulous hearts, forgetting all save the dream we had cherished.***At last we came to the lonely woods, the pines with their depth of balmy, cool, compassionate shadow, which are sacred to the genius of that land. There, for the first time I was bold to take your hand in mine, and led you to a slope where the woodland lilies, with petals of white and yellow ivory, gleamed among the fallen needles. As in a dream, I found that my arms were about you, as in a dream I kissed your yielding lips, and the ardent pallor of your cheeks and throat. Motionless, you clung to me, and a flush arose beneath my kisses like a delicate stain, and lingered softly. Your eyes deepened to my gaze like the brown pools of the forest at evening, and far within them, as in immensity itself, trembled and shown the steadfast stars of your love. As a ship that has wandered beneath stormy suns and disastrous moons, but comes at last to the arms of the shielding harbour, my head lay on the gentle heaving of your delicious breast, and I knew that we had found Cocaigne.
# Ebony and Crystal/In Lemuria

IN LEMURIA
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TEARS
Thy tears are not as mine: Thou weepest as a green fountain among palms and roses, with lightly falling drops that bedew the flowery turf. My tears are like a rain of marah in the desert, leaving a bitter pool whose waters are fire and poison.
THE SECRET ROSE
My soul hath dreamt of a rose, whose marvellous and secret flower, fraught with an unimaginable perfume, hath never grown in any garden. Only in valleys of the shifting cloud, only among the palms and fountains of a land of mirage, only in isles beyond the seas of sunset, it blooms for a moment, and is gone. But ever the ghost of its fragrance haunts the hall of slumber; and the women whom I meet in dreams wear always its blossom for coronal.
THE WIND AND THE GARDEN
To thee my love is something strange and fantastical, and far away, like the vast and desolate sighing of the desert wind to one who dwells in a garden of palm and rose and lotus, filled by no louder sound than the mellow lisp of a breeze of perfume, or the sigh of silvering fountains.
OFFERINGS
Before thee, O goddess of my dreams, idol of my desires, I have burnt amber and myrrh, frankincense, and all the strange and rich perfumes of lands a thousand leagues beyond Araby or Taprobane. Strange and rich offerings have I brought thee, the gems of unknown regions, and the spoil of cities remoter than Caydon or Samarkand. But these delight thee not, only the simple-scented flowers of spring, and the diamonds and opals of dew, strung on the threads of the spider.
A CORONAL
The pale and flowerless poppies of Proserpine, the cold, blind lotus of Lethe, and the strange, white sea-blooms that grow from the lips of drowned men in the blue darkness of the nether sea,—these have I woven as a coronal for my dead love.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Running-Thrush

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​Running-Thrush. See Frush.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Rock-salt

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​Rock-salt. See Salt.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Ruby

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​RUBY, a genus of precious stones, which display a variety of shades, and are divided into four classes: namely,
1. The deep-red ruby, is found in various parts of the East Indies, and also in Brazil.
2. The spinell, the shade of which resembles that of a bright corn-poppy flower: it is dug out of the mines of Hungary, Bohemia, Silesia, and South America.
3. The balass, or pale-red ruby, inclining to a violet, is supposed to be the mother of the different species of these gems. It is imported ​principally from Brazil, though a few are sometimes brought from the East Indies.
4. The rubicell is of a reddish-yellow, and is likewise obtained from the Brazils.—There is a variety of this gem found, in considerable numbers, on the sea shore, near Ely, in the county of Fife; also near Portsoy, Banffshire, and at Inverary, Argyleshire, in Scotland.
Rubies are held in great esteem, on account of their lustre, and the beauty of their water: hence they are sold at high prices, and often counterfeited by Brazilian topazes, which are gradually heated in a crucible previously filled with ashes, till they become red-hot.
Rubies, when imported, are subject to no restrictions of entry, registry, &c. as they pay no duty whatever.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Rue, the Meadow

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​RUE, the Meadow, or Thalictrum, L. a genus of plants, comprising twenty-three species, four ot which only are indigenous: the principal of these, is the flavum, Common Meadow-rue, Spurious Rhubarb, or Rue-weed: it is perennial, grows in moist meadows, pastures, and on the banks of rivers; where it flowers in the month of June.
The root, branches, and leaves of this plant, impart to wool a yellow colour; which, on adding sal-ammoniac, assumes a pale shade; and, on dropping oil of tartar into the decoction, acquires an orange colour; but, in order to give it lustre, the cloth should be immersed in alum-water; and the tint itself may be fixed, by dissolving cream of tartar in the last liquor. A cataplasm prepared of the leaves, is said to have afforded relief in the Sciatica: See Rheumatism.—From the yellow flowers, bees extract a large portion of honey.—Cows, horses, goats, and sheep, eat the Meadow-rue; but it is disliked by hogs.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Runnet

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​Runnet. See Rennet.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Rowel

