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Some ufe the term Angdofophia in a fenfe much the fame. A. Varenius has given an Angetofopbia. Id. ib. p. 41.

ANGELOGRAPHIA, a defcription of angels, their orders, names, difcipline, &c.

Tliis amounts to much the fame with what others call An- gelologia.

Cafmannus and Manin'us have publifhed Angiographies, Schv- varzenau a pofitive Angekgraphia. Lipen. Bibl. TheoJ. 1. 1. p. 39. & 41. Ejufd. Bibl. Phil. T. 1. p. 48. feq.

ANGELOT, an antient Englifh gold coin, ftruck at Paris, while under the Englifh fubje£tion. Le Blanc. Trait, des Monnoies, p. 297. Mcnkg. Grig. Franc, p. 34. It was thus called from the figure of an angel fupporting the fcutcheon of the arms of England and France. There was another coin of the fame denomination flruck under Philip de Valois. Le Blanc, loc. cit. p. 243. Menag. ubi. fupr.

Angelot is alfo ufed in commerce to denotea fmall, fat, rich fort of cheefe, brought from Normandy. Skinner » fuppofes it to have been thus called from the name of the perfon who firft. made it up in that form, and per- haps ftamped it with his own name. Menage b takes it to have been denominated from the refemblance it bears to the Englifh coin called Angelot, — [ a Skin. Etym. in voc. b Menag. Orig. Franc, p. 35.]

It is made chiefly in the Pays de Bray, whence it is alfo de- nominated Angelot de Bray.

It is commonly made in vats, either fquare or fliaped like a heart. Savar. Di£t. Comm. T. 1. p, 107.

ANGELUS, in the church hiftory of France, denotes a prayer to the holy virgin, to be rehearfed three times a day, at the found of a bell rung for that purpofe.

The Angelas is the fame with what is otherwife called Ave Maria, or the angelic falutation. See Ave Maria, Cycl.

ANGER. — A late moralift defines Anger, a propensity to occa- sion evil to another, arifing upon apprebenfion of an injury done by him. Hutcbef. Elf. on Paffi Sect. 3. p. 74. feq. This violent propenfity is attended generally, when the injury is not very fudden, with forrow for the injury fuftained, or threatned, and defire of repelling it, and making the author of it repent of his attempt, or repair the damage. But befides thefe conditions, which are good, in fome fort in- tended by men when they are calm, as well as during the paffion, there is in the angry perfon a propenfity to occafion mi- liary to the offender, a determination to violence, even where there is no intention of any good to be obtained or evil avoided by this violence. And it is principally this propenfity which we denote by the name Anger, tho' other defircs often accompany it. Hutcbef. Eff. on PafT. Sect. 3. p. 63. Phyficians and naturalifts afford inftances of very extraordi- nary effects of this paffion. Borrichius cured a woman of an inveterate tertian ague, which had baffled the art of phyfic, by putting the patient in a furious fit of Anger. Valeriola made ufe of the fame means with the like fuccefs in a quar- tan ague. The fame paffion has been equally falutary to paralytic, gouty, and even dumb perfons ; to which laft it has fometimes given the ufe of fpeech. Ettinuller gives divers other inftances of very fingular cures wrought by An- ger ; among others he mentions a perfon laid up in the gout, who being provoked by his phyfician, flew upon him, and was cured. It is true the remedy is fomewhat dangerous in the application, when a patient does not know how to ufe it with moderation. We meet with divers inftances of princes to whom it has proved mortal, e. gr. Valentinian the firft, Wenceflas, Matthius Corvinus king of Hungary, and others. There are alfo inftances wherein it has produced the epilepfy, jaundice, cholera-morbus, diarrhea, &c. Mem. deTrev. 1707.

For the influence of this paffion on theperfpiration and urine of human bodies, fee Perspiration.

ANGETENAR, in the Arabian aftronomy, denotes a fixed ftar of the fourth magnitude, in the body of cctus or the whale. Vital. Lex. Math. p. 41. SeeCETUS, Cycl.

ANGIGLOSSII denotes thofe who fpeak with difficulty, hefi- tation, or even ftammering. Blanc. Lex. Med. p. 45.

ANGILDUM, in our old writers, denotes a Ample gild, that is, the Ample value of the man or other thing. Spelm. and Du Cange, in voc.

The word is compounded of the Saxon An, one, and gild, payment, price, or compenfation.

In this fenfe, Angildum ftands contradiftinguifhed from Twi- gildum, a double compenfation, trigildum, a triple compenfa- tion.

ANGINA, in medicine. SeeQyiNZY.

Angina Lini, in botany, a name ufed by fome of the later Greek writers, to exprefs what the more antient writers of this nation called linoxoflis, and the Latins epilinum ; this was the cofcuta or dodder growing on the flax, as that on the thyme was called epitbymum. It was called Angina Lini, the quinzy of flax, from its choakingthat plant.

