The dictionary of daily wants / [Robert Kemp Philp].

  • Robert Kemp Philp
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[1861]
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    OcMfi^r.—Roach anrl chub in bottoms. Not a pood month for pond.s or still waters. JVore?n6(.r.—Roach, jack, and chub if the weatlier be genial. The middle of the day the best. December.—A month of rest and inactivity both ibr the flsh and the angler. favotirile places for angling near London are Riclimond, Twickenham, Teddington, Kingston, Tliames Ditton, Hampton, Sun- bury, Walton, Weybridge, Chertsey, Staines, and Windsor ; also Waltham Abbey, Jlrox- bourne, and Tottenham, 'fhere are many otlier resorts ibr the angler scattered over the United Kingdom, in many instances possessing peculiar and distinct charac- teristics. Books : Davy's Salmonia, Walton and Cot- ton's Angle', Salter's Angler's Onide, Ilofland's Angler's Mamiat, and Carroll’s Angler’s Vade Mecum. See al.so Fisii Bait, Flies Arti- ficial, Fishing Line, Fishing Rod, &c. ANIMALCULE, a minute form ot ani- mal life existing and generated in decayed animal and vegetable substances. Ani- malcules in water are supposed to have puri- fying properties, by removing from it the substances injurious to human life, and by expiring o.xygen gas. Animalcules may be removed by boiling the water or filtering it through charcoal. AN 1M ATION SUSPEND ED.—See Cold, Drowning, Hanging, Intoxication, and Suffocation. ANISEED CORDIAL is made by mixing three gallons of proof spirits, half an ounce of oil of aniseed, one gallon and a h,alf of water, and two pounds of loaf sugar. This is an excellent stomachic, very comforting for pains in the bowels, flatulency, &c. ANNATJ'O, a colouring matter, formed from the pulp of a plant common in the West Indie.9. The extract is imported into this country in the shape ot cukes or may be well to know that the West Indian annatto possesses the following properties. It is of a yellow flame colour, brighter in the interior part than on the outside, soft to the touch, and with an odour resembling violets. The proportion of annatto used in colouring cheese is one ounce to one hundredweight, and it is added to the milk previously to turning it into curds. ANNEALING.—The process of gradually cooling bodies that have been subjected to the influence of heat. This is particularly practised in the manufacture of glass, which if sufiered to cool swUUnly would be extremely brittle, and it is therefore gradually cooled in an oven constructed for that purpose. Metals which have imbibed a harshne.ss in the process of manufacture are softened in the same manner. ANNO DOMINI (A. D.)—Lat. The year of our Lord~a computation of time, the first year of which dates from our Saviour’s birth. ANNUITY signifies, in its general sense, a yearly income, payable at stated periods, and clerivable from a certain source. An- nuities may be secured to persons at given periods of their lives, and to continue until death, by the payment of a certain sum of money which is estimated as equivalent in value to the annuity secured. Insurance offices grant such annuities, which are cal- culated according to the ascertained proba- bilities of human life, and which also depend upon the fulfilment of certain specified con- ditions. . The most important and practicable of these are—1. Immediate Annuities. 2. Deferred Annuities. 3. Survivorship Annuities. An I.MMEDIATE ANNUITY signifies that upon condition of a certain amount being paid dAcn, a yearly sum shall be paid from that period until death, and an explanation of this will be fully illustrated by the follow- ing table, showing the amount of annuity granted for every £100 paid. balls, ami i.s extensively used not only for dyeing purposes, but also foi coiout iiig cheese Vs there, are several imitalioiis of annatto palmed off for the genuine article it Amount Age. of Annuity per Age. Annum. .i s. d. 35 6 H G 53 36 f) 10 0 64 37 5 11 7 65 38 5 13 2 66 39 6 14 11 f)7 4U r» 16 8 5H 41 5 l« 6 69 4‘J 6 0 2 60 43 0 o 0 61 44 0 4 0 62 43 0 G 1 63 46 0 S 4 64 47 0 10 0 66 48 6 13 G G6 49 () 16 6 67 50 6 19 10 68 61 7 3 7 69 62 7 7 6 70 1 Amount of Annuity lier Annum. £ s. d. 7 11 » 7 16 3 8 1 ’2 8 G .5 8 12 2 8 18 9 4 9 10 9 16 10 2 10 9 10 16 11 4 11 13 12 3 12 14 2 13 6 9 14 0 10 24 3 6 8 6 7 1 4 4 2 1
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