ACHIOTTE, or ACHIOTE, a foreign drug, used in dyeing, and in the preparation of chocolate. It is the same with the substance more usually known as ARNOTTO.
ACHIROPOETOS (α, χερ, and ποεσ), a name given by ancient writers to certain miraculous pictures of Christ and the Virgin, supposed to have been made without hands. The most celebrated of these is the picture of Christ preserved in the church of St John Lateran at Rome; said to have been begun by St Luke, but finished by angels.
ACHLYS (Αχλύς), in Pagan Mythology, the eternal night, more ancient than Chaos; described in Hesiod (Scut. Here. 264.) as the personification of misery and sadness.