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 AND A N G ( 3'3 ) either furrendered, or fatisfa&icn made feme other way ANDUXAR, a. city of Andalufia in Spain, fituated on for the murder. the river Guadalquiver, about 32 miles eaft of CorAndrolepsy is fometimes alfo ufed to fignify reprifals. . duba, in W. long. 40. and N. lat. 370 yo'. See Reprisal. ANDUZE. See Andeuse. ANEE, in commerce, a meafure for grain, ufed in fome ANDROMACHUSV treacle. See Theriaca. ANDROMEDA, in artronomy, a northern conitellation, provinces of France. At Lyons, it fignifies alfo a confiding of 27 ftars, vifible to the naked eye, behind certain quantity of wine, which is the load an afs can Pegafus, Cafliopeia, and Perfeus. See Astro- carry at once: Which is fixed at 80 Englilh quarts, wine meafture. no mv. Andromeda, in botany, a genus of the decandria mo- ANEGADA, one of the Caribbee0 iflands, fituated in nogynia clafs. The calix is divided into five parts; W. long. 63° 5 . and N. lat. 18. the corolla is ovated and quinquifid; and the capfuls ANELE, or Anil, in our old ftatutes, names ufed for has fiye cells or divifions. There are nine fpecies of indigo. See Indigo. the andromeda, viz. the tetragona, hypnoides, and ANEMABO. See Annamaboe. cerulea, natives of Dapland and the Alps; the mari- ANEMIUS, among chemifts, an appellation given to a ana, paniculata, arborea, and calyculata, natives of wind-furnace, .ufed in making fire-furnaces for melting Virginia; the polifolia, marlh-ciftus, or wild rofemary, and diftillation. a native of G. Britain; and the racemofa, a native of ANEMOMACHIA, a term ufed by ancient naturalifts Penfylvania. for a whirlwind or hurricane. ANDRON, in Grecian antiquity, denotes the apart- ANEMOMETER, among mechanical philofophers, an ment in houfes defigned for the ufe of men; in which inftrument contrived for meafuring the ftsength of the fenfe, it ftands oppofed to gynaeceum. See Gyna:- wind. ceum. ANEMONE, in botany, a genus of the polyandria poANDRONION, among ancient pbyficians, a name given lygynia clafs. It has no calix; the petals are from to certain troches invented by Andron. fix to nine, and the feeds are numerous. There are ANDROPHAGI. See Andropophagi. 21 fpecies of anemone, moft of them natives of Europe, ANDROPOGON, in botany, a genus of the polygamia and only the nemorofa and pulfatilla are natives of monoecia clafs. This genus contains 18 fpecies, viz. Biftain. the caricofum, contortum, divaricatum, nutans, gryl- ANEMOSCOPE, a machine {hewing fronrwhat point of lus, infulare, ravennx, alopecuroides,. diftachyon, the compafs the wind blows. It denotes alfo an infchoenanthus, virginicum, bicorne, hirtum, nardus, ftrument invented to foretell the changes of the wind. muticum, ifchoemum, fafciculatum, and polydafiylon, ANET, a town in the ifle of France, upon the river mod of them natives of the Indies. Eure. ANDROS, an ifland in the Archipelago, near the fouth ANETHUM, in botany, a genus of the pentandria end of Negropont. digynia clafs. The fruit is oval, comprefled, and ftriANDROSACE, in botany, a genus of the pentandria ated. There are only two fpecies of anethum; viz. monogynia clafs. The umbella of the androface is the graveolens, a native of Spain; and die feniculum, inclofed in an involucrum; the corolla is ovated; and fennel, or finckle, a native of Britain. The feeds of the capfule is globular, and confifts of one apartment. the graveolens are recommended as a carminative. The There are fix fpecies of this genus; viz. the maxima, a beft preparations of them are, the diftilled oil, and a native ofAuftria; the feptentrionalis, a native of Lap- timfture or extra# made with redtified fpirit. land, Ruffia, and the Alps ; the villofa, a native of the or Aneurysm, in furgery, a throbbing Pyrenean mountains; the la<5tea, a native of Auftria ; ANEURISM, diftended with blood, and formed by a dilatathe carnea, a native of Switzerland; and the elonga- tumor, tion or ruptufe of an artery. See Surgery. ta, a native of Auftria. a city of Africa, in the kingdom of Fez, fituANDROSAiMUM, in botany, a fynonyme of feveral ANFA, ated on the feaccoaft, between Rabat and Azamar. fpecies of hypericum. See Hypericum. a fmall city of India, fituated upon the ANDROMOTY, or Andranotomy, the dilfedion of ANGAMALA, river Aicotta, on the Malabar coaft. human bodies. See Anatomy. in Roman antiquity, a kind of public fervice ANDRUM, a kind of hydrocele, to which the people ANGARIA, impofed on the provincials, which confided in proviof Malabat are very fubje<ft. See Hydrocele, and ding horfes and carriages for the conveyance of military Medicine. {lores, and other public burdens. It is fometimes alio ANpolygamia DRYALA, in botany, a'genus of the fyngenefia ufed for a guard of foldiers, ported for the defence of jequalis clafs. The receptacle is villous ; In a more general fenfe, it is ufed for any the calix is divided into many equal round pieces; a place. of oppreffxon, or fervices performed through comand the pappus is fimple and feflile. There are four kind pulfion. fpecies of the andryala, viz. Ahe intregifolia, a native ANGASMAGO, of S. America. During the of^France and Sicily; the ragufina, a native of the Teign of the Incas,a river it bounded the kingdom of Peru on Archipeiagus ; the finuata, a native of Montpelier the north, as the river Maule did on the fouth. See and Sicily; and the lanata, a native of the fouthern Peru. parts of Europe. ANGEIOGRAPHY, or Angeiology, among anatoVol. L No. 14. 4K mills. 3