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 A w M A U T ( 5«9 ) AUTO DE FE, aft of faith. See Act offaith. Auricles are likewife two mufcular bags fituated at the AUTOGRAPH, denotes a perfon’s hand-writing, or bafis of the'heart. Seep. 279. original manufeript of any book, tic. AURICULA, in botany, a fynonimeof the dodecatheon AUthePOMATUM, or Automaton, an inftrument, or andfeveral other plants. See Dodecatheon, Pri- rather machine, which by means of fprings, weights, mula, Arenaria, <bc. feems to move itfelf, as a watch, clock, tic. Such AURICULARIS Digitus, the little finger, fo called, 'tic. alfo were Archytus’s Hying dove, Regiomontanus’s becaiife it is ufed commonly to pick the ear. wooden-eagle, tic. AURIGA, the Wagoner, in aftronomy, a conftellation of AUTUMN, the third feafon of the year, when the harthe northern hemifphere. See Astronomy, p. 486. and-fruits are gathered in.-—Autumn is reprefented, AURILLAC, a neat and well-built city of France, in the inveftpainting, by a man at perfect age, clothed like the Upper Avergne, noted for its trade in bone-lace: it vernal, and likewife girded withaftarry girdle; holdis fituated in 30° Ji' E. long and $4° 44' N. lat. in one hand a pair of feales equally poifed, with a AURIPIGMENTUM, orpiment, in natural hiltory. ing globe in each; in the other a bunch of divers fruits See Orpiment. and grapes. His age denotes the perfection of this AURISCALPIUM, an inllrument to clean the ears, feafon; and the balance, that fign of the zodiac which and ferving alfo for other operations in diforders of the fun enters when our autumn begins. that part. Point, is that part of the equinox from AURORA, the morning-twilight, or that faint light AUTUMNAL which the fun begins todefeend towards the fouth pole. which appears in the morning, when the fun is within Autumnal Signs, in aftronomy, are the figns Libra, eighteen degrees of the -hofizon. Scorpio, Sagittarius, through which the fun palfes AURORA Borealis, is an extraordinary meteor, during the autumn. Ihewing itfelf in the night time, in the northern part of the heavens. See Pneumatics, Of Meteors. Autumnal Equinox., that time when the fun enters the autumnal point. AURUM, gold, in natural-hiftory. See Chemistry, AUTUN, a city of Burgundy in France, fituated Of metals. 0 7 on the AUSPEX, a name anciently ufed for augur. See river Arroux, in 4 15' E. long, and 46° jo N. lat. AUVERGNE, a territory of the Lyonois in France ; lyAugur. AUSTRAL, fomething relating to the fouth : thus the ing between the Bourbonois on the north, and the Cefix figns on the fouth fide of the equinoctial are called vennes on the fouth. AUX, in aftronomy, the fame with the apogeum of the aujlralJtgns. AUSTRAL Fifh, a fmall conftellation of the fouthern ancients, or the aphelium of the moderns. See Apcgeum and Aphelium. It alfo denoted the arch hemifphere, invifible to us. AU STRIA, a circle of Germany, comprehending the of the ecliptic, intercepted between the firft degree of arch-duchy of Auftria, alfo Styria, Carinthia, Car- Aries and the apogeum. niola, Tyrol, Trent, and Brixen. It is bounded by Aux, or Augh, in geography, the capital city of GafBohemia and Moravia on the north; by Hungary, cony in France. It is one of the riefieft archbilhop’s Sclavonia, and Croatia on the eaft; by the dominions fees in France, though but a fmall town; fituated iri of Venice .on the fouth, and by Bavaria on the weft. 20 E. long, and 430 40' N. lat. AUSTRIAN Netherlands. See Netherlands. AUXERRE, a city of0Burgundy, in France, fituated on AUTHENTIC, fomething of acknowledged and re- the river Yonne, in 3 3 5' E. long, and 47° 40' N. lat.ceived authority. In law, it fignifies fomething clo- AUXILIARY, whatever is aiding or helping to another. thed in all its formalities, and attefted by perfons to Auxiliary Verbs, in grammar, arefuch as help to form whom credit has been regularly given. Thus we fay, or cbnjugate others ; that is, are prefixed to them, to authentic papers, authentic inftruments. form or denote the moods or tenfes thereof; as to AUTHOR, properly fignifies one who created or pro- have and to be, in the Englilh ; etre and avoir, in the duced any thing. Thus God, by way of eminence, is French ; ho and fono in the Italian, tic. called the author of nature, the author of the univerfe. In the Englifir language/the auxiliary verbdr/w, fupAUTHOR, in matters of literature, a perfon who has plies the want of paflive verbs. compofed fome book or writing. AUXONE, a fmall city of Burgundy, in France, fituAUTHORITY, in a general fenfe, fignifies a fight to ated on the0 river Soane, about0 feven7 miles weft of command, and make one’s felf obeyed. In which Dole, in 5 22 E. long, and 47 ij N. iat. fenfe, we fay, the royal authority, the epifcopal au- AWARD, in law, the judgment of an arbitrator, or of thority, the authority'of a father, <bc. It denotes one who is not appointed by the law a judge, but alfo the teftimony of an author, fome apophthegm or chofen by the parties therpfelves for terminating their fentence of an eminent perfon quoted in a difeourfe by • difference. See Arbiter. way of proof. AWL; among Ihoe-makers, an inftrument wherewith Authority is reprefented, in painting, like a grave holes are bored through the leather, to facilitate the matron fitting in a chair of (late, richly clothed in a hitching or fewing 'the fame. The blade of the awl garment embroidered with gold, holding in her right- is ufually a little flat and bended, and the point ground Jiand a fword, and in her left a feeptre. By her fide to an acute' angle. is a dpuble trophy of books and arms. AWME, or Aume, a Dutch liquid meafure containing Vol. I. No. 22. 3 6N eight