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Tsrirtles to tlie amia, anil one to the legs, fouiul on tlic 

 exiivi^ of infefts in moill phccs : emditus, with the firll 

 pail- of legs veiy thick, and clawed, and the fecond having 

 two vei7 long bridles at their apex, found in books that are 

 kept in moill places : olauda, with the hinder part of the 

 anus emarginated, found on the Ahuula arvnifis : ^ramimm, 

 red, with the legs of the firfl: pair very long, and the iiinder 

 part of the abdomen jagged, found on the leaves of gralfes : 

 appenii'iciilatus, fubgloboie and crimfon-colourcd, with lonn- 

 legs of a paler hue, and the hinder legs longer, found 

 under tlie lichen pulmonnnus : ivVw, ovated, fetoie and red, 

 with equal legs and feveral bridles, found fwiftly ru:ininor 

 on the vine : pigei; red, with paler legs, and the hinder part 

 of the abdomen furnifhed with fmall bridles, found upon 

 mofs : denticuhilus, with four teeth to the anterior part of 

 the body, found imder garden-pots : tejlmlineus, with a 

 fmooth abdomen, lodged in the foil at the commencement 

 of fpriiig : nd'L-ns, red, ovato-oblong, with iubequal legs, 

 fonnd under mofs: pm^nans, red, globofe and verv fmootii, 

 fcarce vilible to the naked eye, found in the foil in fpring : 

 mi'fci, corneous, haiiy and black, found on mofs : limiicum : 

 fvlionim, ovated, greenidi, and naked, with all the 

 legs equal, found on the leaves of various plants in 

 fummer : putrefcenlhf, ovated, greenidi, and bridly, with 

 vmequal legs, found in the earth : cardudis, ovated, greenidr 

 and blackilli, naked, with unequal inflated legs, found jon 

 the frin^dln : cocchieiis, ovated and of a crimfon-colour, 

 with a rtrait body, lodged on various infefts : vegetans, 

 crudaceoiis, brown, emarginated and convex, and plain 

 beneath, found on various infefts of the coleoptera order : 

 fainbitci, red, with pale legs and feelers, with long bridles 

 fcattered over the body and legs, found flowly moving on 

 the leuves of the black elder: nwjinrum, found on the mtij'ca: 

 acarorum, hemifpheric, pale-coloured and fmooth, with 

 equal legs, found on the ncarus crajjlpes : card'maUs, ovated, 

 downy and red, black below between the legs, and fur- 

 nilhed with an ovated black fcutellum, found on nlodes 



m the grove adjoining to the Hague. Aridotle, (Hid. 



Anim. 1. V. c. 32. Oper. tom. i. p. 857. Ed. Du 

 Val.) mentions the acarus bred in wax, as the lead objeft 

 of human fight. Thefe infedts, which arc often very 

 troublefome on plants and in hot-houfes, may be effeftually 

 dedroyed by the mixture recommended for dedroylng thofe 

 on the PifiE-app/e. The following mixture will be alfo 

 equally efRcacious : Take two ounces of foft green foap, 

 one ounce of common turpentine, and one ounce of flowers 

 of fulphur ; pour upon thefe ingredients a gallon of boiling 

 water, and work the whole together with a wliift, and let 

 the mixture be ufed wami. This mixture may alfo be of 

 ufe for preventing the mildew on the peach and apricot. 

 However, this method fliould never be praftifed on fiuit- 

 trees near the time when their fruits are ripening. A drong 

 ley made of wood-allies will likewife deflroy the Acan ; 

 but plants are greatly injured by this, and other briny and 

 fpirituous compofitions. The Acari may be alfo dedroyed 

 in plants, by brufliing them with a common painting brufh, 

 by often dulling them with flowers of fulphur, by keeping 

 a hot-houfe in a moid date, by dipping the tops of plants 

 frequently in clear ^^•ater in which flowers of kilphur and 

 to^bacco have been infufed, in the hot fummer months, and 

 ahvays keeping the hot-houfe clean. 



Acarus is the name given by Brown (Jam. 41S.) to 

 the Vxjttx penetrans of Linnxus. It is alio a fpecies of the 

 Trichoda, in the order of Infusoria, and clafs of 

 Worms. 



