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 A V O ( 508 ) A U R AUKLAND, a market-town on the river Ware, in the and continues its courfe towards Brittol, below which biih'opric of Durham, fituated about 12 miles S. W. city it falls into the Severn. of the city of Durham, in i° 2y/ W. long, and 54° Avon is alfo a river, which, rifing in Leicefterfhire, 4c/ N. lat. runs fouth-weft by Warwick and Evefham, and falls AULCESTER, a market-town of Warwicklhire, fitu- into the Severn at Tewkfbury in Gloucefterfhire. ated about fourteen miles0 fouth-weft of Warwick, in AVOSETTA, in ornithology. See Recurvikostra; i° 5c/ W. long, and 53 2c/ N. lat. AVOWEE, one who has a right to prefent to a beneAULIC, an epithet given to certain officers of the em- fice. See Advowson. pire, who compofe a court which decides, without He is thus called in contradiftindtion to thofe who appeal, in all procefFes entered in it, Thus we fky, only have the lands to which the advowfon belongs for a term of years, or by virtue of intrufion or difleilin. aulic, council, anise chamber, ttulic counfeltor. The aulic council is compofed of a prefident, who See Intrusion, is a catholic; of a vice-chancellor, prefented by the AVOWRY, in law, is where a perfon diftrained fues archbifhop of Mentz; and of eighteen counfellors, out a replevin ; for then the diftrainer mutt vow, and nine of whom are proteftants, and nine catholics. juttify his plea, which is called his avowry. See ReThey are divided into a bench of lawyers, and always PLEVEN. follow the emperor’s court; for which reafon they ‘are AURA, among phyfiologifts, fignifies a vapour or exhacalled jujlitium imperatoris, the emperor’s juftice, lation, fuch as thofe which arife from mephitical caves, and aulic council. The aulic court ceafes at the death SeeMEPHiris, and Exhalation. of the emperor, whereas the imperial chamber of Aura vitalis, in chemiftry, a term ufed by HelmOnt, Spire is perpetual, reprefenting not only the deceafed for what others call the flamma vitalis, or vital flame. emperor, but the whole Germanic body, which is re- Aura, in ornithology, the trivial name of a fpecies of vulture. See Vulture. puted never to die. Aulic, in the Sorbonne and foreign univerfities, is an AURACH, a town of Swabia in Germany, fituated a<3 which a young divine maintains upon being admitted about 15 miles eaft of Tubingen, in 90 20 E. long, a dodtor jn divinity. It begins by an harangue of the and 48° 25' N. lat. chancellor, addreffed to the young dodtor, after which AURANCHES, a large, ftrong, and well fortified city, he receives the cap, and prefides at the aulic, or de- of France in the Lower.Normandy, fituated in x° x6 W. long, and 48° 41' N. lat. putation. AULOS, a Grecian long meafure, the fame with fta- AURANTIUM, in botany. See Citrus. dium. AURATA, in ichthyology, the trivial name of a fpecies of fparus.' See Sparus. AUMBRY, a country-word denoting a cup-board. AUME, a Dutch meafure for Rhenifh wine, containing AURATUS eepues. See Eques Auratus. forty Englifh gallons. AURAY, a fea-port town of Brittany in France, fitu-0 of Port-Lewis, in 2 AUNCEL-WEIGHT, an ancient kind of balance, now ated about 18 miles fouth-eaft out of ufe, being prohibited by feveral llatutes, on 45 W. long, and 470 40r N. lat. account of the many deceits pradlifed by it. It con- AURELIA, in natural hiftory, the fame with what is fifted of feales hanging on hooks, fattened at each end more ufually called chryfalis, and fometimes nymph. of a beam, which a man lifted up on his hand. In See Chrysalis. many parts of England, auncel-weight fignifies meat AURELIANA, in botany. See Pinax. fold by the hand, without fcales. AURENGABAD, a large city in the province of Viin India, on this fide the Ganges; E. long. AUNE, a long meafure ufed in France to meafure fiapour cloths, fluffs, ribbons, At Rouen it is equal to 50 30', and N. lat. 19° 15'. one Englifh ell; at Calais, to 1.52; at Lyons, to AUREOLA, in its original fignification, fignifies a jewel, which is propofed as a reward of vidtory in fome 1.016; and at Paris, to 0.95. AUNIS, a maritime province of France, on the weft- public difpute. Hence, the Roman fchoolmen apern fhore of the Bay of Bifcay, having the province plied it to denote the reward beftowed on martyrs, of Poidtou on the north, and Santoigne on the fouth. virgins, and dodfors, on account of their works of fuAVOCATORIA, a mandate of the empe or of Ger- pererogation; and painters ufe it to fignify the crown many, addreffed to fome prince, in order to ftop his of glory, with which they adorn the heads of faints, confeffors, <bc. unlawful proceedings in any caufe appealed to him. AVOIDANCE, in the canon law, is when a benefice AUREUS, a Roman gold coin, equal in value to becomes void of an incumbent, which 'happens either twenty-five denarii. in fadt, as by the detith of the perfon; or in law, AURICH, a town of Weftphalia in Germany, fituated as by ceffion, deprivation, refignation, <bc. In the about 12 miles north-eaft of-Embden, in 6° yo7 E. firft of thefe cafes, the patron mutt take notice of the long, and 53° 4c/ N. lat. avoidance, at his peril; but in avoidance by law, the AURICHALCUM, or Orichalcum. Se^ Oriordinary is obliged to give notice to the patron, in or- c hal cum. AURICLE, in anatomy, that part of the ear which is der to prevent a lapfe. from the head, called by many authors au~ AVON, a river of England, which, taking its rife in prominent Wiltihire, runs by Bath, where it becomes navigable. ris externa. See p. 295. AURI-