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AHTIPATHIA, that system of medicine AQUA ARUIENTE, a Mexicm alcohol 

 which consists in employing remedies which obtained from fermented juice of the 

 produce symptoms or results opposite to agave. 



those of the disease, on the maxim, Con- AQUEOUS ROCKS, the sedimentary rorks, 

 traria contrariit opponenda. ,or those stratified deposits of geology which 



ANTIPEDES, the anterior pectoral extremi- are due to the action of water ; they include 

 ties arising from the divergin appendages of all the fossiliferous rocks, and they appear 

 the occipit-tl segments of skulls. I to be all more or less metamorphosed or 



ANTIPELARGIA, an ancient law, which ; changed by the action of heat and hydro- 

 made the cMMreu when grown up chargeable | static pressure combined. 



with the support of the r azed parents. The 

 tork, or Cieouia, being remarkable for its 

 attention to its parents, the law was called 

 Lex Ciconiaria. 



* ANTISCORBUT.C, any medicine which 



cures or prevents scurvy. 



ANTOECI, those so geographically situated 

 as to be on the same meridian, but at equal 

 distances from the equator on opposite si'ies 

 of it. The longest day of the one is the 

 shoi test day of the other, and their summer 

 an I winter are opposite. 



ANTOXOMASIA, that figure of speech by 

 which pioper namesare usedas appellatives : 

 as, He is a Cicero ; for, He is a distinguished 

 orator, Ac. Or conversely ; as when Claude 

 is called the Prince of Landscape Painters. 



APATELITK, a mineral similar to copia 

 pite, found at Meudon, France. 



APACME, in heraldry, an open hand with 

 the fingers and thumb extended and the 

 palm shown, as on the armorial bearings of 

 a baronet. 



APEX, the highest point especially of a 

 tapering object ; the point of a cone. 



AP/INE, a gelatinous body found it 

 parsley : it sives a blood-red colour in sola 

 tion with sulphate of iron. 



APODICTIC JUDGMENTS, indisputable, as 

 distinguished from experimental or empiri 

 cal Judgments. Kant employs the term ir 

 his philosophy, having adopted it from 



AQUETTA, a poison used at Rome under 

 the pontificate of Pope Alexander VII. It 

 was also called Aqua Toffana, after a woman 

 of that name who manufactured it at 

 Naples; supposed to be a preparation of 



rsenic. 



AQUILA AI.BA, a name given to calomel 

 by the alchemists, who called various subli- 

 mates by the name of Aquila. 



ARABIN, a variety of trums, of which Gum 

 Arabic is the most familiar example. Thev 

 are all soluble in water. 



ARAGONITE, a variety of carbonate of 

 lime, from Aragon, Spain. 



ARAH.I, an Egyptian drink made from 



ates. 



AKBUSTCM, an old name foravinevardor 



or Spiritus Archseus, the occult 

 of certain phenomena according to the 

 old physicians and chemists. 



ARCHIGENESIS, the beginning of life or 

 being. 



ARCOGRAPH, an instrument used to 

 draw curves and arcs of circles without 

 compasses. 



ARDISIACE.E, a former name for the 

 botanical group now called Myrsinaceae 



ARENACEOUS, a term applied, especially in 

 geology, to anything sandy, or having the 

 qualities of sand. Thus the Arenaceous 

 Rocks are the Old and New Red Sandstone, 



&c. 



A RELATION, any cure effected by s rink- 

 ling hot sand on the body of the patient. 



A HGENTITE, silver glance, or native sul- 



Aristotle. 



APODOSIS, the second part of a period 

 grammar and rhetoric. 



APOLLOXICON, the name given to a cham- 

 ber organ constructed by Messrs. Flight and i phide of silver. 

 Robson, London, in the beginning of the i ARGENTOMETER, an instrument for ascer- 

 nineteenth century. jtaining the quantity of silver in a golution. 



AFOSTILL, a marginal note to any work, '' It consists of a graduated tube, into which 

 In literature. j an ascertained quantity of chloride of sodium 



APOTHKCICM, the flat disc or shield en- in solution is introduced 

 closing the asci of lichens. I ARMOUR-PLATING, the covering used to 



APOTHEME, an old chemical name for protect ships of war, consisting of plates or 

 various extractive matters. shields of strong iron, generally on an under 



APOZEM, an old chemical name for a lining of teak wood, 

 decoction. I ARRACHE, the representation in hemKiry 



APPKSTIS, a kind of lean-to roofs sup- ' of a plant torn up bv the roots, 

 ported by brackets or columns to protect a AHTIODACTYLA, "even-toed," an order of 

 wall. j Mammalia with hoofed toes, always of ereu 



APPRAISEMENT, a valuation of goods sold number, as two or four: they include the 

 under distress. hippopotamus and many other living and 



APYREXIA, intermission of febrile extinct genera, 

 diseases. ARVIL FEAST, a funeral supper in the 



APYROUS, an old term signifying bodies northern counties of England, 

 which resisted change under great heat. ARVAN LANGUAGES, the great clas of 



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