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 A R M ' ( 425 ) ARM fpecially thofe of the unknown parts of the earth; add- ARMAPABAT, a very large city of Afia, the metroing, that the moil expert mathematician at this day polis of the kingdom, of Guzarat, could not aflign the proportion’of a veifel better ac- ARMADILLO, in zoology, a fynonimeof the dafypus. commodated to the purpose than is here done; and See Dasyp.us. hence finally concludes, that the capacity of the ark, ARMAGH, pnce' a confiderable city of Ireland, but fouth which had been make an objection againil fcripture, now much reduced, fituated about thirty miles ought to be eileemed a confirmation of its divine autho- of Londonderry, in 6° 45' W. long and 540 30’’N, rity, fince, in thofe ruder ages, men, being lefs verfed in lat. It is dill the fee of the primate, of Ireland, and arts, and philofophy, were more obnoxious to vulgar gives name to the county of Armagh. prejudices than now; fo that had it been an human in- ARMAGNAC, a didrifi or territory in the north-ead vention, it, would have been contrived, according to pan of Gafcony in France. thofe wild apprehqnfions which arife from a confufed ARMAN, in farriery. See Drench. and general view of things, as much too big, as it had ARMED, in the fea-language. A crofs-bar fhot, is . faid to be armed, when fome rope-yarn or the like js . been reprelented too little. But it mull be obferved, that befides the places re- rolled about the end of the iron bar, which runneth quifite for the beads and birds, and their provifions, • through the fhot. there was room required for Noah to lock up houfe- Armed, in heraldry, is ufed when the horns, feet, hold utenfils, the inilruments of hulbandry, grains and beak, or talons of any bead or bird of prey, are of a, feeds, to fow the' earth with after the deluge; for difFerenttffokmr from the red of their body. which purpofe it is thought that he might fpare room ARMENIA, a large country of Afia, comprehending in the third dory for fix and thirty cabbins, befides Turcomania and part of Perfia. a kitchen, a hall, four chambers, and a fpace about ARMENIACA, in botany. See Prunus. eight and forty cubits in length to walk in. ARMENIANS, in church-hidory, a fedl among the A.PvK of ihe covenant, a final! ched or coffer, three feet eadern Chridians ; thus called from Armenia, the nine inches in length, two feet three inches in breadth, country anciently inhabit*! by them. There are two. and two feet three inches in height, in which were con- kinds of Armenians, the one catholic and fubjedt to tained the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s the pope, having a patriarch in Perfia, and another in rod, and the tables of the covenant. This coffer was Poland ; the other makes a pecnliar fedl, having two made of fhitrim-wood, and was covered with the mer- patriarchs in Natolia. They are generally accufed of cy-feat, which was of folid gold ; at the two ends being manophyfites, only allowing of one nature in whereof were tu’o cherubims, looking toward each. Jefus Chrid. As to the eucharid, they for the mod other, with expanded wings, which, embracing the part agree with the Greeks ; they abdain rigoroudy whole ■ ircumference of the1 mercy-feat, met on each from eating of blood and meats drangled, and are fide in the middle. The whole, according to the much addi&ed to fading. rabbins, was made out of the fame mafs, without ARMENTIERS, a fortified town in French Flanders, joining any oftthe parts by folder. Here it was that fituated about feven miles wed of Lide, in 20 50' E. the Schechinah or Divine Prefence reded, both in the r long, and 50° 42' N. lat. tabernacle and in the temple, and was vifibly feen in ARMIERS, a town of. Hainault, in the French Netherthe appearance of a cloud over it; and from hence the lands, fituated on the river, Sambrc, about twenty Divine oracles were men out by an audible voice, as milesfouth of Mons,in 3°40 E.long and 50° 15'N.lat. often as God was confulted in the behalf of his peo- ARMIGER, an efquire, or armour-bearer. See Esple. Plate XXXVIII* fig. 2.quire. ARKLOW, a fea-port town of Ireland, fituated in the ARMILLARY, in a general fenfe, fomething concounty of Wicklow, about thirteen miles fouth of0 the fiding of rings, or circles. city of Wicklow, in 6° IQ W. long, and 52 55' ARMILLARY fphere, an artificial fphere, compofed ofN. lat. * a number of circles, reprefenting the feveral circles of ARLES, a city of Provence in France, fituated on the the mundane fphere, put together in their natural or-. eadern0fhore/ of the river Rhone, in 40 45' E. long, der; to eafe and afiid the imagination, in conceiving and 43 32 N. lat. the conditution of the heavens, and the motions ofARLEUX, a town of Hainault, in the French Nether- the celedial bodies. See Geography. lands, fituated about fix miles fouth .of Douay, in ARMILUSTRIUM, in Roman antiquity, a fead held 0 3 E. long, and 50° 10 N. lat. among the Romans, in which they facrificed armed, to. ARLON, .1 town of the duchy of Luxemburg, on the the found of trumpets Andrian Netherlands, fituated in 50 30' E. long, and ARMINGS, in the fea-language. See Armed. 0 4Q 45'' N. lat. ARMINIANS, in church-hidory, a fed of Chridians ARM, in riding, is applied to a horde, when, by pref- which arofe in Holland, by a reparation from the Calling down his head, he endeavours to defend hiirifelf vinids. They are great afiertors of free-will. They. againll the bit, to prevent obeying, or being checked fpeak very ambiguoufly of the prefence of God. They thereby. - look upon the -doftrine of the Trinity as a point net. ARMADA, a Spanilh term, fignifying a fleet of men neceffary .to falvation; and many of them hold there of war, a : arviadiUa fignifies a fquadrcn. is no precepfin faipture by. which, we are enjoined You. I, No. i3^ 5P to .3