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Title: A London encyclopaedia, or universal dictionary of science, art, literature and practical mechanics : comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge : illustrated by numerous engravings, a general atlas, and appropriate diagrams
Year: 1829 (1820s)
Authors: Curtis, Thomas, fl. 1820
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries Aeronautics
Publisher: London : Thomas Tegg
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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arms which produce no-thing else, that bring in the value of 80,000crowns yearly. The Spaniards of Peru are saused to this pepper, that they dress no provisionswithout it. Long. 70° 15 W., lat. 18° 26 S. ARICONIUM, a town of the Silures, a nationof the ancient Britons, now called Hereford.Long. 2° 42 W., lat. 52° 4 N. ARID, ) Lat. aridus, from arco. Dry,Aridity. S parched, burnt up. His hardend fingers deck the gaudy spring,Without him summer were an arid waste. Thomson.Salt taken in great quantities will reduce an ani-mal body to the great extremity of aridity or dryness.Arbuthnot on Aliments.ARIDAS, a kind of taffety, manufactured inthe East Indies from a shining thread obtainedfrom certain herbs, whence they are styled aridasof herbs. ARIDED, or Auidef, in astronomy, a fixedstar of the second magnitude, in the extremityof the swans tail. It is also called Hierezimand Adigege. ARIDULLAM, in natural history, a kind ofzarnic found in the East Indies. See Zaknic. ill M;;i 1 II hi h
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ARIES. 663 ARIDURA, in physic, a dryness or want ofmoisture. The word is also used by some for anaridity, or consumption; by others, for an hecticfever; and more frequently by modern writers,for a wasting of some single member of the body,in which sense it amounts to the same with whatis called withering. ARIEGE, a river of France, which rises inthe Pyrenean mountains, and running by Foixand Pamiers falls into the Garonne. Gold-dustis found amongst its sands. ARIEL, a name of Jerusalem, so called fromits warlike force. ARIERE-BAN, a term used for the procla-mation of war by the ci-devant kings of France. ARIES, Lat. the ram; one of the twelvesigns of the zodiac; the vernal sign. Aries, in artillery, a battering-ram, or a mili-tary engine with an iron head, much in useamong the ancients to batter and beat down thewalls of places besieged. Of this there were threekinds; the first rude and plain, and no moreperhaps than a great beam, which the soldiersbore in their arms, and with one end

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