Aume

A Dutch wine-measure.-See AAM. Au'mery, n. See ALMONRY. Au'mont, ( dmawng,) JEAN D', B. 1522. In 1579, Henry III. created him a marshal of France, and in 1589 he was appointed by Henry IV. governor of Champagne. He was at the battles of Arques and Ivry, and was afterwards governor of Bretagne, where he had to cope with the Leaguers under the Duc de Mayenne. He was killed at the siege of Quimper, in 1595, after having served six kings of France, viz., Francis I., Henry II., Francis II., Charles IX., Henry III., and Henry IV. Aums'ville, in Oregon , a post-village of Marion co. Aun'cel-Weight, n. A rude scale or balance for weighing, formerly used in England. Meat sold by the hand without weighing by scale. Aune, ( on ,) n. [Fr. aune ; O. Fr. aulne , aine , from Lat. ulna , elbow, ell; Gr. ölënë , elbow, armful.] A French cloth measure, of different lengths; that of Rouen being the same as an English ell; that of Paris, 0-95. These are now superseded by the mêtre . See ALNAGE. Au'nis, a ci-devant prov. of France, now forming, with Saintonge, the department of Charente-Inférieure. Au'noy, MARIE CATHERINE JUMELLE DE BERNEVILLE COMTESSE D', B. 1650, was the author of Contes de Fées (Fairy Tales), and among them The Yellow Dwarf, The White Cat , and Cherry and Fair Star , which, in their day, met with great succe in France. Her style was easy and agreeable, but verbose. Her tales are often founded on fact. The critic cannot pardon the insipid gallantry of many of her heroes. But that was the fashion of the time. Many of these pictures have been translated into English, and are eagerly read by school-boys. D. 1705. Aunt, ( änt ,) n. [O. Fr. ante; Fr. tante ; Lat. amita .] A father's or mother's sister; correlative to nephew or IMG:content-0419.png:[graphic] 2. A flower, with calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. 3. An ovary cut through transversely. 4. A calyx and pistil. lent, indehiscent fruit, imbricated petals, free or nearly free stamens, and dotted leaves. They are trees or shrubs, almost always smooth, and filled everywhere with little transparent receptacles of volatile oil. Leaves alternate, articulated with the petiole; sepals 3-5, united into a short, urseolate or campanulate cup; petals 3-5; stamens, as many as the petals, or some multiple of their number, in a single row, hypogynous; ovary compounded of several united carpels; style 1; fruit, a berry (orange), many-celled, pulpy, covered with a thick rind; seeds attached to the inner angle of each carpel. Citron worts are almost exclusively found in the E. Indies, whence they have spread over the rest of the tropics. The wood is universally hard and compact; the leaves abound with a volatile, fragrant, bitter, exciting oil; the pulp of the fruit is always more or le acid. The Orange, Lemon, Lime, Shaddock, Pompelmoose, Forbidden Fruit, and Citron, all Indian fruits, are the most remarkable products of the order, which includes 20 genera and 95 species, cultivated in all civilized countries for their beauty and fragrance, both of flowers and fruit. The genus citrus is the most important.