in ornithology, a synonyme of the falco, or eagle. See Falco.

astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere.

fine large city of Italy, and the capital of Abruzzo, seated on a hill, on the banks of the river Pelcara, near its source. It has an ancient castle, and is a bishop's see immediately under the pope. The land about it produces great plenty of saffron. It was very near being all destroyed by an earthquake, in February 1703. The first shock was so terrible, that the inhabitants abandoned the city; but returning to vespers, it being Candlemas-day, the shocks followed one another with such violence, that twenty-four thousand people perished, and great numbers were wounded; eight hundred were killed in one single church: many other churches, monasteries, noble buildings, and the town-house, were either swallowed up or overturned, together with the greater part of the city and its walls. Aquila stands thirty miles from the sea, and about fifteen from the confines of the Pope's dominions. E. long. 14° 20'. N. Lat. 42° 20'.