DICTIONARY OF BUSINESS TERMS. count. Acceptance. A draft drawn on a party | Entry. A record made in books of ac and by him indorsed on the face with his agreement to pay it when due. Account. A statement of indebtedness, etc. Acquittance. A discharge in full. Ad valorem. In proportion to value. Assets. Funds or effects. Assignment. A transfer of property on certain conditions for stated purposes. Assignee. A person to whom anything is assigned. Assignor. The person who assigns. Balance. Difference between two statements or accounts. Bankrupt. A person unable to pay his debts. Bill of Exchange. An order for money to be paid. Bill of Sale. A contract signed and sealed for the sale of personal property. Bills Payable. Name given to notes made and to be paid by a party. Bills Receivable. Notes made and to be paid to a party. Bond. An instrument or deed providing a money security. Capital. The amount of assets on which a business is carried on. Check. An order on a bank for the payment of money. Capitation. A tax on every male who is of age. Commission. The amount or proportion charged by an agent in a business transaction. Company. An association for transacting business. Consideration. The sum of money or thing for which a transaction is made. Consign. To send goods, etc., to a party. Consignee. One to whom goods are consigned. Consignor. One who consigns goods. Contract. A bargain or agreement. Conveyance. A document transferring property. Days of Grace. Three days legally allowed beyond the date for payment. Debit. To make debtor in an account or books. Default. Failure to pay. Discount. A sum taken from a bill or note. Executor. One appointed to carry out the provisions of a will. Exhibit. A writing or official statement. Face. The sum named in a note, etc. Failure. A bankruptcy. Firm. The style or name of a company under which it transacts business. Foreclose. To deprive a mortgagor by legal process of his right of redemption. Goods. A term applied generally to merchandise, etc. Gross. Entire, as gross receipts. Twelve dozen. Guarantee. A security. Honor. To accept and pay a note, draft, etc. Hypothecate. To make a security of. Indorsement. A signature on the back of a bill, note, etc. Insolvent. Unable to pay all debts. Interest. A certain proportion of a sum as profit; a share. Inventory. A catalogue, or list. Joint Stock. Stock held by more than one person, or in company. Judgment. Decree of court to pay in a suit. Lease. A usually written contract for hiring of land or buildings. Legal Tender. Money decreed by the government to be legal and a proper means of payment. Letter of Credit. A letter giving a certain credit to a person named therein. Letters Patent. A written instrument granting certain rights and powers, Letters of Administration. The instrument granting authority to adminis trators. Lien. A valid claim by reason of some debt. Liquidation. The settling and adjust ment of accounts. Maturity. The time when a payment is due. Mortgage. A conditional conveyance of property giving a right of redemption. Mortgagor. One giving such a convey, ance. Mortgagee. One to whom such a convey, ance is given. Net. The amount remaining after making all deductions. Partnership. An association of two or more persons for the transaction of busi. ness. Par Value. The face value. Payee. The person to whom a paymen is due. Protest. A notary's official notice of non payment of a note, draft, or check. Rebate. A reduction in consideration of prompt payment. Receipt. A written acknowledgment of payment. Salvage. Compensation for assistance in saving a vessel. Schedule. An inventory. Set-off. A claim off-setting a debt. sented. but whose name does not appear in a firm. Sterling. The British standard of coin age. Scrip. A certificate of joint stock. Staple. A standard commodity or production. Teller. A bank official who pays out and receives money. Transfer. A conveyance of right, property or title. [or other fact. Suspend. To stop payment. Abaft. DICTIONARY OF NAUTICAL TERMS. Toward the stern. About. To take the opposite tack. Anchor. The heavy piece of iron which holds the ship at rest. Alee. On the side away from the wind. Astern. In the direction of the stern. Athwart. In a line across the ship. Beating. Sailing against the wind by tacking. Bow. The front of a vessel. Bend. To fasten; as, to bend on a rope. The rope surrounding the sail to which it is sewed. Brace. A rope attached to a boom or yard by which they are moved. Boom. The spar at the bottom of a sail by which it is extended. Bulkhead. A partition within the hull. Bulwarks. The sides of a vessel surrounding and extending above the deck, Cable. A strong rope or chain. Caboose. A kitchen on deck. Camel. An arrangement for assisting a ship over shoals. Carry Away. To break or lose a rope or Galley. The kitchen. Ropes for hoisting sails. Hatch, or Hatchway. An opening in the deck. Heave to. To stop by