A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar - Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Thus the fine blue used by painters is a sublimate, and made thus:—Take 2 parts of quicksilver, 3 flower of brimstone, 8 sal ammoniac; and (having ground them) put them with the quicksilver into a glass retort, luted at the bottom; place the retort in a sand-heat; and (when the moisture is given off) you will have a splendid blue sublimate for painting.

INDEX.

Absorbers, best, [192]
not conductors, [185]
not reflectors, [192]
radiators, [197]
Absorption of heat, [184]
not conduction, [184]
of light, [364]
Accidental colors, [407], [408]
Acetate of lead, [426]
Acetic acid, [426]
Acid of drinks, [269]
of fermentation, [269]
Activity affected by cold, [91]
Activity affected by heat, [93]
Aerated water, [267]
Aeronauts feel pain, [254]
Age affects the sensation, thought, judgment, [425]
power of walking, [425]
Air, [240]
always in motion, [293]
bad conductor, [13], [177], [178]
bad radiator, [219], [237]
cold, [177]
colder than blood, [181]
composed of two gases, [27], [240]
cooled by convection, [220]
cooled by rain, [159]
cools hot iron, [246]
density diminished by rain, [337]
descends when cold, [289]
double current in a room, [290]
dries linen, [160]
elements of, [33]
expanded by heat, [103]
full of smells, [152]
gets fire up, [50]
healthful, [252]
heated, [219], [245], [246], [289]
heated not by sun, [290]
in a room, [252]
inflammable, see hydrogen
in summer, [313]
of cities unhealthy, [243], [253]
of the country healthy, [243], [252]
on land colder than on water, [224]
on land cold at night, [230]
preserved normal, [244]
purified by lightning, [27]
rusts iron, [257]
still before a tempest, [146]
strong, [108]
varies in temperature, [335]
Aisles famous for echoes, [417]
Alcohol, [109], [270], [271]
Ale, [109]
bottled, [268]
froth of, [109]
froth increased by heat, [268]
Alkali, [45]
Anenometer, [314]
Anglers hate a magpie, [153]
Angle of incidence, [370]
of reflection, [370]
Animal heat, [83], [85], [243], [277]
Animals and vegetables co-dependent, [244]
Ants love honey-dew, [221]
Appetite, [89], [90], [91]
(See hunger.)
Apples full of air, [105]
roasted, [105]
soft, [106]
April showers, [307]
Aqua fortis, [426]
Argand lamps, [83]
Arnott’s stoves smell of sulphur, [56]
smoke, [69]
Ascent in balloons painful, [145]
Ashes soften water, [345]
Asses bray in wet weather, [148]
Aurora borealis, [142], [285]
coloured, [143]
white, [142]
a prognostic, [143]
Avenues, [380]
Azote, see nitrogen
Bales catch fire spontaneously, [57]
Balloons, [146]
inflated, [109]
rise, [110]
Balls of fire, [6]
Banisters wet, [216]
Barley malted, [270]
Barometer, [317]
affected by cold, [328]
affected frost, [329]
affected heat, [328]
affected thaw, [329]
affected wind, [327]
rules for its rise and fall, [330]
sudden change in, [330]
use of, [319]
varies most in winter, [327]
varies least in summer, [327]
when highest, [328]
when lowest, [328]
Barren land collects no dew, [209]
Bass notes in music, [412]
Bass preserves flowers from frost, [206]
Bathing, danger of, [387]
with ether for inflammation, [157]
Beakers broken by hot water, [126]
Beasts covered with hair, [176]
Beds damp, [157]
Beer, fermentation of, [269]
flat, [273]
froth increased by bottling, [268]
froth increased by heat, [268]
raisins and raw meat improve it, [273]
stale, [275]
soured by lightning, [27]
not old beer, [27]
spoiled, if the vent-peg be left out, [273]
yeast added to make it work, [271]
Beer-vats dangerous, [265]
Bells heard at a distance, [412]
cracked, sound harsh, [411]
silenced by a touch, [411]
Bell-metal, [410]
Bellows, [51]
Bins purified, [266]
Birds covered with feathers, [176]
Black, [402]
cloth warm, [186]
eyes, [191]
glass for spectacles, [408]
hat turns red at the sea-side, [344]
Hole of Calcutta, [250]
kid gloves, [188]
lead, [258]
lead prevents rust, [258]
mist, [144]
skin, [190]
tea-pot, [197]
tea-pot used by cotters, [198]
tea-pot set on a hob to draw, [198]
will never blister, [190]
Blacks, [60]
none to railway engines, [60]
Blacksmiths strike fire by nails, [96]
Bladders inflated by heat, [103]
Blaze, blue, [46]
green, [45]
yellow, [46]
between the bars of a grate, [45]
Blazing coals burn quickly, [39]
Blood red, [242]
purple, [242]
Blowers, [70]
Blowing cools broth, [180], [247], [312]
tea, [248]
Blue, [401]
glasses, [407]
sky, [132]
sublimate, [426]
Body warm, [87]
Boiling, [234]
water bubbles, [114], [283]
makes it flat, [275]
is in a ferment, [232]
rattles, [116]
runs over, [115], [233]
swells, [114]
one pot will not boil in another, [118]
retarded by a spoon, [117]
retarded by salt, sugar, [118]
Bottled ale, &c., [268]
Brackish water unfit for railway engines, [263]
Bread heavy, [276]
made with yeast, [276]
Breath exhaled, [244]
visible in winter, [217]
Breathing difficult on a mountain, [255]
previous to a storm, [255]
Breeze at watering places, [310]
evening, [309]
morning, [308]
of islands, [309]
speed of, [313]
(See wind.)
