or Awn, among botanists, a long needle-like beard, which stands out from the husk of a grain of corn, grain, &c.

ARISTÆUS, son of Apollo and Cyrene, whom, for the many services he had rendered to mankind by his knowledge of all profitable arts, the gods placed among the stars; so that he is the Aquarius in the zodiac. The resemblance of his history to that of Moses has been curiously discussed by Huetius.