among physicians, any remedy, the preparation of which is industriously concealed, in order to enhance its value.

in Ancient Geography, a villa of Q. Cicero, Tully's brother, in Latium, (Cicero). Now Arce, in the Terra di Lavora, in the kingdom of Naples, on the borders of the Campagna di Roma, on the river Melpis, between Arpinum and Aquinum.

ARBOUTANT, in building, an arched buttress. See BUTTRESS.