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 A M A ( I3I ) A M B AMAN, a port of Africa, in the kingdom of Morocco, AMATORII mufculi, in anatomy, a term fometimes upon the Atlantic ocean, between, cape Ger, and ufed for the obliquus fuperior and obliquus inferior cape Cantin. mulcles of the eye, as thefe mufcles affift in ogAman, is aifo the name of a kingdom, near the middle ling or drawing the eye Tideways. See Anatomy, of the ifland of Sumatra, in the £. Indies,. part VI. AMANCE, a town of Lorrain, fituated in .6° ro' E. AMATRICE, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the long, and 48° 4c/ N. lat. about feven miles N. E. of farther Abruzzo, upon the confines of the pope’s territories, and the marquifate of Ancona. . Nancy. AMAND, or St Amand, the name of two towns, one AMAUROSIS, in medicine, a diftemper in the eye, oclituated in the duchy of Bourbon, in the province of cafioned by an infenfibility of the retina. See MediLyonnois in France; and the other in French Flanders, about fix miles N. of Valenciennes. AMAUSA, a term ufed by chemifts for paftes counterAMANTEA, a fea-port town and biihop’s fee of the feiting gems. kingdom of Naples, fituared near the bay 0 of Euphe- AMAXOBII, the fame with hatnaxohii. mia, in0 the province of Calabria, in 16 20' E. long, AMAZON, in a general fcnfe, denotes a bold, daring and 39 15' N. lat. woman. AMAPALLA, a. fea-port town of Mexico, in the pro- AMAZONS, were an ancient nation of women, inhabiting that part of lefier Afia now called Amalia! , vince 0 of Guatimala, fituated on the Pacific ocean, in See Amasia, 93 W. long, and N. lat. AMARACUS, in botany, a fynonyme of the origaThe Amazons are faid to have killed all their male num. See Origanum. children, and to have cut off the right breafts of their AMARANTA, or Amaranth, an order of knight- females, to fit them for martial exercifes. The exhood, inftituted in i6J3, by Chriftina Queen of Swe- iftence, however, of fuch a nation is controverted" by . den, in memory of a mafquerade, wherein fhe had af- many judicious authors, and defended by others, parfumed that name, which fignifies unfading, or immor- ticularly Mr Petit, who has publifned a diflertation on tal. Her nobility likewife aflumed different charac- the fufcjeft, wherein are feveral curious inquiries conters, viz. of gods, goddeffes, Ibepherds, nymphs, <bc.' cerning their arms, drefs, dv. and fo well pleafed' was the Queen with the diverWe alfo read of Scythian Amazons, of German Amafion, that flie inftituted this order in memory of it, zons, of Lybian Amazons, and Amazons of America, confifting of 16 lords, and as many ladies, with the living on the banks of the great river which bears motto, Dolce nella memoria. their name, who are reprefented as governed by a AMARANTH, in botany. See Amaranthus. queen, no man being permitted to live among them; AMARANTHOIDES, in botany, the trivial name of only, at a certain feafon, thofe of the neighbouring a fpecies of illecebrum. See Illecebrum. nations are fuffered to vifit them for the fake of proAMARANTHUS, in botany, a genus of the monascia creation. The. Amazons of Lybia are famous for pentandria clafs. The flowers have no petals ; the their wars with another female nation called Gorgons. . calix is multifid; and the feeds are contained in mem- See Gorgons. branaceous velfels, and very numerous. There are 22 On medals, the buft of the Amazons is ordinarly refpecies of amaranthus, none of them natives of Bri- prefented armed with a little battle-ax, Called by the tain, except the blitum, or leffer blite ; all the others Remans biceps, or fecuris, which they carried on are fmmd in the Indies. The amaranthus is faid to their fhouldv*;- with a fmall buckler, in form of a be aftringent. half moon, diftinguifhed by the name of fella, upon AMARYLLIS, in botany, a genus of the hexandria their left arm. monogynia clafs. The fpatha of the amaryllis confifts Amazons, in a figurative fenfe, an appellation given to of one leaf, the flower, like other liliaceous plants, bees, as being governed by a queen. has fix petals, and the ftigma is trifid. There are 12 Amazon, in geography, a great river in S. America, fpecies of the amaryllis, ail of them natives of the which riling in Peru, near the equator, runs caftwarm climates. Fig. 1. of plate XII. reprefents the ward a courfe of more than 3009 miles; and, like orientalis, a native of theE. Indies. other rivers between the tropics, annually overflows AMASIA, the northern divifion of lefter Afia, lying its banks, at which feafon it is about 150 miles broad where it falls into the ocean. on the S.. fhore of-the Euxine fea. Amasia, is alfo-the name of the capital city of0 the AMAZONIAN, denotes Line thing belonging to the above province, fituated in 36° E. long, and 42 N. amazons. lat. about 70 miles S. of the Euxine fea. AMBACHT, a term ufed in fome parts of Germany AMASTRIS, or Amastro, a city of Turky in Afia, and Flanders, for the magiftracy of a city, or the in the province of Brefangil, fituated on the Black diftridl or territory belonging to it. Sea. AMBADAR, a city of Africa, in the upper Ethiopia, AMATIDES, a name ufed by fome for an incombufti- fituated upon the Nile, between the provinces of Dai nble ftone. See Amianthus. bea and Savea. AMATITLAN, a town of N. America, fituated in AMBAGES. See Circumlocution. the valley of Mixco, in the province of Guatimala. AMBAMARJAM, or Ambara, the capital city of Abylfinia,