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ARM ( 426 ) A R N to adore the Holy Ghofl: pand that Jefus is not equal Pafs of Arms, a kind of combat, when anciently two to God the Father. or more cavaliers undertook to defend a pafs againft ARMIRO, a town of European Turky, in the province all attacks. ofThefTaly, fituated in 230 3c/ E. long. Arms of armories, in heraldry, marks of honour borne ARMOISIN, a filk (luff, or kind of taffety, manufac- upon fhields, banners, and coats, in order to diftintured in the E. Indies, at Lyons in France, and Lucca guifti ftates, families, and perfons. See Heraldry. in Italy. That of the Indies is flighter than thofe Charged Arms, are fuch as retain their ancient integrimade in Euiope, ty, with the addition of fome new honourable bearARMONIAC, or Ammoniac, a volatile fait, of which ing. there are two kinds, ancient and modern. The ancient Canting, or vocal Arms, thofe in which there are fome fort, defcribed by Pliny and Diofcorides, was a native figures alluding to the name of the family. fait, generated in thofe large inns or caravanferas, where Full, or entire Arms, fuch as are not conformable to the croud of pilgrims, coming from the temple of Jupi- the rules of heraldry. ter Ammon, ufed to lodge; who, in thofe parts, travel- Arms, in falconry, the legs of a hawk from the thigh ing upon camels, and thofe creatures when in Gyrene, to the foot. a province of Egypt, where that celebrated temple ARMUYDEN, a fea-port town of the illand of Zet. flood, urining in the /tables, or, fay fome, in the land, fituated at the mouth of the canal of Middleparched fands, out of this urine, which is remarkably burg, in 20 35/ E. long, and 510 30' N. lat. ftrong, arofe a kind of fait, denominated fometimes, ARMY, a large number of foldiers, confiding of horfe from the temple. Ammoniac^ and fometimes, from the and foot, completely armed, and provided with artilcountry, Cyreniac. Since the ceflation of thefe pil- lery, ammunition, provifions, <bc under the comgrimages, no more of this fait is produced there; and, mand of one general, having lieutenant-generals, maRom this deficiency, fome fufpeiSt there was never any jor-generals, brigadiers, and other officers under him. fuch thing: But this fufpicion is removed, by the large An army is compofed of fquadrons and battalions, and quantities of a fait, nearly of the fame nature, thrown is ufually divided into three corps, and formed into out by mount ./Etna. The charaflers of the ancient three lines ; the firft line is called the van-guard, the fal armoniac are, that it cools water, turns aqua fortis fecond the main body, and the third the rear-guard, into aqua regia, and confequently diffolves gold. or body of referve. The middle of each line is pofThe modern fal armoniac is entirely fadlitious, and fefied by "the foot; the cavalry form the right and left made in Egypt; where feveral long^necked glafs bot- wing of each line ; and fometimes they place fquatles, being filled with foot, a little fea-falt, and the drons of horfe in the intervals between the battalions. urine of cattle, and having their mouth luted with a When the army is drawn up ih order of battle, the piece of wet cotton, are placed over an oven or fur- horfe are placed at five feet diftance from eafch other, nace, contrived for the purpofe, in a thick bed of and the foot at three. In each line the battalions are afhes, nothing but the necks appearing, and kept there diftant from each other one hundred and eighty feet, two days and a night, with a continual ftrong fire. which is nearly equal to the extent of their front; The fleam fwells up the cotton, and forms a pafte at and the fame holds of the fquadrons, which are about the vent-hole, hindering the falts from evaporating ; three hundred feet diftant, the extent of their own which, being confined, flick to the top of the bottle, front. Thefe intervals are left for the fquadrons and and are, upon breaking it, taken out in thofe large battalions of the fecond line to range themfelves acakes, which they fend to England. Only foot ex- gainft the intervals of the firft, that both may more haled from dung, is the proper ingredient in this pre- readily march through thefe fpaces to the enemy: the paration ; and the dung of camels affords the ftrongeft firft line is ufually three hundred feet diftant from the and beft. See Chemistr.y. fecond, and the fecond from the third* that there may ARMORIAL, fomething relating to arms, or coats of be fufficient room to rally, w'hen the fquadrons and arms. See Arms. battalions are broken. ARMORY, a warehoufe of arms,, or a.place where the This is to be underftood of a land army only. A military hal iliments are kept, to be ready for ufe. naval, or fea army, is a number of ffiips of war, eArmory, is alfo a branch of the fcience of heraldry, con- quipped and manned with failors and mariners, under fiding in the knowledge of coats of arms, as to their the command of an admiral, with other inferior offiblazons and various intendments. See Heraldry. cers under him. See Navy. ARMOUR denotes fuch habiliments*-, as ferve to defend ARNAY-LE-DUC, a town of Burgundy in France, fithe body from wounds, efpecially of darts, a fword, tuated on the river Arroux, in 40 E. long, and 47' a lance, &c. A complete fuit of armour formerly N. lat. confifted of a helmet, a fhield, a cuirafle, a coat of ARNHEIM, a large city of Guelderland, in the United mail, a gantlet* &c. all now laid afide. Netherlands, fituated on the river Lech, about 10 • ARMOURER, a perfon who makes or deals in arms miles north of Nhneguen, in 50 5c/ E. long, and and armour. " 52 ° N. lat. ARMS of eourteJ)i or parade, were lances not Ihod, ARNICA, in botany, a genus of the fyngenefia poly{words without edge or point, eirc. ufed in the an- gamia fuperflua clafs. The receptacle of the arnica is cient tournaments. See Tournament, naked j it Las a fimple pappus; and the filamentsfive,., are
