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ACHOR

Volume 2 · 42 words · 1860 Edition

a valley of Jericho, between it and Ai; so called from Achan, who was there stoned to death.

in *Medicine*, a species of *Herpes*.

in *Mythology*, the god of flies; to whom, according to Pliny, the inhabitants of Cyrene offered propitiatory sacrifices.