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 A G H ( 38 ) A G M •Acer, is alfo ufed by middle-age writers, for an acre of which fends two members to parliament. It is fitualand. See Acre. ted in the fouthern part of Uliler, not far from CloAcer mineralium, among chemifts, Cgnifies the element gher. of water, as water is fuppofed to be the origin of mi- AGHRIM, a town of Ireland, in the county of Wicknerals. low, and province of Leinfter, fituated about thirteen Acer natura, a name fometimes applied to the uterus, miles fouth-weft of Wicklow. as it nourilhes the femen in the lame manner as the AGL4.DES, in the Turkilh armies, a kind of pioneers earth nourilhes feeds.employed in fortifying camps, and the like offices. Aoer, in geography, a fmall town of Catalonia in Spain, AGIASMA. See Hagiasma. fituated near the fource of the river Noguera. AGIGENSALON, a town of Turkey, upon the road AGERATUM, or Maudlin, in botany, a genus of from Conltandnople to Ifpahan, about a day’s journey the fyngenefia polygamia sequalis clafs. The recep- from the city of Tocia. tacle is naked; the pappus has five ariftse or auns ; the AGILD, or Agilde, in old law-books, denotes a percalix is oblong; and the ftylus a little longer than the fon of fo little account, that whoever killed him was flower. There are three fpecies of the ageratum, viz. liable to no fine or other punilhment. the conyzoides, the ciliare, and the altiffimum, all na- AGILITY, an aptitude of the feveral parts of the botives of America. dy to motion; or it may be defined, the art or talent AGERATU S lapis, a Hone ufed by the ancients in of making the bell ufe of our ftrength. dying and dreffing leather. AGILLARIUS, in old law-books. See Hayward. AGERIUM. See Agistment. AGINCOURT, a village of the French Netherlands ; AGGA, or Agonna, a Britilh fettlement on the gold-. famous on account of the victory obtained by Henry V. coaft of Guiney. It is fituated under the meridian of of England over the French, in 141J. London, in 6 degrees of N. lat. AGIO, in commerce, a term chiefly ufed in Holland Agger,, in the ancient military art, a bank or rampart, and at Venice, where it denotes the difference between compofed of various materials, as earth, boughs of the value of bank-ftock and the current coin. trees, 6c. Agio of affurance, the fame with what we call policy The agger of the ancients was of the fame nature of ajfurance. See Policy of ajfurance. with what the moderns call lines. AGIST. See the next article. AGGERHUYS, a city of Norway, capital of the pro- AGISTMENT, Agistage, or Agistation, in law, vince of the fame name. It is lubje^t to Denmark, the taking in other people’s cattle to graze at fo much and fituated in 28-. 35. E. long, and 59. 30. N. lat. per week. It is alfo ufed in a metaphorical fenfe, for AGGIA-SARAI, a town fituated on the lliore of the any tax,'burcLn, or charge; thus, the tax levied-for Cafpian fea, between Turkeltan and the country of repairing the banks of Romney marffi was called agiBulgar. ftamenium. AGGLUTINANTS, in pharmacy, medicines of a glu- AGISTOR, or Agistator, an officer belonging t® tinous or vifcid nature, given with a view to ftrengthen foreftsj who has the care of cattle taken in to be grathe folids. zed, and levies the moneys due on that account. Agglutinants, among furgeons. See Vulnera- AGI STALIA animalium in frefta, in old law-books,, fignifies the drift of.cattle or ^eafts in a foreft. ries. AGGLUTINATION, in a general fenfe, denotes the AGITATION, the aft of ffiaking a body, or tofling it joining two or more things together, by means of a backwards and forewards. a proper glue or cement. AGITATOR, in antiquity, a term fometimes ufed for Agglutination, among phyficians, the adherence of a charioteer, efpecially thofe who drave in the circus' new fubllance, or the giving a glutinous, quality to; the at the curule games. animal fluids. AGITATORS, in the Englifb hiftory,. certain officers Agglutination, is alio-a term ufed by aflronomers let up by the army, in 1647, to take care of its into denote the meeting of two or more liars in the terefls. fame part of the zodiac, or the feeming coalition of Cromwell joined the agitators, only with a view to feveral liars. ferve his own ends; which being once accompliffied, AGGRAVATION, a term ufed to denote whatever he found means to get them abolifhed. heightens a crime, Or renders it more black. AGLA, or AqurLA, a town of Africa in the kingdom AGGREGATE, in a general fenfe, denotes the fum of of Fez, fitnated not far from the river Guarga. feveral things added together, or the colle&ion-of them AGLAOPHOTIS, in botany,, an obfolete name of,the into one whole. Thus, a houfe is an aggregate of pasonia. See P.«:onia. Hones, wood, mortar, 6c. It differs, from a mixed AGLECTS, Aglets, or Agljjeds, in botany. See or compound, inafmuch as the union in thefe lalt is Anthers.. more intimate than between the parts of an aggregate. AGLIA, in geography, a fortrefs of Peidmont, with See Chemistry, Qf.jnixts. the title of marquifate, fituated in the Canavois. AGGRESSOR, among lawyers, denotes the. perfon AGMOT, or Agmxt, the name of a town, difiiiff, who began a quarrel, or made the firll affault. and river of Africa, in the empire of Morocco. AG HER, Ac her, or Aug her, a town of Ireland, AGMEN, in the Roman art of war, denoted an army.