Bricks for cold feet, [173]
Brick stoves, [174]
Bricklayers cannot work in a frost, [359]
cover new work with straw, [359]
Brilliancy, [364]
Brine retards boiling, [119]
tested, [361]
Broth cooled by breath, [247], [312]
by convection, [247]
by stirring, [247]
Bubbles in tea, [419]
of boiling water, [114]
Bulk for bulk, [110]
Burns cured, [157]
Burning glasses, [2]
Caloric, [1]
Cambric handkerchiefs cool, [184]
Cambridge, rain of, [340]
Candles, [74]
burn, [74]
burn blue, [148]
cotton, not easily blown out, [79]
easily blown out, [51], [78]
and rekindled, [51], [55]
extinguished, [79]
flame hot, [75]
flame hollow, [76]
flame pointed, [77]
flame purple below, [76]
flame tends upwards, [77]
flame yellow, [76]
gas of, [281]
held at a door, [290]
hottest above the flame, [79]
give light, [76]
make glass damp, [78]
need snuffing, [81]
Palmer’s, [80]
prevent our seeing abroad, [378]
reflected in a window, [379]
rush, easily go out, [79]
smoke, [81]
spirt, [155]
suddenly introduced give pain, [365]
wax, need no snuffing, [81]
Candlestick rags catch fire spontaneously, [58]
Capillary veins, [84]
Captain Ross, [414]
Carbon, [33], [74]
Carbonate of lime, [426]
of soda, [426]
Carbonic acid gas, [37], [108], [249], [264]
deleterious, [250], [264]
in human bodies, [84]
its presence detected, [264]
Carburetted hydrogen gas, [279], [280]
Carpets warm, [169]
Carriage wheels catch fire, [99]
Carriage windows misty, [213]
Casks charred, [73]
Cart grease, [100]
Cathedral aisles famous for echoes, [417]
Cats in wet weather, [147]
prowl by night, [367]
rub their ears, [150]
see in the dark, [367]
wink before a fire, [367]
Cattle uneasy in wet weather, [148]
Caverns famed for echoes, [416]
Ceilings sooty, [71]
Cellars cold in summer, [256]
warm in winter, [256]
Cerebellum, [424]
Cerebrum, [424]
Chalk, [426]
Charcoal, [72]
bad conductor, [166]
fire, [72]
fire deleterious, [265]
purifies water, [72]
removes the taint of meat, [72]
Charring bread, [73]
casks, [73]
wood, [73]
Chemical action, [30]
Chestnuts crack when roasted, [104]
not if slit, [105]
Chimney pots, [71]
Chimneys smoke, if a room be too close, [61]
remedy, [62]
in vestries, valleys, [66]
remedy, [67]
in wind, [66], [111]
if too long, [62], [116]
if too short, [62]
if too large, [69]
remedy, [70]
when the draught is slack, [63], [69]
when the door is on the same side, [68]
remedy, [68]
when it needs repairing, [68]
sweeping, [68]
when two fires are in one room, [65]
remedy, [65]
China broken by hot water, [125]
Choke damp, [264], [279]
Church bells heard at a distance, [151]
Churchyards smell offensively, [283]
Chyle, [242]
Cider, [269]
Cinders, [43]
iron, [43]
will not blaze, [48]
Cirro-cumulus clouds, [136]
Cirro-stratus clouds, [134]
Cirrus clouds, [134]
Citizens pale, [243]
Citric acid, [426]
City air unhealthy, [253]
Clean kettles, [186]
Cleanliness connected with the dietary, [93]
Clear day overcast, [304]
Clear nights exhilarating, [144]
Clocks heard, at a distance, [151], [413]
Close rooms unhealthy, [253]
Cloth collects but little dew, [208]
Clothes gather damp in summer, [211]
wet, [157]
Clothing for workmen, [164]
promotes warmth, [176]
Clouds, [127]
cause of, [129]
classes of, [134]
colour of, [132]
compound, [136]
compound simple, [134]
differ from fog, [128], [227]
dissipated, [304]
distance from the earth, [129]
edges most luminous, [399]
electrical, [131]
fall in rainy weather, [337]
float, [128]
height of, [4], [120]
highest and lowest, [130]
intermediate, [135]
light, [120]
motion of, [133]
red, [132], [399]
round mountain tops, [137]
thickness of, [130]
thickness how ascertained, [130]
vary in shape, [129], [130]
vary in colour, [133]
where most abundant, [129]
where least, [129]
use of, [137]
velocity of, [314]
wind affects them, [129], [131]
Coal gas, [280]
mines explode, [281]
Coals black, [403]
Cold weather affects the barometer, [328]
makes us love fat, [90]
makes activity, [91]
out of doors, [312]
promotes hunger, [91]
Collapsing, [289]
Colour of clouds, [132], [133]
Colours vary, [400]
some warm, some cold, [187]
Combining not mixing, [25]
Combustion, see fire, [33], [85]
cause of, [36]
elements of, [36]
heat of, [37]
increased by wind, [58]
in the veins, [84]
Communication of heat, [164]
Compound clouds, [136]
Compression, [102]
Condensation, [98], [102]
Condensed air, [289]
Conduction, [164]
not absorption, [184]
Conductors, best, [165]
worst, [166]
not absorbers, [185]
of lightning, [22]
dangerous, [24]
Convection, [219], [231]
Convective currents, [245]
cool broth, [247]
cool iron, [247]
Cooking vessels with wooden handles, [166]
Cooper applies hot hoops, [122]
Copper sonorous, [410]
tarnishes, [259]
Copper-hole, [60]
roars, [60]
roars not when the door is open, [60]
Cornea, [388]
Corns ache in wet weather, [256]
Corpse cold, [95]
Corrosive sublimates, [426]
Cotton bales catch fire spontaneously, [57]
handkerchiefs hot, [184]
Countrymen ruddy, [243]
Cowls, [67], [111]
Crowds produce drowsiness, [251]
head-ache, [249]
vitiate air, [249]
unhealthy, [250]
Culinary vessels have wooden handles, [166]
should be sooty, [71], [201]
Cultivation promotes dew, [210]
warmth, [160]
Cumulo-stratus clouds, [136], [137]
Cumulus clouds, [134], [135]
Cup in a pie, [120]
why full of juice, [124]
Damp banisters, [217]
