AERY, or AIRY, among sportsmen. See AIRY.
ÆS UXORIUM, in Antiquity, a sum paid by bachelors, as a penalty for living single to old age. This tax for not marrying seems to have been first imposed in the year of Rome 350, under the censorship of M. Furius Camillus and M. Posthumus. At the census, or review of the people, each person was asked, Et tu ex anima sententia uxorem habes liberum querendorum causa? He who had no wife was hereupon fined after a certain rate, called æs uxorium.