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 ADA ( ': 3 ) ADA ACULEATUS, in ichthyology, a fynonime of the ga- fome articles are paid by the number, weight, meafure, tale, ©c. and others are paid ad valorem, that fterofteus or ftickle-back. See Gasterosteus. is, according to their value. ACULEI, the prickles of animals or of plants. ACULEOSA, in botany, a fynonime of the gorteria ADA, a large town of Alia, inhabited chiefly by Armeciliaris and the roella ciliata. See Gorteria, Ro- nians. ELLA. ADACA-MANGEN, in botany, a fynonime of the ACULE R, in the menage, is ufed for the motion of a fpbaeranthus. See Sphairanthus. horfe, when, in working upon volts, he does not go ADAGE, a proverb, or ftiort fentence, containing fome far enough forward at every time or motion, fo that wife obfervation or popular faying. his Ihoulders embrace or take in too little ground, and ADAGIO, in mufic, an Italian adverb, fignifying fofily, his croupe comes too near the centre of the volt. leifurely ; and is ufed to denote the flowed: of all times, Horfes are naturally inclined to this fault in making except the grave. demi-volts. ADAJA, a river in Spain which falls into the Duro. ACUMEN, in the ancient mufic, a found produced by ADALIDES, in the Spainifh policy, are officers of juftice for matters touching the military forces, efpecithe intention or raifing of the voice. ACUMINA, in antiquity, a kind of military omen, moll ally on expeditions. generally fuppoled to have been taken from the points ADAMANT, a name fometimes given to the diamond. or edges of darts, fwords, or other weapons. See Diamond. It is likewife applied to the fcoriae ACUMULO, a hnail town in Abruzzo Ulterior, a of gold, the magnet, dye, province of the kingdom of Naples, 17. 15. long. 39. ADAMANTIC, in church hiftory, a name given to the followers of Origen, firnamed Adamantius. 30. lat. ACUPUNCTURE, the name of a furgical operation ADAMBOE, in botany, a fynonime of the ipomoea camamong the Chinefe and Japanefe, which is performed panulata, an Indian plant, belonging to the pentandria by pricking the part affected with a filver needle. monogynia clafs. See Ipomoea. They employ this operation in head-achs, lethargies, ADAML/>oot«w, or Adam's apple, in botany, an obfoconvullions, colics, 6 c. lete name of a fpecies of the citrus or orange. See ACUS, in ichthyology, the trivial name of a fpecies of Citrus. fyngnathus. See Syngnathus. Adam 1 pomum, in anatomy, the convex part of the firft ACUTE, as applied to angles, triangles, cones, <bc. cartilage of the larynx. See Anatomy, Part VI. See thefe articles. ADAMIC earth, a name given to common red clay, Acute accent, in grammar. See Accent. alluding to that fpecies of earth of which the firft man Acute, in mufic, fignifies a tone that is lharp, fhrall, is fuppofed to have been made. or high, in refpect of fome other, and is oppofed to ADAMITES, in church hiftory, .a name fometimes ugrave. fed for the defeendents of Adam by Seth, who are Acute difeafes, fuch as come fuddenly to a crifis. more ufually called Sethites. But the name Adamites This term is ufed for all difeafes which do not fall is more particularly ufed, by ecclefiaftical writers, for under the head of chronic difeafes. a fe<5t of ancient heietics, who took upon them to imiACUTITION, among phyficians, the ftiarpening or in- tate the nakednefs’of Adam, and pretended to be recreafing the force of any medicine. inftated in his original innocence. ACYROLOGIA,' fignifies an improper word, phr^fe, ADAMSHIDE, a diftrhft of the circle of Raftenburg, or expreffion. to the King of Pruifia, Which, with DomAD, a Latin prepofition, originally fignifying to, and belonging brolken, was bought, in 1737, for 42,000 dollars. frequently ufed in compofition both with and without ADAM's peak, a high mountain of the E. Indies, in the d, to exprefe the relation of qne thing to another. the ifland of Ceylon, on the top of which they beAd beftias, in antiquity, is the punilbment of criminals lieve the firft man was created; and there is the ft ape • condemned to be thrown to wild beaffs. foot, cut out of the rock, about five or fix Ad hominetn, in logic, a kind of argument drawn from offeeta inman’s length, which they pretend is the print of his the principles or prejudices of thefe with whom we foot, 80. 50. E. long. .5 53. lat. argue. ADANA, an ancient town of Natolia, with a biftop’s Ad ludos, in antiquity, a fentence upon criminals among fee. It ftands on the river Choquen, 25 miles N. E. the Romans, whereby they were condemned to enter- of Tarfus, 36. 25. long. 38. 10. lat. tain the people either by fighting with wild beaffs, or ADANSONIA, in botany, a genus of the monadelphia with one another, and thus executing juffice upon polyandria clafs. It is a native of Senegal and Ethemfelves. gypt- "t Ad metalia, in antiquity, the punilhment of fuch cri- ADAOUS, a people of Guinea in Africa. minals as were condemned to the mines, among the ADAPTERS,or Adows, in chemiftry, machines for fitting a reciRomans j and therefore called Metallic-i. pient to the capital. See Chemistry. Av> quiddities, among fchoolmen. See Quiddities. the name of a Hebrew month, anfwering to the Ad valorem, a term chiefly ufed in fpeaking of the du- ADAR, of February and beginning of March, the 12th of ties or cuftoms paid for certain goods : The duties on end their facred, and 6th of their civil year. On the 7th