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ACHLAR, a river in America, called Araxis by the ancients.
ACHLIS. See Machlis.
ACHLYS, in medicine, a dimneſs of ſight, ariſing from any ſcar remaining after an ulcer in the cornea. It is alſo uſed for the diſorder called a ſuffuſion of the uterus.
ACHMETSCHET, a town of the peninſula of the Crimea, the reſidence of the ſultan Galga, who is eldeſt ſon of the Khan of Tartary, 51. 20. long. 45. 0. lat.
ACHONRY, a ſmall town of Ireland in the province of Connaught, and county of Sligo, feared on the river Shannon.
ACHOR, in medicine, ſmall ulcers on the face which diſcharge a viſcid humour. See Medicine.
ACHRAS, in botany, a genus of the hexandria monogynia claſs, It bears a fruit not unlike the pear. There are only three ſpecies of the achras, viz. the mimoſa, the ſapota, and the ſalicifolia, all natives of America.
ACHRONICAL, Acrhonycal, or Acronychal. See Acronical.
ACHYR, a ſtrong town and caſtle of the Ukrain, ſubject to the Ruſſians ſince 1667. It ſtands on the river Uorſklo near the frontiers of Ruſſia, 127 miles W. of Kiow, 36. 0. long. 49. 32. lat.
ACHYRANTES, in botany, a genus of the pentandria monogynia claſs. There are ſeven ſpecies of the achyrantes, moſt of them natives of the Indies.
ACHYRANTHA, in botany, the trivial name of a ſpecies of the illecebram. See Illecebrum.
ACHYRONIA, in botany, an obſolete name of a genus of the diadelphia decandria claſs.
ACHYROPHORUS, in botany, a ſynonime of the ſeriola, See Seriola.
ACIA, a term in the Roman ſurgery, about the meaning of which phyſicians and commentators are greatly divided; ſome taking it for the needle, and others for the thread.
ACICULÆ, the ſmall ſpikes or prickles of the hedgehog, echinus marinus, &c.
ACIDS, ſubſtances which give a ſour, ſharp, or tart taſte. Among the chemiſts, the acid faults are diſtinguiſhed into the nitrous, vitriolic, muriatic, and vegetable, See Chemistry, title, Of acids.
Acids, in the materia medica, are ſuch medicines as poſſeſs an acid quality ſuch as vinegar, ſpirit of vitriol, &. Theſe being powerful antiſeptics, are eſteemed good in all purtrid and malignant diſeaſes, and, by their cooling virtue, are no leſs efficacious in feveriſh and inflammatory caſes.
ACIDITY, that quality which renders bodies acid.
ACIDOTON, in botany is both a ſynonime and the trivial name of a ſpecies of the adelia, See Adelia.
ACIDULÆ, a term for water or any ſubstance impregnated with an acid.
ACIDULATED, a name given to medicines that have an acid in their compoſition.
ACIERNO, a town in the Hither Principality, in the Kingdom of Naples, with a biſhop's ſee. It is 15 miles E. of Salerno, 37. 0. E. long. 40. 52. lat.
ACINAIES, in antiquity, a kind of cutlaſs, or ſcimeter, in uſe among the Perſians.
ACINARIA, in botany, a ſynonime of the fucus acinarius, belonging to the cryptogamia algæ of Linnæus. See Fucus.
ACINI, in botany, a ſynonime of the thymus alpinus. See Thymus.
ACINIFORMIS tunica, in anatomy. See Uvea.
ACINODENDRION, in botany, the trivial name of a ſpecies of the melaſtoma. See Melastoma.
ACINODENDRUM, in botany, a ſynonime of two ſpecies of the melaſtome.
ACENOIDES, in botany, the trivial name of a ſpecies of the ziziphora. See Ziziphora.
ACINOS, in botany, a ſynonime of a ſpecies of the cunila. See Cunila.
ACINUS, in botany, ſignifies grapes or berries growing in cluſters.
ACISONTHERA, in botany, both a ſynonime and the trivial name of a ſpecies of the rhexia. See Rhexia.
ACITLI, in ornythology, the American name of the colymbus criſtatus, a bird of the order of anferes. See Colymbus.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, in a general ſenſe, is a perſon's owning or confeſſing a thing; but, more particularly, is the expreſſion of gratitude for a favour.
Acknowledgement-money, a certain ſum paid by tenants in ſeveral parts of England, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords.
ACLIDES, in Roman antiquity, a kind of miſſive weapon, with a thong affixed to it, whereby to draw it back. Moſt authors deſcribe it as a ſort of dart or javelin; but Scaliger makes it roundiſh or globular, with a ſlender wooden ſtem to poiſe it by.
ACLOWA, in botany, a barbarous name of a ſpecies of colutea. It is uſed by the natives of Guinea to cure the itch. See Colutea.
ACME, or Ackme, the top or height of any thing. It is uſually applied to the maturity of un animal juſt before it begins to decline; and phyſicians have uſed it to expreſs the utmoſt violence or criſis of a diſeaſe.
ACMELLA, in botany, the trivial name of a ſpecies of the verbeſina. See Verbesina.
ACNIDA, in botany, a genus of the diœcia pentandriæ claſs. There is only one ſpecies of it, viz. the acnida canabina, It is a native of Virginia.
ACNUA, in Roman antiquity, ſignified a certain meaſure of land, near about the English rood, or fourth part of an acre. See Rood.
ACOBA, a ſmall town of Portugal in the province of Eſtremadura.
ACOEMETÆ, or Acoemeti, in church hiſtory, or men who lived without ſleep; a ſet of monks who chaunted the divine ſervice night and day in their places of worſhip. They divided themſelves into three bodies, who alternately ſucceeded one another, ſo that their churches were never ſilent. This practice they founded upon the precept, Pray without ceaſing. They flouriſhed in the eaſt about the middle of the fifth century. There are a kind of acœmeti ſtill ſubsisting inthe
