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AGROSTOGRAPHIA,/ fignifies the hiftory or de- 
fcriptionof graffes. See Grass. 
AGROUND, adv. [from a and ground. ] Stranded; hin¬ 
dered by the ground from palling farther.—With our great 
ihips, we durft not approach the coafl, we having been all 
of us aground. Raleigh. —It is likewife figuratively ufed 
for being hindered in the progrefs of affairs; as, The ne- 
gociators were aground at that objection. 
AGRYPNIA,/! among phyficians, implies an inapti¬ 
tude to fleep ; a troublefome fymptom of feverifli and other 
diforders. 
Agrypnia, in the Greek church, implies the vigil of 
any of the greater feflivals. 
AGUE,/! [aigu, Fr. acute.] An intermitting fever, 
with cold fits iucceeded by hot. The cold fit is, in po¬ 
pular language, more particularly called the ague, and 
the hot the fever. See Medicine. 
Ague-cakf., f. the popular name for a hard tumor on 
the left fide of the belly, lower than the falfe ribs, faid to 
be the effect of intermittent fevers. 
AGUED, ati/. Struck with an ague; fhivering; chill; 
cold : a word in little life. 
AGUE-FIT,/. The paroxyfm of the ague. 
Ague-proof, adj. Proof againlt agues; able to refift 
the caufes which produce agues, without being affeCted. 
Ague-tree,/, a name given to thefalfafras, onaccount 
of its febrifuge qualities. 
AGUEPERSE, a town of France, fituated on the Ly- 
onnois, about fifteen miles north of Clermont. 
AGUILLANEUF, or Augillaneuf, / [from the 
French a, to, gui, mifleto, and l-an neuf, the new year.] 
A form of rejoicing ufed among the ancient Franks on the 
firft day of the year. Its origin is traced from a druid- 
ceremony : the priefts ufed to go yearly in December, 
which with them was reputed a facred month, to gather 
mifleto of the oak in great folemnity. The prophets 
marched in the front, linging hymns in honour of their 
deities ; after them came a herald with a caduceus in his 
hand; thefe were followed by three druids a-breaft, bear¬ 
ing the things neceflary for i'acrifice; laft of all came the 
chief or arch druid, accompanied with the train of peo¬ 
ple. The chief druid, climbing the oak, cut off the 
mifleto with a golden fickle, and the other druids received 
it in a white cloth; on the firft day of the year it was dif- 
tributed among the people, after having blefled and con- 
fecrated it by crying A gui Van neuf, to proclaim the new 
year. This cry is ftill continued in Picardy, with the ad¬ 
dition of Planlez, Plantez , to wilh a plentiful year. In 
Burgundy and fome other parts, the children ufe the fame 
word to beg a new year’s gift. Of latter times the name 
aguiltaneuf was alfo given to a fort of begging, praflifed 
in fome diocefes, for church tapers, on new year’s day, 
by a troop of young people of both fexes. It was attend¬ 
ed with various ridiculous ceremonies, which occafioned 
the fynodsto fupprefs it. 
AGUILLAR, a town of Spain, in the province of Na¬ 
varre, about twenty-four miles of Eftella. 
AguILLAR del Campo, a town of Old Caftile, with 
♦he title of marquifate, about fifteen leagues north of the 
city of Burgos. 
AGUILON or Aquilon (Francis), was a Jefuit of 
Brulfels, and profelfor of philofophy at Douai, ^uid of 
theology at Antwerp. He was one of the firfi that intro¬ 
duced "mathematical ftudies into Flanders; and he wrote a 
large work on Optics, which was publilhed in folio, at 
Antwerp, in 1613; and a Treatife of Proje&ions of the 
Sphere. He promifed alfo to treat upon Catoptrics and 
Pioptrics; but this was prevented by his death, which 
happened at Seville, in the year 1617. 
AGUIRRA (Jofeph Saenz de), a Benediftine, and one 
of the mod learned men of the feventeenth century. He 
was cenfor and fecretary of the fupreme council of the 
jnquifition in Spain, and interpreter of the fcriptures in 
the imiveiiity of Salamanca, He printed three volumes 
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in folio Upon Philofophy, a Commentary upon Ariftotle’s 
ten books of Ethics, and other pieces. He died at Rome 
Auguft 19, 1699. 1 
To AGUISE, v. a. [from a and guife. ] To drefs; ta 
adorn ; to deck : a word not now' in ufe. 
