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A D E 



Geometrician!; fpeak of additive ratios ; aflronomers of ad- 

 ditive equations, &c. 



Additive nilio is iifed, by fome writers, for that whofe 

 tenns are difpofed to addition, that is, to coinpolition, in 

 oppoiition to fiiltrafl'ive ratio, whofe terms are difpofed to 

 fubtraition, ;. c. to divifion. Pliil. Trarif. N" 257. 



Suppofe the line ac divided in the points b and .v, 

 a b X c 



the ratio between a b and b x is additive ; becaufe the 

 terms a b and b x compofe the whole a x. But the ratio be- 

 tween ax and bx is fubtraftive, becaufe ax and bx differ by 

 the line ab. 



AnoiTivE equal'ions, in yljlronomy, thofe which are to be 

 added to the fun's mean axomalv, in order to find the true 

 one. See Equation. 



ADDIX, in ylnUqiiily, a meafure of capacity in Afia 

 and Ej^ypt. vSee Piloc. 



ADDIXIT, or Addixerunt, was the word by which 

 they txprelTed the favourable augur of the facred birds. For 

 an unfavourable augur, a negative was annexed. 



ADDOUBORS, m Laiv. See Reiiubeors. 



ADDRESS, in a general fenfe, is ufed for ikill and good 

 management, and of late has been adopted from the 

 French, and is ufed in genteel phi-afe, and alfo in Com- 

 nurce, as fynonymous with direiftion to a perfon or place. 

 The word is formed of the French verb addrcjfer, to dinli 

 any thing to a psrfon. 



Address, means alfo a difcourfe prefented to the king, 

 in the name of a confiderable body of his people ; to exprefs 

 or notify their fentiments of joy, fatisfatlion, or the like, 

 on fome extraordinar)' occafion. 



AVe fay, the lords addrefs, the commons addrefs. — Ad- 

 dreffes were firft fet on foot under the adminlllration of Oli- 

 ver CromweU. — At Paris, their office of intelligence was 

 commonly called bureau d^addrejfe. 



Address, in Rhelorlc. See Apostrophe. 



ADDUCENT Mufdes, or Adductors, in Anatomy, 

 are thofe which bring forward, clofe, or draw together, the 

 parts of the body whereto they are annexed. 



The word is compoimded of ad, to ; and ducers, to drwo), 

 er Iring. 



Adducents, or adduftors, Hand oppofed to abducent, or 

 abduftors. 



ADDUCTION, in Anatomy, the motion or aftion of 

 the adducent mufcles, or adductors. 



ADDUCTOR bre-o'is femoris. See Triceps. 



Adductor longus femoris. See Triceps. 



Adductor niagnbs femoris. See Triceps. 



Adductor Octili arifes from the inner fide of the fora- 

 men opticum, between the obhquus fuperior and depreffor, 

 and is inferted into the globe of the eye oppofite to the in- 

 ner angle. It is from its fituation the fliortefl of the four 

 ftraight mufcles of the eye. It will turn the eye towards 

 the nofe. 



Adductor OJfis metacarpi minimi diglti manus, mctacar- 

 fhis of Winflow, arifes from the os uncifonne, and the 

 ligament of the wrift, and is inferted in a tendinous form, 

 into the inner fide and front of the metacarpal bone of the 

 little finger. It will bring the metacarpal bone of this fin- 

 ger towards the reft, and will bend it. 



Adductor minimi diglti pedis, arifes from the infide of the 

 metatarfal bone of the httle toe, and is inferted into the infide 

 of the root of the firft joint of the httle toe. It wiU bend 

 the firft joint of the little toe, and draw it inwards. 



Adductor poUlcis manus, has a broad fielhy origin from 

 the whole length of the metacarpal bone of the middle fin- 

 ger : its fibr« are collcfted togetherlo be inferted tendinous 



into the inner part of the root of the firft bone of the 

 thumb. It will pull the thumb towards the fingers. 