bringing a ship's bow to the wind. Hold. The interior of a vessel. Jibe. To shift a sail from one side to the Mast. An upright piece of timber set in a ship for supporting sails, rigging, etc. Masthead. The head or top of a mast. Mess. A number of men eating together. Midships. The middle, or widest part of a ship. The hind Mizzenmast; Mizzensail. Pay Out. To slacken er give out, as to Peak. The upper and outer corner of a boom sail. Pintle. The bolt on which a rudder is hung. Port. The same as larboard. Port or Porthole. An opening in a ship's Rake. The inclination of a mast. the whole. Reef. To take up such a portion. Rigging. A term applied generally to a Road. An open space of water where ships may anchor. Seams. Where the ship's planks join. Sheet. A rope for controlling and moving a sail. Shore. A prop under a beam. Skipper. The name given generally to water. Spar. A name applied to a mast, boom gaff, yard, etc. Stern. The rear portion of a vessel. Tack. To go against the wind in a zigzag Thwarts. A boat's seats. Warp. To move a vessel by a line fasten. Wake. The track left in the water by a Weather. Toward the wind. Rowlock. Arrangement for giving pur-Windward. The point from whence the chase to an oar in rowing. wind blows. Rudder. The contrivance which steers a Yacht. A sailing vessel used for pleas. vessel. Scud. Te sail before a heavy wind or gale. Bail. The sheet of canvas which is exposed to the wind and gives motion to the vessel. ure. Yard. A spar supporting and extending a Either half of a yard. Yaw. A movement causing a temporary change of course. DICTIONARY OF MUSICAL TERMS. semi-tones. Accompaniment. A secondary part added | Chromatic. Adagio. A slow movement. Ad Libitum. Implies that the time of the Allegretto. With cheerful quickness, Assai. Very; used as an adverb with A temp. In regular time. Beat. An indication of a certain duration of time. Ben. Implying well, as Ben marcato. Calando. A gradual diminution in speed and tone. Proceeding or formed by Con. With; as Con expressione. Delicato. With delicacy. Dales, or Dal. In a soft, quiet manner. Fine. The end. Fork, or For. Strong, loud. Grave. The slowest time or movement Impetuoso. Impetuously. Intrado, or Introduzione. An introduc- Segno. Sign; as al segno, go back to tion to a piece of music. sign. Largo. A slow and solemn degree of Sempre. Always, as Sempre piane. Serioso. Seriously. Solo, Sola. Alone. A composition ren. dered by one person. Sostenuto, or Sost. tained. Mezzo. In a medium degree; as Mezzo Spirito. With spirit. forte. Moderato. Moderately. Malto. Very; as Malto forte. Obligato. An essential portion of a com Ottava, or 8va. An octave. Pedale, or Ped. Staccato. Prolonged, sus. Each note to be distinctly Stesso. The same. Signifies that performer Tanto, or Ton. Not so much. must press down pedal. Pen. A little. Tardo. Slowly. Tempo Comodo. Conveniently. Tranquillo. Tranquilly. Tremendi. With terrific expression. Poco a poco. Gradually; by a regular Tremando, Tremolo. The rapid striking gradation. Pomposo. Pompously. Precipitato. Very quickly; hurriedly. time. Presto. Very quick. Primo. As Violino primo, first violin. Rinforzando. Rinf. or Rf. with increase. of a note so as to produce a tremulous Trille, or Trillo. A trill or shake. Un A. As un poco, a little. Velocissimo. With great rapidity. Vivace. Vivamented; briskly. DICTIONARY OF MYTHOLOGY. ACHATES. A friend of Æneas, whose fidelity was so exemplary that Fidus Achates has become a proverb. ACHILLES, the son of Peleus and Thetis, was the bravest of all the Greeks in the Trojan war. During his infancy Thetis plunged him in the Styx, thus making every part of his body invulnerable except the heel by which she held him. ACTEON. A famous huntsman, son of Aristæus and Autonoe, daughter of Cadmus. He saw Diana and her attendants bathing, for which he was changed into a stag and devoured by his own dogs. ADONIS, Son of Cinyras and Myrrha, was the favorite of Venus. He was fond of hunting, and was often cautioned not to hunt wild beasts. This advice he slighted, and at last was mortally wounded by a wild boar. EGIS. The shield of Jupiter. He gave it to Pallas, who placed Medusa's head on it, which turned into stones all those who gazed at it. NEAS. A Trojan prince, son of Anchises and Venus. He married Creusa, the daughter of Priam, and they had a son named Ascanius. During the Trojan war Æneas be haved with great valor in defense of Troy. EOLUS, the ruler of storms and winds, was the son of Hippotas. He reigned over Æolia. He was the inventor of sails, and a great astronomer, from which the poets have called him the god of wind. ESCULAPIUS, Son of Apollo and Coronis, or as some say of Apollo and Larissa, daughter of Phlegias, was the god of medicine. AJAX, son of Telamon and Periboa, or Eriboa, was one of the bravest of the Greeks in the Trojan war. ALBION, Son of Neptune and Amphitrite, came into Britain, where he established a king. dom, and introduced astrology and the art of building ships. Great Britain is called "Albion" after him. ALECTO. One of the furies. She is represented with her head covered with serpents and breathing vengeance, war, and pestilence. AMPHION, Son of Jupiter and Antiope. He cultivated poetry, and made such progres in music that he is said to have been the inventor of it, and to have built the walls of Thebes by the sound of his lyre. AMPHITRITE. