aqueduct, aquseduct, aqueduct us, aqunductus (aque = akwe)

[Fr. aqueduc, aquéduc; Sp. & Port. aqueducto Ital. a qui dot to, Lat. aque duct us aquæ duct us = a leading or conducting of water; duco = to lead.] A. ( Of the English forms aqueduct, * aquæduct): In a general sense any artificial channel for the conveyance of water from place to place; but the term is generally limited to an artificial IMG:content-0679.jpg:[graphic][subsumed][merged small] IMG:content-0680.jpg:[blocks in formation] capital during its palmy days; whilst there were many more in the provincial parts of the empire. Magnificent ruins of some of these still remain the best of them in the Campagna around Rome; the others, in portions of France, Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece, Asia, and Africa, once occupied by important cities and towns. Aqueducts are rare in this country; the most notable one being the great aqueduct recently finished for the water supply of the City of New York. "No magnificent remains of Latin porches and aqueducts are to be found in be found in Britain" -Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. i. Aqueduct of the cochlea. [AQUEDUCT US, B.] Aqueduct of Fallopius . [AQUEDUCT US, B.] Aqueduct of Sylvius . [AQUEDUCT US, B.] B. ( Chiefly of the form aqueduct us): A. cochleæ, the aqueduct of the cochlea. [COCHLEA.] A funnel-shaped canal in the ear. It leads to the jugular fo a, and is supposed to afford a pa age for a small vein. ( Todd & Bowman: Physiol . Anat . , vol. ii., pp. 74, 75.) A. Fallopii , the aqueduct of Fallopius. A channel in the ear near the tympanum. ( Ibid ., vol. ii., p. 70.) A A. Sylvii, the aqueduct of Sylvius. channel in the brain, connecting the third and fourth ventricles. ( Ibid ., vol. ii., p. 289.) A. vestibuli : A canal running from the vestibule of the internal ear to the posterior surface of the pars petrosa of the temporal bone. *ạ quê'ightte ( gh silent). Pret. of v. AQUAKE (q.v.). * ạ quê'int (2), pa. par. [A QUENCH.]