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 A R R ( 427 ) ART five, without antherae. There are feven fpecies of ar- trial, in what are called bailable crimes. In civil it fignifies either the detaining of ftrangers or nica, all natives of Ethiopia, except the montana and cafes, fcorpioides, which are found in Germany. The leaves natives in meditatione fuga, till they find caution juand root of the arnica have been efteemed a fpecific dicioftjlt, or the attaching the effefts of a ftranger in in refolving coagulated blood ; but their operation is order to found jurifdi&ion. See Scots Law, tit. 7«rsfdittian and Judges mgeneral. But, in the moft gefo violent, that they are but rarely ufed. acceptation of the word, it denotes that diligence ARNO, a river of Italy, which, after watering Tuf- byneralwhich a creditor detains the goods or effedts of his cany, falls into the Mediterranean, below Pifa. ARNOLDISTS, in church-hiftory, a feftary, fo call- debtor in the hands of third parties till the debt due to him be either paid or fecured. See Scots Law', ed from their leader Arnold of Breffe, who was a tit. Arrejlments and Poindings. great declaimer againft the wealth and vices of the clergy; and who is alfo charged with preaching againft ARRALSTO faflo fuper bonis. See. a writ brought by a ‘ denizen againft the goods of aliens found within this baptifm and the eucharifl. ARNOT, in botany, the Englifh name of the bunium. kingdom, as a recqmpence for goods taken from him in a foreign country. See Bunium. AROLEC, an American weight, equal to 25 of our ARRESTIS, in farriery, mangy tumours upon a horfd’s 'hinder legs, between the ham and the paftern. pounds. AROMA philofiphoruM, denotes either faffron, or the ARRIERE, the hinder or pofterior part of any thing. aroph of Paracelfus, as/ aroma germanicum denotes See Rear. Arr 1 eRE-ban, ir> the French cuftoms, is a general proelecampane. AROMATIC', an appellation given to fuch plants as clamation, whereby the king funimons to the war all yield a brifk fragrant fmell, and a warm tafte, as all. that hold of him, both his vaflals, i. e. the noblefl’e, and the vaflals of his vaflals. kinds ef'fpices, foe. ARONA, a fortified town of the Milanefe, fituated on Arriere fee, ox fief, is a fee dependant on a fuperior one. Thefe fees commenced, when the dukes and the fouth-weft part 0 of the lake Maggior, in 8° 5c/ counts, *: nderihg their governments hereditary in their E. long, and 45 ac/ N. lat. ARONCHES, a town 0of the province of Alentejo, in families, diftributed to their officers parts of the royal Portugal, fituated in 7 30' W. long, and 390 N. Ikt. domains, which they found in their refpedtive provinces ; and even permitted thofe officers to gratify ARO-ORCHIS, in botany. See Kempferia. the foldiers under them in the fame manner. ARORNOS. SeeJuNPERus. AROURA, a Grecian meafure of fifty feet. It was ARROE, an ifland of Denmark, 0fituated in-the Baltic more frequently ufed for a fquare-meafure of half the’ fea, in io° 15' E. long, and 55 15' N. lat. plethora. The Egyptian aroura was the fquare of ARRONDEE, in heraldry, a crofs, the arms of which one hundred cubits. are compofed of fetftSons of a circle, nbt oppofite to ARQUATA, in ornithology, the trivial name of a fpe- each other, fo as to make the arms bulge out thicker ■ cies of fcolopax. See Scolopax. in one part than another ; but the.feftions of each arm ARRACHEE, in heraldry, a term applied to the re- lying the fame way, fo that the arm is every where oF prefentations of plants torn up by the roots. an equal thicknefs, and all of them terminating at the ARRACK. See Rack. edge of the efeutcheon like the plain crofs. ARRAIGNMENT, in law, the arraigning or fetting-a ARSCHIN, in commerce, a long meafure ufed in China thing in order, as a perfon is faid to arraign a writ of to meafure fluffs. Four arfehins make three yards of novel difleifin, who prepares and fits it for trial. It London; is mod properly ufed to call a perfon to anfwer in form ARSCHOT, a town of the Auftrian Netherlands,’ fiof law upon an indiflment, foe. tuated about fourteen miles eaft of the city of MechARRAN, an illand of Scotland, fituated in the Frith of lin, in 40 45' E. long, and f N. lat. Clydes between Kintire and Cunningham. ARSENIC, a poifonous mineral preparation, which is ARRAS, a large fortified town of the French Nether- either white, red, or yellow, prepared from the lands, capital of the province of Artois, fituated in flowers of cobalt. See Cobalt, and Chemistry. 2° 50 E. long, and 50° 20' N. lat. It is from this ARSENICAL Magmt, a preparation of white arfenic city that the tapeftry called arras- hangings takes its with antimony and fulphur, faid to be a gentle caudenomination. ftic. Arras, or Araxes, is alfo the name of a river of A-RSENOTHELYS, the fame with hermaphrodite. Georgia, which difeharges itfelf into the Cafpian ARSIS and Thefts, in mufic. A point is faid to move ‘ fea. arfin and thefin, which rifes in one part and falls in ARREST, in Englifh law, the apprehending and re- another, and vice verfa. ftraining a perfon, in order to oblige him to be obe-- ARSMART, in botany. See Persicaria. dient to the law. a fyftem of rules ferving to facilitate the perArrest of judgment, the affigning juft reafons why ART, formance of certain1 adtions. judgment Ihould not pafs. Art is alfo an appellation given to feveral fuperftitiomARRESTMENT, in Scots law, fignifies the fecuring praftices, as, St Anfelhnis art, St Paul's art, Sic of a crimin^. till trial, or till he find, caution to Hand and part, in Sects law. See Accessary. ARTED.LU.