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 AIN ( 52 ) AIR pita! aid, dwe to the chief lord on feveral occafions, AIPIMIXIRA, in ichthyology, the American name of as, to make his eldeft fon a knight, to make up a por- a filh called pudano. AIR, a thin trapfparent fluid which encompafles the tion for marrying his daughter, &c. globe of the earth to a confiderable height. For the Royal Aid, an appellation lometimes given to the land- weight, pcelfure, elafticity, 6c. of air, fee PneuA1DS, in the French cuftoms, certain duties paid on all matics. Air, in medicine, one of the fix non-naturals, and as goods exported or imported into that kingdom. Ceurt of Kins, in France, a fovereign court ellablilhed eflential to the life of animals as food, or any of the in fcveral cities, which has cognizance of all caufes ordinary evacuations. Air, in mythology, was adored by the heathens under relating to the taxes, gabels, and aids. Aids, in the menage, are the fame with what fome the names of Jupiter and Juno ; the former reprefentwriters call cherijbings, and ufed to avoid the neceffi- ing the fuperior and finer part of the atmofphere, and the latter the inferior and grofler part. The auty of corre&ions. The inner he'd, inner leg, inner rein, i&c. are call- gurs alfo drew prefages from the clouds, thunder, ed inner aids ; as the outer heel, outer leg, outer lightning, 6c. Air, in painting, 6c. denotes the manner and very rein, are called ou/er aids. life of aftion; or it is that which exprefles the difpoAids of aflizers cf wood. See Assizer. A1DINELLI, or Aidin-ili, the modern or Turkilh fition of the agent. It is fometimes alfo ufed in a fomewhat fynonymous name of Natolia, or Leffer Afia. See Natolia. AIELO, or Aiello, a fmall town of the kingdom of fenfe with gefture or attitude. Naples, in the Farther Abruzzo, with the title of Air, in mufic, denotes the melody proper for fongs, odes, and the like; being ufually quick and lively. Dutchy. Sometimes it is ufed for the fongs themfelves, callAIGHENDALE,, the name of a liquid meafure ufed ed by the Romans aera, from which the modern term in Lancafliire, containing feven quarts. A1GITHALUS, in ornithology, an obfolete name of air is derived. AIRS, in the menage, are the artiScial motions of taught the parus or titmoufe. See Parus. A1GLE, in geography, the name of a town of France, horfes, as the demivolt, curvet, capriole, 6c. See in the Higher Normandy; alfo of a promontory in Pro- De.mivolt, 6c. vence, lying fouthward of the city of Ciotad; and of AiK-bladder, a veficle in the bodies of mofl: fifltes, by a town and diftrift of Switzerland, in the canton of which, being filled with air, they are enabled to fink or raife themfelves in the water, by comprefling or exBern. AIGR.E, a river of France, otherwife called Egre. See panding the air contained in this bag, and thereby 1 rendering their bodies at pleafure fpecifically heavier the article Egre. or lighter than water* AIGLETTE, in heraldry. Eaglet. AIGRETTA, in ornithology, an obfolete name of the Ai in-gun, a machine for exploding balls by means of condenfed air. See Pneumatics. ardea alba. See Ardea. Ais. pump, a machine by which the air contained in a AIGUE-~marine. See Aqua marina. veflel may be exhaulled, or drawn out. See AIGUILLON, orEcuiLLON’, a fmall town of France, proper Pneumatics. in the province of Guienne, fituated at the conflux of AiK-Jhafts, among miners, are holes made to meet the rivers Garonne and Lot. AIGUISCE, Aiguisse, orEcuiscE, in heraldry, de- the adits, and fupply them with frelh air. Thefe, notes a crofs with its four ends lharpened, but fo as when the adits are long, or exceeding thirty or forty fathom, become highly neceflary, as well to to terminate in obtufe angles. It differs from the crofs fitchee, in as much as the give vent to the damps and noxious vapours, as to let latter tapers by degrees to a point, and the former in frelh air. AK-threads. See Gossamer. only at the ends. AILE, or Aiel, in law, a writ which lies where a AiK-veJfels, arefpiral dudts in the leaves, 6c. of plants, fierfon’s grandfather, or great-grandfather, being fuppofed to be analogous to the lungs of animals, in eifed of lands, tec. in fee Ample the day that he fupplying the different parts of a plant with air. died, and a flranger abates or enters the fame day, AIRA, in botany, a genus of the triandria digynia clafs. There are 14 fpecies of the aira, nine of which and difpoflefles the heir of his inheritance. AILESBURY, the county town of Buckinghamshire, are natives of Britain. The Englilh name is hair.fituated near the Thames, about forty-four miles W. graft. of London. It fends two members to parliament, A1REBA, in ichthyology, a fynonime of the raja paftiand gives the title of earl to the noble family of naca. See Pastinaca, AIRANI, in church-hillory, a branch of Arians, who, Bruce. W. long. 16. 55. N. lat. 51. 40. AIM ARGUES, a fmall towm of France, in the pro- befide the common dogma of that feft, denied the confubftantiality of the Holy Ghoft with the Father vince of Languedoc, and diocefe of Nifraes. AIN, a river of France, which, after watering part of and Son. Ftanche Comte and Brefle, falls into the Rhone, a- AIRE, in geography, a fea-poft town in Scotland, fituated in 4. 40. W. long, and 55. 30. N. lat. theat bout four leagues above Lyons.