in the iron-works, a piece of half-wrought iron, of about three quarters of 100 weight, and of the shape of a bar in the middle, but rude and unwrought at the ends. The process for bringing the iron to this state is this: They first melt off a piece from a fow of cast iron, of the proper size; this they hammer at the forge into a mass of two feet long, and of a square shape, which they call a bloom; when this is done, they fend it to the finery; where, after two or three heats and workings, they bring it to this figure, and call it an ancony. The middle part beat out at the finery, is about three feet long, and of the shape and thickness the whole is to be; this is then sent to the chafery, and there the ends are wrought to the shape of Ancorarum of the middle, and the whole made into a bar. See Ancylus.