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followers came to England. in 1100 ; but they were all of themput to death.

ARNOLDIS I S, in church history, a sect so called from theirloader.

ARNSTAOE or ARNSTADT, a town of Germany , inThuringia , 10 miles S. \Y. of Enforl.

AROBALIATCH 1, a river of North America , which falls intothe Mississippi .

AROBAS, AKOBE, or ARROBE, a weight used in Spain ,Portugal, Goa, Brazil, and in all Spanish America . The arobeof Madrid, and almost all over Spain, weighs twenty-five Spanish pounds.

AllOLEC, or AltOLEO, an American weight, equal totwenty-live pounds.

AROMA, is that part of odorous bodies which affects theorgans of smell, ami is supposed by some to be a peculiar prin-ciple.

AROMAIA, a province of New Andalusia, in South America ,on the Oroonoque.

AROMxYTA, in ancient geography, 1. a town of Lydia, fa-mous for its generous wines: and hence the appellation: 2. atrading town, and promontory of Ethiopia , at the termination ofthe Sinus Avalitcs of the Red Sea .

AROMATICS , an appellation given to such substances asyield a brisk fragrant smell, and a warm spicy taste, as all kind ofspices, Ac.

Aromatic wine, that in which aromatics have been infused.

ARON A, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Milan, on the lakeMaggiore . Eon. 8. 25. E. Eat. 45. 40. N.

ARONCHES, a town of Portugal, in Alentejo . Lon. 5. 10.tV. Eat. 14. 39. N.

ARONDE, in fortification. See Dovetail, and Queued'aronde.

AROOL, a town of Russia in the 1 Train, 200 miles S. ofMoscow . Lon. 3G. 40. E. Eat. 51.58. N.

AROSBA Y, a town of the East Indies, on the coast of theisland of Madura, near Java .

AROURA, a Grecian measure of 50 feet.

ARPAGILS, or I1ARPAGIUS, among the ancients, ac.hildwho died in the cradle, or in early youth. 'The word is formedfrom the Greek, a=r.^ai, I snatch.

ARPEGGIO, [Itah] in music, implies that the several soundsof an accord should be heard, not together, but one after ano-ther, beginning always with the lowest.

ARl’EN, or AltPENT, signifies an acre or furlong of ground,and, according to the old French account in domesday-book,100 perches make an arpent.

ARP1NAS, or ARP1NO, a town of Naples, in the terra diLuvora, 50 miles E. S. li. of Rome .

ARQUA, a town of Italy, in tiie Paduan, a territory of Ve-nice, 10 miles S. of Padua .

ARQUEBUSADE, in medicine, a kind of water originally ofFrench invention, recommended as useful in cases of gun-shotwounds, from whence it derives its name.

ARQUEBUSE, a hand gun.

ARQUES, a river of France, alsoa town of France , in the depart-ment of the Lower Seine, seated on the river 4 miles S.E. of Dieppe .

ARRACK, or HACK, a spirituous liquor imported from theEast Indies, used by way of dram and in punch. The word ar-rack, according to Mr. Lockyer, is an Indian name for strongwaters of all kinds; for they call our spirits and brandy English arrack. But what we understand by the name arrack, he affirmsis properly no other than a spirit procured by distillation from avegetable juice called toddy, which flows by incisions out of thecocoa-nut tree, like the b:rch juice procured among us. Thetoddy is a pleasant drink by itself, when new, but purges thosewho are not ua-d to it; when stale, it is headv, and makes goodvinegar. Tim English at Madras use it as leaven to raise theirbread with.

ARRAGON, a province of Spain , lying to the S. of the Pvre-nean mountains, it js 180 miles long, and i49 broad ; and is moun-tainous dry, sandy, ami stony, badly cultivated, and worse peopled.I he air is pure and wholesome; and there are mines of iron, andsome say of gold. Saragossa is the capital, and Ihe other chieftowns are Balbastro, Jaca, Sarazuna, llaesca, Calatajud, Albar-r uz:n, Trcvel, Daroca , and Boria.

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A R rag ox, a river in Arragon - .