ACASABASTIAN, in Geoxraph, a river in the pr6. 

 vince of Vera Paz, in Mexico, whole I'ourcc is not far from 



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llic South Sea, whicii runs into the C.xifo Dolce. There 

 is a town of the fame name fituatcd on its l<;uiks. 



ACASATHULA, a fea-port fituattd on a point of 

 land, in the province of Guatimah Proper, in McxiiO. oil 

 a biy of the South Sea, about four leagues from Trinidad. 

 It receives the grcatcft part of the treafnres from Pern and 

 Mexico. Tlicre are three volcanos in its vicinity. N. Lat. 

 12° 50'. W. Long. 93'. 



ACASTA, m Entomology, a fpecies of Papilio, found 

 in India, with roundilh wings, having five tranfverfe fpotc, 

 and brown apices, and the under part yellow. 



AcASTA, in Mythol'gy, one of the nymphs, callcdOcEASl- 



DFS. 



ACASTUS. in Clajtcal Hlflary, the fon of Pelias king 

 of Theflaly, and one ofthe mod famous hunters in his time. 

 He married Atalanta, according to Suidas, or Adydamea, 

 as his annotator calls her, who, failing in love with Peleus 

 her for.-in-law, and not having her wilhes gratified by him, 

 acculed him to her luifliand of a rape ; upon which he made 

 waragainil Acallup,and llew his wife. Suidas, tom. i.p. 365. 



Ac A ST I- s, in En'omrd'jgy, a fpecies of Papilio, with 

 black wings, the fore-wings having a fnowy band, and the 

 hinder green beneath, marked with yellow ridges ; found 

 in Surinam. It is alfo a name given by Ci-nmer to the 

 Papdio Phidias. 



ACATALECTIC, Acatalecticus, formed of the 

 privative a. and x.o^a'Kmlmo:, from xa1a^ll'•)iJ, to ceafe or end, 

 in the Ancient Poetry, a term applicable to fuch versrs as 

 have all tlieir feet and fyllahles, and are in no refpeA lame 

 or defcdlive at the end. In the following ftrophe of 

 Horace, the two firll verfes are acatale^ie, and the h,i\cata!eai;: 

 Solvitur acris hycnu, grata vice 

 Veris isf Favuni : 

 Irahuntquejiccas mach'mtt carinas 



ACATALEPSIA, Acatalepsy, compounded of the 

 privative « and xxTaXajiWavw, dcprchendo, to find out, in Phdo- 

 fophy, an impoflibillty of a thing's being conceived or com- 

 prehended. 



Acatnhpfia is fynonymous with incomprehenfibility. 



AC AT ALUS, in Bolim)>,-A juniper berry. 



ACATASTATOS, formed of a and xxSiri^, conjijlo, in- 

 eonjlant, is a phyfical term, anciently applied to irregular 

 fevers, whofe paroxyfms are uncertain, and which are indi- 

 cated by frequent changes in the urine. It is likewife ap- 

 plied to thofe fliivering fits in fever':, which have no conftant 

 return, and to turbid urine, that depofits no regular fediment. 



ACATECHILI, or Acatechichictli, in Ornitho- 

 logy, the Fringilla Mexicaua of Gmelin, and the Mexi- 

 can Siskin of Latham, is about the fize of the filkin, and 

 has the fame fong, and feeds on the fame fubdances. Its 

 head and the upper part of its body are a greenidi brown, 

 and the throat and under part white, fliaded with yellow. 

 Its Mexican name Acatechichiaftli, fignifies the bird that rubs 

 itfelf againd the reeds, and may allude to fome of its habits. 



ACATERY, orAcCATRY, in the king's houfehold, a 

 kind of check betwixt the clerks of the kitchen and the 

 purveyors. 



ACATHARSIA, of a and y.a5ai,-i., to cleatife, in Me- 

 dicine, denotes an impurity of the blood or humours. 



ACATHISTUS, aw-^^ro:, in an ecclefuijlieal fenfe, a fo- 

 lemn hymn, or vigil, anciently fiuig in the Greek church 

 on the Saturday ofthe fifth week in Lent, in hopouv ofthe 

 Virein, for having thrice delivered Conftantinople from the 

 invafions of barbarous nation.^. 



It was called axaOij-o,-, i. e. ivilhovl fitting, becaufc it was 

 celebrated Handing : the people dood all night, finging tht 

 praifes of their deUverefs. The fame name is alfo given to 



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