Aavora

( Bot.) The fruit of a species of palm-tree, which grows in the West Indies and Africa. It is of the size of a hen's egg, and included with several others in a large shell. In the middle of the fruit there is a hard nut, about the size of a peach-stone, which contains a white almond, very astringent. Ab, a prefix to words of Latin origin. It signifies from, a separating or departure. Ab, the eleventh month of the civil year of the Hebrews, and the fifth of their ecclesiastical year, which begins with the month Nisan. It answers to the moon of July, that is, to part of our month of July and to the beginning of August; it consists of thirty days. Aba, or rather Abou Hanifah or Hanfa, surnamed Alnooma, born in the 80th and died in the 150 year of the Hegira. He is the most celebrated doctor of the orthodox Mu ulmans, and his sect is the most esteemed of the four which they severally follow. Aba, Albou, or Avon, a king of Hungary, elected in 1041; was murdered by his own soldiers in 1044. Aba, a mountain in Armenia, part of Mount Taurus. where the famous rivers Araxes and Euphrates have their rise. Ab'abde, a tribe of Bedouins who inhabit the country south of Ko eir, nearly as far as the latitude of Derr. Many of this race have settled in Upper Egypt, but the greatest part of them still live like Bedouins. Their savage neighbors, the Bisharye, inhabit the mountains southwards from Derr. Their women are said to be as handsome as those of Aby in i a, but are reported to be of very depraved habits. Ababdeh, Ababde, or Ababidek, a people of eastern Africa, the descendants of the ancient Nubians, scattered throughout Nubia, and between the borders of the valley of the Nile and the Red Sea, but located chiefly from lat. 23° to the western border of Lower Egypt. They are small-limbed, but well formed. Their complexion is very dark; their features, however, are more European than negro. Abaca, or Manilla hemp. See PLANΤΑΙΝ. Abacis'cus. ( Arch. ) One of the squares of a te ellated pavement. Aback', adv . [A.S.] ( Naut .) The situation of the sails when they are pre ed against the masts by the force of the wind. Thus, the sails are said to be "taken aback," when, by a change of wind or otherwise, they are placed in that position. Ab'aco, a long and crooked island, the largest of the Bahama groups, near the Florida coast, 80 miles long, by an average of 15 wide. Its N. point is in lat. 26° 30′ N., long. 76° 57′ W. Pop. 1,900, (Little Abaco adjoining included.) The sailor's landmark, "Hole in the Wall," is a perforation in the rock on the S.E. point.