[Achai`a], the N. district of the Peloponnesus, eventually the whole of it.
[Achard], a Prussian chemist, one of the first to manufacture sugar from beetroot (1753-1821).
[Achard`, Louis Amédée], a prolific French novelist (1814-1876).
[Acha`tes], the attendant of Æneas in his wandering after the fall of Troy, remarkable for, and a perennial type of, fidelity.
[Achelo`üs], a river in Greece, which rises in Mt. Pindus, and falls into the Ionian Sea; also the god of the river, the oldest of the sons of Oceanus, and the father of the Sirens.
[Achen], an eminent German painter (1556-1621).
[Achenwall], a German economist, the founder of statistic science (1719-1772).
[Ach`eron], a river in the underworld; the name of several rivers in Greece more or less suggestive of it.
[Ach`ery], a learned French Benedictine of St. Maur (1609-1685).
[Ach`ill], a rocky, boggy island, sparsely inhabited, off W. coast of Ireland, co. Mayo, with a bold headland 2222 ft. high.