beds, [158]
house, [217]
Danger in a storm, [12]
in attics and cellars, [16]
a crowd, [18]
theatre, &c., [19]
before a fire, [15]
near a tree, [12]
river, [14]
flocks and herds are exposed to, [19]
those who bar shutters, [18]
lean against a wall, [17]
or carriage, [20]
who ring bells, [15], [17]
run, [15]
Dark colours warm, [186]
radiate heat, [197]
Davy, Sir H., [281]
Day-light produces hunger, [88]
Dead bodies cold, [95]
taller than living, [423]
Deal snaps in fire, [107]
Decanting liquor, [274]
spirting, [274]
Depression of spirits, [145]
Descent in a diving bell painful, [146]
Deserts hot and dazzling, [405]
Dew deleterious, [220]
differs from rain, [226]
distilled after a hot day, [219]
especially if the wind is westerly, [218]
unequally, [207]
in open places, [204]
in valleys and hollows, [207]
on clothes, [211]
cultivated lands, [210]
grass, [209]
leaves, &c., [208]
none beneath a tree, [204], [205]
a flower awning, [205]
hedge or wall, [205]
none in a cloudy night, [204]
in a windy night, [207]
especially if easterly, [218]
none on stones, cloth, [208]
deserts, gravel, metal, rocks, wool, [209]
Dew-drops round, [223]
flattened, [223]
roll on cabbages, [223]
roses, [224]
Digging promotes warmth, [161]
Digestion, [91]
Dinner covers, [202]
Dirt warm, [93]
Distant bells heard, [413]
clocks, [151]
objects appear small, [381], [382]
sight, [390]
spectacles for, [391]
Distance makes things invisible, [384]
Distilled vinegar, [426]
Divers suffer pain, [255]
Diving bell, [146]
Doors swell and shrink, [151]
Dogs uneasy in wet weather, [147]
Dough, [274]
set before a fire to rise, [276]
Double concave glasses, [389]
convex glasses, [391]
Draining lands promote warmth, [160]
Draught at a door, [314]
key-hole, [314]
window, [315]
slack, [63], [64], [69]
Dreams, [424]
foolish things, [424]
Drops of rain roll on dust, [155]
Drowned men restored, [101]
Drums, [411]
Dry wood for kindling, [44]
burns best, [107]
snaps about, [107]
Dryest months, [328]
Dublin, rain of, [340]
Duck dry in water, [224]
Dunghills hot, [277]
Dusty shoes hot, [194]
Dyeing changes a colour, [401]
Ear-trumpets, [415]
Earth, bad conductor, [181]
cool in summer, [182]
cracks by frost, [357]
crumbles in spring, [358]
warm in whiter, [131]
Earth-fog, [221]
Earthen tea-pots, [197], [198]
set on a hob to draw, [198]
East wind cold, [302]
dry, [303]
prevents dew, [218]
Eat more in cold, [90]
less in warm weather, [91]
Echo, [416]
Echoes, two or more, [418]
Effervescence, [269]
soon subsides, [275]
Egg cracked when boiled, [239]
tested, [178], [239]
Electricity affects the clouds, [131], [133]
excited by friction, [29]
felt at the elbow joints, [27], [29]
hot, [3]
of clouds, [4]
positive & negative, [16]
England grows warmer and warmer, [160]
winds of, [300]
east dry, [302]
morning at watering places, [310]
most prevalent, [300]
north cold, [312]
north-east dry, [305]
south rainy, [303]
warm, [303]
south-west rainy, [304]
west rainy, [304]
when highest, [301]
lowest, [301]
See March wind.
Epsom salts, [426]
Esquimaux love blubber, [92]
Equatorial current, [298]
Ether, [47]
boils, [119]
used for freezing, [360]
used for inflammation, scalds, burns, [157]
European skin white, [191]
Evaporation, [156]
freezes, [360]
Evening clouds, [132]
grey, [140]
red, [138], [399]
Evening rainbow, [141]
Evergreens frost-bitten, [230]
Ewers broken by frost, [349]
Expansion by heat, [103]
Extinguishers, [79]
made of paper, [79]
Eyes, two, [368]
see single, [369]
affected by blue glasses, [407]
fire-light, [407]
the sun, [407]
Face soon scorched, [196]
Fanning, [179], [313]
Far sight, [390]
spectacles for, [391]
Farriers apply hot shoes, [123]
Fat men swim best, [362]
Feathers warm, [176]
Feeling, [425]
Feet cold before a fire, [53]
wet dangerous, [157]
Fermentation, [269]
of dough, [276]
Fender and fire-irons cold, [185]
Fiddle-strings musical, [411]
snap from wet, [339]
Fine weather braces, [147]
Finger feels cold when wet, [157]
Fire black and red, [38], [40]
blazes, [39]
not in frost, [48]
burns blue, [148]
cause of, [36]
charcoal, [72]
damp, [280]
effect upon the eyes, [407]
extinguished, [54]
by water, [107]
fiercest in winter, [49]
out of doors, [50]
grotesque figures in, [40]
heat of, [280]
how increased, [63]
hot, [37]
kindled at the bottom, [42]
light dazzles, [366]
lighted with paper and wood, [41]
luminous, [46]
poker draws up, [52]
radiates heat, [196]
red hot, [38]
reflected on windows, [379]
sun dulls it, [49]
thaw dulls it, [50]
wind intenses it, [51]
See combustion.
Fire-irons cold, [185]
rust, [257]
prevented, [258]
Fishes ascend and dive, [363]
seem nearer than they are, [388]
cold, [94]
Flame of a candle, [76]
described, [77]
blown out easily, [78]
damp, [78]
hollow, [76]
hottest above, [79]
pointed, [77]
purple and yellow, [76]
smokes, [81]
Flame of a fire between the bars of a grate blue, [46]
green, [45]
yellow, [46], [47]
Flannel warm, [94]
used for foot-warmers, [173]
Flash, see lightning
Flat beer, [273]
improved, [273]
Flavour discerned by the taste, [425]
Flint and steel, [97]
Flowing water freezes slowly, [354]
makes rough ice, [354]
oscillates, [348]
pure, [347]
Flower awnings arrest dew, [205]
purify air, [253]
Flowers smell sweetest at night and before rain, [152]
Flues blacked, [238]
See chimney.
