anglesite

[Named from the isle of Angle sea, in which it was first found.] A mineral cla ed by Dana under the Celestite group of Anhydrous Sulphates, Chromates, and Tellurates. Anglesite has been called also "Lead mineralised by vitriolic acid and iron," "Lead Vitriol," and "Sulphate of Lead." It is orthorhombic. The hardne is 2-75-3; the sp. gr. 6-12 to 6:39. The lustre is resinous, vitreous, or adamantine; the colour white, tinged with yellow, gray, green, or blue. Anglesite varies from transparent to opaque. It is very brittle. The composition is sulphuric acid, 264; oxide of lead, 73-6 = 100. In addition to Angle sea, it is found in Cornwall, Derby shire, Cumber land, in Scotland at Lead hills, in Australia, America, and elsewhere. A variety of it is called Sard in i an (q.v.). Anglicaansch; Ger. Anglicaner (s.); Fr. An glican; Sp., Port., & Ital. Anglicano; Lat. Anglicanus. From Anglia , a Latin name of Britain, which at a yet unascertained date superseded that of Britannia, which had been formerly employed. The Lat. Anglia is from A.S. or O.S. Anglen , now Angeln , a district in the south-east of Schleswig, extending from the river Schlei, in the south, to the Fleusburg Hills on the north, with an area of about 330 square miles, and a population at present amounting to about 50,000. Angeln comes from A.S. ange , enge = narrow.] A. As adjective : 1. Pertaining to England; English. the sober principles and old establishment of the Anglican church."-Fell: Life of Hammond, §1. 2. Pertaining to one holding the religious views described under B., 1 or 2. Spec ., pertaining to one holding high church views or to high churchism. B. As substantive: 1. In the sixteenth century: One who held Roman Catholic doctrine, but preferred the rule of the English king or parliament to that of the Papacy. "Secondly" [the reference is to A.D. 1539], "there were the Anglicans , strictly orthodox in the spесиlative system of the faith, content to separate from Rome, but but only that they they might bear Italian fruit more profusely and luxuriantly when rooted in their own soil."- Froude : Hist. Eng ., pt. i., vol. iii., ch. xvi. 2. Now : (a) A member of the Church of England belonging to the High Church party. (b) An English churchman, whether high, low, or broad. "The old persecutors, whether Pagan or Christian, whether Arian or Orthodox, whether Catholicks, Anglicans , or Calvinists, actually were, or at least they had the decorum to pretend to be, strong Dogmatists. -Burke: Letter to R. Burke..