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Reftificd fplvit is employed, for the dilute or proof fpirit, 

 thoiigti it dillolvcs more ot the gum, makes a tiir'oid ("oluiiuii ; 

 wliereas the tiiirturc with thi.- former fpirit is quite clear. 

 It may he given in d'lfes of from ten to fixty drops. Tiie 

 iiiulurii Fiilij^in'is of the former Pharmacopoeia, now dif- 

 ufed, was made with wood foot, adafcEtlda, and proof fpirit ; 

 but the foot ii properly omitted, as it does not appear to 

 add to the virtue ot the medicine, and necdlef^lv increafcs 

 its naufeous odour. 



Spirilus /Ininionit^ fuliu'us (P. I^ond. and Kd.), prepared by 

 dilliUing the fpirit of ammonia with alfafa'titla, wliereby it 

 is llrongly impregnated with tlie peculiar odour. 



P'duU- C iillnim cr.vfpojili! (P. Lond.), compofed of fcveral 

 luating and gravcolent gums, viz. gai'uanum, opopopaiiax, 

 myrrh, f^gapenum, and alfafoilida. The proportion of the 

 latter is one-ninth of thr w hole. 



Pilulie /lju--fal'uld' cor}ipoj'tie,\'jymtr\\ PUuliT gUmmofit{V .VA.), 

 compofed of aflafa?tida, myrrh, and galbanum, of each one 

 ounce, and one drachm of oil of amber. 



I'.mpLijlrum Afic-JiLUtI.e, formerly Kmplnjlrum atifU^yflcr'uum 

 (P.Ed.), compoicd ot litharge plailer and aflatu;tKia, of 

 ti.ch two parts, and of yellow wax, and llrained galbanum, 

 of each one part. 



The fmcU of alfafcctida, and along with it its peculiar 

 virtues, are liable to be lolt and injured by long and carelefs 

 keeping, but a conhderable latitude may be allowed in the 

 dofing, without much danger of riik or injury to the patient. 



Kcempferi Amenit. Lxoticx Murray Appar. Med. — 



Bergii Mat. Med.— Ph. Tranfact. vol. 75, &c. 



ASSAI, in Geography, a town of Japan, in the province 

 of Oomi or Omi. 



AssAi, in ftaUan, is an adverb of augmentation gene- 

 rally in the fiiperlative degree, which is added to another 

 mufical term to increafe its force : as Prejlo ajfui. Allegro 

 ajfat, very quick ; Lan^o ajjdi, very ilovv. 



ASSAILANT, one that aflaults or fets upon another. 

 Sec Assault. 



ASSAM, in Gfsgraphr. See Asam. 



ASSAN, a town of Afia, in the province of Diarbekir, 

 forty miles from Uiarbek. 



ASSANCALE, a ftrongly fortified town of .\rmcnia, 

 on the river Aras, turrounded with walls, and guarded by 

 towers and a garritoned citadel, in the road to Erzeron, 

 and a (hort day's journey from it. It has hot-baths that 

 are much frequented. 



ASS.'^NUS, in Andaii Geography, now Iipr, a river of 

 Africa, in Mauritania C^jfarienfis, which by its junftion 

 with other rivers formed the ancient Slga, or prcfcnt 

 Tofiia. 



ASS.-VPOORY, in Natural Hijlory, a name given by 

 the people of the Eall Indies to a peculiar fpeeies of flate, 

 which they ufed in medicine, reducing it to powder, and 

 flrcwing this on burning coals, that the fick pcrion may rc- 

 ctive the fumes of it. It is principally ufed for children, 

 Avhen they are dilordered by taking cold. The fmell of it 

 while burning is very offcnfive. 



ASSAR, in Geography, a river of Abyffinia, which is 

 the fouthern boundaiy of Aroossi, a'! Kelti is the northern. 

 This is the largelt river which Mr. Bruce law, exci.pl the 

 Nile ; it was about 170 yards broad, and two feet detp, 

 running over a bed of large Hones, though generally through 

 a flat country ; its courfe is rapid, and after much rain it is 

 fcarcely paflable, owing to the height of its fource in the 

 mountains ofthe Agows. Its courfe wtiire Mr. B. forded it, 

 was from fouth to north ; but it foon turned to the nortli- 

 ealt, and, after flowing five or fix miles, joined the Nile. 

