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lanzuages which apparently belong to the principal notes of which do not range beyond 

 Japt.ethic races, including Celtic, Hellenic, the key-note, and its octave. 

 Indie Iranic Italic Slavonic, and Teutonic. AUTOCRAT, a name now confined to the 

 They were, according to Bunsen. disseminated Emperor of Russia, the only absolute sove- 

 from Iran in Bactria. reign of modern Europe. It is derived from 



ASBOLAXE, earthy cobalt. the title CLVTOKpaTCDp, given to those 



AsuoLix.a pitchy resinous substance found ge uerals of the Athenians who had plenary 

 in the soot of wood. authority vested in them by the republic. 



ASEXUAL, without sexual organs : a term AVES, a class of birds, including the 

 erroneously applied to the cryptogamic plants, R a ptores, Incessores, Sc.ansores, Rasores, 

 in all the great divisions of which sexual Cursores, Grallatores, and Natatores. 

 organs have since been discovered. | AXIS of Elevation, a geological term for 



ASHERA, round towers. the line of direction in which stratified rocks 



ASIARCH, the title of the highest eccle- nave been elevated from their originally 

 siasticof Ephesus and the surrounding dis- horizontal position. 



trict of Asia Minor. He resided at Ephesus, , AXOLOTIL, a genus of perennibranchiate 

 and had spiritual care of the Roman province amphibians found in the lake of Mexico. 

 of Asia Minor. i AYAPANA, or Eupatorium Ayapana, a 



ASSAMAR, a constituent of burnt sugar, of sudorific remedy for snake-bites. 

 the flavour of toasted bread, which is said to , AZOTIC ACID, nitric acid, 

 be due to its presence. ] AZULINE, one of the aniline dyes. It is 



ASTIGMATISM, a defect of the eye, shown a beautiful permanent blue, 

 by the varying inaccuracy of its vision at! 

 different distances ; as, when a small round I 



hole is presented between it and the light in -r> 



a perforated card, this hole if perforated I -!-> 



round should appear round when the card is 



held transverse to the line of vision at all! BABBLING FAUVETTE, or BABILLAED, 

 distances ; but under Astigmatism the eye tne nettle-creeper or lesser white-throat, 

 sees it round when near, but elongated in carruca garrula, a small frugivorous bird 

 various directions at varying distances o f tue passerine ^ribe. 

 within the limit of distinct vision. i BABIANA, a genus of South African 



ASTOMOUS, such mosses as have no aperture iridacese, with spikes of crocus-like flowers 

 in the theca are so called. and sword-shaped leaves ; so called by the 



ATHAXOR, an alchemic furnace which Dutch Boors from the fondness of the baboon 

 supplied itself with fuel. for their tuberous roots. 



ATHERMAXOUS, translucent or transparent BABINGTONITE, silicate of iron and lime, 

 bodies, which, though admitting the passage found iu Norway on albite and on Shetland 

 of light, obstruct that of heat. ! quartz in blackish green laminated crystals of 



ATTENDANTS, medicines which thin or vitreous lustre. 



dilute the blood. BACK. AND FILL, a mode of sailing by 



ATTRIBUTE, synonymous with " predi- ' which a vessel keeps in the centre of a 

 cate " in logic. Adjectives are called attri- : stream, and is carried by the current when 

 butives by some grammarians because of the wind is contrary. It consists of moving 

 their affirming or denying something con- ahead from one shore, and after crossing 

 cerniug that to which they are applied. ' the current moving back into it from th 



ATTRIBUTES, in art, those symbols by ; opposite shore. 



which character or rank is indicated in the: BACULlTES.afossilgenusoftetrabranchiate 

 delineation of a figure ; such as the orb in ' cephalopoda, with straight-chambered shells 

 the hand of a king, Ac. with sinuous partitions and margins lobaied. 



ATTWOOD'S MACHINE, a machine used : They differ irom the Orthocemtite?, and are 

 in illustrating the laws of uniformly: by the peculiarity mentioned allied to the 

 accelerated motion, consisting of a pulley j Ammonites. 



whose pivots are rested on wheels for the BADISTER, a genus of coleopterous insects, 

 purpose of reducing the friction of rota- ! consisting of carnivorous beetles belonging to 

 tion. ! the Harpalidse. 



AULA REGIA, a court of law established BAGRATIOXITE, a variety of Allanitc, so 

 by William the Conqueror, aud subsequently ! called after Count Bagratiou. 

 regulated by Magna Charta, latterly merged | BAIKAI.ITE, a crystalline sahlite found at 

 in the Court of Queen's Bench. ! Lake Baikal, Siberia, at the mouth of the 



AURA, the element in the particles of river Sljuuianka. 



pollen in which the power of fertilising has j BAL-EXICEPS, an African bird found near 

 been supposed to reside. j the "White Nile, with a robust broad bill 



AUI:IPIGMEXTUM, "gold paint," a name terminated by a strong hook, lower mandible 

 given to yvllow sulphide of arsenic. truncated at the tip, and very slron? wings. 



ACTHK.NTIC MtLODirs, those melodies the BALANCE OF ROBERVAL, an invention of 

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