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 maters, who meet once a-month; and two of the academits teach by turns the art of dancing, ancient and modern.

The French have alo academies in mot of their great cities, as, the Academy of Sciences at Montpelier, that of the Lanternits at Thouloue; beides others at Nimes, Arles, Angiers, Lyons, Caen in Normandy, &c.; and the Chirurgical Academy at Paris is a modern intitution for the general improvement of the art, and to compile and publih the ancient and modern hitory of it.

Royal Spanih at Madrid, has for its object the cultivation of the Catilian tongue, and was etablihed in 1714 by the Duke d'Ecalona, with the approbation of the King of Spain. It conits of twenty-four academits, including the director and ecretary.

In Portugal, John V. founded an hitorical academy at Libon, in the year 1720, for collecting and acertaining the hitory of his own dominions. It conits of fifty members, a director, four cenors, and a ecretary.

In Germany, they have the Academy of Naturæ Curioi, otherwie called the Leopoldine Academy, founded in 1652 by Jo. Laur. Bauch a phyician, and, in 1670, taken under the protection of the Emperor Leopold. The deign of this ociety was to promote medical knowledge. They began in 1684 to publih their obervations, under the title of Ephemerides; which publication has been continued annually, with ome interruptions, and under different titles. This academy conits of a preident, two adjuncts or ecretaries, and colleagues or members without limitation.

Berlin, was founded by Frederick I. the late King of Pruia, in the year 1700. It has for its objects the improvement of natural knowledge, and the belles lettres. The charter of this ociety was amended in 1710, and by it the preident is to be nominated by the king. The members are divided into four claes; 1. for phyic, medicine, and chemitry; 2. for mathematics, atronomy, and mechanics; 3. for the German language, and the hitory of the country; 4. for Oriental learning, particularly what relates to the propagation of the gopel among infidels. The great promoter of this foundation was the celebrated Mr Leibnitz.

Ruian was founded by Czar Peter the Great, at Peterburg, upon the plan of the Academy of Sciences at Paris; beides which, they take in the Ruian language.

is alo a term for chool and other eminaries of learning among the Jews, where their rabbins and doctors intructed their youth in the Hebrew language, and explained to them the Talmud, and the ecrets of the Cabbala: Thoe of Tiberias and Babylon have been the mot noted.

is often ued with us to denote a kind of collegiate chool, where youth are intructed in arts and ciences. There is one at Portmouth for teaching navigation, drawing, &c.; another at Woolwich, for fortification, gunnery, &c.

is likewie a name given to a riding-chool, where young gentlemen are taught to ride the great hore, &c. and the ground allotted for it is uually called the Menage.

figure, a drawing of a naked man or woman, taken from the life, which is uually done on paper with red or black chalk, and ometimes with patils or crayons.  ACADIE, or, in geography, a name formerly given to Nova Scotia, one of our American colonies. See.  ACÆNA, in antiquity, a Grecian meaure of length, being a ten feet rod, ued in meauring their lands.  ACAIABA. See.  ACAJA, in botany, a ynonime of the pondias lutea, an American tree. See.  ACAJOU, in botany, a ynonime of the anacardium occidentale, or cahew-nut-tree. See.  ACALEPTIC, in ancient proody, a complete vere.  ACALIS, in botany, an obolete name of the Ceratonia. See. <section end="Acalis" /> <section begin="Acalypha" />ACALYPHA, in botany, a genus of plants belonging to the monœcia monadelphia clas. There are only four pecies of this plant; the acalypha virginica, which is a native of Ceylon; the virgata, indica, and autralis, all natives of America. Sir Hans Sloan ranks this plant with the nettle, under the name of <section end="Acalypha" /> <section begin="Acamatos" />ACAMATOS, a word ued to expres the bet hape of the human body. <section end="Acamatos" /> <section begin="Acambou" />ACAMBOU, a kingdom on the coast of Guinea in Africa. <section end="Acambou" /> <section begin="Acameeh" />ACAMEEH, among ome of the old chemits, the coriæ of ilver; as alo a uperfluity of the humidum radicale. <section end="Acameeh" /> <section begin="Acanaceous" />ACANACEOUS plants, uch as are armed with prickles. <section end="Acanaceous" /> <section begin="ACANAPHORA" />Acanaphora, in botany, an obolete name of the centaurea jacea, or knapweed. See. <section end="ACANAPHORA" /> <section begin="Acanes" />ACANES, in geography. See. <section end="Acanes" /> <section begin="Acangis" />ACANGIS, that is, ravagers or adventurers; a name which the Turks give their huars or light-troops, who are generally ent out in detachments to procure intelligence, haras the enemy, or ravage the country. <section end="Acangis" /> <section begin="Acanny" />ACANNY, an inland country on the gold coat of Guinea in Africa, which affords the bet gold, and in great plenty. There is a town or village of the ame name, W. long. 0. 5. lat. 8. 30. <section end="Acanny" /> <section begin="Acantha" />ACANTHA, in botany, the prickle of any plant.

, in zoology, an obolete term for the pinal procees of the back. <section end="Acantha" /> <section begin="Acanthabolus" />ACANTHABOLUS, in urgery, an intrument for pulling thorns, or the like, out of the kin. <section end="Acanthabolus" /> <section begin="Acanthaceou" />ACANTHACEOU, among ancient botanits, an epithet given to thitles and other prickly plants. <section end="Acanthaceou" /> <section begin="Acanthe" />ACANTHE, in botany, an obolete name for the Cynara or artichoak. See. <section end="Acanthe" /> <section begin="Acanthias" />ACANTHIAS, in ichthyology, the trivial name of a pecies of qualus. See.

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