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 A M A A L Y ( . 13° ) the remainder is left pofieffed of all its acids, lefs command, and obliged every perfon to preferve order clogged, and more in a condition to exert its effeifts. and decency. It proves a gentle efcharotic, and is ufed in fmall ALZACHI, in botany, an obfolete name of the anquantities, mixed with other ingredients, in tooth- guria. SeeANGURiA. ALZAGI, orAuzEGi. See Zegi. powders. Crude Alum, that which has undergone no other refine- ALZARAC, the Arabian name of a coarfe kind of camphor. ment than what it receives at the alum-works. Native Alum, or Foffile Alum, that formed by na- ALZIRA, a town of Spain, in the province of Valentia, fituated on the river Xucar, about 18 miles S of ture, without the affiftance of art. There are ftill mines of native alum in the ifland of the city of Valencia, W. long. 20°, N. lat. 39° 10'. Chio, confifting of a kind of vaults, or apartments ALZIZ, among Arabian phyficians. See Ziz. crufted over with alum, which may be looked upon as ALZUM. See Bdellium. AMA, among ecclefiadical writers, denotes a veflel in exfoliations from the rock. Plumofe Alum, or Plume Alum, a kind of natural which wine or water were kept for the fervice of the alum, compofed of a fort of threads, or fibres, refem- .eucharid. Am a, is fometimes alfo ufed for a wine-meafure, as a bling feathers ; whence it has its name. Prepared Alum, or Purified Alm, that which is dif- pipe, or the like. folved in hot rain-water, and afterwards made to cry- AMABYR, or Amvabyr, a cudom which formerly prevailed in Wales, and fome other parts of the kingftalize, by evaporating the water. Roche--Ar.vM, or Rock-Ai.V'M. See the article, Proctfs dom ; being a certain fine, or fum of money, paid to the lord upon marrying a maid within his manor. of making Alum, fupra. Roman Alum, a fort of rock-alum, of a reddilh colour, Amacaches, a people of Brazil, in S. America, near the government of Rio Janeiro. made in the country near Rome. Saccharine Alum, is a compofition of common alum with AMACUSA, an ifland of Japan, feparated by a narrow rofe-water, and the whites of eggs, which being boiled drait from Saicoco, or Ximo. to the confidence of a pade, is formed in the lhape of a Amacusa, is alfo the capital of the province of that name. fugar-loaf; it is ufed as a cofmetic. AMACAO. See Macoa. Setfile Alum, the fame with plumofe alum. AMADABAT, a large populous trading city in the E. ALUMEN, the Latin name of alum. of Guzurat, or Alumen cat ini, a name fometimes ufed for the fait of Indies, the capital of the province Cambay, and fituated in 720 E. long, and 230 40' the kali. Alumen fcaglioU, a name fometimes ufed for lapis fpe- N. lat. AMAD AN, or Hamadan, in geography. See Hacularis. ALUMINOUS, an epithet for things that partake of 1 MADAN. AMADANAGER, a town in the higher peninfula of the nature of alum, India, fituated in 74° 15' E. long, and 180 N. lat, ALUMTA, in botany. See Luteola. a city of Afiatic Turky, in the province0 of ALUS, or Alum, in botany, an obfolete name of the AMADIA, Curdedan, fituated on a high mountain, in 43 E. fymphymm. See Symphytum. 0 ALVUS, in anatomy, a term ufed fos the belly in ge- long, and 37 N. lat. AMAIN, or Amayne, in the fea-language, a term imneral, but more frequently applied to the bowels. ALWAIDII, a fedt of Mahometans who believe all great porting to lower fomething at once. Thus, to drike amain, is to‘lower, or let fall, the top-fails ; to wave crimes to be unpardonable. ALYPIAS, the name of a kind of white turbith. See amain, is to make a fignal, by waving a drawn fword, or the like, as a demand that the enemy drike their Turbith. ALPUM, in botany, a fynenyme and likewife the tri- top-fails. or Amaka, an ifland of Denmark, lying in vial name of a fpecies of globularia. See Globu- AMAK, lar! a. 130 5' E. long, and 550 29' N. lat. and feparated by ALYSSOIDES, in botany, a fynonyme of the alyfium. a very narrow channel from Copenhagen. See Alyssum. AMALFA, a city of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, ALYSSUM, or Aly.sson, in botany, a genus of the and province of the hither Principato. It is the fee tetradynamia filiculofa. The dowers of the alyffum of an archbiffiop, and remarkable for giving birth to confid of four leaves in the form of a crofs : The cap- Flavius Blendus, inventor of the feaman’s compafs. fule is iliort and finooth, and contains a number of E. long. 1-50 20, N. lat. 48° ycA roundilh feeds. There are 14 fpecies of the alyflum, AMALGAM, mercury united with fome metal. See none of which are natives of Britain. Chemistry. ALYTARCHA, a pried of Antioch in Syria, who, in AMALGAMATION, in chemidry, the operation of the games indituted in honour of the gods, prefided making an almalgam, or mixing mercury with any meover the officers who carried rods to clear away the tal. See Chemistry. crowd, and keep order. Amalgamation, is alfo ufed by fome, in a lefs proper In the Olympic games, the alytarches had the fame fenfe, for a folution of fulphur with mercury. AMAN,