A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

James II., and succeeded to the throne on the death of William III. She died, August 1, 1714, in the fiftieth year of her age. She was not a woman of very great intellect; but was deservedly popular, throughout her reign, being a model of conjugal and maternal duty, and always intending to do good. She was honored with the title of 'Good Queen Anne', which showed the opinion entertained of her virtues by the people. _Anotta_, _Annotto_, _Arnotta_, or _Rocou_, a soft, brownish-red substance, prepared from the reddish pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree, which grows in the West Indies, Guiana, and other parts of South America, called the _Bixa orellana_. It is used as a dye. _Anther_, that part of the stamen of a flower which contains the pollen or farina, a sort of mealy powder or dust, which is necessary to the production of the flower. _Anthracite_, one of the most valuable kinds of mineral coal, containing no bitumen. It is very abundant in the United States. _Aperient_, opening. _Apple-corer_, an instrument lately invented for the purpose of divesting apples of their cores. _Arabic, gum_, see _Gum Arabic_. _Archæology_, a discourse or treatise on antiquities. _Arnotto_, see _Anotta_. _Arrow-root_, a white powder, obtained from the fecula or starch of several species of tuberous plants in the East and West Indies, Bermuda, and other places. That from Bermuda is most highly esteemed. It is used as an article for the table, in the form of puddings; and also as a highly-nutritive, easily-digested, and agreeable, food, for invalids. It derives its name from having been originally used by the Indians, as a remedy for the poison of their arrows, by mashing and applying it to the wound. _Articulating process_, the protuberance, or projecting part of a bone, by which it is so joined to another bone, as to enable the two to move upon each other. _Asceticism_, the state of an ascetic, or hermit, who flies from society and lives in retirement, or who practises a greater degree of mortification and austerity than others do, or who inflicts