Flutes, [412]
Fly-poison, [422]
Fogs, [225], [226]
arrest sound, [413], [414]
cause of, [129]
differs from cloud, [128], [227]
mist, [227]
dispersed by wind, [228]
by sun, [227]
frozen, [231]
in autumn, [228]
in marshes, [226]
valleys, [228]
none in a frosty night, [227]
Food converted to blood, [242]
cooled by the breath, [312]
Foot-prints frozen, [350]
Foot-warmers, [173]
Forked lightning, [5]
dangerous, [5]
Forests catch fire spontaneously, [102]
France warmer than of yore, [162]
Freezing mixtures, [360]
Friction (see rubbing), [98]
excites electricity, [29]
sets forests on fire, [102]
Frogs cold, [94]
Frost affects barometer, [329]
sound, [414]
braces, [147]
breaks ewers, [349]
tiles, stones, rocks, [350]
pipes, [351]
cracks earth, [357]
expands water, [352]
prevents fog, [227]
warm, [356]
Froth of beer, [269], [350]
Frozen ruts and footprints, [350]
Fruits cool the blood, [92]
fall to the earth, [419]
pleasant in summer, [92]
Fuel for the body, [87]
Fumigation for sick rooms, [421]
Fur, bad conductor, [166]
for clothing, [175]
warm, [171]
Furnaces of brick, [174]
lined with clay, [174]
Furr of kettles, [262]
steam engines dangerous, [263]
Gallery hot, [249], [316]
Gas, [112]
of candles, [281]
Gauze wire of safety lamps, [282]
prevents explosion, [282]
German silver tarnishes, [260]
German tinder, [102]
Germany warmer than of yore, [162]
Ghosts, [286]
Gideon’s miracle, [211]
Ginger pop, [268]
acid, [269]
Glasses broken by hot water, [125]
covered with mist, [214]
which soon subsides, [215]
dulled by a hot hand, [215]
by breath, &c., [215]
See spectacles.
Glass a reflector, [194]
soon cools, [212]
See looking-glass.
Glauber salts, [426]
Gloves, black kid, [188]
Lisle thread, [188]
Glow-worms glisten by night, [368]
God’s wisdom [182], [208], [210], [302], [308], [352], [357]
Gold never tarnishes, [260]
Goulard, [426]
Grapes never ferment, [272]
Grass promotes warmth, [161]
collects dew, [209]
Grate, see stove
Gravel collects no dew, [209]
Gravity, [419]
Gray morning, sign of a fine day, [140]
Grease liked in cold weather, [90]
loathed in hot, [92]
prevents rust, [258]
used for wheels, [100]
Green colour, [401]
wood does not burn, [107]
Grottoes famous for echoes, [416]
Ground frost, [229]
Growth promoted by moonlight, [220]
Gulls fly to sea, [154]
to land, [154]
Gusty weather makes a smoky house, [71]
Hail, [331], [334]
cause of, [335]
accompanied with thunder, [335]
falls in summer, [335]
Hair, bad conductor, [166]
covered with dew, [217]
Halls famous for echoes, [417]
Halo round the moon, [143]
Hard work promotes hunger, [88]
Hat covered with dew, [217]
turned red at the seaside, [344]
Hawks see near and far, [392]
Hay-stacks catch fire spontaneously, [58]
Haze round the sun, [143]
moon, [143]
affects sound, [414]
Head aches in a crowd, [249]
itches in wet weather, [150]
Hearth-rug warm, [169]
Hearth-stone cold, [169]
hot, [170]
Heat, [1]
and light, [47]
affects barometer, [328]
sound, [414]
animal, [83], [85], [277]
applied to the bottom of boilers, [234]
effects of, [2], [4], [103]
expands water, [352]
from beaten iron, [95]
latent, [31], [75], [96]
of candles, [75]
dunghills, [277]
fire, [37], [277]
lime, [278]
radiates, [196]
sources of, [2]
Heavy bread, [160]
Hills larger in a fog, [148]
Hoar frost, [228]
not found on trees, [230]
under shrubs, &c., [230]
of frozen fog, [231]
on clear nights only, [229]
on grass, [229]
tombstones, [189], [230]
very partial, [229]
Honey-dew, [220]
ants fond of, [221]
effects of, [221]
injures plants, [221]
Hot cloudy night oppressive, [144]
Hot weather abates activity, [93]
appetite, [90]
love for grease, [92]
Hottest place at church, [316]
Hoops used red hot, [122], [123]
Horse shoes fitted hot, [123]
Horses strike fire, [98]
snuff up air, [152]
uneasy in dull weather, [148]
Houses catch fire spontaneously, [56]
smoke in valleys, [66]
Hunger, [88]
promoted by cold, [90]
day-light, [88]
singing, speaking, work, [88]
See appetite.
Hydrogen gas, [34], [74]
Ice, [349]
lighter than water, [349]
grows thicker, [353]
dissolved by snow, [357]
melted by sun, [126]
Ice-bergs famous for echoes, [417]
Idiots, [424]
Ignis fatuus, [285]
cause of, [286]
Impure water purified, [72]
Indian mode of striking fire, [99]
Inflammable air, [34], [74]
Insensible perspiration, [213]
Intermediate clouds, [135]
Iron, bad conductor, [185]
cinders, [43]
contains latent heat, [96]
cooled by air, [246]
convection, [246]
radiation, [246]
matches, [96]
rust, [257]
when most common, [258]
prevented, [258]
sonorous, [410]
stoves, [174]
Ironing-box, [155]
Islands equable in temperature, [311]
subject to wind, [309], [311]
Itching in wet weather, [150]
Jack o’lanthorn, see ignis fatuus
Jet of flame through bars, [45]
Juice of lemons, [426]
Jungle of Hindostan fatal, [266]
Kendal rainy, [340]
Keswick rainy, [340]
Kettle boils over, [115]
quickly when covered with soot, [186]
slowly when clean, [186]
when new, [186]
bottom should be sooty, [200]
cold when water boils, [200]
inside white, [200]
lid hot, [201]
furr, [262]
holder, [167]
not full after boiling, [115]
runs over, [233]
through the spout, [115]
sings, [113], [233]
top bright, [200]
Kindling wet, [43]
Lakes which never freeze, [355]
Lamps, [74]
Argand, [83]
smoke, [82], [83]
spirit, [155]
See candle.
