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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. 



ADVOVER, Nor. Fr. adroes. A chief ma- 

 gistrate of a town or canton in Switzer- 

 land. 



ADYNA'MIA, Gr. aSvva/xia. A defect 

 of Tital power (Swi^fus). 



A'DYTi'M, Gr. oiamtf. The most sacred 

 place in the heathen temples, correspond- 

 ing to the Jewish 1/vly-of-ffolies. The 

 term is derived from a, not, and Ww, to 

 enter. 



ADZ, or ADDICE, Sax. adete. 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, ic. 



-<EACEA, Grecian festivals in honour of 

 *acu, 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, Ac. The Jews called him Kosch- 

 Galuth, or chief of the captivity. At pre- 

 sent the techmalotarch is only the head of 

 the Jewish religion, like the episcoptu Ju- 

 deeoruin in England, the altarch at Alex- 

 andria, and the ethnarch at Antioch. 



jEDES, a temple of an inferior order 

 among the Romans. From 01617?, dark, 

 being originally dark buildings. The name 

 latterly became synonymous with templum, 

 or temple. 



JEDILE. In ancient Rome, an officer 

 who had charge of the public buildings 

 (cedet). and, indeed, buildings of all kinds, 

 highways, aqueducts, public places, spec- 

 tacles, Ac. The sediles were four in num- 

 ber, and of two classes the plebeian and 

 curule. Julius Caesar afterwards added two 

 other plebeian sediles, called cereal : their 

 business was to inspect weights and mea- 

 sures, public stores of provisions, Ac. 



,DCEOTOMY, from aiSoi < and renvu. 

 The anatomy of the organs of generation. 



-lEDorrosis, from anSoiov and ITTWO-IS. 

 Genital prolapsus. 



jfiGAGROPiLE, Lt agagropUus, from 



iy<rypos and ~'Ao?. 1. A concretion 



ound in the stomach of the chamois-goat 



sometimes in that of deer, cows, Ac.), con- 



sting of hair which the animal has swal- 



owed in licking itself. These balls were 



ormerly called bezoari, and believed to 



possess the same virtues as the oriental 



bezoars. 



JEciCERAS, a genus of plants found in the 

 Molucca Islands. Claw pentandria, order 



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JEOL 



monoyynia. Nam from eu, a goat, and 

 te'pas, a horn, the pods having some re- 

 semblance to the horn of the goat. 



-fioiLOPS, from <uf, a goat, and wuV, 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 <egilops. 



jEcis, in mythology, is particularly used 

 for the shield or cuirass of Jupiter and 

 Pallas. Named from ai-yis, a goat's skin, 

 with which shields were anciently covered. 



jEco'cEROS, the same with jEgicera* 

 (q. v.) 



jEcopo'DiCM, goat-weed, gout-weed, or 

 goafs-foot. A British genus of plants, of 

 the class pentandria and order trigynia : 

 named from if, a goat, and ~ovs, a foot, 

 " the leaves being cleft something like the 

 foot of that animal." There is only one 

 species, jK. podagraria, found in gardens 

 and wet places. The root is pungent and 

 aromatic. 



GYPTILES (Latinised ^gyptilia). A 

 species of ornament in Egyptian architec- 

 ture having a light-blue figure n a dark 

 grand. 



AELLOPODES, the name of a pedo-motlve 

 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 novs, TroSos, * 

 foot. 



LDRCS, the Egyptian god-cat, some- 

 times represented in architectural decora- 

 tions in propriil persomi, and sometimes as 

 a man with a cat's head ! 



or.ic, pertaining to jEolia or jEolik. 

 The *olic dialect is one of the five dialect* 

 of the Greek tongue, agreeing In most 

 things with the Doric dialect. The jolic 

 verse consists of an iambus or spondee, 

 then of two anapests separated by a long 

 syllable. 



AEOLIAN, pertaining to jolu (q. T.) 



JSOLIAN-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 Jilted ; 



umber of strings (catgut) are fixed upon 



the mouth of it, and tuned in unison. It 



fitted into the window with the string! 



twards. 



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