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A N f if
gtafs, is commonly ufed for the ftaining of glafs with metal co-
lours.
Annealing ofJieel, is the heating it in the fire to a blood-
red heat, and then taking it out, and letting it cool gently of
itfelf.
This is done to make it fofter, in order to engrave or punch
upon it.
ANTICS I (of Sites, L.j buttreffes, &c. forming a
ANTIQUES \ general or irregular compofition of men,
beafts, birds, fifties, flowers, and fuch-like, without either rule
or reafori ; this mull be a continuation of one and the fame
\vork, through the whole piece, without change or alteration.
ANTIQUE, ancient; the term is chiefly ufed by fculptors,
painters, and architects, who apply it to fuch pieces of fculp-
ture, painting, arid architecture, &c. as were made at the time,
when the arts were in their greater! perfection among the an-
cient Greeks and Romans, viz. from the age of Alexander the
Great to the time of the emperor Phocas, when Italy became
Over-run by the Goths and Vandals. In this fenfe, the word
is the contrary of modern. Thus we fay, the Antique manner,
the Antique tafce, an Antique buft, &c. It is fometimes even
contradifiinguiihed from ancient, which denotes a lefler degree
of antiquity, when the art was not in its utmoft purity.
ANTIMONY, is a mineral fubftance of a metalline na-
ture, having all the feeming characters of a real rrietal, except
malleability.
It is properly called a femi-metal; it being a foflile glebe,
compofed of fome undetermined metal, combined with a ful-
phureous and ftony fubftance.
Antimony is found in mines of all metals ; but chiefly irt
thofe of filver and lead ; but that, found in gold mines, is ufual-
ly efteemed the' beft. There are alfo particular mines of it, as
thofe in Hungary, Tranfylvania, Germany, and in feveral pro-
vinces of France.
It is found in clods or ftones of feveral fizes, bearing a near
refemblance to black-lead, except that it is lighter and harder ;
and thence it is called marcafite of lead ; and its metalline part
is fuppofed to be of that fpecies.
Antimony has fomething particular in its texture, being full
of little mining veirts or threads, like needles, brittle as glafs.
Sometimes it has veins of a red or golden colour intermixed,
Which is called male Antimony •> as that, which has hot thefe
fpecks, is called female.
It will fufe in the fire, though not without fome difficulty^
and diffolves more eahlv in water.
Vol. I. C After
gtafs, is commonly ufed for the ftaining of glafs with metal co-
lours.
Annealing ofJieel, is the heating it in the fire to a blood-
red heat, and then taking it out, and letting it cool gently of
itfelf.
This is done to make it fofter, in order to engrave or punch
upon it.
ANTICS I (of Sites, L.j buttreffes, &c. forming a
ANTIQUES \ general or irregular compofition of men,
beafts, birds, fifties, flowers, and fuch-like, without either rule
or reafori ; this mull be a continuation of one and the fame
\vork, through the whole piece, without change or alteration.
ANTIQUE, ancient; the term is chiefly ufed by fculptors,
painters, and architects, who apply it to fuch pieces of fculp-
ture, painting, arid architecture, &c. as were made at the time,
when the arts were in their greater! perfection among the an-
cient Greeks and Romans, viz. from the age of Alexander the
Great to the time of the emperor Phocas, when Italy became
Over-run by the Goths and Vandals. In this fenfe, the word
is the contrary of modern. Thus we fay, the Antique manner,
the Antique tafce, an Antique buft, &c. It is fometimes even
contradifiinguiihed from ancient, which denotes a lefler degree
of antiquity, when the art was not in its utmoft purity.
ANTIMONY, is a mineral fubftance of a metalline na-
ture, having all the feeming characters of a real rrietal, except
malleability.
It is properly called a femi-metal; it being a foflile glebe,
compofed of fome undetermined metal, combined with a ful-
phureous and ftony fubftance.
Antimony is found in mines of all metals ; but chiefly irt
thofe of filver and lead ; but that, found in gold mines, is ufual-
ly efteemed the' beft. There are alfo particular mines of it, as
thofe in Hungary, Tranfylvania, Germany, and in feveral pro-
vinces of France.
It is found in clods or ftones of feveral fizes, bearing a near
refemblance to black-lead, except that it is lighter and harder ;
and thence it is called marcafite of lead ; and its metalline part
is fuppofed to be of that fpecies.
Antimony has fomething particular in its texture, being full
of little mining veirts or threads, like needles, brittle as glafs.
Sometimes it has veins of a red or golden colour intermixed,
Which is called male Antimony •> as that, which has hot thefe
fpecks, is called female.
It will fufe in the fire, though not without fome difficulty^
and diffolves more eahlv in water.
Vol. I. C After