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 A C R A C 11 ( 20 ) perches or poles of i6| feet each by ftatute. Yet this ACQUEST, or Acquist, inlaw, Gguifies goods got meafure does not prevail in all parts of England, as by purcliafe or donation. See Conquest. ACQUI, a town of Italy, in the Dutchy of Montfer- the length of the pole varies in different counties, and rat, with a biihop’s fee, and commodious baths. It is called cujiornary meafure, the difference running was taken by the Spaniards in 1745, and retaken,by from the 16' feet to 28. The acre.is alfo divided inthe Piedmontefe in 1746; but after this, it was taken to 10 fquare chains, of 22 yards each, that is 4840 again and difmantled by the French, who afterwards fquare yards. An acre in Scotland contains 4 fquare forfook it. It is feated on the river Bormio, 2 5 miles roods ; 1 fquare rood is 40 fquare falls; 1 fquare fall, N. W. of Genoa, and 30 S. of Cafal, 8. 30. E. long. 36 fquare ells; 1 fquare ell, 9 fquare feet, and 73 fquare inches; 1 fquare foot, 144 fquare inches. 44. 40. lat. ACQUIESCENCE, in commerce, is the confent that The Scots acre is alfo divided into 10 fquare chains ; a ptrfcn gives to the determination given either by ar- the meafuring chain Ihould be 24 ells in length, divided into 100 links, each link 8 J’| inches; and fo bitration, or by a conful. ACQUIETANDIS plcgiis, in the Englilh law, is a 1 fquare chain will contain 10,000T fquare links. The Englilh ftatute acre is about 3 roods and 6 falls writ that lies for a furety, againd a creditor, who refufes to acquit the complainant after the debt is paid. ftandard meafure of Scotland. ACQUIETANTIA de Jkiris ft hundredis, in England, A CREME, in old law-books, fignifies ten acres of land. fignifies the privilege of being free from fuit and fer- ACRIBEIA, fignifies great accuracy. vice in (hires and hundreds. ACRID, a name for any thing that is of a (harp .or ACQUISITION, in general, denotes the obtaining or pungent tafte. procuring fomething. Among lawyers, it is ufed for ACRIDOPHAGI, fignifies locufl-eaters. It has been the right or title to an eftate got by purchafe or dona- much difputed whether the inhabitants of Arabia, Ethiopia, tic. ever eat locufts. We (hall give the fubACQUITARE, in ancient law-books, fignifies to dif- ftance of what Hafl'elquift fays on this fubjecl, who travelled in Syria and Egypt fo late as the year 1752. charge or pay off the debts of a perio'n deceafed. ACQUITFAL, a difcharge, deliverance, or fetting of This ingenious gentleman, who travelled with a view a perfon free from the guilt or fufpicion of an offence. to improve natural hiftory, informs us, that he allied ACQUITTANCE, a releafe or difcharge in writing Franks, and many other people who had lived long in for a fum of money. thefe countries, whether they had ever heard that the ACRA, a town of Africa, on the coaft of Guinea, where inhabitants of Arabia and Ethiopia, tic. ufed locufts the Engiifh, Dutch, and Danes, have ftrong forts, as food. They anfwered that they had. He likeand each fort its particular village, o. 2. W. long, wife arked the fame queftion of Armenians, Cophtes, and Syrians, who lived in Arabia, and had travelled j. o. lat. ACRASIA, among phyficians, fignifies the predominan- in Syria and near the Red-fea; fome of whom faid cy of one quality over another. they heard of fuch a pradtice, and others that they ACRE, or Acra, a fea-port town in Syria. It was had often feen the people eat thefe infedts. He at formerly called Ptolemais, and is a biihop’s fee. It laft obtained complete fatisfadtion on this head from a was very famous in the time of the crufadoes, and un- learned Iheck at Cairo, who had lived fix years in derwent feveral lieges both by the Chrilbans and Sara- Mecca. This gentleman toldJhim, in prefence of M. cens. It is now an inconfiderable town, being entire- le Grand, the principal French interpreter at Cairo, ly fupported by its harbour, which is frequented by and others, that a famine frequently rages at Mecca Ihips of feveral nations. It is 20 miles S. of Tyre, when there is a fcarcity of corn in Egypt, which obliand 37 N. of Jerufalem, 39. 25. E. long. 32. ges the inhabitants to live upon coarfer food than or40. lat. dinary: That when corn is fcarce, the Arabians grind Acre, in the Mogul’s dominions, the fame with lack, the locufts in hand-mills, or ftone mortars, and bale and fignifies the fum of 100,000 rupees ; the rupee is them into cakes, and ufe thefe cakes in place of of the value of the French crown of 3 livres, or 30 bread: That he has frequently feen locufts ufed by Ibis of Holland; an 100 lacks of rupees make a cou- the Arabians, even when there was no fcarcity of ron in Indoftan, or 10,000,000 rupees ; the pound corn; but then they boil them, itew them, with butSterling is about 8 rupees; according to which pro- ter, and make them into a kind of fricaflee, which he portion, a lack of rupees amounts to 12,500 pounds fays is not difagreeably tailed; for he hid fometimes Sterling. thefe locuft-fricaffees out of curiofity. From Acre, a meafure of land ufed in feveral provinces of tailed this account, we may fee the folly of that difpute aFraqce, particularly in Normandy, It Is larger or mong divines about the nature of St John’s food in lefs according to the different places ; but commonly the wildernefs. Some of them fay that locufts were contains 160 perches. the fruits of certain trees, others that they were a The Acre of woods in France, confills of four roods, kind of birds, tic.; but thofe who adhered to the licalled verg 'es ; the rood is 40 perches, the perch 24 teral meaning of the text were at leaft the molt ortho-, feet, the foot 12 inches, the inch 12 lines. although their arguments were perhaps not fo Acre, the univerfal meafure of land in Britain. An dox, ftrong as they might have been, had they had an opacre in England contains 4 fquare roods, a rood 40 portunity of quoting fucli an author as llaffclquift..