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 A I Z (i goM; and, in the latter, eighteen penny-weight of alloy for a pound of filver. ALLUM. See Alum. ALUMNIOR, in forae of our old ftatutes, a perfon whofe trade it is to colour, or paint upon paper or parchment. ALLUSION, in rhetoric, a figure by which fomething is applied to, or underftood of another, on account of feme (imilitude between them. ALLUVION, in law, denotes the gradual increafe of land along the fea-ftiore, or on banks of rivers. See Law, title, Divifion ofrights. ALLY, in matters of polity, a fovereign prince or ftate that has entered into alliance with others. See Alliance. ALMACANTARS. See Almucantars. ALMACARRON, a port-town of Spain, in the province of Murcia, at the mouth of the Guadalentin ; W. long. i° 15', N. lat. 370 40,. ALMADE, a town of Spain, in the province of la Mancha, in the kingdom of Cafiile, fituated upon the top 1 of a mountain, where are the mOft ancient, as well as the richeft filver mines in Europe. ALMADIE, a kind of canoe, or fmall vefl'el, about four fathoms long, ufually made of bark, and ufed by the negroes of Africa. Almadie is alfo the name of a kind of longboats, fitted out at Calicut, which are eighty feet in length, and fix or feven in breadth. They are fexceeding fwift, and are otherwife called cat hurt. ALMAGEST, in matters of literature, is particularly ufed for a collection or book compofed by Ptolemy, containing various problems of the ancients both in geometry and altronomy. Almagest is alfo the title of other collections of this kind. Thus, Riccioli has publifhed a book of aftronomy which he calls the New Almageft; and Pluckenet, a book which he calls Almagejirum Botanicum. ALMAGRA, a fine deep red ochre. See Ochre. ALMAN-FURNACE, the fame with almond-furnace. See Almond. ALMANAC, in matters of literature, a table containing the kalendar of days and months, the rifing and fetting of the fun, the age of the moon,_ <bc. Regiomontanus is allowed to have been the firfl who reduced almanacs to their prefent form. Cmjlruttion of Almanacs. The firft thing to be done is, to compute the fun’s and moon’s place for each day of the year, or it may be taken from fome ephemerides and entered in the almanac; next, find the dominical letter, and, by means thereof, diftribute the kalendar into weeks ; then, having computed the time of eafter, by it fix the other moveable feafts ; adding the immoveable ones, with the names of the martyrs, the rifing and fetting of each luminary, the length of day and night, the afpeCts of the planets, the phafes of the moon, and the fun’s entrance into the 'Cardinal points of the ecliptic, i. e. the two equinoxes and folftices. . ALMANDINE, a name given by ancient naturalifts to the carbuncle. See Carbuncle.

4 ) ALA ALMANZA, a little town in the province of New Ca~ ftile in'Spain, remarkable for the defeat of the confederate army0 by the French, in 1707; W. long. i° i</, N. lat. 39 . ALMARIA, a term found in fome ancient records for the archives of a church, monaftery, and the like. ALMARIC herefy, one broached in France in 1209, the diftinguilhing tenet of which was. That no Chriftian could be faved unlefs he believed himfelf to be a member of Chrift. ALMEDA, a town 0 in the province 0of Beira in Portugal.; W. long. 9 40', N.lat. 3S 4c/. ALMEDIA, a frontier- town in the province of Tralos Montes, in Portugal ; W. long. 70 10', N. lat. 40° 40 . ALMEHRAB, in the Mahometan cuftoms, 'a nich in their mofques, pointing towards the kebla or temple of Mecca, to which they are obliged to bow in praying. See Kebla. ALMELILETU, a term ufed by Avifenna, for a preternatural heat which fometimes remains after a fever is gone. ALMENE, in botany, an obfolete name of the lotus. See Lotus. Almene, in commerce, a weight of two pounds ufed to weigh laffron in feveral parts of the continent of the E. Indies. Almendine, Almemdine, or Albandine, a fpecies of ruby. See Ruby. ALMERIA, a fea-port town of Spain in the kingdom of Granada, fituated at the mouth of the river Almoria, or Bolciduy. ALMERY. See Ambery. ALMIGGIM-toW, is thought, to be that of the Indian pine-tree, which being light and white, was greatly efteemed for making-mufical inftruments. ALMISSA, a city of Dalmatia, fubjedt to the Venetians, and called by the Sclavonians Omifch. ALMIZADIR, an obfolete term among chemifts for verdigris, fac. ALMODIA, a kind of very long and narrow boat, ufed in the E. Indies. ALMOGIZA, a term ufed by Arabian writers for the limb of the aftrolabe. 'See Astrolabe. ALMOIN, or/rawi-Almoin, in law. See FrankAlmoin. ALMOND, the fruit of the almond-tree. See Amygdalus. Almond-/^. See Amygdalus. Egyptian Ahmoxto, in botany. See Brabejum. Almond, in commerce, a meafure by ■frhich the Portuguefe fell their oil; twenty-fix almonds make a pipe. ALMONDS, in anatomy. See Amygdalae. AmoKvfvrnace, among refiners, that in which the flags of litharge, left in refining filver, are reduced to lead again, by the help of charcoal. Almond is alfo the name of a fpecies of rock-cryftal, ufed by lapidaries in adorning candlefticks, &r. on account of their refemblance to the fruit of that name. ALMONDBURY, a village in England, in the weft , riding of Yorklhire, fix miles from Haliifax.