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An Arithmetical and Commercial Dictionary
An Arithmetical and Commercial Dictionary Author:William Barnes Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Si GUM ACACIA, Or Gum Arabic. A gum exuding from a tree of Barbary, Morocco, and other parts of Africa. HARMONIC PROPORTION. (See Progression.) IM... more »POST. (Lat. Impositum, put upon.) A tax or duty put upon articles. IMPROPER FRACTION. A fraction having its numerator greater than its denominator, or a fraction containing so many parts of an integer, as would make up more than a whole one ; as 5/4 or 3/3 of a thing. INCOME. What a person or firm has coming in yearly or otherwise. INDEX. (Lat. Indico, to point out.) See Power. INDIGO. A drug obtained from leguminous plants in Hindostan, South America, and Egypt. Used as a blue dye. INDORSE. (Lat. In, upon, and dorsum, the back.) To write on the back of any writing, particularly to write ones name on the back of a bill. (See Promissory Note.) 'INGOT. (French, Lingot, a wedge or mass.) A mass of metal. INSTALMENT. If a person owes another money, and, not being able to pay it all at once, undertakes to pay it in parts, at different times, those parts are called Instalments. INSURANCE. The act of insuring property ; that is, undertaking to pay the owner so much money for it if he should lose it by accident; on condition that he should pay the insurers so much a year for every £100 they might undertake to give 1dm. When the owner of a house or a ship insures it for so much money, he gets that money of the insurers, if the house is burnt down, or the ship wrecked. The money paid yearly to the insurers at so much per cent, is called the Premium, the paper or parchment upon which the undertaking is written, is called the Policy, and the insurer or signer of the Policy, is called the Underwriter. INTEGER. (Lat. Integer, whole.) A whole thing; so called to distinguish it from...« less