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 A F R A F F (3 5 ) rubbing, quickfllver with a double quantity of crabs- fore fome perfon who is authorifed to take the lame. AFFILIATION, a term ufed by fome for adoption. eyes or candied fugar, till it is extinguifhed. ^.THiOPS of Dr Plumber, a medicine prepared by See Adoption. levigating fulphur auratum Intimonii with an equal AFFINAGE, a term fbmetimes met with in old lawbooks, for the refining of metals. quantity of calomel. jETHUSA, in botany, a genus of the pentandria di- AFFINITY, in Scots law, the connection formed by betwixt one of the married perfons and the gynia clafs. The voiucrum is dimidiated, triphyl- marriage of the other. See Law, title, Marlous, rand pendulous. There is but one fpecies, viz. blood-relations the aethufa fynapium, or fools-parfley, a native of Bri- riage. Affinity, is alfo ufed to denote conformity or agree: Thus we fay, the affinity of languages, the afAETIANS, in church-hiftory, a branch of Arians who ment maintained, that the Son and Holy Ghoft are in all finity of words, the affinity of founds, <bc. Affinity of bodies. See Chemistry, chapter. Of things diffimilar to the Father. AETIOLOGY, that branch of phyfic which afiigns the eieflive attradions. AFFIRMATION, in logic, the afferting the truth of caufes of difeafes. any propofition. AsTITjE, or AiTiT.es, a name given to pebbles or Affirmation, is alfo ufed for! the ratifying or conrtones of any kind which have a loofe nucleus rattling firming the fentence or decree of fome inferior court: in them, called, in Englifh, Eagh-Jiones. iETNA, ‘a famous burning mountain or volcano of Si- thus we fay, the houfe of lords affirmed the decree of cily. It is one of the higheft mountains of the whole the lord-chancellor, or the decree of the lords of fefifiand, and fituated on the eaftern coaft not far from fion. Catania. It is remarked of this mountain, that its AFFIX, among grammarians, denotes much the fame eruptions ceafed immediately when thofe of Vefuvius with prefix. See Prefix. AFFLATUS, among heathen mythologifts and poets,began. See Vesuvius. ./Etna fait, a name ufed by fome authors for faline denotes the infpiration of fome divinity, fubftances, found near the opening of mount ./Etna AFFORAGE, in the French cuftoms, a duty paid to the lord of a diftritt, for permiffion to fell wine or and other volcanos. AiTOLARCHA, in Grecian antiquity, the principal other liquors within his feigniory. It is alfo ufed for the rate or price of provifions fixed by the provort magillrate or governor of the Akolians. AFFA, a weight ufed on the gold-coaft of Guinea, and of Paris, or by the (heriffk.. equal to an ounce. AFFORCEMENT, among old law-writers, denotes a AFFECTIO bovina, a diforder incident to cattle, occa- fortrefs or place of ftrength. lioned by a fmall worm wrhich eats its way all over the AFFOR.CIAMENTUM curia, a term ufed in old body. charteraly for the fummoning a. court in an extraordiAFFECTION, in a general fehfe, denotes an attribute nary manner. infeparable from its fubje€t, or an eflential property of AFFORESTING, in old law-books, is the turnings it. Thus, quantity, figure, weight, &c. are affec- lands into a foreft ; as the converting a foreft to other tions of all bodies. ufes is called dijafforefing, or deaforejiing. Affections e/" the viind. See Passions, and Mo- AFFRAY, or Affrayment, inlaw, formerly fignified rals. the crime of affrighting other perfons, by appearing AFFEERERS, or Affeerors, in law, perfons ap- in unufual armour, brandiffiing a weapon, <bc. but at pointed in court-leets, courts-baron, &c. to fettle, prefent, affray denotes a Ikirmifh or fight between upon oath, the fines to be impofed upon thofe who two: or more. have been guilty of faults arbitrarily punilhable. AFFREIGHTMENT,, a term ufed in fome law-books AFFERI, inlaw. See Averia. for the freight of a ffiip. AFFETUOSO, or Affetto, in the Italian mufic, AFFRI, or Afra, a term met with in old law-books intimates, that the part to which it is added ought to for horfes, bullocks, or any heart ufed in ploughing, be played in a tender moving way, and, confequehtly AFFRONTEE, in heraldry, an appellation given to arather How than fall. nimals facing one another on an.efcutcheon, a kind of AFFIANCE, in law, denotes the mutual plighting of bearing, which is otherwife- called, confrontee, and troth between a man and a woman to marry each ftands oppofed to adojfee. other. AFFUIAGE, in ancient cultoms, denotes, the right or. AFFICHE, a term ufed by the French for bills or ad- privilege of cutting-wood in a foreft for.fuel. vertifements hung or parted up in public places to AFI-LIATION, See Affiliation. make any thing, known. AFOBA, in botany,, an obfolete name of the phaffeolusAFFIDATIO domino) urn, in old law-books, denotes or kidney-bean. See Phaseolus. an oath of allegiance taken by the lords in parliament. AFRA wv/'j, an obfolete name of the meleagris, or turAFFIDATUS, or Affidiatus, in old law-books, key. See Meleagris. fignifies a tenant by fealty, or one who put himfeif or Afrum, in botany, a fynonime of a fpecies under the protection of his lord, vov/ing fealty to him. Afra, of gnaiacitm. See Guaiacum. AFFIDAVIT, fignifies an oath in writing, fworn be- AFRICA, one of the four principal 'divifiohs of "the;