in anatomy, a name sometimes given to two glands, generally called the tonsils.

ALMOND-Furnaces, among refiners, that in which the flags of litharge, left in refining silver, are reduced to lead again, by the help of charcoal.

among lapidaries, signify pieces of rock-crystal, used in adorning branch-candlesticks, &c. on account of the resemblance they bear to the fruit of that name.

ALMONDBURY, a village in England, in the well-riding of Yorkshire, five miles from Halifax.