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fed in its native country from the nut. It is there of very 
quick growth, bearing fruit in two years after it is plant¬ 
ed- But in England the plants are with great difficulty 
preferred; though, by their fil'd (lioots from the feeds, 
they appear fo ftrong and vigorous, as to promife a much 
greater progrefs than they are ever feen to make. They 
are eafily railed from the nuts, which are annually brought 
from America in great plenty; each of thefe fhould be 
planted in a iir.all pot filled with light Tandy earth, and 
plunged into a good hot-bed of tanner’s bark, being care¬ 
ful to prevent their haVing wet, till the plants come up, 
for the nuts frequently ro't with moidure. If the nuts are 
fre fit, the plants will come up in about a month after 
planting, and in two month's more they wiilBe four or five 
inches high, with large leaves; from this quick growth, 
many peVfons have been deceived by fuppoling them har¬ 
dy, and that they would continue the like progrefs, where¬ 
as they feldom advance much farther the fame year. The 
plants mud be condantly kept in the dove, for they are 
too tender to live abroad in England, in the warmeikfea- 
fon of the year, nor will-they thrive in a common green- 
liotife in dimmer.. As thefe plants abound with a milky 
acrid juice, they fhould have but little water, even in 
hummer; and, in winter, if they are fparingly watered 
once in a fortnight, it will be diffident, for their roorS are 
tender and foon perifli with moidure. When thefe plants 
are tranfplanted, it will be the bed method to break the 
pots, for the roots do not put out many fibres to hold the 
earth about them, fo that, in diaking them out of ihe pots, 
mod of the earth will fall away from their roots, and when 
this happens the plants feldom dirvive it, therefore, in 
breaking the pots, the fame caution mud be had not to 
didurb the earth more than can be avoided; then the 
plant, with the ball of earth to its roots, fhould be put 
into a pot one fize larger than that in which it had before 
grown, filling up the pot with light fandy earth, and 
plunge the pots again into the hot-bed. Thefe plants 
fhould not be removed oftener than once a year, nor fhould 
they be put into large pots; for, unlefs their roots are 
confined, they will not thrive. 
Anacardium,^ in botany. See Avicennia. 
Anacardium o f f i c in a r u m ,f. in botany. See Se- 
MECARPUS. 
ANACATHAR'TIC, / Gr. of ava, 
above, and xaJjcaqu, to purge.] A medicine that purges 
upwards; fometimes employed for emetics; fometimes to 
promote or encreafe the falivary difeharge ; but mod com¬ 
monly implying, agreeable to the fenfe made ufe of by 
Hippocrates, expcBoranls, or medicines promoting the dif¬ 
eharge of matter, whether mucous or purulent, from the 
lungs. 
ANACEPHALj®0'SIS,yi [_oc>ia,xs(pa 7 \aiaaie, Gr. of avu^ 
again, and xstSot-Xa iov, a dimming up the heads of things.] 
Recapitulation, or fummary of the principal heads of a 
difeourfe. 
ANA'CES, a name given to Cador and Pollux, from 
their clemency to the conquered, when they made war 
againd the Athenians, to recover their fider Helen, whom 
Thefeus had carried away. Their fedivals were called 
Anaceia. 
ANACHAR'SIS, a famous Scythian philofopher, who 
converfed with Solon, and lived an audere life. Upon his 
return from his travels through Greece, he attempted to 
change the ancient cudoms of Scythia, and to edablifh 
thofe of Greece; which proved fatal to him. The king 
ffiot him dead in a wood with an arrow. A great many 
ftatues were erefted to him after his death. He is faid to 
have invented tinder, the anchor, and the potter’s wheel; 
but the latter is mentioned by Homer, who lived long be¬ 
fore him. Anacharfis flourifhed in the time of Croefus. 
ANA'CHORET. See Anchoret. 
ANACHREMP'SISj/i [ctvio, upwards, and % ( o£7rTo 1 M.«(, 
Gr. to liawk. ] The hawking up any thing from the lungs. 
