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 iE O N (3 o ) A E R piter, given him on account of his having been fuckled AEon, among the Platonills, was ufed to denote any virby a goat. tue, attribute, or per-fedion. iLGLEFINyS, or Haddock, in ichthyology, a fpe- AEon, in mythology, the firli woman, according to the ciesofthe gadus. See Gadus. Phoenician writers. iEGOCEPHALUS, in ornithology, an obfolete name AEon, among anatomills, an obfolete name for the fpinal of a fpecies of tringa. See Tringa. marrow. iSGOCERAS, in botany, an obfolete name of a fpecies AEON! AN, in botany, an obfolete name of the fedum maof ononis. See Ononis. jus. See Sed um. iEGOCERATOS, in botany, a fynonime of the hugo- ARA, in chronology, a feries of years commencing from nia. See Hugonia. a certain fixed point of time, called an epoeba ; thus iEGOLETHRON, in botany, an obfolete name of the we fay, the Chnftian aera, that is, the number of years rhododendron hirfiuum. See Rhododendron. elapfed fince the birth of Chrift. See Astronomy, AiGONICHUS, in botany, an obfolete name of the li- Of the divifion of time. thofpermum. See Lithospermum. of Nabe?ia£dr. See Nabonassar. iEGOPHTHALMUS, a name given to any of the fe- AEra AEra of the Hegira. See Hegira. mipellucid gems with circular fpots in them, refembling ARARIUM, in Roman antiquity, the treafury or place the eye of a goat. where -the public money was depolited. .ZEGQPOGGN, in botany, an obfolete name of the'tra- AEr a r i u m privatum, was the emperor’s privy purfe, or gapodon. See Tragapodon. where the moneys arifing from his private patriiEGOPGDIUM, a genus of the pentandria digynia place mony were depofited. clafs. There is but one fpecies of this plant, which ARARIUS, in a general fenfe, denotes any perfon emis a native of Britain and other parts of Europe. ployed in coining or managing the public monies. The Englifh name is herb-gerurd, gout-weed, or ajh- Ararius was more particularly ufed by the Romans weed. for a degraded citizen, whofe name had been ftruck off A.GYPTIACUM, in pharmacy, the name of feveral the lift of his century. detergent ointments. The asrarii were fo called on account of their being iEGYPTILLA, the name of a flone variegated with liable to all the taxes and other burdens of the ftatc, ■different colours, and faid to be capable of giving wa- without enjoying any of its privileges. Hence, inter ter the colour and tafte of wine. ararios referri, was a more fevere punifhment than iElNAtJTvE, in antiquity, a denomination given to trihu moveri. * the fenators of Miletus, becaufe they held their deli- AERIAL, in a general fenfe, denotes fomething partaberations on beard a flap, and never returned to land king of the nature of air; thus, aerial fubftance, aeritill matters had been agreed-on., al particles, tec. jELURHS, in Egyptian mythology, the deity or god of AERlANS, in church-hiftory, a branch of Arians, who, cats; reprefented fometimes like a cat, and foinetimes to the dodrines of that fed, added fome peculiar doglike a man with a cat’s head. mas of their own ; as, that there is no difference beiEHEATORES, in Roman antiquity, a general name tween bifhops and priefts ; a dodrine maintained by for tiie muficians of an army. many modern divines, particularly of the prelbyterian iENIGMA, denotes any dark faying, wherein fome well* and reformed churches. known thing is concealed under obfeure language. , AERICA, in ichthyology, a fynonime of the clupea heJEN GMATOGRAPHY, or AEnigmathology, the re ngus, or herring. See Clupea. art of refolving, or making {enigmas. Flos AERIS, among alchemifts, fmall feales procured AEOLIC, in a general fenfe, denotes fomething belong- from copper melted by a ftrong heat; it is fometimes ing to AEolis. ufed far aerugo or verdegris. AEolic dialt-tt, among grammarians, one of the five AEROGRAPHY fignifies a defeription of the air, efpeyhale&s of the Greek tongue, agreeing in moft things cially of its dimenfions, and other moft obvious prowith the Doric dialed. See Doric. perties ; in which fenfe it differs but little from aeroJE-OLi-e wr/c, in prolady, a verfe, confilling of an iam- logy, which is a fcientifical account of the nature and Ids bus, or fpondee; then of two anapells, feparated by a obviens properties of air. See Pneumatics. long fyl’abie; and kffly, of another fyllable. Such as, AEROMANCY, a fpecics of divination performed by means of air, wind, tec. It is alfo ufed for the ait 0 Jtelliferi ccnditor erbis. of foretelling the, changes of the air and weaAEOLIPILE, a hollow metalline ball with a flender ther, by means ofvarious barometers, hygrometers, tec. neck, tr pipe ; which after being filled with water, the art ofmeafuring the motion, graand a great degree of heat applied to it, the water AEROMETRY, elafticity, tarefadion, cpndenlation, tec. of air. ifines out with great velocity in the form of an elaffic vity, See Pneumatics. vapour. See Pneumatics. AEROPHOBIA, among phyficians, fignifies the dread JEOLlS, in ancient geography, a country lying upon the of air. wefttrn coaft of Afia Minor, AEROPHYLACEA, a term ufed by naturalifts for caiFOLLS, the god of the winds. verns or refervoirs of air, fuppofed to exift in the JEON, fignifies the age or duration of any thing. bowels of the earth. ARRA,