Lamp-glasses, [83]
Land air cold, [224], [311]
breeze unhealthy, [309]
Laplanders clad in skin, [183]
Latent heat, [31], [75], [96]
Laziness promoted by want of food, [89]
by heat, [93]
Lead tarnished, [259]
Leaves collect dew unequally, [208]
green, [404]
light green in spring, [404]
in a pond, [419]
pale in dark places, [403]
promote cold, [161]
yellow in autumn, [408]
Lid of kettles, &c. hot, [201]
Light bread, [276]
Light, [363]
composed of various colours, [400]
divided by a prism, [393]
from a flint, [97]
of candles, [76]
fire, [46]
sun, [363]
reflected, [364]
speed of, [364]
sudden painful, [365]
Lightning, [3]
balls, [6]
barks and snaps trees, [27]
comes from clouds, [16]
from earth, [16]
conductors, [22]
dangerous, [24]
follows dry weather, not wet, [28]
forked, [5]
fuses metal, [27]
kills animals, [7]
knocks down churches, [24]
maims, [8]
passes down the outside of a tree, [14]
passes through the inside of animals, [14]
purifies air, [27]
rare in winter, [28]
sheet, [6]
summer, [11]
common, [28]
straight, [6]
turns beer sour, [27]
not old beer, [27]
milk sour, [25]
See danger, safety.
Lilac steel rusts, [259]
prevented, [259]
Lime and water, [26], [30]
burned, [278]
hot, [277]
purifies bins, [266], [421]
sewers, [267], [421]
Lime-wash for rooms, [422]
Lincoln, rain of, [340]
Linen cool wear, [183]
dried, [160], [316]
Linseed oil boils, [119]
Liquefaction, [126]
Liquids, [112]
bad conductors, [172], [232]
cooled, [235]
Lisle thread gloves, [188]
Liverpool, rain of, [340]
London fog, [225]
rain of, [340]
Long flues, [110]
grass promotes cold, [161]
Log of wood, [2]
two burn better than one, [44], [52]
Looking-glass, [369]
Lucifer matches, [284]
Lunar caustic, [426]
Mackarel scales, &c., [136]
Macintosh prevents cold, [158]
Madness from starvation, [86]
Malt, [270], [272]
Man a swimmer, [362]
no bigger than a crow, [382]
Manchester, rain of, [340]
Magpies indicate weather, [153]
Marble, [426]
March comes in like a lion, [306]
goes out like a lamb, [306]
dry good, wet bad, [306]
flowers undesirable, [307]
wind dry, [305]
Marsh damp, [280]
Marsupium, [392]
Meat-covers, [202]
Meat liked in cold weather, [90]
loathed in hot, [92]
taint removed, [422]
tainted by moonlight, [220]
Mechanical action, [95]
Mercury of barometer bright, [260]
concave, [325]
convex, [325]
its rise and fall, [325]
Metal collects no dew, [209]
feels colder than wood, [168]
hotter than wood, [167]
fused by fire, [127]
by lightning, [27]
good conductor, [165]
handles burn, [166]
reflectors, [193]
tea-pots, [197]
Milk soured by lightning, [25]
Miners’ danger, [283]
prevented, [265]
Mirror, [369]
Mist arrests sound, [414]
black, [144]
cause of, [224]
differs from cloud, [128]
dew, [222]
fog, [227]
seems to rise, [222]
vanishes at sunrise, [227]
white, [144]
Mixing not combining, [25]
Money hot in a pocket, [168]
Monsoon, [300]
Months, driest, [328]
wettest, [329]
Moon, distance and size, [383]
largest at horizon, [149], [378]
reflected in water, [376]
in a well, [374]
seems flat, [383]
larger than stars, [383]
Moonlight makes plants grow, [220]
taints meat, [220]
Morning breeze, [308]
gray, [140]
rainbow, [141]
red, [139], [399]
streaks, [132]
Mortar, [278]
adhesive, [279]
crumbles, [358]
Motes in a sun-beam, [248]
Mould hardened by sun, [163]
Mouldiness prevented, [422]
Mountains cold, [100], [195]
collect rain, [338]
famous for echoes, [417]
impede respiration, [255]
noiseless, [416]
Muriate of soda, [426]
Musical instruments, [411]
flat, [412]
Nails for matches, [96]
Naves fitted on hot, [122]
Near-sight, [388], [391]
spectacles for, [389]
Negative electricity, [66]
Negroes, why black, [190]
with black eyes, [190]
New kettles boil slowly, [186]
Night allays hunger, [88]
exhilarating, [144]
oppressive, [144]
produces cold, [89]
rainbow at, [141]
Nimbus clouds, [137]
Nitrate of silver, [426]
Nitric acid, [28], [426]
Nitrogen, [36]
North wind cold, [302]
dry, [303]
North-east wind dry, [305], [320]
November rainy, [308], [338]
Oak attracts lightning, [257]
Old people far-sighted, [390]
hold objects at a distance, [392]
lose their sensation, thought, volition, [425]
lose their power of walking, [425]
spectacles for, [391]
Oil, [74]
linseed, [119]
of turpentine, [119]
of vitriol, [426]
One pot will not boil in another, [118]
how to make it boil, [118]
Oxalic acid, [426]
copper, [259]
iron, [257]
Oxide of lead, [259], [426]
platinum, [261]
potassium, [262]
silver, [260]
sodium, [262]
Oxygen, [34]
of air, [97]
its use, [240]
supports combustion, [240]
sustains life, [240]
Out-of-door work produces hunger, [89]
Owls prowl at night, [367]
see in the dark, [367]
sleep all day, [367]
Paleness, [243]
Palmer’s candles, [80]
Paper burns, [41]
not always, [44], [53]
extinguishers, [79]
puckers from wet, [339]
used for kindling, [41]
Papillæ, [425]
Paris, plaster of, [426]
rain of, [340]
Parlours smell of smoke in summer, [71]
Partition walls to arrest sound, [415]
Pea-soup fog, [225]
Percussion, [95]
Perspiration, [89]
Petals, [402]
Petrels, [154]
Phosphate of lime, [284]
Phosphorus, [283], [284]
Phosphuretted hydrogen gas, [283]
Piano-forte, [412]
Pickle tested, [361]
Pie with a cup, [120]
full of juice, [121]
Pin puts a candle out, [81]
Pineal gland, [424]
Pipes broken by frost, [351]
Piston, [102]
Plants collect dew, [208]
deleterious in bedrooms, [405]
grow out of walls, [316]
Plaster of Paris, [426]
of stoves falls away, [124]
