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 ALE A L D (7 B ) the priefts, called Moravites, fay prayers with a loud ALDERNEY, or Aurigni, an iiland on the coaft of voice. Normandy, fubjedt to the crown of Great Britain. ALCORA^STS, among the Mahometans, an appel- ALDII, an appellation given to thofe fervants who atlation given to thofe who adhere clofely to the alco- tended their mafters to the wars. ran as the ultimate rule of faith: Such are the Per- ALDROVANDA, in botany, a genus of the pentanfians, in contradiftin&ion from the Turks, Arabs, drc. dria pentagynia clafs; of which there is but one fpecies. who admit a multitude of traditions befides the alcoran. The calix is divided into five parts; the petals are ALCOST, an obfolete name of a fpecies of tanfey. five ; and the capfule has five valves, with ten feeds. ALCOVE, among builders, a recefs, or part of a cham- It is a native of Italy and the Indies.. ber feparated by an eltrade, or partition of columns, ALE, a fermented liquor, obtained from an infufion of and other correfponding ornaments, in which is placed malt; and differing only from beer in having -a lefs a bed of date, and fometimes feats to entertain com- proportion of hops. See Brewing. • pany. Ale is thought to be the fame kind of liquor with Thefe alcoves are frequent in Spain, and the bed the cerevifia, zythum, and curmi of the ancients. ' raifed two or three afcents, with a rail at the foot. Medicated Ales, thofe wherein medicinal herbs have ALCOYTIN, a fmall town of Portugal, in the province been infufed, or put to ferment: Such are the cereof Algarva, defended by one of the ftrongeft caftles vifia cephalica, cerevifia epileptica, d?rr. • in that kingdom. A.v-berry, the popular name for ale that is boiled with ALCYON, the trivial name of a fpecies of alcedo. See bread and mace, fweetened, ftrained, and drunk hot. Alcedo. Ah'E.-connor, an officer in London whoinfpefts the meaALCYONIUM, in obfolete name of a fubmarine plant. fures of public houfes. They are four in number, It is alfo ufed for a kind of coral, or altroites, fre- and chofen by the common-hall of the city. quently found foflile in England. AisV-Jilver, a tax paid yearly to the lord-mayor, by all ALDABARAM, in anatomy. See Sesamoidea. who fell ale within the city. ALDARU, in botany, an obfolete name of a fpecies of Ax.’s.-meafure. See Measure. piftachia. See Pi stachia. ALEA, in Roman antiquity, denotes in general all manALDBOROUGH, a fea-port town of Suffolk, which ner of games of chance; but, in a more reftii&ed fends two members to parliament; i, 40. E. long. fenfe, was ufed for a particular game played with dice and tables, not unlike our backgammon. See Ba.ck‘ 52. 20. N. lat. Ald boro ugh, is alfo a market-town of Yorkfhire, a- gammon. bout fifteen miles north-weft of the city of York. ALEATORIUM, a place in the ancient gymnafia, where ALDEA, a town of Portugal, in the province of Eftre- they played at the al;ae. madura, about ten miles S.ofLifbon^ ALEC, in ichthyology, an obfolete name a fpecies of__ ALDEBAC, the Arabian term for bird-lime. fparus. See Sparus. ALDEBARAN, in aftronomy, a ftar of the firft mag- ALECOST. SccAlcast. nitude, called, in Englifh, the bull’s eye, as making ALECTORIA, a ftone faid to be formed in the gallbladders of old cocks, to which the ancients afcnbed the eye of the confteilation Taurus. many fabulous virtues. ALDEGO, a river of Italy, in the territories of Venice, ALECTORICARDITES, the name of a ftone refemwhich lofes itfelf in the Adige. ALDENAER, a fmall town of Germany in the electo- bling a pullet’s head. ALECTORIUS lapis. See Alectoria. rate of Cologn, fituated on the river Aar. ALECTOROMANTIA, in Grecian antiquity, a fpeALDENBURG. See Altenburg. cies of divination performed by means of a cock, in ALDER-/rer, in botany. See Be tula. ALDERMAN, in the Britifh policy, a magiftrate fub- the following manner: A circle being defcribed on the ordinate to the lord-mayor of a city or town-corporate. % ground, and divided into twenty-four equal portions, The number of thefe magiftrates is not limited, but in each of thefe fpaces was written one of the letters is more or lefs according to the magnitude of the place. of the alphabet, and on each of the letters was laid a In London they are twenty-ViX; each having one of grain of wheat; after which a cock being turned loofe the wards of the city committed to his care. This in the circle, particular notice was taken of the grains office is for life; fo that when one of them dies, or picked up by the cock, becaufe the letters under them, idigns, a ward-mote is called, who return two per- being formed into a word, made the anfwer defired. fons, one of whom the lord-mayor and aldermen chufe ALEAGAR, or Aleger, the name of a kind of vinegar made of ale inftead of wine. to fupply the vacancy. By the charter of the city of ALEGRETTE, a town of Portugal, in the province London, all the aldermen who have been lord-mayors, together with the three eldeft ones not arrived at that of Alantejo, fituated on the river Caya; 7. 50. W. long. 39. o. N. lat. . dignity, are juftices of the peace. Alderman, among our Saxon anceftofs, was a degree ALEIPHA, among ancient phyficians, the name of animal or. vegetable oils, when ufed as unguents. of nobility anfwering to earl or count at prefent. .AldeRma'n was alfo ufed, in the time of king Edgar, ALEMBIC, in chemiftry.. See Chemistry. for a judge or juftice; in which fenfe Alwin is called ALEMBROTH, an obfolete name of a kind of fixed alkaline fait. aldtrmannus iotius Anglia, ALENGNER,