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Aidan, in the feventh century, wasbiffiop of Lindis- 
farne, or Holy Ifland, and was originally a monk in the 
monaftery of Hii, or Jona, one of the illands of the Hebri¬ 
des. At the requeft of Ofwald, king of Northumberland, 
he came into England in the year 634, and undertook to 
inftrudt that prince’s fubjedts in the knowledge of the 
Chriftian religion. Ofwald was (lain in battle, and Aidan 
continued to govern the church of Northumberland, un¬ 
der his fuccelTors, Ofwin and Ofwi, till Ofwin was trea- 
cheroufly murdered, and Aidan l'urvived him but twelve 
days ; he fat fixteen years, and died in Augufl, 651. 
AIDANCE,/! Help; fupport: a word little ufed. 
AIDANT, adj. [aidant, Fr.] Helping; helpful: not 
in ufe. 
A ID-DE-CAMP, f. in military affairs, an officer em¬ 
ployed to receive and carry the orders of a general. 
AIDER, f. He that brings aid or help; a helper; an 
ally. 
AIDLESS, adj. [from aid and le/s, an infeparable par¬ 
ticle.] Helplefs; unfupported ; undefended. 
AID-PRAYER, f. in law, is a word made ufe of in 
pleading, for a petition in court to call in help from ano¬ 
ther perfon that hath an filtered in the thing contefled. 
As tenant for life, being impleaded, may pray in aid him 
in the reverfion; that is, defire the court that he may be 
called by writ, to allege what he thinks proper for main¬ 
tenance of the right of the perfon calling him, and of his 
own. F. N. B. 
AIDS, /! inlaw, were originally mere benevolences, 
granted by the tenant to his lord, in times of difficulty 
and diffrefs ; but in procefs of time they grew to be con- 
fidered as a matter of right, and not of difcretio.n. Thefe 
aids were principally three :—x. To ranfom the lord’s per¬ 
fon, if taken prifoner. 2. To make the lord’s elded Ton a 
knight. 3. To marry the lord’s elded daughter, by giving 
a fuitable portion. The aids for making the elded fon a 
knight, and for marrying the elded daughter, were fixed 
by adt of parliament at 20s. being the fuppofed twentieth 
part of every knight’s fee. The aid for ranfoming the 
lord’s perfon was in its nature uncertain and incapable of 
being afcertained. 2 Blackjl. 64. 
Aids, in the manege, are the fame with what fome wri¬ 
ters call chcrijhings, and ufed to avoid the neceffity of cor¬ 
rections. The inner heel, inner leg, inner rein, &c. are 
called inner aids ; as the outer heel, outer leg, outer rein, 
See. are called outer aids. 
A 1 GHENDALE, f. the name of a liquid meafure ufed 
in Lancalhire, containing feven quarts. 
ATGLE, a bailiwick in the territory of Romand, in 
Switzerland, confids of mountains and valleys, the prin¬ 
cipal of which are the Aigle and Rex.- Through thefe 
is the great road from Vallais into Italy. When we pals 
by Villencuve, which is at the head of the lake of Gene¬ 
va, we enter into a deep valley three miles wide, border¬ 
ed on one lide with the Alps of Switzerland, and on the 
other with thofe of Savoy, croffed by the river Rhone. 
Six miles from thence we meet with Aigle, a large town, 
feated on a wide part of the valley, where are vineyards, 
fields, and meadows. The governor’s cadle is on an emi¬ 
nence that overlooks the town, and has a lofty marble tow¬ 
er. This government has nine large parifltes ; and is di¬ 
vided into four parts, Aigle, Bex, Olon, and Ormont. 
Tins lad is among the mountains, and joins to Rougemont. 
It is a double valley, abounding in padure-lands. Ivor- 
na, in the didriCt of Aigle, was in part buried by the fall 
of a mountain, occafioned by an earthquake, in 1584. 
Aigle, a imall town, in France, in Upper Normandy, 
twenty-three-miles from d’Evereux, and thirty-eight from 
Rouen. It is furrounded with walls and ditches, has fix 
gates, three fuburbs, and three parifltes. It trades in 
corn, toys, and more particularly in needles and pins. 
Lat. 48.35. N. Ion. 1.5. E. 
AIGU ESC AU DES, a place in the department of the 
Lower Pyrenees, remarkable for a warm fpring, the wa¬ 
ders of which are oily, faponaceous, and fpirituous; they 
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have a foetid fmell, and are ufed both outwardly and in¬ 
wardly. 