Adductor poUicl: pedis, the antlthenar of Winfiow, arifes 

 by a long tendon from the os calcis, from the os cuboidcs, 

 from the os cuneiforme externum, and from the metataifal 

 bone of the fecond toe. It is inferted into the external fe- 

 famoid bone of the great toe. Its uie is to bring the great 

 toe towards the other toes. 



Adductor projlatte, a name given by Santorini to a muf- 

 cle, which he alfo calls levator proJlat<f, and which Winllow 

 cslh prq/Intlcus fuperior. Albinus, from its office, had veiy 

 properly called it comprejj'or projlatir. 



ADDUS, in Ancient Geography, a tovi'n of Paleftine in 

 the tribe of Judah. 



ADDYME, a town of Africa, placed by Ptolemy in 

 Mauritania Ccefarienfis. 



ADEA, in Geography, a diftricT; of Abyffinia, called alfo. 

 Hade A. 



ADEC, in Commerce, the name of a large Egyptian 

 weight, ufed principally for rice, and confilling of 2 10 okes, 

 each of three rotolos, a weight of about two drams lefsthan 

 the Englifti pound. But this is no certain weight : for at 

 Rofetta, the adeb is only 15c okes. Pococke, Egypt. 



ADEBA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Hifpania 

 Tarragonenfis, placed by Ptolemy among the lUcrcaonea. 



ADEBAREA, in Geography, a defert, hilly diftricl of 

 Abyffinia, called the countiy of the Slaves, as being in the 

 vicinity of the Shangalla. 



ADEDUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Arabia 

 Felix, on the borders of the Red Sea, placed bj'- Ptolemy 

 in long. 72° 15'. and lat. 17° 10'. among the CalTaniti. 



ADEGE^I, in Geography, a town of Flanders, five leagues 

 eaft of Bruges. 



ADEL, a kingdom on the eaftern coaft of Africa, fo 

 called from its metropohs, and Zeila from an eminent fea- 

 port, fituated to the fouth of the Red Sea, the Straits of 

 Babelmandel and Cape Guardefui, and has tlie Indian ocean 

 on the eaft, on the fouth the kingdoms of Magadaxo and 

 Adea ; and on the weft the country of the Gallas, or the 

 kingdoms of Dancali, Dawaro, Bali, Fatigar, and other 

 diftrifts of Abyffinia. The exact extent of this kingdom 

 is not known ; but it is fuppofcd fi-om eaft to weft to 

 be about 160 leagues, and trom north to fouth aboiit 

 72 leagues. The interior part of Adel is very imperfeft- 

 Iv-defcribed. The principal places in it are Adel the capi- 

 tal and royal refidence, fituate in tiie inland country, near 

 the river Hawafti, about 300 miles fouth of^, Mocha, N. lat. 

 8^ 5'. E. long. 44° 20'. ; Aflcm, a fmall town on the eaft- 

 ern coaft, which furniffies provifions for mariners, but has 

 no haven ; Cape Guardefui to the north of Affi;m ; Meta 

 on the northern coaft near the river Soal, Barbora and 

 Zeila. Some geographers have mentioned other cities in this 

 kingdom, vi%. Aran, Bali, Doara, Comizara, Novorata, Soccl 

 and Auffiigurella, fituate on a high hill in the centre of the 

 kingdom. The whole coaft to the fouth-eaft is defart. This 

 kingdom is faid to have been founded by a prince of Abyf- 

 finia, called Salatru, who, efcaping from the prifon in which 

 the princes of the blood are confined in that country, took 

 refuge in the province of Adel, and mari-)-ing the daughter 

 of the king of Zeila, eftablifhed himfelf in the pofleffion 

 of thefe united kingdoms. Of all the enemies, with whom 

 the Abyffinians have had occafion to contend, the kings of 

 Adel have been the moft powerful and inveterate : and, in- 

 deed, the hiftory of this kingdom confifts principally of de- 

 tails of alternate defeats and viftories. The Adclians being 

 Mohammedans, and the Abyffinians Chriftians, a mutual 

 aniraofity has fubfifted between them ; and the rancour has 



increafed 



