in anatomy. All foetuses are wrapped up in at least two coats or membranes; most of them have a third, called allantoides, or urinary.

Some, as the dog, cat, hare, &c. have a fourth, which has two blood-vessels, viz. a vein and an artery, called omphalo-mesenterics, because passing along the string to the navel, and terminating in the mesentery.

(anc. geog.), a town of Egypt towards Arabia, to the south-east of Babylon, and of the eastern branch of the Nile. The prophet Jeremiah calls it the house or town of the sun, in the land of Egypt. The high-priest Onias built a temple here, held in great esteem by the Hellenists.