Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: being, ingenious sports and pastimes. Containing, many curious inventions: pleasant tricks on the cards and dice ... and other curiosities, affording variety of entertainment / Translated from the French of Mons. Ozanam.

  • Jacques Ozanam
Date:
1759
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Credit: Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: being, ingenious sports and pastimes. Containing, many curious inventions: pleasant tricks on the cards and dice ... and other curiosities, affording variety of entertainment / Translated from the French of Mons. Ozanam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [re] Explanation of the technical and abftrufe ‘terms, ufed in the foregoing Recreations, A NALOGY, the relation which one thing bears / à to another. _ ALTQUOT, a part contained in the number pre- cifely fo many times. ALTITUDE, height. Altitude of à figure is thé neasrelt diltane between the top of its bafe. ALEMBIC, a veffel for diftilling. ALUMINOUS, belonging to allum. B BASIS, foundation, or bottom. BIQUADRATE, the: fousih power arifing from the multiplication of a fquare number or quantity by . itfelf, | À à | GONCAVE, hollownefs of a roundifh body. CONVEX, ‘the éxternal. round part of any body eproñte to the hollow. COAGULATION, a curdling or thick fubftance. CATAPLASM, a poultice of herbs or roots. CONGENTRICAL, that hath one of the fame cen- ter. CYLINDER, a roller, or rolling ftone. CURVE, 4 esdoked line, 1 CIRCUMVOLUTION, a rolling or turning about. CONDENSATE, to thicken or grow thick. : CRYSTALLIZE, to fhoot into -cryfals by bang: diffolved in liquor. | CORRODE, to gnaw or fret, CALCINE, to barn to a cinder. | CONSTRICTION, crouding the parts clofe tone: ther. CENTER, S