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 ACHLAR, a river in America, called Araxis by the ancients.  ACHLIS. See.  ACHLYS, in medicine, a dimnes of ight, ariing from any car remaining after an ulcer in the cornea. It is alo ued for the diorder called a uffuion of the uterus.  ACHMETSCHET, a town of the peninula of the Crimea, the reidence of the ultan Galga, who is eldet on of the Khan of Tartary, 51. 20. long. 45. 0. lat.  ACHONRY, a mall town of Ireland in the province of Connaught, and county of Sligo, feared on the river Shannon.  ACHOR, in medicine, mall ulcers on the face which dicharge a vicid humour. See.  ACHRAS, in botany, a genus of the hexandria monogynia clas, It bears a fruit not unlike the pear. There are only three pecies of the achras, viz. the mimoa, the apota, and the alicifolia, all natives of America.  ACHRONICAL,, or. See. <section end="Achronical" /> <section begin="Achyr" />ACHYR, a trong town and catle of the Ukrain, ubject to the Ruians ince 1667. It tands on the river Uorklo near the frontiers of Ruia, 127 miles W. of Kiow, 36. 0. long. 49. 32. lat. <section end="Achyr" /> <section begin="Achyrantes" />ACHYRANTES, in botany, a genus of the pentandria monogynia clas. There are even pecies of the achyrantes, mot of them natives of the Indies. <section end="Achyrantes" /> <section begin="Achyrantha" />ACHYRANTHA, in botany, the trivial name of a pecies of the illecebram. See. <section end="Achyrantha" /> <section begin="Achyronia" />ACHYRONIA, in botany, an obolete name of a genus of the diadelphia decandria clas. <section end="Achyronia" /> <section begin="Achyrophorus" />ACHYROPHORUS, in botany, a ynonime of the eriola, See. <section end="Achyrophorus" /> <section begin="Acia" />ACIA, a term in the Roman urgery, about the meaning of which phyicians and commentators are greatly divided; ome taking it for the needle, and others for the thread. <section end="Acia" /> <section begin="Aciculae" />ACICULÆ, the mall pikes or prickles of the hedgehog, echinus marinus, &c. <section end="Aciculae" /> <section begin="Acids" />ACIDS, ubtances which give a our, harp, or tart tate. Among the chemits, the acid faults are ditinguihed into the nitrous, vitriolic, muriatic, and vegetable, See, title, Of acids.

, in the materia medica, are uch medicines as poes an acid quality uch as vinegar, pirit of vitriol, &.&c. [sic] Thee being powerful antieptics, are eteemed good in all purtrid and malignant dieaes, and, by their cooling virtue, are no les efficacious in feverih and inflammatory caes. <section end="Acids" /> <section begin="Acidity" />ACIDITY, that quality which renders bodies acid. <section end="Acidity" /> <section begin="Acidoton" />ACIDOTON, in botany is both a ynonime and the trivial name of a pecies of the adelia, See. <section end="Acidoton" /> <section begin="Acidulae" />ACIDULÆ, a term for water or any ubstance impregnated with an acid. <section end="Acidulae" /> <section begin="Acidulated" />ACIDULATED, a name given to medicines that have an acid in their compoition. <section end="Acidulated" /> <section begin="Acierno" />ACIERNO, a town in the Hither Principality, in the Kingdom of Naples, with a bihop's ee. It is 15 miles E. of Salerno, 37. 0. E. long. 40. 52. lat. <section end="Acierno" /> <section begin="Acinaies" />ACINAIES, in antiquity, a kind of cutlas, or cimeter, in ue among the Perians. <section end="Acinaies" /> <section begin="Acinaria" />ACINARIA, in botany, a ynonime of the fucus acinarius, belonging to the cryptogamia algæ of Linnæus. See. <section end="Acinaria" /> <section begin="Acini" />ACINI, in botany, a ynonime of the thymus alpinus. See. <section end="Acini" /> <section begin="Aciniformis" />ACINIFORMIS tunica, in anatomy. See. <section end="Aciniformis" /> <section begin="Acinodendrion" />ACINODENDRION, in botany, the trivial name of a pecies of the melatoma. See. <section end="Acinodendrion" /> <section begin="Acinodendrum" />ACINODENDRUM, in botany, a ynonime of two pecies of the melatome. <section end="Acinodendrum" /> <section begin="Acenoides" />ACENOIDES, in botany, the trivial name of a pecies of the ziziphora. See. <section end="Acenoides" /> <section begin="Acinos" />ACINOS, in botany, a ynonime of a pecies of the cunila. See. <section end="Acinos" /> <section begin="Acinus" />ACINUS, in botany, ignifies grapes or berries growing in cluters. <section end="Acinus" /> <section begin="Acisonthera" />ACISONTHERA, in botany, both a ynonime and the trivial name of a pecies of the rhexia. See. <section end="Acisonthera" /> <section begin="Acitli" />ACITLI, in ornythology, the American name of the colymbus critatus, a bird of the order of anferes. See. <section end="Acitli" /> <section begin="Acknowledgement" />ACKNOWLEDGMENT, in a general ene, is a peron's owning or confeing a thing; but, more particularly, is the expreion of gratitude for a favour.

-money, a certain um paid by tenants in everal parts of England, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. <section end="Acknowledgement" /> <section begin="Aclides" />ACLIDES, in Roman antiquity, a kind of miive weapon, with a thong affixed to it, whereby to draw it back. Mot authors decribe it as a ort of dart or javelin; but Scaliger makes it roundih or globular, with a lender wooden tem to poie it by. <section end="Aclides" /> <section begin="Aclowa" />ACLOWA, in botany, a barbarous name of a pecies of colutea. It is ued by the natives of Guinea to cure the itch. See. <section end="Aclowa" /> <section begin="Acme" />ACME, or, the top or height of any thing. It is uually applied to the maturity of un animal jut before it begins to decline; and phyicians have ued it to expres the utmot violence or criis of a dieae. <section end="Acme" /> <section begin="Acmella" />ACMELLA, in botany, the trivial name of a pecies of the verbeina. See. <section end="Acmella" /> <section begin="Acnida" />ACNIDA, in botany, a genus of the diœcia pentandriæ clas. There is only one pecies of it, viz. the acnida canabina, It is a native of Virginia. <section end="Acnida" /> <section begin="Acnua" />ACNUA, in Roman antiquity, ignified a certain meaure of land, near about the English rood, or fourth part of an acre. See. <section end="Acnua" /> <section begin="Acoba" />ACOBA, a mall town of Portugal in the province of Etremadura. <section end="Acoba" /> <section begin="Acoemetae" />ACOEMETÆ, or, in church hitory, or men who lived without leep; a et of monks who chaunted the divine ervice night and day in their places of worhip. They divided themelves into three bodies, who alternately ucceeded one another, o that their churches were never ilent. This practice they founded upon the precept, Pray without ceaing. They flourihed in the eat about the middle of the fifth century. There are a kind of acœmeti till ubsisting in<section end="Acoemetae" />