the name of a tumor in the great angle of the eye; either with, or without, an inflammation. The word is compounded of αἴξ, goat, and ἄγον, eye; as goats are supposed extremely liable to this distemper.

Authors frequently use the words aegilops, anchilops, and fistula lachrymalis, promiscuously; but the more accurate, after Aegineta, make a difference.—The tumor, before it becomes ulcerous, is properly called anchilops; and, after it is got into the lachrymal passages, and has rendered the os lachrymale carious, fistula lachrymalis.

If the aegilops be accompanied with an inflammation, it is supposed to take its rise from the abundance of blood which a plethoric habit discharges on the corner of the eye. If it be without an inflammation, it is supposed to proceed from a viscid pituitous humour thrown upon this part.

The method of cure is the same as that of the ophthalmia. But before it has reached the lachrymal passages, it is managed like other ulcers. If the aegilops be neglected, it bursts, and degenerates into a fistula, which eats into the bone.

Wild Pefuc; a genus of the monocota order, belonging to the polygamia clas of plants, and ranking under the 4th natural order, Gramina.—The characters are: The hermaphrodite calyx is a two-valved glume, triflorous; the corolla a two-valved glume, the exterior valvalet terminated by three arista or awns, the interior awnlets: Stamina, three capillary filaments; style, two: Seed, one, oblong. Male calyx and corolla, each a glume as in the former; and stamina, the same number.—There are seven species, natives of Italy and some other parts of Europe; one of them, the incurvata, a native of Britain, grows by the sea-shore, and is vulgarly called sea-hare-grass.

AEGILOPS is also the trivial name of a species of Quercus.