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​ROWEL, in farriery, signifies a kind of issue, artificially formed in horses, with a view to drain superfluous humours.
Rowels are introduced into the abdomen, the inside of the thighs, the breast, and outside of the shoulders and hips of a horse. The operation is performed by an incision through the skin, about 3-8ths of an inch in length, then separating it from the flesh with the finger, or passing an ivory folder around the orifice: next, a thin piece of leather, of a circular shape, about the size of a silver crown piece, should be provided, and a large round hole made in its centre. Before the leather is introduced between the skin and muscles, it must be partially covered with lint or tow, and immersed in some digestive ointment: a pledget of tow is likewise dipped in a similar unguent, and carefully put into the orifice, so as completely to exclude atmospheric air. The parts around it soon swell; a copious discharge of yellow serum or water follows; and, in two or three days, at the farthest, the matter will appear thick, gross, and white, when the rowel is said to suppurate.
Although these issues are doubtless of great service in some cases, yet, like many other operations injudiciously practised on horses, they sometimes injure their constitution; and, instead of suppurating, become gangrenous.
Rowels are eminently useful in carrying off rheums or defluxions from the eyes; in great swellings of the glands, about the throat and jaws, which sometimes threaten suffocation. In the vertigo or staggers, apoplexy, and in large tumors arising suddenly on the legs, heels, &c. when attended with a discharge of thin ichorous matter; as well as in a variety of other disorders, the application of this remedy should be determined by the Veterinary Surgeon.—See Setons.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Rue

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​RUE, or ruta, L. a genus of exotic plants, comprising seven species, the principal of which is the graveolens, or Common broad-leaved Garden Rue. It flowers in the month of June.
This plant is, for its medicinal properties, often cultivated in gardens. It has a strong odour, and a bitterish pungent taste. The leaves are very acrid; and, when in full vigour, are apt to raise blisters on handling, or applying them to the skin. Boerhaave recommends them as powerful stimulants, attenuants, and detergents: hence they are reputed to be of great service to persons of cold, phlegmatic habits; as they quicken the circulation; dissolve viscid or tenacious juices; remove obstructions; and promote the fluid secretions. "What medicine," says he, "can be more efficacious for promoting sweat and perspiration; for the cure of the hysreric passion, of epilepsies; and for expelling poison?"—Nevertheless, the rue has lately been seldom prescribed, probably because many absurd and superstitious notions prevail respecting this herb, in domestic life.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Rocket

Edition of 1802.
​ROCKET, or Brassica Eruca, L. an exotic species of the cabbage, which was formerly cultivated to a considerable extent in gardens.—It is divided into two varieties, known under the names of the Wild and Garden Rocket.—This plant is propagated from seed, which is sown early in the spring: it flowers in the month of June. When used as a principal ingredient in summer salads, it is, on account of its pungency, always eaten together with endive, purslane, or similar cooling vegetables.
With respect to its medicinal properties, the rocket is aperient, and expels flatulency. Its seeds are remarkably acrid, resembling mustard in flavour; for which spice they have often been used as a substitute.—According to Bradley, it is an useful vermifuge; and, when boiled, and applied externally, is said to remove spots from the face.—Böhmer informs us, that both the seeds and flowers of this herb may, in times of scarcity, be converted into bread.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Ruff

Edition of 1802.
​RUFF, or Tringa pugnax, L. a bird of passage, frequenting the fens of Lincolnshire, and various other parts of Britain, early in the spring; and disappearing about Michaelmas.
Towards the latter end of March, or early in April, Ruffs, for a short time, visit Martin Mere, in Lancashire; where they are taken in clap-nets, to the number of 40 or 50 dozen in a season; and fattened for the table: the food commonly employed, is bread and milk, hemp-seed, boiled wheat, and sugar: thus, in about a fortnight they become extremely fat; and are generally sold at 2s. and 2s. 6d. each. Being of an irascible disposition, it is erroneously supposed that these birds must be fed in dark places; lest, on the admission of light, they should destroy each other by combat.
Ruffs are dressed for the table, with their intestines, like snipes; and, when killed at the critical time, are by epicures considered the most delicious of morsels.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Rum

Edition of 1802.
​RUM, a spirituous liquor which is distilled from sugar-canes.
The best state in which rum can be imported or preserved, is that of rectified spirit; as it may thus be conveyed in one half of its usual compass, and afterwards reduced to the proper degree of proof strength, by means of spring-water. It would, likewise, in this state be better calculated for punch, both on account of its finer flavour, and because the strength of the mixture may be then more uniformly regulated. Farther, fraudulent persons would now be prevented from adulterating it with malt spirits, and also from dulcifying or sweetening it with oil of vitriol, and similar pernicious drugs.
Pure, old rum, is incomparably more wholesome than brandy; Dr. Short, therefore, prefers it to any other spirit, both as a cordial, and for making punch. It softens and dilates the alimentary canal, while it promotes a more regular perspiration, as well as the discharge of urine. It is also of greater service in nephritic complaints; and, where the constitution is broken by hard or long-continued drinking. Dr. S. recommends it in small quantities, as being well adapted to raise and preserve the tone of the stomach.—We deem it, however, necessary to observe, that such stimulating liquors are in no case absolutely salubrious, and ought to be resorted to only as medicines.—See Arrack, Brandy, and Gin.