ANGIOSPERMIA, in botany, a term ufed by Linnaeus, to exprefs a certain feries of the didynamix or plants of the ver- ticillate kind, which have their feeds not lodged naked within the cup. They are by this difKnguifhed from the gymnofper-

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mia, which have them fo ; whereas the angiofpermla have therri enclofed in a capfule, and adhering to a placenta placed in the middle of that capfule. The clafs of didynamia contains the labiated and perfonated plants. The Angiofpermia are the perfonated, the others the labiated kinds. ANGLE (Cycl.) — Angle of a Semi-circle, in geometry, the Angle which the diameter of a circle makes with the circum- ference. The chief property of this Angle is, that it is lefs than a right Angle, and greater than any acute right-lined Angle, ANGLER, a fifherman who profefies or practifes angling. An anonymous writer has publifhed the rules neceflary to form an Angler, under the title of the gentleman Angler. Lon- don, 1726. 8°. Sec Angling.

Anglers ate to be diftinguifhed from poachers. Some make the fame difference between them, that is between the fair trader and fmuggler. Accordingly the legiflature has made the latter penal, but laid noreffraint on the former. Angling can do no prejudice to the fifh of a river. Anglers fifh for their recreation, not for lucre ; whereas poachers make it their livelihood.

The tackle neceflary for an Angler is various, according to the branch of the art he applies himfelf to. He muft be equipt with variety of hooks, and a competent quantity of every fort ; he muft not be without wax, filk, a pair of fcifiars or pen- knife, abafket, or bag; and landing-net, plummets, fhot, and floats of every kind, needles and thread, lines, hair, Indian grafs, variety of feathers, more particularly thofe taken from the neck of a mallard, the wing of a partridge, a capon's neck, the top of a plover, or the hackle of a red cock. He muft likewife be furnifhed with twift, and bedding for dubbing his artificial flies; he muft have a landing-hook, reels for his filk lines, a pouch or book for his hair lines, a convenient place wherein to repofite his fmall craft, viz. flies, hooks^ wax, fhoi, filk, &c. a bag for his worms, a tin box for his gentles. Gentl. Angl. p. 2, 3. See Angling, Cycl. and Suppl. When he takes his ftand, he is to flicker himfelf under fome bufh, or tree, or ftand fo far from the brink of the river that he can only difcern his float ; by reafon fifh are timorous, and ea- filyfrighted. The beftwayof angling-with the flyis down the river, and not up; neither need the Angler ever make above half a dozen of trials in one place, either with fly or ground bait, when he angles for trout: by that time the fifh will either offer to take, or jefufe the bait and not ftir at all. Diet. Ruff, in voc, ANGLING (Cycl.) — The angler's firft bufinefs is to prepare for catching the fifh by inviting them about him ; the method of doing this in ftanding waters, by throwing in grains, chopped worms and the like, is well known : but the chief difficulty is in running rivers and brooks. The method in this cafe, is to prepare a tin box capable of holding fome hundreds of worms, bored on all fides, and full of holes of fuch a fize as they may be juft able to crawl out at ; there muft be a plummet fattened to this box to fink it, and a line to draw it back at pleafure ; in this cafe it is to be thrown into the water in a proper place, above which the angler mayftand under cover. The worms will flow'.y and gradually crawl out of this box, , and the fifh will be gathered about to feed on them ; the baited hook is to be thrown in higher up and carried down by the ftream. If this method do not bring the fifh about the place in a little time, there is reafon to fufpecf that fome pike lies lurking thereabout, and deters them ; in this cafe it is proper to throw out a baited hook and he will generally be taken, after this the attempt will fucceed. The Angling rod muft be kept in a moderate ftate neither too dry nor too moift, in the firft cafe it will be brittle, in the other rotten. When paftes are ufed, it is proper to mix a little tow with them, and rub them over with honey ; finally a fmall anointing them with butter is of great ufe to keep them from wafhing off the hook. The eyes of any fifh that is taken are an excellent bait, for almoft, any other kind of fifh.

In a pond, the befl place for the Aiigle? to take his ftand is ufually that where the cattle go in to water ; in rivers^ if breams are fiihed for, it ftiould be in the deepeft and moft quiet places ; if eels, under the banks of rivers that hang over ; perch are to be expected in clean places, where the ftream isfwift; and chub in deep (haded holes: roach are moftly found where the perch, are, and trout only in fwift and clear ftreams. Places where there are many weeds, or old ftumps of trees, harbour fifh in great numbers, and they ufually bite freely there, but there is danger of entangling the line, or faftening the hook to the weeds.

In cafe of this accident, rccourfe is to be had to a ring of lead, of about fix inches rofcnd, fattened to a fmall pack-thread, this ring is to be truft over the rod, and let to fall into the water. It will defcend to the place where the hook is en- tangled^ and then by pulling the pack-thread gently, the hook will be foon difengaged, or at the worft it can only be broke off* near the end of the line; whereas when this is not employed, the rod itfelf is fometimes i broken, or the line nearer its up- per end.

Deep waters are beft for Angling in, for the fifh do not love to be difturbed by wind and weather.

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