Aksoo, Aksou

or AKSU, a little town in Chinese Turkis tan. Lat. 41° 7' N.; Lon. 79° E. Ak'su, a district of Little Bukharia, bounded on the N. by the mountains of Allak, with a cap. of the same name. Lat. 41° 9′ N. Pop . about 150,000. Ak'su, ( White River, the name of several rivers in Asia, the chief of which runs through Chinese Turkestan. Ak'tagh, a mountain range of Asiatic Turkey, between the parallels of 39° and 40° N.-Also a mountain of Anatolia, near the sources of the Rhyndacus and the Hermus. Alt. 8,000 ft. Ak'teboli, or A GOTH A POLIS, a small port of European Turkey, on the Black sea, 69 m. from the entrance of the Bosphorts. Lat. 42° 4 N.; Lon. 27° 59 Ε. Ak'wambu, or AGUAMBO, a state of Guinea, on the Rio Volta, to the N. of Aquapim. Ak'zib, or ACHZIB, a town of Syria, on the coast, 9 m. N. of Acre; supposed to be the Acdippa or Ecdippon of Pliny and Joseph us. Ak'yab, a maritime town of India, cap. of the prov. Aracan, to the E. of the island of Akyab, beyond the Ganges. Lat. 20° 8' N.; Lon. 92° 54′ E. Its harbor is safe. Al-, a form of the Latin prefix ad , to, used before l , for avoiding the hard sound of the two consonants dl ; as, alludere for adludere. -The Arabian definite article answering to the . It is often applied to a word by way of eminence, as in Greek the letter o. The Arabs expre the superlative by adding God thereto, as the mountain of God for the highest mountain; and it is probable that al relates to the word Allah , God: so, Alchemy may be the Chemistry of God , or the more exalted perfection of chemical science. -A Saxon prefix used as a contraction of the word athel, noble, or of the word alt or æld, old.