ANA 



ANA 



J,yiiia die per onmes. 



'\ he word anacreontic is sometimes 



li.tred at tlu- beginning of convivial 



;;-lees, &.r. denotes a guy hilarity of 



..ent, and a free and easy style of 



performance. 



AN \('\ C.LUS, in botany, a genus of 

 plains of the Syngcnesia 1'olygamia Su- 

 perflua. Essen, char, receptacle chaH'y, 

 row ned with an emarginutc mar- 

 gin, those at the ray membranaceous at 

 the s'.iK-s. There are five species: of 

 which the creticus and orientals grow 

 naturally in the islands of the Archipela- 

 go. They are low plants, whose branch- 

 es trail on the ground. The first sort has 

 fine cut leaves, like those of chamo- 

 mile ; the Mowers are small, white, and 

 grow single, with their heads declining; 

 these are like those of common may-weed. 

 The second has leaves like those of the 

 ox-eye ; the flowers are white, and like 

 those of chamomile. 



ANAGAl.LIS, in botany, a genus of 

 plants, belonging to the Pentondria Mo- 

 nogynia class of Linnaeus ; the flower of 

 \\ Inch is monopetalous, multifid, and or- 

 bicular ; the fruit is a globose capsule, 

 containing only one cell, and dividing ho- 

 rizontally into two hemispheres ; the 

 M c<ls are numerous and angular. There 

 are si- 



VN.MiHAM, in matters of literature, 

 a transposition of the letters of some 

 name, whereby a new word is formed, 

 either to the advantage or disadvantage 

 of the person or thing to which the name 

 belongs; thus, from Galenus is formed 

 Angelas : from James, Simca ; and so of 

 others. 



Those who adhere strictly to the defi- 

 nition of an anagram, take no other liber- 

 ty than that of omitting or retaining the 

 letter A, at pleasure ; whereas others 

 make no scruple to use e for , v for iv, 

 \ for r, and c for k , and vice versa. 



\\AGYR1S, bean-ire foil, in botany, a 

 genus of plants with papilionaceous 

 rlowers, the vixillum of which is shorter 

 than any of the other petals, and its fruit 

 an oblong pod, containing kidney-like 

 seeds : to this it is to be added, that'three 

 leaves stand on every petal. It belongs 

 to the Diadelphia Decandria class of 

 .Linnaeus. 



According to Martyn, there are three 

 species : vi/. the foetida, cretica, and ino- 

 dorata. The first grows wild in the 

 South of France, in Spain, Italy, and 

 Sicily ; also about Smyrna, ft is a shrub 

 that rises 8 or ten feet high, and produces 



us Bowers in April and May, which are 

 of a bright yellow colour, growing on 

 spikes, somewhat like those of the la- 

 burnum : the seeds are never perfected 

 in this country. The second is a native 

 of Canada, and some of the islands of the 

 Archipelago, and is very rare in English 

 gardens. The third is an upright shrub, 

 equal to a middle-sized tree : branches 

 hanging down, frequently scandent : a 

 native of the woods of Cochinchina. 



These may be propagated by laying 

 down their tender branches in the spring, 

 observing- to tongue them in the same 

 manner as the layers of carnations. 



ANALCIME, in mineralogy, a species 

 of Zeolite, found crystallized in the cavi- 

 ties of basalt. The primitive form of its 

 crystals is a cube. It is sometimes found 

 crystallized in cubes, whose solid angles 

 are wanting, and three small triangular 

 faces in place of each; sometimes in po- 

 lyhedrons with twenty-four faces. Spe- 

 cific gravity 2. Colour white, sometimes 

 red. When nibbed, it acquires only n 

 small degree of electricity, and with dif- 

 ficulty. Before the blow-pipe it melts 

 without frothing into a white transparent 



ANA L EMM A, in geometry, a projec- 

 tion of the sphere on the plane of the me- 

 ridian, orthographically made by straight 

 lines and ellipses, the eye being supposed 

 at an infinite distance ; and in the east or 

 west points of the horizon. See M VPS. 



AXALF.IUWA denotes likewise an instru- 

 ment of brass or wood, upon which this 

 kind of projection is drawn, with an hori- 

 zon and cursor fitted to it, wherein the 

 solstitial colure, and all circles parallel 

 to it, will be concentric circles ; all cir- 

 cles oblique to the eye will be ellipses ; 

 and all circles whose planes pass through 

 the eye, will be right lines. The use ot 

 this instrument is to shew the common 

 astronomical problems. 



ANALOGY, in matters of literature, a 

 certain relation and agreement between 

 two or more things ; which in other re- 

 spects are entirely different ; thus the 

 foot of a mountain bears an analogy to the 

 foot of an animal, although they are two 

 very different things. 



There is likewise an analogy between 

 beings that have some conformity OF re- 

 semblance to one another ; for example, 

 between animals and plants, and between 

 metals and vegetables; but the analogy- 

 is stillstronger between two different spe- 

 cies of certain animals. 



ANALOGY, among grammarians, is t he- 

 correspondence which a word or phrase 