ARRAGONTIE, a mineral li:xf found in Arragon . imho 1:1.Qin gypsum ; afterwards in the Pvrenees, and at S-d/burgh. Iteliervesces with acids, and from it-, resemblance lo appal to, Wer-ner is of opinion that it may contain a small portion of pho-phoin:acid ; but neither Klaproth nor Thenard have been able to delectin it any thing but lime and carbonic acid. Colour greenish andpearl-grey; in tiie middle often violet and green. Always cry s-talized in regular six-sided prisms. Fracture between imperfect,foliated, and fibrous, brittle; specific gravity,2. ti.

ARRAIGNMENT, in law, tiie arraiugning or selling a thingin order, as a person is said to arraign a writ of n >vci ui.-.seism,who prepares and tits it for trial. It is most properly used lo calla person to answer inform of law upon an indictment, he. at thesuit of tiie king. The arraingment is to take care that tiie prisonerappears to be tried, and hold up Ills hand at the bar for tiie cer-tainty of tiie person, and plead a sufficient plea to tiie indictment-The prisoner is to hold up his hand only in treason and felony ;hut this is only a ceremony : if he owns that lie is the person, itis sufficient without it; and then, upon his arraingment, his fet-ters are to he taken oil’. A prisoner under indictment of tiiehighest crime must be brought to the bar without irons, shackles,or bonds. This is the law ; hut lo tiie disgrace of our courts it isalmost wholly disregarded, and prisoners are generally tried intheir irons.

ARRAN, a mountainous island of Scotland , in die Frith ofClyde.

Arran, a town of Switzerland , sealed on the Aar, 25 milesS. W. of Baden.

Arran, north, an island of Ireland , on tiie coast of Donegal,in Ulster .

Arran, south isles of, three islands W. of Ireland , in tiiemouth of Galway Bay.

ARRANGEMENT, in music, is that extension, selection,and disposal of the movements and parts of a composition, whichfit and accommodate it to the powers of some instrument or in-struments for which it was not originally designed by the composer.

ARRAS, a city of France , in the department of the Straits of.Calais, 12 miles S. W. of Doway.

Arras, or Araxes, a river of Persia , in Georgia, which fallsinto the Caspian Sea .

ARRAY, in law, the ranking or setting forth of a jurv, orinquest of men impanneiled on a cause.

Array, battle, the order or disposition of an armv, drawnup with a view to engage tiie enemy.

ARREARS, the remainder of a sum due, or money remain-ing in the hands of an accountant. It signifies also, more gene-rally, the money that is due for rent, unpaid for land or houses;likewise what remains unpaid of pensions, taxes, or any othermoney payable annually, or at any fixed term.

ARREST , in civil cases, is a legal restraint of a person chargedwith some debt to an individual ; and, in criminal cases, lor somecrime against tiie state ; and it is executed in pursuance of tiiecommand of some court of record, or officer of justice. Cer-tain persons are privileged from arrests, as members of parliament,peeresses by birth, marriage, &c., . members of convocationactually attending them, ambassadors, domestic servants of am-bassadors, king’s servants, marshals, or wardens of the fleet,clerks, attornies or other persons attending the courts of justice,clergymen performing divine service, suitors, witnesses sub-poenaed, and other persons necessarily attending any court ofrecord upon business, bankrupts coining to surrender, withinforty - two days after their surrender, witnesses properlysummoned before commissioners of bankruptcy, or other com-'missioners of great seal; sailors and volunteer soldiers, unlessthe debt be 20/., officers of court, only where they are sued intheir rights, but not if as executors or administrators, nor in joint.actions. No writ, process, warrant, &c. (except for treason,felony, or for breach of tiie peace), shall be served on Sunday ;but a person arrested the day before, may be retaken cn the Sun-day. No person can be arrested out of a superior court, unlessthe cause of action be 10/. and upwards; an arrest must be bycorporal seizing, or touching tiie defendant. An officer cannotjustify breaking open an outward door or window to executeprocess, unless a stranger who is not of the family, .upon a pur-suit, take refuge in tiie house of another. The chamber of a3 S lodger