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Ayrshire Bard (The), Robert Burns, the Scotch poet (1759–1796).

Azamat-Batuk, pseudonym of M. Thiebland, war correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette in 1870.

Azaria and Hushai, a reply in verse to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, by Samuel Pordage. The characters common to the two satires are—

	By Pordage.	By Dryden.
Charles II.	Amazia	David
Cromwell	Zabad	Saul
Dryden	Shimei	Asaph (in part ii.)
Monmouth (duke of)	Azaria	Absalom
Shaftesbury (earl of)	Hushai	Achitophel
Titus Oates	Libni	Corah

Hence “Azaria and Hushai” are Monmouth and Shaftesbury in Pordage’s reply, but “Absalom and Achitophel” represent them in Dryden’s satire.

Azazel, one of the ginn or jinn, all of whom were made of “smokeless fire,” that is, the fire of the Simoom. These jinn inhabited the earth before man was created, but on account of their persistent disobedience were driven from it by an army of angels. When Adam was created, and God commanded all to worship him, Azâzel insolently made answer, “Me hast Thou created of fire, and him of earth: why should I worship him?” Whereupon God changed the jinnee into a devil, and called him Iblis or Despair. In hell he was made the standard-bearer of Satan’s host.

Upreared
His mighty standard; that proud honour claimed
Azâzel as his right.
   —Milton: Paradise Lost, i. 534 (1665).

Azla, a suttee, the young widow of Arvalan, son of Kehama.—Southey: Curse of Kehama, i. 10 (1809).

Azo, husband of Parisina. He was marquis d’Este, of Ferrara, and had already a natural son, Hugo, by Bianca, who died of a broken heart because she was not made his bride. Hugo was betrothed to Parisina before she married the marquis, and after she became his mother-in-law they loved on still. One night Azo heard Parisina in sleep express her love for Hugo, and the angry marquis condemned his son to death. Although he spared his bride, no one ever knew what became of her.—Byron: Parisina.

Azrael, the angel of death (called Raphael in the Gospel of Barnabas).—Al Korán.

Aztecas, an Indian tribe, which conquered the Hoamen, seized their territory, and established themselves o n a southern branch of the Missouri, having Aztlan as their imperial city. When Madoc conquered the Aztecas in the twelfth century, he restored the Hoamen, and the Aztecas migrated to Mexico.—Southey: Madoc (1805).

Cortez conquered Mexico, and extirpated the Aztecs in 1520.

Aztlan, t he imperial city of the Aztecas, on a southern branch of the Missouri. It be longed to the Hoamen, but this tribe being conquered by the Aztecas, the city followed the fate of war. When Madoc led his colony to North America, he took the part of the Hoamen, and, conquering the Aztecas, restored the city and all the territory pertaining thereto the queen Erillyab, and the Aztecas migrated to Mexico. The city Aztlan is described as “full of palaces, gardens, groves, and houses” (in the twelfth century).—Southey: Madoc (1805).

Azucena, a gipsy. Manrico is supposed to be her son, but is in reality the son of Garzia (brother of the conte di Luna).—Verdi: Il Trovatorê (1853).

Azyoruca , queen of the snakes and dragons. She resides in Patala, or the infernal regions—Hindû Mythology.

There Azyoruca veiled her awful form
In those eternal shadows. There she sat,
And as the trembling souls who crowd around
The judgment-seat received the doom of fate,
Her giant arms, extending from the cloud,
Drew them within the darkness.
   —Southey: Curse of Kehama, xxiii. 15(1809).