The dictionary of science and technical terms used in philosophy, literature, professions, commerce, arts, and trades / by W.M. Buchanan ; with supplement ; edited by James A. Smith.
- Buchanan, W. M.
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The dictionary of science and technical terms used in philosophy, literature, professions, commerce, arts, and trades / by W.M. Buchanan ; with supplement ; edited by James A. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![either case, advowsons are no less the property of the advowee than landed estates, and may be granted away by deed or will, and are assets in the hands of executors. Advoyer, Nor. Fr. advoes. A chief ma- gistrate of a town or canton in Switzer- land. ADYNA'MIA, Gr. aSvvapca. A defect of vital power (Swaflis). A'dytom, Gr. aSvToy. The most sacred place in the heathen temples, correspond- ing to the Jewish Holy-of-Holies. The term is derived from ot, not, and Sum, to enter. Adz, or Addice, Sax. adese. A cutting tool of the axe kind; the blade is thin or arching, and set at right angles to the handle. It is chiefly used for paring away inequalities on boards, planks, &c. .FaceA, Grecian festivals in honour of JZacus, who, on account of his justice on earth, was supposed to be appointed one of the judges in hell. jEchmalotarcha, the title given an- ciently to the principal governor of the Hebrew captives residing in Chaldea, As- syria, &c. The Jews called him Rosch- Galuth, or chief of the captivity. At pre- sent the cechmalotarch is only the head of the Jewish religion, like the episcopas Ju- dceorum in England, the altarch at Alex- andria, and the ethnarch at Antioch. AIDES, a temple of an inferior order among the Romans. From aiSrjg, dark, being originally dark buildings. The name latterly became synonymous with templum, or temple. 2Edile. In ancient Rome, an officer who had charge of the public buildings (cedes), and, indeed, buildings of all kinds, highways, aqueducts, public places, spec- tacles, &c. The rediles were four in num- ber, and of two classes—the plebeian and curule. Julius Cresar afterwards added two other plebeian eediles, called cereal: their business was to inspect weights and mea- sures, public stores of provisions, Ac. ACdceotomy, from aiSot and Tepvu>. The anatomy of the organs of generation. JEdoptosis, from cuoolov and tmoerts. Genital prolapsus. j£gagropile. Eat. oegagropilus, from 'iryaypos and mKog. ]. A concretion found in the stomach of the chamois-goat (sometimes in that of deer, cows, Ac.), con- sisting of hair which the animal has swal- lowed in licking itself. These balls were formerly called bezoars, and believed to possess the same virtues as the oriental bezoars. ASciCERAS.a genus of plants found in the Molucca Islands. Class pentandria, order monogynict. Name from atf, a goat, and /repay, a horn, the pods having some re- semblance to the horn of the goat. AIgilops, from ai£, a goat, and mi//, an eye. 1. A sore under the inner angle of the eye : now generally considered a stage of the fistula lachrymalis. Named from the supposition that goats are peculiarly liable to it. 2. Hard-grass: a genus of hardy European annuals, of the class polygamia and order moncecia. There are seven spe- cies.—Named from its supposed virtues in curing the disease called cegilops. AIgis, in mythology, is particularly used for the shield or cuirass of Jupiter and Pallas. Named from atyty, a goat’s skin, with which shields were anciently covered. Ago'ceros, the same with HBgiceras (q. v.) Agopo'dium, goat-weed, gout-weed, or goat’s-foot. A British genus of plants, of the class pentandria and order trigynia: named from aif, a goat, and trots, a foot, “the leaves being cleft something like the foot of that animal.” There is only one species. Hi. podagraria, found in gardens and wet places. The root is pungent and aromatic. A3gypth.es (Latinised Higyptilia). A species of ornament in Egyptian architec- ture having a light-blue figure on a dark ground. Aellopodes, the name of a pedo-motive carriage lately exhibited in the metropolis by Mr. Revis, of Cambridge. It consists of two large driving wheels, urged round by cranks acted upon by treddles, on each of which the rider’s weight is thrown alter- nately. The name, in which the only novelty consists, is from Aello, one of Action’s dogs (Ov. Met. iii. 219), and nous, nodog, a foot. ASlurds, the Egyptian god-cat, some- times represented in architectural decora- tions in proprid persond, and sometimes as a man with a cat’s head ! j-Eoeic, pertaining to Hiolia or Hiolis. The Hiolic dialect is one of the five dialect# of the Greek tongue, agreeing in most things with the Doric dialect. The Hiolia verse consists of an iambus or spondee, then of two anapests separated by a long syllable. ASolian, pertaining to sEolus (q. v.) A3olian-harp, a musical instrument, so named from its producing its wild and often exquisite strains merely by the action of the wind. It is made thus: a box of thin deal is made of such a length as will suit the window into which it is to be fitted ; a number of strings (catgut) are fixed upon the mouth of it, and tuned in unison. It is fitted into the window with the string# outwards. I)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24875983_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
