ACU 



SUPPLEMENT. 



AGN 



for ascertaining the force separate from 



Sir John Herschel 



Of solar radiation. It is fully described in 

 the Report of the President and Council of 

 the Royal Society on the Objects of Scientific 

 Inquiry In Physics and Meteorology for 1840. 

 Professor Forbes used the instrument to 

 ascertain the difference of solar radiation at 

 the top and bottom of the Faulhorn, 

 Switzerland. 



ACULEATE, a botanical term, signifying 

 prickly, or covered with prickles. See 

 ACULEUS. 



ACULEATES, a tribe of hymenopterons 

 insects, the females and neuters of which 

 have a sting concealed in the last segment of 

 the abdomen. 



ADAMSITE, a lamello-gmnnlar variety of 

 mica, found at Derby, Vermont, of an ashy 

 grey colour. 



ADDITION, in law, the personal descrip- 

 tion or rank of a man in addition to his 

 name, as gentleman, esquire, &c. 



ADELPHOLITE, a tantalate of iron and 



the fucui or treasury of the 

 emperor. 



jEscUYNiTE, a titanate of Cerium and 

 Zirconia, from the Feldspar of the Ilmea 

 mountains, Siberia. 



jEsYMNET^E, those of the Greek tyrants 

 who, being invested with supreme power and 

 the command of the army for a period to 

 meet some public emergency, became des- 

 pots for the remainder of their lives by re- 

 tention of their authority. 



./ETHOGEX, a compound of boron and 

 nitrogen, which yields aa intense light under 

 the blow-pipe. 



AETIAIOI, from CteTOS, a pediment, the 

 Greek name for the slabs forming the face of 

 the tympanum of a pediment. 



AFFILIATION, the fixing of the paternity 

 of an illegitimate child, by law. 



AFFILIATED SOCIETIES, societies scattered 

 over districts, but depending on a central 

 society for direction. 



r Choke-damp, the name 



Acid, a solid fat produced from !m ^ ni f ox ^ ch " torms 

 ' &THER C ^^comDo'und with the AFTERMATH, grass mown after the first 

 flavour of rennets, produced by the com- cr P >""*.' * < d fro "E fl fl ?* 

 hination of adinic acid with ether AGAMA, the first section of the Iguanian 



TDJUDICA ^* ' ' >'' ^,,,Jsauria, or Agamidce, distinguished by the 



in Scotland 

 whereby titles to 1 

 decree of the Supre 



veyance or the ordinary process of trtns- 

 mission. Adjudications are general, special, 

 and in implement. , of plants. 



ADULTERINE, offspring of adult 



i of the gentian family 

 3ES, the Tauranian 



cepted by law from subsequent legitimation I family of languages, so called because the 

 bv marria-e of the parents i affiles *>? which the conjugation and deelen- 



ADULTERINE Guilds, ' certain persons ' n are effected <** 8ti11 be used separately 

 who without charter traded as corporations, ' and di , stin . ct fr(>m the roots, and retain their 



preferring to pay an a 

 their violation of the cor 



corporate privileges. 

 ADTERSA, a numismatic expression, rig. 



'nnuaT penalty for .indiyidual powers a, separate part* of 

 speech. 

 AGILIA, the family of rodents which in- 



, , . 



nifying that two heads confront each other , cludes dormice and squirrels. 

 on the coin or medaL AGIOTAGE, manoeuvring in the public 



ADY, a Malabar palm tree, found on the !fands ' or in reference to them, for the pur- 

 Island of Thome, with an aromatic kernel i T 056 of affecting their price. 

 yielding an oil, from which a kind of butter | AGIOSYMANDRUM, a wooden instrument 

 is made used m Christian churches under the do- 



^GIR'INE, a variety of pyroxene, from j miniou of Turke 7 as a substitute for bells, 

 Brevig, Norway, allied to Arfvedsonite. wnich were Prohibited. 



.EGLE, a genus of oranges yielding the I AGMINATE GLANDS, the name given to 

 Marmelos or bhel fruit I tne glands of Peyer aggregated m groups in 



^PYORNIS, a fossil 'genns of colossal cur- tne sma11 intestines ; they are commonly 

 sorial birds, found in the Pliocene strata of oval 2 rou P s and of Tar } ous sizes - . 

 Madagascar The eee of this bird is esti- AGNESITE, a steatitic earthy mineral from 

 mated to havebeenequal to one hundredand Huel C ates . St - A g nes ; Cornwall. 

 fifty hens' eggs. i AGNOET.E, (from ayvofto), " I do not 



jERARiAN, the lowest degradation in- know,") two early sects of the Church, the 

 flicted on a Roman citizen, short of loss of earlier of which questioned the Divine 

 liberty. omniscience ; and the later in the sixth cen- 



jERARlFM, the treasury of the Roman tury held that the Messiah in His humanity 

 Plebs, which was under the care of the was ignorant of many things, such as the 

 quaestors. Under the empire it was kept time of the Day of Judgment. The latte* 