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, who married Neptune. She is some. times called Salatia. She was mother of Triton, a sea deity. ANDROMEDA. A daughter of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, and Cassiope. She was promised in marriage to Phineus, when Neptune drowned the kingdom and sent a seamonster to ravage the country, because Cassiope had boasted that she was fairer than Juno and the Nereides. The oracle of Jupiter Ammon was consulted, but nothing could stop the resentment of Neptune except the exposure of Andromeda to the seamonster. She was accordingly tied to a rock, but at the moment the monster was about to devour her, Perseus, returning from the conquest of the Gorgons, saw her, and was captivated with her beauty. He changed the monster into a rock by showing Medusa's head, and released Andromeda and married her. ANTIOPE, daughter of Nycteus, king of Thebes, and Polyxo, was beloved by Jupiter. Amphion and Tethus were her offspring. APHRODITE. The Grecian name for Venus, because Venus is said to have been born from the froth of the ocean. APIS. A god of the Egyptians, worshipped under the form of an ox. Some say that Isis and Osiris are the deities worshipped under this name, because they taught the Egyptians agriculture. APOLLO. Son of Jupiter and Latona; called also Phoebus. He was the god of the fine arts, and the reputed originator of music, poetry, and eloquence. He had received from Jupiter the power of knowing futurity, and his oracles were in repute everywhere. ARETHUSA, a nymph of Elis, daughter of Oceanus, and one of Diana's attendants. As she returned one day from hunting she bathed in the Alpheus stream. The god of the river was enamored of her, and pursued her over the mountains, till Arethusa, ready to sink from fatigue, implored Diana to change her into a fountain, which the goddess did. ARGUS. A son of Arestor, whence he is sometimes called Arestorides. He had a hundred eyes, of which only two were asleep at one time. Juno set him to watch lo, whom Jupiter had changed into a heifer, but Mercury, by order of Jupiter, slew him, by lulling all his eyes to sleep with the notes of the lyre. Juno put the eyes of Argus in the tail of the peacock, a bird sacred to her. ARIADNE, daughter of Minos, second king of Crete, and Pasiphæ, fell in love with Theseus, who was shut up in the labyrinth to be devoured by the Minotaur. She Theseus a clue of thread, by which he extricated himself from the windings of the labyrinth. After he had conquered the Minotaur he married her, but after a time forsook her. On this, according to some authorities, she hanged herself. gave ATE. Daughter of Jupiter and goddess of all evil. She raised such discord among the gods that Jupiter banished her from heaven, and sent her to dwell on earth, where she incited mankind to evil thoughts and actions. BACCHUS was son of Jupiter and Semele, the daughter of Cadmus. He was the god of wine, and is generally represented crowned with vine leaves. BOREAS. The name of the north wind blowing from the Hyperborean mountains. According to the poets, he was son of Astræus and Aurora. He was passionately fond of Hyacinthus. BRIAREUS. A famous giant, son of Cœlus and Terra. He had a hundred hands and fifty heads, and was called by men by the name of Ægeon. CACUS, a famous robber, son of Vulcan and Medusa, represented as a three-headed monster vomiting flames. He resided in Italy, and the avenues of his cave were cov ered with human bones. CADUCEUS. A rod entwined at one end with two serpents, It was the attribute of Mercury, and was given to him by Apollo in exchange for the lyre. CALLIOPE. One of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, who presided over eloquence and heroic poetry. CASSANDRA, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, was passionately loved by Apollo, who promised to grant her whatever she might require, and she obtained from him the power of seeing into futurity. CASTOR and POLLUX were twin brothers, sons of Jupiter and Leda. Mercury carried them to Pallena, where they were educated, As soon as they arrived at manhood they embarked with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece. In this expedition they evinced great courage. Pollux defeated and slew Amycus in the combat of the Cestus, and was afterwards considered to be the god and patron of boxing and wrestling. Castor distinguished himself in the management of horses. |