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AH
A
A, Ihe name of Ceveral river. in difFcrenl p1rls
of
roe
world,
'lizo
l.
of ene
iD
Solagoe, in
France;
:2 .
of
Orle
in French Flanders; 3. of
.
thrce in Switzerland; 4. of fi ve in the Low
Cououies;
5.
of 6ve i. Wetlpbali.;
6.
of
one in Livonia.
AABAM, • term, . mong akbemitl" rnr lead.
AACH,
Lhe Dame of a town
and river in Swabia. lt;9
alfo a oame rometimes giveo la
Aix.la.ch~pelle.
AADE, (he
Dame
of two rivers, ene in the country of
Ibe GriCoo> iD Switzerland, 'Dd the omor in Duteh
n...
bant.
AAHUS, a Cmall
10IVO
and ditlria in Wetlphalia.
AAM, a Dutch meafure roc liqwds, comainiog ahaul
63
too
avoirdupoiCe.
AAMA, a province
iD
Barbary, very'little known.
A AR, the
Dame oftWO
riven,
cne iD
W e!lphalia,
and
one
in
Switzerland,
It
is likewife
me
Dame
of a fmaIl
i03nd iD the B,utic {oa.
AARSEO,
a
lo",n inAfriea, fitu. ted near me mouth of
the river·Min8.
MUER,
oc
ATTtR,
a province of Arábia
Felix,
6·
IU.led
00
the Red·fc•.
···N."\3.
'Alrmhcr places whieh
begin wim a double A, bUI more generally with a
fingle one, wiJl be ioC<ned .ccorJing tOthe latl ollho–
grophy.
AB, tbe c1cventh mon,h of the ei,il yeu or ,he
Hebre~·,.
lt
cOlrtfponds
lO
pan
of ou r JlIne 2nd July, <
l.ndcon–
fins of
30
days. On ,he fi rtl of this month the Jews
commemorate lhe de3lh of AHon by aran: lhey rdtl
>lío
on the nimh, bccaufo on
tll3l
d..y "oth me temple
of Bolomon and that en'llcrl arta the capti\'ity \Vere
burn!. The C:une doy is :.JCo remarkab!e for the publi·
r:n:ion of Adriíto's ediét, prohibiting Ihe Jcws to Jook
bJck,
tVCO
whcn
at
a
waan~,
upon
jcrufalcm, or lO
V OL .
I.
Ko.
lo
ABA
lamenl its d. folatioo. TI. lamp of the C.néluarr.
ilI
the
time of Ahaz,
WilS
extinguilhcd
on die oight of the
18m, for whiel> reafoo me Jews fall thal
doty.
See
A STIt.O NOMY,
O/
Ih~
divijir¡n
of
lime.
AB,
in ,he Syriae kaleodar,
is
the name of
the
latl fum–
mer-month.
ABACATUAIA, io iehthyology, • barbarou. name
of
the zellS vomer,
a
fi(h
belonging to lhe thoracic ordct–
of
Linnreus.
See
Zr us .
.A13ACA
Y, •
barb3lOus name of. Cpecies of the pGttaeus.
or parrOL See
P S ITTA CUS.
ABACH,
a town
in
Bavaria, lituated
on me
Danube,
a linle
above Ratifbon.
ABACISCUS. See ABAcu,.
ABACO,
a (erm, alOong
anciem
\vriters, ror-arithmetic.
ABACOA, th: oaroe of ooe of me Babama illaods.
See
HAHAM A.
ABACOT, the oame of
;m
aneienl cap of nate \Vorn hy
the kings of England, Ihe upper pan whereof \Vas
in
the form of a dOllbJe crown.
ABACTORES, or AB.eTo" , • term for Cueh
a~
carry off or dri"e a\Vay a whole herd of cmleby nc.lth·.
ABACT US,
.0
obfolete term, among phyficiaos, for
~
mi.fcarriage procured by
;u-t.
ABA'CUS, • "ble tlrewed o,'er with dun
or
r., nc', u;>on
\\hleh
the
aneient
mathcmaticians drcw lheir figure"
1t aIro fignified a
eupbo.ra, or buffe!.
AHACUS,
in architcéture,
~gnifies th~
(urcrior rart or
mcn~ber
of the capital of a coJumo, and
(en'es ¡S
\d.
kind
of crowning
to
bOlh.
lt
was origin.llI)'
inten~~ed
to
repn.Jenl
a fquare lile cO\'cring a bafkct. T hc f\1rm
of {he abacus is not the 'fime in all Nrlcrs: in the
T urcan, Doric. and Ionie,
it
is
~cncraJly
rqu:ue; hnt
in lhe Corinthi;m and C'ompo(jte, iu
four
(jJt'S ::u:c
arched
in"" an's, 30d
eOlbL
Iltíhed
ill
lhe
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t
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