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ART (428 ) A R Z ARTEDIA, In botany, a genus of tbe p’ntandria di- drawn up in lines, of which one is formed by the gynia clafs. The involucrum is pinnatiiid ; the flof- guns; the ammunition-waggons make two'or three cules of the diflc are mafculine, and the fruit is rough. fines, fixty paces behind the guns, and thirty diltant There is only one fpecies, viz. the fcjuaraata, a na- from one another; the pontoops and tumbrils make tive of Libanium. the laft line. The whole is furrounded with a rope ARTEMISIA, fouthernwood, in botany, a genus of which forms the park; the gunners and matroffes enthe fyngenefla polygamia fuperflua clafs. The recep- camp on the flanks, and thebombardeers, pontoon-men, tacle is either naked or a little downy ; it has no pap- and artificers, in the rear. pus ; the calix is imbricated with roundilh fcales; ARTiLLERY-/r«z//z, a certain number of pieces of ordand the cbrolla has no radii. There are 23 fpecies of , nance, mounted on carriages, with'all their furniture artemilia, only 4 of which are natives of Britain, viz. fit for marching. the campeltris, or field-fouthernwood ; the maritima, Artillery-company) a band of infantry, confiding |of or fea-wormwood ; the abfynthium, or common worm- fix hundred men, making part of the militia or citywood ; and the vulgaris, or mugwort. The vulgaris, guard of London. or mugwort, is ufed both as a ffot-herb and as a me- ART1SCUS, in medicine. See.TROCHE. dicine ; the leaves are principally celebrated as uterine ARTOIS, a province of the French Netherlands, fituand antihyfleric. The leaves of the abfynthiura are. ated between Flanders and Picardy. -ARVALES fratres, in jRoman antiquity, a college of chiefly ufed as a bitter or ftomachic. ARTERIOTOMY, the opening an artery, with defign twelve priefts, inllituted by Romulus, who himfelf to procure an evacuation of blood. made one of the body: they affifted in the facrifices ARTERY, in anatomy, a conical tube or canal which of the ambervalia, offered annually to Ceres and Bac*. conveys the blood from the heart to all parts of the chus,- for the profperity of the principal fruits of the earth, viz. thofe of corn and wine. body. See Anatomy, Part III. ARTHRITIS, in medicine, the gout. See Gout, ARUBA, a fmall ifland on the coaft of Terra Firma,^ fubjedt 0to the Dutch, and fituated in 69° 3c/ W. long, and Medicine. ARTHRODIA, in natural hiltory, a genus.of imper- and 12 30' N. lat. fect cryftals, found always in complex inaiTes, and ARUM, in botany, a genus of the gynandria polyandria.^ forming long fingle pyramids, with very Ihort and dlafs. There are -22 fpecies of arum, only one of which, viz. the.maculatum, or water-robin, is a naflender columns. See Chrystal. Arthrodia, in anatomy, a fpecies of articulation, tive of Britain. The root of the maculatum is a wherein a flat head of one bone is received into a /hal- powerful flimulant and attenuant. low focket of another. ARUNCUS, in bqt*any, the trivial name of a fpecies of fpinea. SeeSpiRjEA. ART1CHOAK, in botany. See Cinara. ARTICLE, a claufe or condition of a contradt, treaty, ARUNDEL., a town of Suffex, fituated on a river of <bc. It is alfo a fmall part or divifion of a difcourfe, the fame name, in 3</ W. long, and 50° 4.5' N. lat. It gives the title of earl to the noble family of the a book, or writing, tec. Article, in grammar, a particle in moft languages Howards, and fends two members to parliament. that ferves to exprefs the feveral cafes and genders of ARUNDO, in botany, a genus of the triandria digynia nouns, when the language has not different termina- clafs. The calix confifts of two valves, and the flofnations to denote the different Hates and circumftances cules are thick and downy. There are fix fpecies of arundo, four of which are natives of Britain, viz. of nouns. See Grammar. ARTICULARIS morbus. See Gout, and Medi- the phragmitis, or common red-grafs; the calamogre/tis, or branched red grafs; the epigejos, or fmall cine. ARTICULATE founds are fuch founds as exprefs the red-grafs; and the arenaria, or fea red-grafs. letters, fyllables, or words of any alphabet or lan- ARUSPICES, or Haruspices, an order of prieflhood guage : fuch are formed by the human voice, and by among fhe Romans, that pretended to foretel future fome few birds, as parrots, foe. events by infpeding the entrails of vi6tims killed in faARTICULATION, in anatomy, denotes the juncture crifice; they were alfo confulted on occafion of porof two bones intended for motion. tents and prodigies. ARTIFICER, a perfon wh Te employment it is to jna- ARYTA1NOIDES, in anatomy, the name of two carnufadture any kind of commodity, as in iron, brafs, tilages which, together with others, ^conftitute the v/ood, foe. fuch are fmiths, weavers, carpenters, foe. head of the larynx. It is -alfo applied to fome muftles ARTIFICIAL, in a general ferife, denotes fomething of the larynx. See p. 300. made, fa/hioned, or produced by art, in contradiffinc- ARYTiENOIDEUS, in anatomy, one of the mufcles tion from the produdiions of nature> that dole the larynx. Seep., 301. ARTILLERY, large fire-arms, with their appurtenances, ARYTHMUS, in medicine, the want of a ju/1 modulaas cannons, mortars, bombs, petards, mufquets, tion in the pulfe. It is oppofed to eurythmus, a pulfe carabines, foe.' See Cannon, Mortar, Gun- modulated agreeably to nature. nery. ARZILLA, a fea-port town of the empire of Morocco, Artillery-/^^, the place in the rear of both lines lituated about 150miles fouth of Tangier, in 50 40 in the army, for encamping the artillery, which is W. long, and 35 4c/ N. lat. AS,