AGUISH, adj. Having the qualities of an ague : 
So calm, and fo ferene, but now, 
What means this change on Myra’s brow ? 
Her agiti/h love now glows and burns, 
Then chills and (hakes, and the cold fit fit returns. 
Granville. 
AGUISHNESS, f. The quality of refembling an ague. 
AGUE,/ in botany, a fynonime of the liedyfarum. See 
Hedysarum. 
AGUR. The xxxth chapter of the Proverbs begins 
with this title : “ The words of Agur, the foil of Jakehj” 
which, according to the fignification of the original terms, 
may be tranflated, as the Vulgate has it, Verba congregate 
tis, filii vomentis-, which tranllation Le Clerc condemns, 
fuppofing thefe to be proper names, which ought not to 
be tranflated. Thefe words are rendered by Louis de Dieu, 
“ The words of him who has recollefted himfelf, the fon 
of obedience.” The generality of the fathers and com¬ 
mentators will have it, that Solomon defcribes himfelf un i 
dcr the name of Agur the fon of Jakeh; others conjec¬ 
ture that Agur, as well as Lemuel (in chap. xxxi. 1.) 
were wife men who lived in the time of Solomon, and 
were his interlocutors in the book of Proverbs; an opi¬ 
nion which F. Calmet thinks is without the lead fliow of 
probability, this book being nothing like a dialogue. 
This lad dxpofitor thinks it probable, that Agur was an 
infpired author different from Sulomon, whole fentences 
it was thought fit to join with thofe of this prince, becaufe 
of the conformity of their matter. 
AGURAH,/. in Jewifh antiquity, the name of a (liver 
coin, otherwife called gerah and kefnita. 
AGURIUM, or Agyrium, anciently a town of Sicily, 
in the Val di Dernona, near the river Semetus. The peo¬ 
ple were called Populiis Agyrinajts by Cicero ; Agyrinus 
by Pliny. It was the birth-place of Diodorus Siculus, as 
he himfelf teftifies; but he calls it Argyrium, as it is now 
called S. Philippo d’Argirione, which modern name feeins 
to confirm that Argyrium is the true reading. 
AGUSADURA,y] in ancient cuftoms, a fee due from 
vaffals to their lord for the fnarpening their ploughing 
tackle. Anciently the tenants in fome manors were not 
allowed to have their rural implements (harpened by any 
but whom the lord appointed ; for which an acknowledg¬ 
ment w'as to be paid, called agufadura , in fome places agu- 
fage: which fome take to be the fame with what was 
otherwife called rcillagc, from the ancient French reillc, a 
plough (hare. 
AGUTI, f. in zoology, the trivial name of a fpecies of 
the moufe, belonging to the mammalia glires of Linnaeus, 
See Mus. 
AGYEI, f. in antiquity, a kind of obelilks, facred to 
Apollo, erected in the veftibles of houles, by way of fe- 
curity. 
AGYNEIA,y. [a, priv. and yvvrt, a wife.] In botany, 
a genus of the inonoecia monadelphia clafs, ranking in the 
natural order of tricoccae. The generic characters are— 
Male flowers below the female. Calyx: lix-leaved; leaf¬ 
lets oblong, obtufe, equal, permanent. Corolla: none. 
In the male, inftcad of filaments, a column Ihorter than 
the calyx ; three or four anthers;, oblong, growing to the 
column below the top. In the female flowers, germ of the 
fize of the calyx, fubovate, obtufe, perforated at top with 
a fix-notched hole ; neither flyle nor fligma. Pericarpi» 
um : fuppofed to be a tricoccous capfule.— EJJential Cha- 
ratler. Calyx fix-leaved ; corolla none. Male. Anthersp 
three, growing to the rudiment of a ftyle. Female. Gerrn 
perforated at top : without flyle or Itigma.—It is very diiV 
tin£t in the want of a flyle or fligma. 
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