Aclides

( Antiq. ) A mi ile weapon, supposed to have been a kind of dart or javelin, made use of by the ancient Romans. According to Scaliger, it was a globular weapon, and poised by a wooden stem. Aclinic, a . [Gr. a , priv., and cline in , to incline.] Without inclination; -applied to the magnetic equator, or the line near the earth's equator on which the magnetic needle is exactly horizontal and has no dip.