' ANA'CH'RONiiM, f. Gr. of and 
ANA 
Xgoheyfoff of time.] In chronology, ah error in 
computation of time, by which an event is placed earlier 
than it really happ-med. Such is that of Virgil, who 
makes Dido to reign at Carthage in the time of Aineas, 
though, in reality, lhe did not arrive in Africa till 300 
years after the taking of Troy. An error on the other 
fide, by which a fa6t is. placed later, or lower than it fiiould 
be, is called a parachronifm. But, in common ufe, this 
didinction, though proper, is not attended to; and the 
word anachronifm is tiled indifferently for the millake on 
both (ides. 
ANACI.AS'TIC GLAS'SES, f. a kind of fonorott-s 
phials or glades, chiefly made in Germany, which have 
the property of being .flexible; and emitting a vehement 
nolle by the human breath. They are alfo called vexing 
glvjfes by the Germans (vexier glafer), on account of the 
fright and didurbafice thpy occafion by their refilitioru 
The anaclaftic girdles are a low kind of phials with flat 
bellies, refembling inverted funnels, whole bottoms arc 
very thin, fcarcely furpafiing the thicknefs of an onion- 
peel: this bottom is not quite flat, but a little convex. 
But upon applying the mouth to the orifice, and gently 
infpiring, or as it were fucking out the air, the bottom 
gives way with a prodigious crack, and.of convex becomes 
concave. On the contrary, upon expiring or breathing 
gently into the orifice of the fame glafs, the bottom with 
no leis noife bounds back to its former place, and becomes 
gibbous .as before. The anaclaftic glades firft taken notice 
of were in the cadle of Goldbach ; where one of the aca¬ 
demics Naturae Curioforuvi, having feen and made experi¬ 
ments on them, publilhed a piece exprefs on their hidory 
and phenomena. 
A'NACK, a fort of bread made of oatmeal. 
ANACLA'TICS,y [ava and xXccu^ Gr.] An ancient 
name for that part of optics which confiders refracted 
light; being the fame as what is ufually called dioptrics. 
Anaclatic Curve, a name given by M. de Mairau 
to certain apparent curves formed at the bottom of a veffeL 
full of water, to an .eye placed in the air; or the vault of 
the heavens, feen by refraction through the atmofphere. 
ANACLETE'RIA ,_/1 [of avoc and Gr. to call.] 
In antiquity, a folemn feftival celebrated by the ancients 
when their kings or princes came of age, and affumed the 
reins of government. It is fo called, becaufe, proclama¬ 
tion being made of this event to the people, they went to 
falute their prince during the anacleteria, and to congra¬ 
tulate him upon his new dignity. 
ANACLK'TICUM,y. in the ancient art of war, a par¬ 
ticular found of the trumpet, whereby the fearful and 
flying foldiers were rallied, and recalled to the combat. 
ANACLINO'PALE,y [avaxXivoTraXe, Gr.] In anti¬ 
quity, a kind of wredling, wherein the champions threw 
themfelves voluntarily on the ground, and continued the 
combat by pinching, biting, fcratching, and other methods 
of offence. The anaclinopale was contradiftinguilhed from 
the orthopale, wherein the champions Hood ereft. 
ANACLINTE'RI A,,/i in antiquity, a kind of pillows 
on the dining bed, whereon the gueftsufed to lean. The 
ancient tricliniary beds had four pillows, one at the head, 
another at the feet, a third at the back, and a fourth at 
the bread. That on which the head lay, was properly 
called by the Greeks or uvuxXuit$ov j by the 
Romans fulcrum, fometimes pluteus. 
ANACOE'NOSIS, in rhetoric, a figure whereby we 
feem to deliberate, and argue the cafe with others upon 
any matter of moment. 
ANACOLLEM'ATA,y [xfxxoXXxu, Gr. tog;lue toge¬ 
ther.] Medicines applied to the forehead or nodrils to dop 
bleeding; alfo medicines that will breed fleflt, and conglu- 
tinate the parts. 
ANACO'LUTHON, or Anaco'luthus , f [xraxa- 
Asfi©-, Gr. of a. priv. and xoX » 0 o?, confequent; i. e. an in- 
confequence in difeourfe.] A figure in rhetoric, when a 
word that is to anfwer another is not expreffed. 
1 ANACON'DO, 
