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ABACUS: an instrument for doing or teaching arithmetic. On this are drawn lines; a counter on the lowest line is one; one the next, ten; on the third, a hundred, etc. On the spaces, counters denote half the number of the line above.

ACARIDA: a division of Arachnida, including the mites, ticks, and water mites.

ACCORDION: a musical instrument with keys, metal reeds, and a bellows which is alternately pulled out and pressed together between the hands of the player to force air through the reeds and thus produce tones.

ACIPENSER: a genus of cartilaginous ganoid fishes, distinguished by the bony scales or plates arranged at intervals along the body in five longitudinal rows. The gills are free, the snout and conical, and the mouth retractile, toothless, and projecting from the under surface of the head. This genus includes the STURGEON.

ACOLYTE: in the Roman Catholic Church, the highest of the inferior orders of clergy, whose office it is to follow and serve the superior orders in the ministry of the altar, light the candles, prepare the elements of the sacrament, etc.

ADENOIDS: growths of adenoid tissue in the upper part or the throat, behind the nose.

AGARIC: a fungus.

ALEMBIC: a chemical apparatus formerly used in distillation, and usually made of glass or metal.

ALHAMBRA: a fortress and palace erected by the Moors near Granada, Spain, during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.

ALPACA: a ruminant, native to the mountains of Bolivia and Peru, allied to the Llama. It is somewhat like a sheep and can be domesticated.

AMAZON: 1. in Greek mythology, a female warrior of a race supposed to have lived in Scythia, near the Black Sea. 2. a woman soldier. 3. a large strong

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