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of e^^o uro, tu uris, tile urit, Isfc. we fay, I do burn, thou 

 do/l burn, he tlotb burn, &c. 



The verbs have, be, iviH, and do, when they are uncon- 

 ncfted with a principal verb, exprtflcd or underftood, are 

 not auxiharies, but principal verbs; as, we /^aw enough ; 

 I am grateful ; he tvilts it to be fo ; they do as they plcafe ; 

 and in this view, they aifo have their auxiliaries ; as, IJhall 

 have enough ; I iviU be g.ateful, ficc. Mun-ay's Eng. 

 Gram. p. 76. 



AUXILIUM, inZ-flw. SeeAiD. 



AuxiLjuM curitt, fignifies an order of court, for the 

 fummoning of one party at the fuit of another. 



AuxiLiJM adjilium tnilitem faciendum, 'velJUiam marilan- 

 dam, was a writ dircfled to the fhcrifF of every comity, 

 where the king or other lord had any tenants, to levy of 

 them reafonable aid, towards the knighting of his cldtlt 

 fon, or the marriage of his eldeft daughter. 



AUXIMA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Spain, men- 

 tioned by Florus. 



AUXIMIS, a town of Africa, in Mauritania C^farienfis. 

 Ptolemy. 



AUXIMUM, or AuxvMUM, OsiMO, a town of Italy, 

 in the Picenum, foutli of Ancona. It was a Roman co- 

 lony. 



AUXO, in Mythology, the name of one of two graces 

 worihipped by the Athenians. See Hegemone. 



AUXORS, in Geography, a name given before the late 

 divilion, to a territory of France, of which Semuren-Auxois 

 was the capital. 



AUXON, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Aube, and chief of a canton in the diftrict of Ervy ; 4! 

 leagues fouth of Troves, and 1 4 north of Ervy. 



AUXONNE, a town of France, ixi the department of 

 the Cote d'Or, and chief place of a canton, and ieat of a 

 tribunal, in the diftricl of St. Jean de Lofne, feated in a 

 plain near the eafl fide of the Saone. It is lurrounded by 

 a double wall built in the 17th century, and has a bridge 

 of 23 arches over theSoane, fcrving for the paflage of the 

 waters when the river overflows ; and at the end of the 

 bridge is a caufcway of 2250 paces in length ; 5j leagues 

 E.S.E. of Dijon. N. lat. 47°ii'24". E. long. 5^ 23' 35". 



AUXY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 ftraits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in the diltricl 

 of Montreuil ; three leagues S. S. E. of Hefdin. 



AuxY, in the French Mamifadurcs, a name given to that 

 fort of wool which is fpun in the neighbourhood of Abbe- 

 ville, by thofe workmen who are called houpiers. It is a 

 very fine and beautiful wool, which is commonly ufcd to 

 make the fineft (lockings. 



AUZ AGUREL, or Aus s AG u R E L, in Gra^ra/^jf, a town 

 of Afi!ca, in the kingdom of Adtl, reckoned by lome the 

 capital, and lituated on an eminence near the Hav\afh. See 

 Apel. 



AUZANCE, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Creufe, and chief place of a canton, in the ditlrid of 

 Evaux, feated on a hill, furrounded with por.ds ; 25 miles 

 E. S. E. of Gueret, and nine fouth of Evaux.. 



AUZARA, OsARA, in ylncient Geogr^nly, a town of 

 Afn, in Syria; or according to Ptolemy, 1:1 /:■ rabia Defcrta, 

 S. S. E. of Circcfiura ; fituated on the wiReni bank of the 

 Euphrates. 



