A U B 
4. Aubletia lsevis : leaves quite entire, fmooth on both 
fides j fruit rough, depreffed. This is a tree of a middling 
fize, its trunk being from ten to twelve feet in height, and 
eight or ten inches in diameter, with a fmooth, thin, green- 
ill), bark: the wood is white, tender, and fo light, that the 
trunk may eafily be carried in one hand: the branches 
fpring from the top ; both they and the twigs are fmooth, 
fpreading every way, and pendulous. Leaves ovate, acu¬ 
minate, green on both fides, on fliort petioles. Stipules in 
pairs, fhort, deciduous. Flowers in racemes oppolite to a 
leaf. Corolla greenilh. Native of Guiana; flowering and 
bearing fruit in the month of May. 
AUBONDAN'GE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meurte, and chief place of a canton, in the 
didrift of Chateau-Salins: two miles fouth of Morhange, 
and fix north-north-eaft of Chateau-Salins. 
AUBON'NE, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of 
Bern. It is fituated near a river of the lame name, feven 
miles north of the lake of Geneva, upon an eminence' 
which has a gentle declivity, at the foot of which runs the 
river with an impetuous torrent. The town is built in the 
form of an amphitheatre; on the upper part of which Hands 
a very handfome callle with a fine court, and a portico 
fupported by pillars of a fingle Hone each ; above there is 
a covered gallery that runs round the court; and, as the 
callle Hands high, there is a mod delightful profpeft, not 
only of the town and neighbouring fields, but of the whole 
lake of Geneva and the land that furrounds it. At Tlion- 
en, in Savoy, on the other fide of the lake, is a town co¬ 
vered with tin, which makes a glittering appearance when 
the fun is in a certain pofition; and the caHle of Aubonne 
has likewife a tower of the fame kind, which at certain 
hours makes a limilar appearance to the Savoyards. The 
balliage of Aubonne contains feveral villages, which are 
mofily at the foot of the mountain Jura. In one part of 
this mountain there is a very deep cave, wherein thofe that 
go down find a natural and perpetual ice-houfe. At the 
bottom is heard a great noife like that of a fubterraneous 
river, which is fuppofed to be that of the river Aubonne, 
becaufe it firfi appears, with feveral fources, about 100 pa- 
ces from the foot of that mountain. Lat. 46. 31. N. Ion. 
24. o. E. Ferro. 
AU'BOURN is a final 1 town in the county of Wilts, on 
the borders of Berklhire, difiant from London eighty-one 
miles. It Hands on a branch of the Kennet, in a rural and 
pleafing fituation. On the 12th of September, 1760, it 
differed a mod dreadful conflagration, having feventy-two 
houfes, and efleets to the amount of 20,000!. dedroyed by 
fire. A public fubfcription was opened for tire unfortu¬ 
nate fufferers, which extended through a conliderable part 
of the kingdom, and produced a very feafonable relief. 
It was formerly a trading town of fome note, and had a 
good market on Tuefdays; but, owing to the fire, and the 
fubfequent decay of its trade, the markets have been dif- 
.continued for fome time pad; yet it carries on a conlide¬ 
rable trade in the manufafture of fudians. A11 born is 
eight miles fouth of Swindon, and feven ead of Marlbo¬ 
rough. 
AU'BREY (John), a famous Englifh antiquary, de¬ 
fended from an ancient family in Wiltlhire, was born in 
1626. He made the hi dory and antiquities of England his 
peculiar dudy, and contributed conliderable adidance to 
the famous Monadicon Anglicanum. He fucceeded to 
feveral good edates; but law-fuits and other misfortunes 
confumed them all, fo that he was reduced to abfolute 
want. In this extremity he found a valuable benefaftrefs 
in the lady long, of Draycot in Wilts, who gave him an 
apartment in her houfe, and fupported him to his death, 
which happened about the year 1700. He was a man of 
capacity, learning, and application; a good Latin poet; an 
excellent naturalid, but fomewhat credulous, and tinctu¬ 
red with fuperdition. He left many works behind him. 
He wrote, 1. Mifcellanies. 2. A Perambulation of the 
County of Surrey, 5 vols. 8vo. 3. Life of Mr. Hobbes, 
cf Malmlbury. 4. Monumnta Britanniat j or Stonehenge, 
A 0 C SAT 
and Roll-Rich-dones in Oxforddiire. 5. Architeftonica 
Sacra ; and feveral other works dill in manufcript. 
