ancient Cyrus, a river of Persia, which rises in the mountains of Georgia, and running south-east by Teflis, unites its streams with the river Arras (the ancient Arraxes) and falls into the Caspian sea, south of Baku.

Kutuchta, among the Calmuc Tartars, the name of their high-priest, or sovereign pontiff; formerly only the deputy of the delai-lama, or high-priest of the Tartars, but at present independent on him.

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A, in music, the syllable by which Guido denotes the last found of each hexachord: if it begins in C, it answers to our A; if in G, to E; and if in F, to D.