AUZATA, AuzA, or Auzia, a rown of Libya, built 

 according to Jofephus, in his " A' tujiiities," by Ithobaal, 

 king of the Tynans ; fituaied, ae ording to Ptolemy, in 

 the interior of Mauritania C^fmiKnl'is, to the eaft of a lake 

 from which flowed the nvcr C>unaiaph. It was the capital 



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oF the Aufes, who were fituated to the weft of the river 

 Triton. Tacitus iiifurmi us, rhat it was built in a fmall 

 plain, furrounded on all fides with barren forefts of immtnfe 

 extent. The ruins of this city were called bv the neigh- 

 bouring Arabs " Scur Guflan," or «« the walls of the An- 

 telopes ;" a great part of which, flanked at proper diftances 

 with little fquare towers, is (till remaining. 



AUZILy, in Geography, a town of France, in ihe de- 

 partment of the Aveiron, and cliief place of a canton ia 

 tlie dillrift of Albin ; 15 miles north-weft of Rhodcz. 



AUZON, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Upper Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the diHrift of 

 Bnoude, on the Ailier, fix miles north of Brioude. 



AUZOUTj AuRiA.N, in Biography, a French mathe- 

 matician of the 17th century, and one of the liril members 

 of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, was bom at Rouen, 

 and died in 1693. Some have afcribcd to him the honour 

 of liaving invented the Micrometer; but he is morejuft'.y 

 entitled to the praife of having contributed to the improve- 

 ment of it, ia purfuaiice of the ideas fuggefted by M. 

 Huygens, and the marquis of Malva/:a. (See Microme- 

 ter.) Auzout's treatifc on this fubjeft was pubHfhcd in 

 1667, and may be found in the Memoirs of the Academy 

 for 1693, torn. vii. Auzout was alfo concerned with M. 

 Picard in the important dilcovery of the method of apply- 

 ing the tclcfcope to the quadrant, which has been highly 

 ufcful to allronomers. It has been faid, particularly by M. 

 de la Hire, that M. Auzout had a principal part in this dif- 

 covery ; but from the defcription given of it by M. Picard, 

 in his " Figure de la Terre," the reader cannot hefitate in 

 pronouncing M. Picard himfelf to have been the original and 

 fole author. It appears, however, from fev-ral fragments 

 of letters in a correfpondence between our ioijcnious but 

 unfortunate countryman Mr. Gafcoignc, who was killed in 

 the battle of Marilon-Moor, and Me!Trs. Horrox and Crab- 

 tree, and which are recorded by Derham, in the Phil. Tranf. 

 for 1723 (vol.48, p. 190.}, that the method of conftruAing 

 a micrometer, and alfo of applying telcfcopic fights to qua- 

 drants, was known to him before ihe time of the civil wars. 

 But as thefe two important dilcoveries were not pubhfhed 

 even in England, and were not likely to be made 

 known on the continent at this early period; it is not 

 improbable that Auzout and Picard might alfo have a juil 

 claim to the honour of being original, though not the firft 

 inventors. The honour of having difcovercd the method of 

 applying the telcfcope to aftronomical inllruments in the year 

 1665, was alfo claimed by Dr. Hooke. ^L Auzout pubr 

 hihcd " An Ephemeris of the Comet of 1665 ;" " A 

 Letter to the Abbe Charles on the Obfer\ations of Cam- 

 pani," in 1665; his " Treat ife on the Micrometer," in 

 1667; and fome " Remarks on the Machine of Hooke." 

 Thele three lall pieces were contained 111 the 6th volume of 

 the Memoirs of the Academy. Montucla, Hill, Mathem. 

 t. ii. p. 569—572. 



AW, ill Geography, a town of Germany, id the county 

 of Bregentz, 25 miles S. E. of Brcgeiitz, 



AWA, a town of Japan, in a province of the fame 

 name. — Alio, a town of l\rlja, in the province of Irak; 

 28 leagues fuuth of Cafhin. 



AWAIT, in our old Slatulet, is ufed to fignify what we 

 now call waylaying, or lying in ivait, t« execute fome raif- 

 chief. lu Hat. 13 R. II. c. i. it is ordained, that no char- 

 ter of pardon (hall be allowed before any juftice, for 

 the death of any man (lain by u-wait, or malice prepenfcd, 

 &c. 



AWARD, in Laiu, the judgment of fome perfoa who 



