Abraham and the Egyptians, 103; his origin, 150 _n_ Abyssinia, native copper from, 63 _n_ Abyssinian lance, 270 — Sword, 163 _sq._, 237 _Acacia detinens_ (‘Wait-a-bit’), 6 _Acanthurus_ (‘surgeon’ or lancet-fish), 10 Accad inscription (Babylonia), 199 Accensi Velati (Roman soldiers), 245 Achæans of the Caucasus, 195 _n_ Achæmenes, 208 Achilles’ shield, 212, 223 — spear pointed with chalcos, 55 _n_ ‘Acies instructa’ and ‘sinuata’ (Roman army), 245 Acies (of a weapon), 107 _n_ Acinaces, not a scymitar, 227 _n_ Acinaces, Persian, 210; with golden ornaments, 212 Aclys (archaic weapon), 35 _n_ ‘Adaga’ of mediæval writers, 12 Adam Kadmon, 2 Adam primus, 2 _n_ Adam, the Hebrew, 149 Adámas (steel), 221 Adargue (Moorish), 12 _n_ Adder-pike or sting-fish (_Trachinus vipera_), 11 Adonis (= Tammuz), 187 Adscriptii (Roman soldiers), 245 _n_ Adze, 20 _n_; of copper, 67 — blades of shells and pinna, 47 Æs corinthiacum, 85 _n_; ægineticum, 87; demonnesium, _ib._; nigrum, _ib._; deliacum, _ib._; caldarium, 88; græcanicum, _ib._ Ægyptus (meaning of the word in Homer), 145 _n_ Æolipylæ (αἰόλου πύλαι), 31 _n_ Ærugo (or verdigris) from a spear (Achilles’), 60 _Æs_ and _Æris metalla_ (their meaning in Pliny), 58 _n_ Afghan Charay, 212 — language, 210 _n_ Africa (its mineral wealth unexplored), 63 — the Sword in, 162 African antelopes, 9 — bellows, 120 _sq._ — Telak (arm-knife), 162 Africo-Arab weapons, 163 ‘Afterthought,’ 1 Afzal Khan (Moslem General of Aurangzeb), 8 Agate splinter (for wooden Swords), 47 Agave (American), 6; used for paper-making, 50 _n_ ‘Age of Wood’, 31 ‘Ages’, 22 _n_ Agesilaus, army of, 241 Ἀγκύλη (Greek throw-stick), 34 ‘Agmen pilatum’ and ‘quadratum’ (Roman army), 245 Agreutic (age of primitive Archæology), 5 _n_ Agriculture in Ancient Egypt, 148 Ahasuerus (= Xerxes), 210 Airain (derivation), 84 Aji (black stone), Japanese use of, for weapons, 52 Aka, Akhu (Ancient Egyptian axe), 89, 158 Akkad (= Upper Babylonia), 104 _n_ Ἀκινάκης, 90 _n_ Alabaster pommels at Mycenæ, 231, 233 Albanian castes, 241 _n_ — yataghan, 265 Alemanni (Germani), weapons of the, 270 Alexander the Great, 209 Alfânge (Iberian; El-Khanjar), 29 Algebra in Assyria, 202 _n_ Alipes (Mercury), 1 Alkinde (Ondanique), 110 Alle-barde (Teutonic weapon), 92 Allophyllian or Agglutinative Turanian, 146 Alloy (derivation of the word), 74 _n_ Alloys of copper, 53, 57 — proportions of, 83; table of alloys in common use, 83 _sq._ Aloe (Socotrine), 6 Alorus, king of Babylonia, 199 Aluminium, 81 _n_ Alyattes, tomb of, 194 Alphabet (whence it came), 51 _n_, 147 — Hindú, 219 _n_ — of Troy, 193 Amber, 48, 87 Ambidexter Swordsmen, 185 Ambrum (= amber), 87 American broad-axe, 128