AIGUEMORTES, a town in the department of the 
Mouths of the Rhone. It formerly flood near the fea, and 
had a harbour ; but this is choaked up, and the fea has re¬ 
tired two French leagues from the town, leaving it in a 
morafs. Lat. 43. 34. N. Ion. 4. 3. E. 
AIGUII.LON, a fmall town of France, in the province 
of Guienne, fituated at the conflux of the rivers Garonne 
and Lot. 
AIGU 1 SCE, in heraldry, denotes a crofs with its four 
ends dtarpened, but To as to terminate in obtnfe angles. 
It differs from the crofs fitchee, in as much as the latter 
tapers by degrees to a point, and the former only at the 
ends. 
AIGULET,/! [ aigulet , Fr.] A point with tags; points 
of gold at the end of fringes. 
To AIL, v. a. [eglan , Sax. to be troublefome.] To pain; 
to trouble ; to give pain.—And the angel of God called 
to Hagar out of heaven, and faid unto her. What ailetk 
thee, Hagar? fear not: for God hath heard the voice of 
the lad where he is. Gen. xxi. 17.— It is ufed in a fenfe lefs 
determinate for to afieft in any manner; as, Something 
ails me that I cannot fit dill; What ails the man that l>e 
laughs without reafon ? To feel pain ; to be incommo¬ 
ded. It is remarkable, that this word is never ufed but 
with fome indefinite term, or the word nothing-, as, What 
ails him ? What does he ail? He ails fomething ; he ails no¬ 
thing. Something ails him; nothing ails him. Thus w r e ne¬ 
ver fay, A fever ails him, or He ails a fever, or ufe defi¬ 
nite terms with this verb. 
An.,/. A difeafe. 
AILAH, thought to be the Elath mentioned in Scrip¬ 
ture, a fmall town of Arabia Petriea, on one of the north 
bays of the Red Sea, near the road which the pilgrims 
take from Egypt to Mecca. 
AH. ANT HUS, f. [from the Amboina name Aylanto, 
which dignifies the tree of heaven; To called from its lof¬ 
ty growth.] In botany, a genus of the polygamia monoe- 
cia clafs, but placed by Schreber in the dioecia decandria 
clafs. The generic characters are—I. Male. Calyx: pe- 
rianthium one-leafed, five-parted, very fmall. Corolla: 
petals five, lanceolate, acute, convolute at the bade, fpread- 
ing. Stamina; filaments ten, compreffed, the length of 
the corolla; antherae oblong, verfatile. II. Female. Ca¬ 
lyx: as in the male, permanent. Corolla: as in the male. 
Pidillum: germs 3—5, curved inwards; flyles lateral; 
fligmas capitate. Pericarpium : capfules as many as there 
are germs, compreffed, membranaceous, fabre-fliaped, 
acute, on one of the edges emarginate. Seeds: folitary, 
lens-lhaped, bony, clofe to the emarginature. III. Her¬ 
maphrodite. Calyx: as in the male and female. Corolla: 
as in the male. Stamina: filaments two or three, as in the 
male. Pidillum, pericarpium, and feed, as in the female." 
—EJfential CharaEler. Male. Calyx five-parted ; corolla 
five-petalled ; flamina ten. Female. Calyx and corolla as. 
in the male ; germs 3—5 ; flyles lateral ; pericarpium 
membranaceous, one-feeded. Hermaphrodite. Calyx and 
corolla as in the male; flamina 2—3. 
There is but one fpecies, which is called ailantlnis glan- 
dulofa, or tall ailanthus. This tree rifes with a flraight 
trunk to the height of forty or fifty feet; the bark is grey, 
flightly furrowed, and has white marks on it;, the young 
twigs are covered with a fine velvet down. Leaves large, 
fmooth, alternate, unequally pinnate, difpofed horizontal¬ 
ly. Flowers very numerous ; they exhale a difagreeablc 
odour. The alianthus grows very fad in our climate ; and, 
being a handfome tree riling to a conliderable height, is 
proper for ornamental plantations. The wood is hard, 
heavy, gloffy like fat tin, and fufceptible of a very fine po- 
liffi. " Before the fructification was known, this tree puffed 
for a fpecies of rhus ; and it is memorable among us for 
the difpute it occafioned between Mr. Ellis and Mr. Mil¬ 
ler, which is recorded in the Philofophical Traniaitions. 
The latter contended that this tree was the faji-no ki, or 
fpurious 
