Annealing

the proce of first heating to a high temperature, and then slowly cooling a metal or gla in order to temper it. Gla which has not undergone the proce of aunealing is exceedingly brittle, but when annealed is capable of resisting change of temperature and a certain amount of pre ure, Annecy, a lake and chief town in the department of Haute Savoic, France, 22 miles south of Geneva. The lake stands 1,426 feet above the sea level. The town, which until 1860 belonged to Piedmont, contains a cathedral, a college, an episcopal palace, and the old castle of the Counts of Geneva. St. Francis of Sales was bishop here. Printed calicoes, varns, silks, and steel wares are the chief man i factures, Annelid a, 2 cla of worms that included the CILETOPODA (the “ bristle-footed ” worms) and HIRUDINEA (Leeches). The a ociation of these two groups into one cla has been abandoned; the term Annelid is, however, often retained ino an indefinite sense, Annonay, 3: town in the department of Ardéche, France, situated at the confluence of the rivers Dianne and Cance, which flow into the Rhone, south of St. Etienne, The Gothic chureh is of the fourteenth century. There are paper factories, tanneries, woollen and cotton mills. An not to, ANATTO, or ARNOTTO, The red substance imported under this name consists of the aggregated seed pellicles of iva Orellana. The colowing matter is best extracted by alcohol, as it is not very soluble in water. Used in dycing, and for colouring cheese and varnishes.