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articulate joint. The family includes 

 eight genera : tritoma, phalacnis, ephis- 

 vomus, leiodes, agathidium, clanibus, 

 elypeaster, and sericoderus. Many of the 

 species are British. 



ANNATS, from annift, (year. A year's 

 income of a spiritual living, originally 

 given to the pope on the death of an 

 incumbent, and paid by the successor. 

 At the Reformation the annats were 

 vested in the king, but were restored by 

 Queen Anne to the church, and appropri- 

 ated to the augmentation of poor livings. 



2. Masses said in the Romish church 



for the course of a year. 



As XE. The order of St. Anne is a Russian 

 order of knighthood, which originated in 

 Holstein, and was carried by the princes 

 of that country into Russia. It became a 

 Russian order in 1796. 



AXXEALIXO, from Sax.anoMan.toheat. 

 A process by which glass is rendered less 

 frangible ; and metals which have become 

 brittle, either in consequence of fusion or 

 long continued hammering, are again 

 rendered malleable. The process consists 

 in bringing the material to be annealed 

 to a hii^h heat, and allowing it to cool 

 gradually : it is frequently called Healing 

 by the workmen. 



ANNELIDA, | the class of sea- worms 



AXXET.IDES, J having the joints of their 

 bodies, like the common earth- worm, dis- 

 posed in rings, and having red blood. 

 They constitute the first class of articulata 

 in the system of Linnaeus. Name, from an- 

 ticlliis, a little ring, and ubot, like. 



ANNO DOMINI [Lat.] In the year of our 

 Lord; noting the time from Christ's in- 

 carnation , as Anno Domini 1844, contracted 

 A.D. 1844. 



ANNO'NA, the custard-apple. A genus of 

 many species, mostly natives of America 

 and the West Indies. Class polyandria, 

 order polygynia. 



ANXOT'TA, ) a species of red dye, formed 



AXXOT'TO, ) of the pulp which surrounds 

 the seeds of the Bixa orellana, a plant 

 common in South America. It is em- 

 ployed iu colouring cheese, and, in dyeing, 

 to give an orange tint to simple yellows. 



ANNU'ITI-, from anniis, a year. A peri- 

 odical payment of a specified sum of 

 money at particular dates agreed upon, to 

 be continued either for a definite period, 

 as ten, fifty, &c. years, in which case it is 

 called an annuity certain ; or for an inde- 

 terminate time, dependent upon some 

 contingency, as the death of a person, in 

 which case it is a contingent annuity ; or 

 for an indefinite period, in which case the 

 annuity is said to be perpetual. A deferred 

 annuity is one to commence after a certain 

 number of years : if after the death of a 

 person now living, it is a reversionary an- 

 nuity. "When the annuity is limited by 

 the duration of a given life, it is termed a 



life annuity ; when it is to continue only 

 for a term of years, provided a certain 

 life or lives continue, it is a temporary life 

 annuity. The present value of an annuity 

 is that sum which, being improved at 

 compound interest, will be sufficient to 

 pay the annuity. 



AXXULA'RIA, a species of phalana, of 

 the geometra section. 



ANNCLA'TA, the first class of articulata, 

 according to Cuvier, comprehending all 

 red-blooded worms. The body is usually 

 soft, more or less elongated, and divided 

 frequently into a considerable number of 

 segments, whence the name annulata, 

 from annulatut. They nearly all inhabit 

 the water, the lumbrici or earth-worm* 

 excepted. Several penetrate into holes 

 at the bottom; others construct tubes 

 with the ooze or other matter. 



AX'NULATE, Lat. annulatus. Formed or 

 divided into rings, or marked with dis- 

 tinct annulations, or surrounded with 

 rings. 



AN'XULET, from Lat. annulus, a ring. In 

 architecture, 1. A small square member 

 in the Doric capital, under the quarter- 

 round. 2. A narrow flat moulding 



which is common to many places, as the 

 bases and capitals ; called also a fillet, a 

 listil, a cincture, or a list, timea, eye-brow, 

 or square-rabbet. In heraldry, a little circle 

 borne as a charge in coats of arms ; for- 

 merly regarded as a mark of nobility and 

 jurisdiction, it being the custom of pre- 

 lates to receive their investiture perbacu- 

 lutn et annulwn, by staff and ring. It is 

 also an emblem of strength and eternity. 



AXNULO'SA, from Lat. annulus, a ring, 

 segment. A division of the animal king- 

 dom in some systems, containing the five 

 classes crustacca, myriopoda, arachnida, 

 insecta, and vermes. In the arrangement 

 adopted by Macleay, the aunulosa com- 

 prehend only the Classes insecta, arachnida, 

 and crustacea. 



ANXULOSE, furnished with, or composed 

 of, rings (aiiwili'). 



AX'XULUS, a Lat. word for rinn, used 

 chiefly in botany in that sense, but with 

 considerable latitude. 



ANXUX'CIATIOX, order of the Annun- 

 ciada, Annunciata, Annuntiada. An 

 order of knighthood in Savoy, instituted 

 by Amadeus III., in 1335, but named an- 

 nunciada by Amadeus VIII. 



AXNI-N'OIATIOX. 1. " The tidings 

 brought by the angel Gabriel to the vir- 

 gin Mary, of the incarnation of Christ. 



2. A festival kept by the church of 



Rome on the 25th of March, in commemo- 

 ration of those tidings ; called alsc Lady- 

 day. 3. The Jews give the name to a 



part of the ceremony of the passover. 



ANO'BIUM, a sub-genus of ptini 'fr< 

 PTIXUS;. Name, from ava^tov, resusci- 

 tated, the species being characterised, in 



