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 ALB ( 75 ) ALB a term ufed by fome chemids for fait of except two in the middle which are white, and the ALBANUM, urine. throat and bread are yellowiih. 5. The trivialis, ALBANY, a town of N. America, in the province of whofe chief feathers on the tail are brown, only half fmiated on Hudfon’s river, in 74. o. W. of the outermoft is white, and the feqond is white at New-York, long, and 43. o. N. lat. the end, in the fliape of a wedge ; there is likewife a ALBARA, phyficians, a malignant itch, nearly double whitilh line on the wings, it is a native of allied to theamong Sweden, and perches on the tops of trees. 6. The ALBARAZIN',leprofy. town of Spain, in the kingdom of Arcriftata; the chief tail-feathers are black, but the ragon, fituatedaupon Guadalavir, about one two outermoft are edged with white, and the head hundred and ten milestheeadriver of Madrid. is crefted. It is a native of Europe. 7. The fpino- ALBARDEOLA, in ornithology. See Platalea. letta, the chief tail-feathers are black, only the out- ALBARIUM in Roman antiquity, a kind of plamoft two are obliquely half white. It is a native of der made of opus, Italy. 8. The alpeftris ; the chief wing-feathers are of houfes. mere lime, ufed for covering the ceilings half white, the throat yellow, and it has a black ftreak ALBATI an appellation given to fuch horfes, in under the eyes and on the bread. It is a native of the gamesequi, of the ancient circus, as wore white furniN. America. 9. The raagna, is yellow on the belly, ture, in condradiltindlion the veneti, praftni, with a crooked black dreak on the bread, and the and ruffeti. See Veneti, from <bc. three lide-feathers of the tail white. It is a native of ALBAZIN, a town of GreaterPrasini, Tartary, with a drong Africa and America. upon the river Amur, or Yamour, Alauda marina, dint, or water-ouzel, in ornithology, incadle54.: o.It ofis fituated lat. and belongs to theMufcovites. an obfolete name of a fpecies of the'^durnus. See ALBE, a fmallN.piece of money, current in Germany, Sturnus. worth only a French fol and feven deniers. Alaujja, in ichthyology, an obfolete name of a fpecies ALBELLUS, in ornithology, the trivial name of a of the blennius. Scc Blennius. fpecies of the mergus. See Mergus. ALAUSA, in ichthyology. See Alosa. a town of France, in the province of ALAUTA, a confiderable river of Turky in Europe, ALBEMARLE, Normandy, from whence the noble family of Keppel which, after watering the north-ead part of Tranfyl- takes the title of earl, in 2. o. E. long. 49. 45. N.lat. vania, and part of Wallachia, falls into the Danube ai- Albemarle is alfo the nanys of the mod northerly dimed oppofite to Nicopolis. dria of N. Carolina. See Carolina. ALB, or Albe, in the Romirti church, a vedment of ALBENGA, a fea-port town of Italy fituated on the white linen hanging down to their feet, and anfwering to the furplice of our clergy. In the ancient church, Mediterranean, about fifteen miles north-ead of Oneit w'as ufual, with thofe newly baptized, to wear an glia. alb, or white vedment; and hence the Sunday after ALBERTUS, a gold coin, worth about fourteen French eader was called dominica in albis, on account of the livres: it was coined during the adminidration of Albertus archduke of Audria. albs worn by thofe baptifed on eader-day. Alb is alfo the name of a Turkilh coin, otherwife called ALBESIA, in antiquity, a kind of fliields otherwife called decumana. See Decumana. afper. See Asper. ALBA finna, or Album, in our old cudoms, denoted ALBICILLA, in ornithology, the trivial name of a rent paid in filver, and not in corn, which was called fpecies of the falco. See Falco. black-mail. ALBIGENSES, in church-hidory, a fe& of Chridians Alba terra, one of the numerous names for the philo- which appeared in the 12th and 13th centuries. They fopher’s done. are ranked among the grofled heretics, the ManicheALBAHURIM, figura fen decini laterum, a figure of ans, by Roman Catholics; from which charge Protedgreat importance according to adrological phyficians, ants generally acquit them, though with fome limitawho built their prognodics on it. tion. See Manicheans. ALBANENSES, in church-hidory, the fame with AlAt the time of the Reformation, thofe of the Albibigenfes. See Albigenses. genfes who remained embraced Calvinifm. ALBANI, in Roman antiquity, a college of the falii, Albigenses is alfo a name fometimes, though improor prieds of Mars, fo called from mount Alhanus the perly, ufed for a fed more ufually known by that of place of their refidence. See Salii. Waldenfes. See Walden ses. ALBikNIA, a province of Turky in Europe, fituated ALBIGEOIS, a fmall didrid of France in the higher on the ead-fide of the gulph of Venice. Languedoc, containing the diocefes of Albi and CaALBANO, a town of Italy, in the Campagna di Roma, dres. about twelve miles fouth-ead of Rome, 13.0. E.long. ALBII, in church-hidory, the fame with Albigenfes. 41. 35. N. lat. See Albigenses. ALBANS, or St Albans, a town of Hertfordthire, ALBINOS, the name by which the Portuguefe call the fituated about 20 miles north-wed of London. It re- white Moors, who 2re looked upon by the negroes as turns two members to parliament, and gives the title monders. They are the ilfue of a white man and of duke to the noble family of Beauclerc, 51. 40. black woman, and at a didanee might be taken for N. lat. Europeans; but, when you come near them, their white