SUPPLEMENT. 



Jf.A.fti every inttance in which a reference it made or implied in the explanation*, 

 the body of the work must be consulted, where the matter referred to is not fount 

 in the Supplement. 



A. 



AARD-VARK, one of the edentate insect- 

 ivorous animals found in South Africa, 

 Orycteropus Capemis, allied to the arma- 

 dillo. 



AARDWOLF, a carnivorous animal allied 



ABICHITE, native arseniate of copper, so 

 called after Prof. Abich. 



ABIETIN.E, the division of the Coniferou* 

 order of plants which includes the true pines, 

 firs, and Araucarise. 



ABIOGENESIS, th beginning of life or 

 being, synonymous with Archigenesis. 



to the hyena. ABOCHANXES, a bird found in Africa, 



AAVOKA. the fruit of one of the West ^ to ^ the ancient Ibis. 



Indian palms. ABKAMIS, a sub-genus of soft-finned 



ABABILO, a fabulous animal mentioned m abdominal or ma i ac0 pterygious fishes with- 

 the Koran with feet like a dog, and a beak out barbels or tae% exemplified by the 

 like a bird. 'bream 



ABACA, a flax found in the Philippine j ABRAXAS the supreme deity of the 

 Islands, from Jftua text ills, & kind of i Basilidians, who, they taught, had 365 

 plantain. inferior deities under him, to whom wa 



ABACAT, one of the parrot tribe; a comm itted the government of that number 

 calangay. of ce i e stial orbs ; also the name given to an 



ABACISCUS, a square compartment of a Antique stone or gem Wlth the word 

 Mosaic pavement, or any flat member in ," Abraxas engraved upon it. 

 architecture. ABSORBENT ground, or absorbing ground, 



ABADA, a large African deer with three in paint i ng) a ground so prepared that the 

 horns ; two on the forehead and one on the ; colours are absorbe d in it, and especially the 

 nape of its neck. | oil, leaving the surface tints vivid. In the 



ABANDONEE in law he to whom a thing absorbed pictures of the French connoisseurs 

 is abandoned by another called the aban- t ^ e C0 i urs are left flat and the touches 

 doner. I indistinct ; the effect being expressed by the 



ABANDCH,athmg confiscated or forfeited, ! word ch m ed among English dealers. ' 

 iu old law. ABSORBING well, a shaft sunk down till it 



ABBREVIATE Placitorum. an abstract of 1 reache9 pe nneai.le and absorbing strata 

 ancient pleadings made before the y,ar-books cai , able O f carrying off water thrown into it 

 in legal history. without the water level at the bottom. 



ABELIAN equations irreducible algebraic ' risiu g. It is a dangerous mode of drainage, 

 equations, one root of which may be ex- exemplified by the dead wells of Southamp- 

 pressed as a rational function of a second, 'ton, and liable to generate all the pesti- 

 which the mathematician Abel discovered len tial influences arising from choked drain- 

 could always be solved by the solution of a age , when the substrata require to be subse- 

 second equation of lower degree. i *' n UT pene trated 



ABEK, a Celtic term for the mouth of a ! ACADIALITE, a variety of chabazite found 

 river, as Aberystwith, the mouth of the in Nova Scotia., formerly called Acadia. 

 Ystwith. i ACAJOU, the name given to mahogany by 



ABERDEVINE, the Cardueli* Spinus of the Fren ch; also the cashew-nut, Anacar- 

 Cuvier, the European siskin, a small green aium occidentale 

 and yellow finch, closely allied to the gold- i ' .. 



flncn _ | ACAMPTOZOMES, from O Ka/ATTTW, 



ABERRANT, a term applied in botany to "I bend not," and (TW/tia, "the body:" an 

 groups or species witli any marked difference order of Cirripeds with compound shells in- 

 from the type. capable of being unfolded or protruded. 



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