Plasterers cannot work in frost, [359]
Platinum, [261]
its use, [261]
never tarnishes, [261]
Plate warmer, [188], [193]
Ploughing, promotes warmth, [161]
Plumbago, [258]
prevents rust, [258]
Poison for flies, [422]
Poker draws up fire, [52]
cold, [172], [238]
how to carry it when hot, [237], [238]
rusts, [258]
prevented, [258]
Polar current, [298]
Poor averse to cleanliness, [93]
ventilation, [94]
lazy, [89]
Pores of wood, [106]
Porter, froth of, [109]
set before a fire, [109]
stale, [275]
Positive electricity, [16]
Potatoes, green, [405]
yellow, [404]
Potassium, [262]
burns in water, [262]
Primrose, [402]
Prisms divide light, [393]
Pump handle cold, [168]
water hard, [363]
Purple steel rusts, [259]
its rust prevented, [259]
Putrefaction, [277], [278]
Putrefying bodies smell, [284], [285]
Quadrupeds swim, [362]
Radiation, [195]
cools iron, [247]
Radiators are absorbers, [197]
Rags catch fire spontaneously, [58]
Railway steamers, [218]
Rain, [331], [336]
affected by wind, [337]
after lightning, [11]
arrests sound, [413]
cause of, [326], [336]
cools air, [159]
differs from dew, [226]
falls in drops, [336]
fertilizing, [307], [337]
from passing clouds, [336]
heaviest in summer, [341]
least at the poles, [342]
melts salt, [346]
sugar, [345]
most in mountainous places, [338]
most in winter, [341]
near the equator, [341]
not salt, [347]
on dust, [223]
prognostics of, [137]
purifies air, [338]
sudden change, [326]
Rainbow, [394], [397]
colours reversed, [396]
morning, [141]
night, [141]
two, [395]
Rain drops, [336]
vary in size, [337]
Rain-water smells offensively, [345]
soft, [344]
stagnant, [347]
Rainy months, [308]
parts of England, [340]
Rattling of kettle-lid, [116]
Ray of light divided, [393], [400]
Reading aloud produces hunger, [88]
Red colour, [401]
rose, [401]
sky, [132], [399]
sun-rise, [139]
sun-set, [139]
Reflected light, [364]
Reflection of heat, [192], [370]
Reflectors, [192]
help the roast, [194]
keep kitchen cool, [194]
not absorbers, [192]
should be clean and bright, [189], [192]
should not be painted, [189]
Refraction, [386], [394]
Refrangible, [132]
Retina, [388]
Reverberation, [417]
Rice for food, [93]
Rivers flow slowest at sides, [348]
freeze unequally, [354]
never frozen at bottom, [352]
not wholly frozen, [353]
shallow freeze fastest, [354]
seem shallower than they are, [387]
warm when frozen, [354]
Roast apples, [105]
soft, [106]
chestnuts, [104]
Road dark from a light room, [194]
Rocks collect no dew, [209]
broken by frost, [350]
Room cooled, [159], [315]
ventilated, [375]
warmed by fire, [237]
Rose red, [401]
Ross Captain, [414]
Rotting leaves promote cold, [161]
Rubbing, [99]
hands to warm them, [101]
melts ice, [101]
restores suspended animation, [101]
See friction.
Ruddiness, [243]
Ruins famed for echoes, [416]
Running, promotes warmth, [87]
Running water freezes slowly, [354]
makes rough ice, [354]
oscillates, [348]
promotes warmth, [87]
pure, [347]
Rush lights easily blown out, [79]
extinguished by a pin, [81]
Rust, [257]
prevented, [258]
when most troublesome, [258]
Safety in a storm abroad, [20]
at a slight distance from a tree, [20]
best to be wet, [22]
in a carriage, [20]
in bed, [22]
in-doors, [21]
Safety lamp, [281], [282]
Sailors rarely catch cold, [158]
St. Bride’s church destroyed by lightning, [24]
Salt, [426]
and snow cold, [357]
and water, [31]
bad for washing, [343]
crackles in a fire, [44]
dissolves ice, [357]
by water, [346]
especially hot water, [346]
retards boiling, [118]
white, [403]
of lemons, [426]
smelling, [426]
water unfit for railway engines, [263]
Sand dazzling, [405]
Saturday’s kettle boils fastest, [199]
Saucepan boils best when black, [199]
slowly when new, [199]
lids should be clean and bright, [199]
Scald cured, [157]
Scum of fermentation, [272]
Sea-beach healthy in the morning, [310]
not healthy at night, [310]
Sea before storm, [146]
heaves and sighs, [146]
not much heated by sun, [296]
Sea-gulls, [154]
Sea water easier to swim in than fresh, [360]
rarely frozen, [355]
gives cold, [158]
salt, [346]
Sea-waves, [312]
Sedentary pursuits abate hunger, [90]
Seeing in a glass, [369]
into a dark street, [366]
light room, [378]
ourselves in a small mirror, [371]
the same object, [365]
when used to darkness, [366]
Sensation destroyed, [424]
of feeling, [425]
of taste, [425]
Sewers purified, [267]
Shade cool, [183]
Shadow in water, [371], [372]
Shadow larger as the object approaches a light, [379]
Sheen, [405]
Sheep bleat, [148]
Sheet lightning, [6]
Sheets wet, [157]
Ships out at sea, [385]
Shirts of linen, [183]
Shoes hot when dusty, [194]
Sick rooms purified, [421]
Sides of a pond covered with leaves, [419]
Swimming, [112]
Silver meat-covers, [202]
should not be chased, [202]
tarnishes, [260]
Simple clouds, [134]
Singing of a kettle, [113]
of boiling water, [233]
produces hunger, [88]
Single magpie unlucky, [153]
Skin, black does not scorch, [191]
white does, [191]
itches, [150]
Sleep elongates the body, [423]
body feels not in, [425]
dreams in, [424]
ears hear not in, [423]
eyes see not in, [423]
mind wills not in, [424]
tongue tastes not in, [423]
Sleet, [332]
Slit chestnuts, [105]
Smelling salts, [426]
Smells in wet weather, [152]
of church-yards, [283]
of putrefying bodies, [284]
Smoke, [39], [59]
curls, [59]
falls, [152]
of fresh coals, [39]
lamps diminished, [83]
by a glass, [83]
rises, [110]
useful in cooking, [201]
Smoky chimneys, [59]
See chimney.
