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f. Batan. iv, 252) identifies it with Flacourtia sepiaria of Roxburgh, a tree, however, which has not been found in Syria. It appears to agree in some respects with the Salcadora Persica, but not in all points, and therefore it requires further investigation by some
Asbelitce, A. V. "the Ashbelites"), the descendants of Ashbel (q. v.), son of Benjamin (Num. xxvi, 38). Ash-cake (ilW, ugah', or it?;', uggah', "cake," cake baked on the hearth," Gen. xviii, 6; xix, 3; 1
traveller in Syria conversant both with plants and Kings xvii, 13 ; Ezek. iv, 12, etc. ; Sept. tyicpvfia), their Oriental names and uses— Kitto. See Botany. a thin round pancake baked over hot sand or a slab of Ash. See Arcturus ; Moth. stone by means of ashes or coals put over them, or bc-
Ash, St. George, bishop of Derry, was born in tween two layers of hot embers of the dung of cows or 1658, became fellow of Trinity College', Dublin, 1679, j camels (see Schubert, iii, 28; Arvieux, iii, 227). Such and provost of Trinity, 1692. He was appointed bishop j are still relished in the East (by the Arabs of the des- of Cloyne in 1695, was translated to Clogher, 1697, and I ert) as a tolerably delicious dish (see Thevenot, ii, 32, thence to Derry in 1716. He died in Dublin in 1717. I P- '-35; Schweigger, p. 283; Niehuhr, Beschr. p. 52). He published a number of separate sermons, and con- ! See Cake. Such cake is made especially when there tributed to the papers of the Royal Society, of which j is not much time for linking. It must be turned in he was a member. j order to be baked through and not to burn on one side
Ash, John, LL.D.. an Independent minister, was ! (Hos- vii> 8)- Xt was made commonly of wheat flour born in Dorsetshire, 1724. He devoted himself at first I (Gen- xvni> G)- Barley-cakes are mentioned (for the to mathematics, but afterward studied theology, and time of scarcity) in Ezek. iv, 12.— Winer. See Bread. entered the ministry. He was associated with Dr. Ash'chenaz (Heb. Ashkenaz', M313K ; Vulg. Caleb Evans in founding the " Bristol Education So- Ascenez), a less correct form (1 Chron. i, 6 ;= Sept. 'Aa- ciety." He settled as pastor at Tershore, Worcester- j Xlva$ v. r. 'AoXavdZ ; Jer. Ii, 27, Sept. ot 'Aa\aZa,oi shire, and devoted a large part of his time to the prep- j v. r. ' AoXavdt,iOi, 'AXavdZioL, ' AoKavaZ,aloi) of Angli- aration of A New and Complete Dictionary of the Eng- \ cizing the name Ashkenaz (q. v.). ItshLangmge (2 vols, large 8vo, 1775), on an extended i Aaii,AnA m . ..,,, „„■--*« „ „,,..,
plan, and the best work of its class at the time. He also published Sentiments on Education (1777, 2 vols. 12mo i : - -The Dialogues of Eumenes.— Gentleman's Mag- azine, xlix, 215; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliograph. i, 113."
A'shan (Heb. Ashan', "rr, smoke; Sept. 'Avav ; in 1 Chron. iv, 32, 'Aioav v. r. 'Aarap ; in Josh, xv, 4.', omits i, a Levitical city in the low country of Ju- dah named in Josh, xv, 42 with Libnah and Ether. In Josh, xix, 7, and 1 Chron. iv, 32, it is mentioned again as belonging to Simeon, but iii company with Ain and Bimmon, which (see Josh, xv, 31) appear to have been much more to the south. In 1 Chron. vi, 59, it is given as a priests' city, occupying (perhaps by error of transcription) the Bame place as the somewhat similar word Ain ("PS) doeg iii the list of Josh, xxi, 16. In 1 Sam. xxx, 30, the fuller form Ch r-ashan is named with Honnah and other cities of " the South."
Asll'dod (Heb. Ashdod', ^IVX, a stronghold; Sept. and N. T. "A'^iotoo), the Azotus of the Greeks and Romans, and so called in 1 Mace, iv, 15 ; Acts viii, 40 (see also Plin. Hist. Nat. v, 14 ; Ptolem. v, 16) ; a city of the Philistine Pentapolis, on the summit of a grassy hill (Richardson, Travels, ii, 206), near the Mediterra- nean coast (com p. Joseph. Ant. xiv, 4, 4), nearly mid- way between Gaza and Joppa, being 18 geographical miles north by east from the former (270 stadia north, according to Diod. Sic. xix, 85), and 21 south from the latter; and, more exactly, midway between Aske- lon and Ekron, being 10 geographical miles north by east from the former, and south by west from the lat- ter (see Cellar. Notit. ii, 599 ; Mannert, VI, i, 261 sq.). Ashdod was a city of the Philistines, and the chief town of one of their five confederate states (Josh, xiii, 8; 1 Sam. vi, 17). It was the seat of the worship of i Dagon (1 Sam. v, 5 ; 1 Mace, xi, 4), before whose
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