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the class polyandria and order polygynia. 

 There are four British, and 24 foreign 

 species, all perennials. Named from 

 ttvUM,-, the wind, because the flower is 

 said not to open till blown upon by the 

 wind. From the beauty of the flower it 

 is fabled that Venus changed her Adonis 

 into an anemone. 



ANEMO'NIA, \ an acrid crystallisable and 



ANEMO'NIN, / inflammable substance, 

 obtained from some species of anemone. 



A'NEMOSCO'PE, from itytu,c>f, the wind, 

 and trxom*, to view. Properly, a machine 

 for showing from what point of the com- 

 pass the wind blows; but the term is 

 oftener used as synonymous with anemo- 

 meter (q.v.) The common weathercock is 

 strictly an anemoscope. 



ANEPITHY'MIA, loss of any natural appe- 

 tites, as that for food and drink : from a, 

 without, and vn9viju, desire. 



ANE'SIS, in medicine, remission or dimi- 

 nution of symptoms; from <**ir,uu, to 

 remit. 



A>-ETH'uM,the herbs dill and fennel ; the 

 name of a genus of the class pentandria, 

 and order dygynia. Named itivOov, quint 

 cito crescat (Pliny, 20, 18). The fennel, A. 

 fceniculum , grows plentifully on the chalky 

 cliffs in England; its seeds are carmi- 

 native. 



AN'ECRISM, Gr. ativeviruet, from a.w 

 (vvai, to dilate. "The term signifies strictly 

 a tumour arising from the dilatation of 

 an artery : but it has been extended to 

 several diseases and lesions of the blood- 

 vessels, and to dilatations of the heart " 



ANFRACTCO'SITY (supra}, an involution 

 of parts. 



AN FRAC'TCOUS, Lat. anfractus, a winding 

 backwards and forwards. A term most 

 commonly used in botany, to signify that 

 the marginal parts are folded back, and 

 doubled and bent until all trace of the 

 normal character is lost. 



ANGEL, 1. literally a messenger, from 

 myyt)io;, one employed to communicate 

 information, fromaj^eAAa, to announce ; 

 hence, in tcripture,* spiritual intelligence 



employed by God to execute his will. 



2. The name of a gold coin formerly cur- 

 rent in England bearing the supposed 

 figure of an angel. This coin had different 

 values in different reigns ; e. g. 6*. Bd. in 

 the reign of Edward VI.; 7s. Gd. in 1st 

 Henry VIII., and 8*. in 34th Henry VIII. ; 

 10s. in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth. 

 The angel was first struck in commemo- 

 ration of a saying of Pope Gregory, that 

 the English, whom he denominated pagan 

 Angli, were so beautiful, that if they were 



Christians they would be angels. 3. 



The order of the Golden Angel was an 

 ancient order of knighthood, said to 

 Lave been instituted by Cunitantine, but 



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more probably by the imperial house of 

 Coninenus of Constantinople. The order 

 was revived by Charles V. It is the same 

 as that known as the orders of St. George 



and of St. Constantine. 4. Angel is 



also the popular name of a genus of fishes 

 (chatodon, Lin.) remarkable for their 

 beautiful colours. See CH.STODON. 



ANGEL'ICA, a genus of aromatic plants 

 of the class pentandria and order dtgynia, 

 named angelic, from the cordial and medi- 

 cinal properties of some of its species. 



ANGELICE.K, the name given by Decan- 

 dolle to a tribe of umbelliferous plants, of 

 which the genus angelica is the type. 



ANGELICS, angelici, in church history, an 

 ancient sect of heretics, who maintained 

 that the world was created by angels , 

 also a congregation of nuns founded at 

 Milan, in 1534, by Louisa Torelli, Countess 

 of Guastalla. Angelics is also the name of 

 an order of knights instituted in 1191, by 

 Angellus Flavus Comnenus, emperor of 

 Constantinople, probably the same as the 

 order of the golden angel. See ANQEL (3). 



ANGELITES, in church history, a sect so 

 called from Angelicum, in Alexandria, 

 where they held their flrst meetings. 

 They are also called Sererites, from Seve- 

 rus, their head; and Theodosians, from 

 one Theodosius, whom they made their 

 pope. 



AJJGELOT. 1. A musical instrument 

 somewhat resembling a flute ; so 

 called from Fr. auche, the reed of a 

 hautboy or other musical instrument. 

 2. An ancient gold coin, struck at Paris 

 while under the dominion of England ; so 

 called from its being the figure of an 

 angel, supporting the scutcheon of the 



arms of England and France. 3. A 



small rich sort of cheese, made in Nor- 

 mandy : supposed to be so called from the 

 name of the person who first made it, 

 or from its resemblance to the form of 

 the coin angelot. 



ANGEL-SHOT, from Fr. ange, & chain- 

 shot. A sort of chain-shot having two 

 halves of a cannon-ball fastened to the 

 ends of a chain. 



ANGEL-WATER, a mixture of rose, 

 orange-flower, and myrtle water, per- 

 fumed with ambergris. It is made in 

 Portugal. 



ANGINA, Lat. from ango, to strangle. A 

 general name for diseases called sore 

 throat, and which are attended with diffl 

 cult deglutition and respiration, as quinsy, 

 mumps, croup. That peculiar affection of 

 the Chest called suffocative breast-pang is 

 also named by physicians angina pectori*. 



AN oioc AR'PO u s , from et-yytiot . a case , and 

 xetfTOS, fruit. A term applied in botany 

 to seed-vessels which are enclosed in a 

 covering that does not form part of them- 