Smoke-jacks, [112]
Snow, [331]
arrests sound, [413]
bad conductor, [333]
cause of, [331]
falls in winter, [332]
not in summer, [334]
like wool, [175]
nourishes the earth, [333]
on mountains, [334]
soon melts beneath a hedge or wall, [206]
use of, [332]
warm, [332], [333]
white, [334], [402]
Snow and salt cold, [31], [357]
Soap, [344]
cleansing, [344]
hard, soft, [344]
yellow, [344]
Soap-bubbles, [348], [398]
change colour, [399]
Soapy water bubbles, [348]
Soda water, [268], [269]
Sodium, [262]
decomposes water, [262]
Soft soap, [344]
Solids, [112]
Soot in summer, [71]
on ceilings, [71]
Sooty kettles, [186]
Sound, [409]
affected by frost, [414]
heat, [414]
arrested by wet, [413]
velocity of, [410]
diminished by rarity of air, [416]
heard best by night, [414]
inaudible on mountains, [147]
South wind rainy, [303], [320]
warm, [303]
South-west wind rainy, [304]
Sparks from a fire, [106]
a flint, [97]
a horse-shoe, [98]
Spectacles, [389]
black, [408]
blue, [407]
for aged, [390]
near sights, [389]
Split bells, [411]
Sponge swells when wet, [339]
Spontaneous combustion, [56], [57], [58], [85]
Spoons become dull, [26]
in water, [387]
retard boiling, [117]
Speaking promotes hunger, [88]
Spring best late, [307]
water cool, [182]
sparkles, [269]
Springs prevent freezing, [356]
Sprinkling to cool rooms, [159]
Stagnant water, [347]
full of worms, [347]
Stale beer, &c., see beer, [275]
Stars distance and size of, [383]
invisible by day, [368]
seem flat, [384]
seen in a well, [368], [374]
seen on mountains, [376]
twinkle, [406]
Starvation, [86]
produces madness, [86]
Steam, [127]
engines burst, [236]
invisible, [116], [235]
of a kettle, [236]
why visible, [117]
what becomes of it, [117]
Steel and flint, [97]
rusts, [259]
prevented, [259]
Stillness before a storm, [146]
Stirring cools broth, &c., [247]
Stockings difficult to draw on when wet, [340]
Stones broken by frost, [350]
cold, [169]
collect no dew, [208]
snap in fire, [108]
unfit for fuel, [43]
Storms, [146]
direction of, [28]
places of danger in, [12]
safety in, [20]
Straw covered over brickwork, [359]
over trees, [359]
water-pipes, [359]
Street dark from a light room, [194]
Stoves crack, when lighted, [123]
when cooling, [123]
of bricks, [174]
on a floor, [52], [237]
rust, [257]
not often, [258]
prevented, [258]
settings fall away, [124]
warm a room, [237]
Strata of air, [9]
Stratus clouds, [135]
Streets seem to meet at bottom, [381]
watered, [159]
Stucco peels off in frost, [358]
Sublimates, [426]
Sublimation, [426]
Sudden light painful, [365]
Sugar at top of tea melts quickly, [421]
left at the bottom of a cup melts slowly, [420]
melted by water, [345]
especially by hot water, [346]
retards boiling, [118]
stirred melts quickly, [420]
white, [402]
of lead, [426]
Sulphate of lime, [426]
magnesia, [426]
soda, [426]
zinc, [426]
Sulphuric acid, [426]
and water, [30]
boils, [110]
Summer allays hunger, [90]
clothes for, [187]
creates dislike of grease, [92]
love of fruit, [92]
lightning, [11]
Sun-beams full of mites, [248]
Sun affects eyes, [407]
dazzles, [364]
dulls fire, [40]
largest at horizon, [149], [377]
not seen in a well, [373]
seems flat, [384]
source of heat, [2]
reflected in water, [375]
Sun-rise red, [139]
Sun-set gray, [140]
red, [138]
yellow, [139]
Super-acetate of lead, [426]
Swallows fly low, [152]
Swan dry in water, [224]
Swimmers sink, [361]
Swimming, [262]
Syrup boils, [119]
Table salt, [426]
Tainted meat cured, [72], [422]
water, [72]
Tallow, [74]
Tarnish, [259]
Tartar emetic, [426]
Tartrate of potash, [426]
Tarts have a cup inside, [120]
full of juice, [121]
Tea cooled by blowing, [248]
by stirring, [247]
in a saucer, [163]
green deleterious, [423]
poison for flies, [423]
Tea-pot, bright metal, [197]
tarnishes, [260]
black earth, [197]
preferred by some, [198]
set on a hob, [198]
Telescopes, [385]
Tempest, [146]
affects weather, [326]
See storms.
Thaumatrope, [406]
Thaw affects barometer, [329]
cold, [320], [356]
dulls fire, [50]
Thermometer, [307]
Thick clothing unhealthy, [164]
Thunder, [8]
after lightning, [12]
bolts, [11]
deep growl, [10]
irregular roar, [9]
one crash, [8]
rolling, [10]
See danger, safety, storm.