 Btluw the ford is a catarad above tw«nty feel hi^h, and 



eighty broad. The whole river falls in an undivided fheet 

 of water with incre^hble violence and noife ; but below this 

 cataract it becomes much naiTower, till it lofes itfelf in the 

 Nile. Bruce's Trav. vol. iii. p. 562. 



ASSARA, in Ancient Geography, a river of Africa in 

 Mauritania Coefarienfis. Ptolemy. — Alfo, a place of Afia, 

 in the department of Mefopotamia. — Alfo, a river of 

 Afia, which dilcharged itftlf into the Mediterranean, in the 

 gulf well of the great promontory. Ptolemy. 

 ASSARAB.ACCA. See Asarabacca.' 

 ASSARAC'yE, in Ancient Geography, a people of Africa, 

 in tlie interior Libya, placed by Ptolemy eall of mount 

 Araiiga. 



ASS.VRIUM denotes a fmall copper coin, being a part 

 or diminutive of the as. 



The word is uied by Siiidas indifferently with o?'Ao;, and 

 yrjiu<rij.r., to denote a fmall piece of money ; in which he ie 

 followed by Cujacius, who defines sss-s-Kf^;, by minimus <iris 

 nummus. 



The alfarium, or imperial as, was worth one half-penny 

 Englifh. This divilion of the as began to be called aflarium 

 as loon as its fize was reduced to half an ounce, and it was 

 then always ftruck on copper. Its fize regularly correfponded 

 to that ofthe dupondius, and declined till at the clofe of the 

 reign of Gallienus, it became what is called fmall brafs, 

 and weighed only about the eighth part of an ounce. In 

 the time of Dioclefian, it was about the twentieth part of 

 an ounce ; and in that of Juflinian, it was the fame with 

 'ki-'icc, lepta, or the fmallelt coin excepting the ki\mx, noumia. 

 The Greek affarion kept pace with the Roman. Pinker- 

 ton's E(f. on Medals, vol. i. p. i 2 i . 



We find mention of the affarion in the gofpel of St. Mat- 

 thew, chap. X. ver. 29. 



ASSARLI, in Geography, a town of European Turkey, 

 in the province of Romania, forty-four miles E. S. E. from 

 Filippopoli. 



ASSARON, an ancient Jewifii meafure of capacity^ 

 equal to the tenth part of x\\t ephah. E.xod. xvi. 16. 



The affaron is the fame with what is more frequently 

 called omer, or gomer. 



Jofephus calls it iT3-z;o» ; in the Hebrew it is alfo \yritten 

 ajfarith. Calmet and Arbuthnot. 



ASSART, AssARTUM, (derived either from ajfartir Fr. 

 to make plain, or as Spelman fuppofes from csertum, pulled 

 up by the roots, for it is fometimes written ejfart), in Law, 

 an offence committed in the forelf, bv pulhng up by the 

 loots, woods which ferve as thickets and covert for the deer, 

 and making them plain as arable land. This is the greaieft 

 trefpafs that can be committed in the foreft, being mere 

 tlian a walle. For whereas waile of the forell is but the 

 felling and cutting the coverts, which may grow again ; 

 affart is a total extirpation. \Vhat we call affartum, is clft- 

 \^-here termed dijl'jfcatio. 



Assart was alio uled for a paixel of land affarted. See 

 Essart. 



AssART-ren// were thofe formerly paid to the crown for 

 forcil-lands affarted. Stat. 22. Car. II. c.6. See Rent. 



ASSASI, in Ichthyology, a fptcies of BALiSTESlhat in- 

 habits the Red Sea. The body is muricated with brown 

 warts ; and a triple row of black ones on the tail. Forlk. 

 Arab. Length about fix inches, brown, belly. white, vent 

 black fuiToundid by a fulvous ring. The flelh of tliis kind 

 is eatable but infipid. 



ASSASSINS, ill Ancient Geography and Hijlory, tlie 

 name of a people of Phoenicia, who inhabited the mountains 

 of Libanus, to the north-eall of the city of Tyre, and who 

 pretended to derive |heir origin from tke family of the 



Arfacid*, 



