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 A R A C 344 ) ARB low points. -It is to bo met with in -windows, with the four laft legs ftiorter than the others. It fr? 29. The holofericea, has an ovallifh belly cpvered with 'quents gardens, and fits upon its eggs. 44. The kevia down like velvet; at the bafe, or under part, it has pes, has a depreffed rhoinboidal belly, with its legs two yellow Ipots. It is found in the folded leaves of extended in a tranfverfe direftion. It is found on plants. 30. The fenoculata, is difHnguilhed from the trees and walls. 45. The tetracantha, has a lunated. reft by having only fix eyes. 31. The avicularia, has belly, and is found in St Thomas’s ifle. 46. The a convex round bread, hollowed tranfverfely in the cancriformis, has a globular belly, and is a native of middle. It is a native of America, and feeds upon . America. 47. The fpinofa, has eight fpines on its Fmall birds, infe&s, 6"c. The bite of this fpider is as back, and a conical belly. It is a native of America. venomous as that of the ferpent. 32. The fpinimobilis, All ANE A conehea, the fpider-lhell, a name given to has moveable black fpines on its legs.. It is a native of feveral fpecies of murex. See Mu rex. Surinam. 33. The venatoria, is a hairy fpider, with a ARANEUS, in zoology, the trivial name of a fpecies round convex breaft, about the fame fize with the belly, of cancer. See Cancer. which is oval. It is a native of America. 34. The ARANJUEZ, a palace belonging to the king of Spain, ocellata, has three pair of eyes on its thighs. It is a- beautifully fituated on the banks of the Tagus, about bout the fame fize with the tarantula, of a pale colour, fifteen or fixteen miles eaftward of Madrid. with a black ring round the belly, and two large black ARAB ABACA, in botany, a fynonime of the fpigelia. fpots on the fides of the breaft. It is a native of China. See Spigelia. 35. The tarantula, PlateXXIII. fig. 10. The breaft (1), ARARAT, the name anciently given to part of mount and belly (2), are of an alh-colour; the legs (3) are Caucafus, lying between the Euxine and Cafpian feas, likewife aftircolourcd, with blackiih rings on the under and where Noah’s ark refted. part; the fangs, or nippers (4), are red on the inner ARARAUNA, in ornithology, the trivial name of a fide, the reft being blackilh; (5) is the antennse or feel- fpecies of pfittacus, See Psittacus. ers : Two of its eyes are larger than the other, red, and ARASH, a city of the province of Afgar, in the kingplaced in the front; four other eyes are placed in a tranf- dom of Fez, where the river Luca falls into the verfe direftion towards the mouth ; the other two are Weftern Ocean. a city of Chili, in S. America, fituated on0 nearer the back. It is a native of Italy, Cyprus, Bar- ARAUCO, bary, and the E. Indies. The breaft and belly are a- a river of the fame name, in 78° W. long, and 37 bout two inches long, terminated by two ftiort tails. This S. lat. figure was taken from the life, in the ifland of Cyprus, ARAXES, Qr Arras, a river of Perfia. See Arras. one of the moft celebrated capes in S. Ameby Alexr Drummond, Efq; late conful at Aleppo. The ARAYA, forming the north point of the river Oronoque. bite of the tarantula is faid to occafion an inflammation in rica, the part, which in a few hours brings on ficknefs, faint- See ORONociUE. ALET, the fame with crofs-bow. See Cro s s-bow. ing, and difficulty of breathing : The perfon afterwards ARB or Irbil, in geography. See Irbil. is affefted with a delirium, putting himfelf into the moft ARBELA, in law, a perfon to whofe decifion any difextravagant poftures. However, this is not always the ARBITER, pute or difference is voluntarily referred by the parties. cafe; for they are fometimes feized with a deep melan- ARBITRARY, which is left to the choice or arbicholy. The fame fyroptoms return annually, in fome tration of men,that or not fixed by any pofitive law or incafes, for feveral years, and at laft terminate in death. junftion. Mufic is faid to be the only cure. It induces the pa- Arbitrary punijhment, in Scots law, denotes fuch tient to dance, and fweat out the poifon. 36. The fce- punifhments as are by ftatute left to the diferetion of nica, is a black jumping fpider, with three white femi- the judge. It is a general rule in arbitrary punifhcircular lines acrofs its body. It frequents old walls. ments, that the judge cannot inflift death. Hence 37. The truncorum, is a black jumping fpider, with that are not capital have acquired the white fpots on the back. It frequents wralis, and old allnamepunifhments of arbitrary punifhments, even although they be wood. 38. The rupeftris, is .a jumping fpider, with exprefsly pointed out by ftatute. black fpots on its belly, which is edged with red and ARBITRATION, or Arbitrement, white in the middle. It frequents walls and trees. the power given byArbitrage, 3.9. The aquatica, is of a livid colour, with an oval SeeARBiTER. contending parties to an arbiter. belly, and a tranfverfe line, and two hollowed points. ARBITRATOR, extraordinary judge, choIt frequents the frdh waters of Europe,; and lodges, du- fen by the mutuala private of parties, to determine ring the winter, in empty (hells, which it dextroufly . controverfies betweenconfent them. (huts up with a web. 40. The faccata, has an oval ARBOIS, a town of Branch in France, fituated belly of a dulky iron colour. It lives in the ground, and in 50 40' E long, and 46°Compte N. lat. carries a fack with its eggs, where-ever it goes. This fack ARBON, a iown of Swabia in5c/Germany, it glues to its belly, and will rather die than leave it be- 9° 30' E. long, and 47° 40' N lat, fituated in hind. 41. The paluftris, has an oblong cloudy belly, ARBOR, in mechanics, the principal part of a machine with two white lines on each fide. It frequents marihy which ferves to fuftain the reft: alio the axis or Ipingrounds. 42. The virefcens has an oblong greenifti on which a machine turns, as the arbor of a crane, yellow belly, with white lines on the fides. It frequents dle gardens. 43. The viatica, has a roundilh plain belly. windoull, 6"c. ARBO-