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 A M E A M E (134 ) they led a vidtim, and afterwards facriiked if, in or- court, and his country. Sometimes the puniflimCnt ends here ; butfometimes it is only a prelude to death, der to avert fome calamity that threatened the city. AM BURY, or Anbury, among farriers, denotes a tu- or banilhment to the gallies. mor, wart, or fwelling, which is foft to the touch, Amende honorable is a term alfo ufed for making recantation in open Court, or in prefence of the peifon inand full of blood. This diforder of horfes is cured by tying a horfe- jured. hair very hard about its root, and, when it has fallen AMENDOLARA, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in „ off, which commonly happens in about eight days, the Hither Calabria. brewing fome powder of verdcgris upon the part, to AMENDMENT, in a general fenfe, denotes fome alprevent the return of the complaint. If the tumor teration or change made in a thing for the better. be fo low that nothing can be tied about it, they cut Amendment, inlaw, the correction of an error comit out with a knife, or elfe burn it off with a fliarp mitted in a procefs, which may be amended after judg-* hot iron; and, in finewy parts, where a hot iron is ment, unlefs the error lies in giving judgment, for in improper, they eat it away with oil of vitriol, or white that cafe it is not amendable, but the party mult bring a writ of error. fublimate. A bill may be amended on the file at any time beAMBUSCADE, or Ambush, in the military art, properly denotes a place where foldiers may lie concealed, fore the plea is pleaded; but not afterwards, without motion and leave of the court. till they find an opportunity to iurprife the enemy. AMBUSTION, with phyficians, the fame with a burn. Amendment of a bill, in parliament, is fome alteration AMBY, a town of the Au(Irian Netherlands, in the made in the firft draught of it. province of Limburg, fitnated oppofite 0to Maefiricht, AMENTACEOUS, in botany, an epithet applied to on the eaft-fide of the river Maefe, in 5 45' E. long, fuch plants as are furnilued with an amentum. See and 50° 56', N.lat. Amentum. AMED, or Amida, a city of Afia in Mefopotamia: AMENTUM, in botany, the name of a fpecies of cathe Arabians call it Diarbtker, and the Turks Kara- lix, confifting of valves, and hanging down in different dire&iohs from the caulis. Common oats afford a Amed. good example of the amentum. AMEDEWAT. See Am adabat. AMEDIANS, in church-hiftory, ,a congregation of re- Amentum, in Roman antiquity, a thong tied about the ligious in Italy, fo called from their profeiiing them- middle of a javelin or dart, and faltened to the forefelves amanies Deutn, lovers of God; or rather, a- finger, in order to recover the weapon as foon as it was difeharged The ancients made great ufe of the awlati Deo, beloved of God. AM El V A, in zoology, the trivial name of a fpecies of meatum, thinking it helped to inforce .the blow. It alfo denotes a latchet that bound their fandals. lacerta. See Lacerta. AMEL, a term frequently ufed by Mr Boyle, in a fy- AMERADE, the fame with emir. See Emir. AMERCEMENT, or Amerciament, in law, a penonimous fenfe with enamel. See Enamel. AMEL AND, an ifland of the United Provinces, in the cuniary punilhment impofed upon offenders at the merGerman* Ocean, near the coaft of Friezland, from cy of the court. AMERGO, or Mergo, a city of Africa, in the kingwhich it is feparated by a ftraight called the Wadt. dom of Fez, three leagues from Beni-Tudi. AMELBURG, in geography, the fame with Ommen- AMERIA, in geography. See Amelia. burg. See Ommenburg. AMELIA, a city of Italy, fitnated on0 a mountain about AMERICA, one of the four parts of the world, and fifty0 miles N. E. of Rome, in 13 20' E. long, and by much the large!!, extending near 9000 miles in length, and about 3000 in breadth. It is fituated be42 4c/ N. lat. _ AME'LLUS, in botany, a genus of the fyngenefia poly- tween 3s0 and 1450 of W. long, and between 5-80 gamia fuperfiua clafs. The receptacle of the amellus * S. and 8o° N. lat.; bounded by the lands and Teas is paleaceous; the calix is fquarrous; and the rays of about the arflic pole on the north; by the Atlantic Othe corollulse undivided. There are only two fpecies cean, which divides it from Europe and Africa on the of this, genus, viz. the lychnitisj a native of the Cape; weft ;;by the vaft Southern Ocean on the fouth ; and by the vaft Pacific Ocean, which divides it from Afia and the umbellatus, a native of Jamaica. AMEN, in the fcripture-language, a folemn formula or on the eaft. Although it is faid to have taken its name conclufion to all prayers, fignifying. So be it. from Americus Vefpucius, a Florentine, it feepis inAMEND, or Amenoe, in the French cuftoms, a pe- difputable that it was firft difeovered by Chriftopher cuniary punilhment impofed by a judge for any crime, Columbus, a Genoefe, anno 1491 ; unlefs fome conje&ures, much more ancient, be admitted, that it was • falfe proiecution. Or groundlefs appeal. Amende honorable, an infamous kind of punilhment in- firft vilited by a Carthaginian fleet, who afterwards flifted in France upon traitors, parricides, or facrile- fettled in Mexico. It is certain, that its^roduiftions, gious perlbns, in the following manner : The offender whether animal or vegetable, differ greatly-from thofe of being delivered into the hands of the hangman, his any other country ; and its original inhabitants, the EfIhirt is llripped off, and a rope put about his neck, kimaux only excepted, feem to have ail the fame origi- and a taper in his hand; then he is led into court, nal, for they agree in every particular, from-Hudfpn’s where he muft beg pardon of God, the king, the Buy, to the Straits of Magellan, excepting only where difference