Tigers prowl by night, [367]
sleep all day, [367]
see in the dark, [367]
Tiles broken by frost, [350]
Timber charred, [73]
Tin blowers, [70]
foot-warmers, [173]
reflectors, [193]
See reflectors.
Tinder blown, [97]
Toast and water, [73]
for the sick, [73]
Tomb-stones frosted, [230]
Tongs rust, [258]
prevented, [258]
Trade-winds, [198]
Transparency, [405]
Treble, [412]
Trees barked by lightning, [29]
collect dew, [208]
covered with bass, &c., [359]
look more distant in a fog, [148]
promote warmth, [161]
purify air, [253]
shade of, cool, [183]
Tumblers, see glasses
Twilight, [399]
Two eyes, [368]
see single, [369]
Unslit chestnuts, [104]
Use of barometers, [317]
clouds, [137]
smoke in cooking, [201]
snow, [332]
Valley chimneys smoke, [66]
Vaporization, [126], [127]
Vapour of a carriage, [214]
of a room, [212]
of sea not salt, [163]
Vats fatal, [265]
Vegetable and animal life co-dependent, [244]
Vegetables collect dew, [208]
cool the blood, [92]
Velocity of clouds, [314]
light, [364]
sound, [410]
wind, [313]
Vent peg, [273], [274]
Ventilation, [315]
sought by the well-fed, [94]
not by the ill-fed, [94]
Verdigris, [426]
Vertical sun, [293]
Vestry chimneys smoke, [66]
Violets blue, [402]
Walls wet in winter, [216]
Want connected with dirt, [93]
Warm clothes, [187]
some things more than others, [165]
Wash-hand-basin, [171]
Washing, water for, [275]
should not be hard, [343]
Water, [38], [342]
and lime, [30]
and sulphuric acid, [30]
ashes soften, [345]
bad conductor, [171], [234]
boiling, [119], [232], [234]
bubbles, [114], [233]
rattles, [116]
runs over, [115], [233]
sings, [233]
cleans dirty linen, [344]
cold, [177]
converted to steam, [127], [343]
cools slowly, [225]
deep, freezes slowly, [356]
dried up in summer, [162]
expands by frost, [351]
by heat, [351]
extinguishes fire, [54], [107]
flat when boiled, [275]
fluid, [342]
flowing, pure, [347]
for washing, [275]
freezes at the surface, [253]
hard, [343]
unfit for washing, [343]
how preserved cool, [191], [202]
hot, [191]
heated, [232]
intenses fire, [54]
mixed with salt, boils slower, [119]
not heated above boiling, [235]
of a spring cool, [182]
purified, [72]
purifies bins, &c., [267]
salt, bad for washing, [343]
shallow, freezes fastest, [355]
slackens flame, [55]
soft, [344]
best for washing, [345]
sparkles, [269]
stagnant, [347]
full of worms, [347]
stale, [275]
swells with boiling, [114]
will not bubble without soap, [348]
warm when frozen, [354]
Water pipes broken by frost, [351]
covered with litter, [359]
Watering plants by the saucer, [420]
streets, [159]
Waves, [312]
Wax, [74]
Wax candles need no snuffing, [81]
Weather affected by tempests, [326]
prognostics of, [137]
told by barometer, [318]
rules, [319]
Weather toys, [339], [340]
Well, moon seen in, [374]
stars seen in, [368]
sun not seen in, [373]
West Wind promotes dew, [218]
rainy, [304], [320]
Wet clothes cold, [157]
feet dangerous, [157]
finger cold, [157]
kindling, [43], [44]
sheets, [158]
summer, cold winter, [160]
weather offensive, [145], [148]
Wettest months, [329]
Wheels catch fire, [99]
greased, [100]
kept cool by water, [162]
Wheel-ruts frozen, [350]
Wheelwright, [122]
White, [402]
blisters, [190]
body linen, [186]
crust on clothes, [163]
dresses for summer, [186]
not fit for winter, [187]
mist, [144]
vitriol, [426]
Wicks cotton, need snuffing, [81]
have a knob when long, [80]
not upright when long, [80]
Palmer’s wicks need no snuffing, [80]
smoke, [82]
See candles.
Will o’ the wisp, see ignis fatuus.
Wind, [287]
affects barometer, [327]
clouds, [129], [131]
after lightning, [11]
altered by clouds, [295]
by seas, [295], [296]
brings dry, [305]
rain, [305]
cause of, [287], [292]
changes the shape of clouds, [132]
cold, [117], [180], [312]
dispels clouds, [131], [138]
fog, [228]
draws up fire, [51]
dries linen, [316]
feels hot sometimes, [181]
in England, [300]
increases clouds, [131], [138]
makes barometer fall, [320]
chimneys smoke, [66]
of a morning, [308]
of an evening, [309]
prevents dew, [206]
rate of travelling, [313]
regular, [297]
See England, monsoon, north, south, west &c., trade-winds &c.
Winding passages famed for echoes, [417]
Windows blazing with the sun, [372]
not at noon, [372]
covered with frost, [214]
mist, [211]
carriage, dull, [213]
rattle, [418]
Wine glasses, see glasses
Wine made without yeast, [271]
Winter clothing, [187]
promotes hunger, [90]
Wisdom of God, [182], [208] [210], [352], [357]
Wood burns, [41]
spontaneously, [55]
charred, [73]
hot at one end, cold at the other, [165]
ignited by friction, [99]
kindling, [41]
dry, [44]
wet, [107]
two logs burn best, [44], [52]
sends forth sparks, [106]
will not melt, [127]
Wooden handles, [166]
Wool bad conductor, [166]
collects no dew, [209]
warm, [176], [333]
Woollen clothing, [175]
Work produces hunger, [88]
Yeast, [271]
makes light bread, [276]
not used in wine, [271]
Yellow flame gives best light, [47]
soap, [344]
sun-set sign of wet, [139]

FINIS

JARROLD AND SONS, PRINTERS, NORWICH.

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