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 A X I (5 ro ) a z 1 eight fteckans, or twenty verges or verteels, equal to Axis, in anatomy, the fecond vertebra of the neck, fo the tierce in England, or to one fixth of a tun of called from the head’s turning on it like an axis. France. Axis, in zoology. See Cervus. AWN, in botany. See Arista. AXMINSTER, a market-town of Devonlhire, fituated AWNING, in the fea-language, is the hanging a fail, about 22 miles call of Exeter, in 30 xy' W. long, tarpaulin, or the like, over any part of the fhip, to and 50° 40'N. lat. keep off the fun, rain, or wind. AXUMA, a city of Ethiopia in Africa, fituated in 38° AX-VETCH. See Skcuridaca. E. long, and i5°'N. lat. AXBRIDGE, a market-town of Somerfetfhire, 0 fituated AXUNGIA, in a general fenfe, denotes old lard, or about eight the drieft and hardell of any fat in the bodies of ani0 miles north-weft of Wells, in 3 W. long, and 51 3c/ N. lat. mals: But, more properly, it fignifies only hogs-lard. AXEL, a fmall fortified town of Dutch Flanders,0 fituaAxungia foils, in natural hiftory, the fame with the 7 ted about 200 miles weft of Antwerpt, in 3 qo E. Silefian earth. long, and 51 id N. lat. Axungia vitri, Sandiver, or Salt ofglafs, a kind AXILLA, in anatomy, the arm-pit, or the cavity under of fait which feparates from the glafs while it is in futhe upper part of the arm. fion. It is of an acrimonious and biting tafte. The AXILLA, in botany, the angle formed by a branch and farriers ufe it for cleanfing the eyes of- horfes. It is the Item, or a leaf and the branch, alfo made ufe of for cleanfing the teeth ; and is fomeAXIM, a town on the Gold Coaft of Guinea, where the0 times applied to running ulcers, the herpes, or the Dutch have a fort0 and faftory, called St. Anthony : 4 itch, by way of deficcative. W. long, and 5 N. lat. AXYRIS, in botany, a genus of the monoecia triandria AXIOM, in philofophy, any plain, felf-evident, and re- clafs. The calix of the male is tripartite; it has no ceived notion, that cannot be made more plain and evi- corolla. The calix of the female confifts of two dent by demonftration. It is alfo an eftablilhed prin- leaves; it has two ftyli, and one feed. The fpecies ciple in fome art or fcience. are 4, none of them natives of Britain. AXIOPOLIS, a town of Bulgaria, fubjeft to the Turks. AYAMONTE, a fea-port town of Andalufia, in Spain, L Hands upon the river Danube. fituated near the mouth of the river Guadiana, in 8° AXIS, in geometry, the ftraight line in a plain figure, 5 W. long, and 370 N. lat. about which it revolves, to produce or generate a fo- AYENIA, in botany, a genus of the gynandria pentanlid : thus, if a femi-circle be moved round its diame- dria clafs. The calix has two leaves ; the petals are ter at reft, it will generate a fphere, the axis of which in the form of a ftar, with long ungues ; and the capfule is that diameter. has five cells. There are three Ipecies, all natives of Axis, in aftronomy, is an imaginary right line fuppofed the W. Indies. to pafs through the centre of the earth, and the hea- AYRY, or Aery of hahuks, a neft or company of venly bodies, about which they perform their diurnal hawks, fo called from the old French word aire, revolutions. which fignified the fame. Axis in conic-fedtions, a right line dividing the fedtion AZAB, in the Turkifh armies, a diftinft body of folinto two equal parts, and cutting all its ordinates at diery, who are great rivals of the Janizaries. right angles. See Conic Sections. AZALEA, in botany, a genus of the pentandria monoAxis, in mechanics. The axis of a balance is that line gynia clafs. The corolla is bell-lhaped; the ftamina about which it moves, or rather turns about. Axis are inferred into the receptacle ; and the capfule has of ofcillation is a right line parallel to the horizon, five cells. The fpecies are fix, moft of them natives palling through the centre about which a pendulum of America. vibrates. See Mechanics. AZAMOR, a maritime city of Africa, in the kingdom of Duquela, fituated in 6° Axis in peritrochio, one of the five mechanical potvers, of Morocco, and province confifting of a peritrochium or wheel concentric with 3c/ W. long, and 320 50' N. lat. with the bafe of a cylinder, and moveable together AZAROLUS, in botany. See Crataegus. AZARUM, in botany. See Asarum. with it about its axis. See Mechanics. Axis, in optics, is that particular ray of light coming AZAZEL, the fcape-goat, in Jewilh antiquity. See from any objedt which falls perpendicularly on the eye. Scape-goat. AZED, in the materia medica, a kind of camphor. See See Optics. Axis, in architedture, fpiral axis, is the axis of a twill- Camphor. ed column drawn fpirally, in order to trace the cir- AZERADACH, in botany. See Melia. cumvolutions without. AZIMUTH, in aftronomy, an arch of the horizon, inAxis of the Ionic capital, is a line palling perpendi- tercepted between the meridian of the place and the cularly through the middle of the eye of the volute. azimuth, or vertical circle palling through the centre of the objeft, which is equal to the angje of the See Architecture. Axis of a veffel is an imaginary right line palling zenith, formed by the meridian and vertical circle; or through the middle of it perpendicularly to its bafe, it is found by this proportion, as the radius to the tangent of the latitude of the place, fo is the tangent and equally diftant from its fides.