AU'BU RG, a town of Germany, in the circle of Wed- 
halia, and county of Diepholtz : dx miles ead of Diep- 
oltz. 
AU'BURN, adj. [from aubour, Fr. bark.] Brown; of 
a tan colour.—-Her hair is auburn, mine is perfeft yellow. 
Shake/peare. 
Lo, how the arable with barley grain 
Stands thick, o’erlhadow’d ; thefe, as modern ufe 
Ordains, infus’d, an auburn drink compofe, 
Wholefome, of deathlefs fame. Phillips, 
AUBUS'SAN, a town of France, and chief place of 4 
didrift, in the department of the C re ufe : fourteen leagues 
wed of Clermont, and fix fouth-ead of Gtieret. Lat. 45. 
58. N. Ion. 19. 52. E. Ferro. 
AU'CA, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Candahar, 
forty-five leagues north-ead of Zareng. 
AUCAGUERE'LE, a town of Africa, in the country 
of Adel. 
AUCH, a city of France, and capital of the depart¬ 
ment of Gers. Before the revolution it was the capital of 
Armagnac, and fee of an archbifliop, who had the title 
of primate of Aquitaine, and was the metropolis of all Gal- 
cony, with a revenue of 125,000 livres. The cathedral 
was edeemed one of the mod beautiful ip all France. It 
Hands on a mountain near the Gers, eighty-nine pods fouth 
of Paris. Lat. 43. 38. N. Ion. 18. 14. E. Ferro. 
AU'CHEN,/! [from to be proud.] The neck, 
which in the podure of pride is made diff and ereft. 
AUCH'MUS,/ [from avu, to be dry.] Squalor; heat 
from extreme drynefs. 
AUC'TION, \_auElio, Lat.] A fpecies of public fale, 
very much in ufe for houfehold furniture, books, plate, 
&c. By this method of fale the liighed bidder is always 
the buyer. This was originally a kind of fale among the 
ancient Romans, performed by the public zt\zx,fub hajia , 
i.e. under a fpear duck up on that occadon, and by fome 
magidrate, who made good the fale by delivery of thegoods^ 
To Auction, v. a. To fell by auftion. 
AUC'TIONARY, adj. Belonging to an auftion : 
And much more honed to be hir’d, and Hand 
With auciionary hammer in thy hand, 
Provoking to give more, and knocking thrice 
For the old houfehold duff, or picture’s price. Dryden. 
AUCTIQNE'ER,/ The perfon that fells by, or ma¬ 
nages an, auction. 
By the law, no perfon exercifing the trade or bufinefs of 
an auctioneer or feller by commidion, at any fale of any 
edate, goods, or effects, whatfoever, by outcry, knocking 
down of hammer, by candle, lot, parcel, or any other mode 
of fale at auction, or whereby the highed bidder is deem¬ 
ed to be_the purchafer, or who Oiall aft in fuch capacity, 
fhall prefume to deal in, vend, or fell, any edate, goods, 
oreffefts, whatfoever, by public fale, or otherwife, by way 
of auftion, without taking out a licence; which, if it is 
within the bills of mortality, dial! be granted by the com- 
miflioners of excife, or fuch perfon as they fhall appoint; 
and el few he re by the collectors and fupervifors, within 
their feveral collections and didrifts, under their hands 
and feals. 19 Geo. III. c. 56. $ 3. In which licence diall 
be fet forth the name and place of abode of the perfon ta¬ 
king out the fame. And for the faid licence, if it is with¬ 
in the limits of the chief office of excife in London, whe¬ 
ther the fame be granted for felling by way of auftion with¬ 
in the faid limits, or in any other parts of England and 
Wales, fhall be paid the fum of 20s. and elfewhere 5s. 
over and befides any other duties or payments for trading 
in or vending any gold or diver plate, or otherwife. And, 
if any perfon fhall aft without fuch licence, he fhall for¬ 
feit iool. if it is within the bills; and elfewhere, 50I. And 
the faid licence fhall be renewed annually, ten days at lead 
before the expiration of the former. And, at the fame 
time 
