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A D E A D D ( 2 >1 ) y ^ ^th da^ of if, the Jews keep a fp.ft for the death of tence ; the goods fo delivered were called vona addicr Mofes; on the 13th, they have the fall of Efther; ta. Debtors were fometimes delivered over in- the and on the 14th, they celebrate the feat! of Purim, fame manner; and thence called fervi additti. for their deliverance frora Haman’s confpiracy,. ADDICTIO in diem, among the Romans, the adjudADARCE, a kind of concreted falts found on reeds and ging a. thing to a. perfem for a certain price, unlefs by other vegetables, and applied by the ancients as a re- fuch a day the owner, or fome other, give more medy in feveral cutaneous difeafes. for it. AD ARGON, in Jewilh antiquity, a gold coin mention- ADD1TAMENT, a term fometimes ufed by chemifts ed in fcripture, about the value of which authors are and phyficians, for the addition of any new ingredient . not agreed, to increafe the ftrength of a menltruum or compofiADARJK,. a fmall town of Ireland, in the county of tion. Limmerick. ADDITION, is the joining together or uniting two or ADARME, in comraere, a fmall weight in Spain, which more things, or augmenting a thing by the acceflion is alfo ufed at Buenos-Aires, and in all Spanilh Ame- -of others thereto. rica. It is the 16th part of an ounce, which at Paris Addition, in Arithmetic, Algebra, Logais called the demi-gros. But the Spanifh ounce is fe- rithms, &c. fee thefe articles. ven per cent, lighter than that of Paris. Stephens Addition of ratios, a term fometimes ufed for comrenders it in Englilh by a. dram. pofition of ratios. AD ARTICULATION, in anatomy, the fame with Addition, in mufic, a dot marked on the right fide of diarthrofis. See Djas. thro sis. a note, fignifying that it is to be founded or lengthADATAIS, Adatis, or Adatys, in commerce, a ened half as much more as it would have been withmuflin or cotton-cloth, very fine and clear, of which out fuch mark. the piece is ten French ells long, and three quarters Addition, in law, is. that title or defiguation which is broad. It comes from the E. Indies; and the fined given to a man, over and above his proper name, and is made at Bengal. See Mu sun. firnarae, to {hew .of what eftate, degree, occupation, ADCHER, in the materia medica, a name given by or place he is. fome to the fchcenanth. See Scoenanth. Additions, in heraldry, fome things added to a coat ADCORDABILES denarii, in ancient law-books, is of arms, as marks of honour; and thereforedireftly money paid by the vaffal to his lord, in the nature of oppofite to abatements. Among additions we reckon a fine, upon felling ©r exchanging a feud. Bo rdure, Quarter, Canton,Gyron, Pile, <&c. ADCRESCENTES, among the Romans, denoted a See thefe articles. kind of lotdiery, entered in the army, but not yet put Addition, in diltillery, a general name given to fuch on duty; from thefe the {landing forces were recruited. things as are added to the wadi or liquor while fermentSee Accensi. ing, to increafe the vinofity and quantity of the fpirit, ADDA, in geography, a river of Switzerland and Italy, or give it a particular reliia, which rifes in mount Braulio, in the country of the ADDITIVE, in general, fomething to be added. Thus, Grifons, and palling through the Valteline, traverfes mathematicians fpeak of additive ratios, aftronomers the lake Como and the Milanefe, and falls into the of additive equations. See. ADDOU, one of the Maldivian iHands. Pp, near Cremona. ADD ACE, in natural hiftpry, a name the Africans give ADDRESS, a term often ufed to exprefs the {kill and propriety with which an affair is condu&ed or manato the common antelope. See Gazella. ADDEPHAGIA, in medicine, a term ufed by fpme ged. phyficians, for gluttony, or a voracious appetite. An Address, in a particular acceptation, is a congraADDER, in zoology, a vulgar name for the Viper; tulation, petition, or remonftrance, prefented to a fowhich fee. perior, efpccially to the king. ADDERS-TONGUE, in botany, the Englilh name ADDUCENT mufclcs, or Adductors. See Adof the ophicgloffum. See Ophioguossum. ductor. ADDER-WORT, in botany, the Englilh name of the ADDUCTION, in anatomy, the motion or aftion of polygonum billata. See Polygonum. the adducent mufcles. ADDEXTRATORES, in the court of Rome, the pope’s ADDUCTOR, in anatomy, the names of all mufcles mitre-bearers, fo called according to Ducange, be- which pull one part of the body towards another. See . caufe they walk at the pope’s right-hand, when he Anatomy, Part II. rides to vifit the churches. in geography, a province of Annian, on the eaftADDICE, or Adze, a kind of crooked ax ufed by ADEA, ern coaft of Africa, called alfo Adel. Ihip-wrights, carpenters, coopers, <&c. ADEB, a large and uncertain Egyptian weight, ufed ADDICTI, in antiquity, a kind of Hayes, among the chiefly for rice. Romans,, adjudged to ferve fome creditor whom they ADEL, or Adea, in geography, a kingdom of Africa, could not otherwife fatisfy, and whofe Haves they be- called alfo Zeila, from its capital town. It lies o» came till they could pay, or work out the debt. the S. coaft of the ftrait of Babelmandel. There i» ADDICTION, among the Romans, was the making feldom any rain here, and yet the country is fruitful, over goods to another, either by fale, or by legal fen- it being well watered with rivers. It abcuids with wheat.
