among ecclesiatical writers, denotes a vessel in which wine or water were kept for the fervice of the eucharift.

is fometimes alfo ufed for a wine-measure, as a pipe, or the like.

Amabyr, or Amvabyr, a custom which formerly prevailed in Wales, and fome other parts of the kingdom; being a certain fine, or fum of money, paid to the lord upon marrying a maid within his manor.

Amacaches, a people of Brazil, in S. America, near the government of Rio Janeiro.

Amacusa, an island of Japan, separated by a narrow strait from Saicoco, or Ximo.

Amacusa, is alfo the capital of the province of that name.