AKOND, an officer of justice in Persia, who takes cognizance of the causes of orphans and widows; of contracts, and other civil concerns. He is the head of the school of law, and gives lectures to all the subaltern officers; he has his deputies in all the courts of the kingdom, who, with the second saadra, make all contracts.
AL, an Arabic particle prefixed to words, and signifying much the same with the English particle the: Thus they say, alkerimes, alkoran, &c. i. e. the kerimes, the koran, &c.
AL, or ALD, a Saxon term frequently prefixed to the names of places, denoting their antiquity; as Aldborough, Aldgate, &c.