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gican Danes, or Danes who settled in 

 ngland (Anglia). 



ANULO-NORMAN, pertaining to the Nor- 

 mans who settled in England. 



ANGLO-SAXON, pertaining to the Angles, 

 or tribe of Saxons that settled in England. 

 See ANGLICAN. 



AN'GON, the javelin of the ancient 

 French, the iron head of which resembled 

 a fleur-de-luce. 



AN'GOR, Lat. from ango, to strangle. In 

 pathology, a feeling of anxiety, aud con- 

 striction in the praecordial region : it is an 

 accompaniment of many severe diseases. 



ANGU, bread made of the cassava, a 

 plant of the West Indies. 



ANGCINA, a family of serpents having 

 an osseous head, teeth, and tongue, and 

 eyes furnished with three lids. They are 

 all comprised in the genus anguis of Lin- 

 naeus (whence their family name), and 

 belong to the order ophidia of Cuvier. 



AM GUIS, a genus of serpents (Linnaeus) 

 composing the family anguina of Cuvier, 

 and now subdivided into pseudopus, ophi- 

 smtnis, anguis proper, and acontiaa. They 

 are all characterised by having subcaudal 

 and abdominal imbricated scales. The 

 slow- worm (A.fragilis) is an example. 



ANGULAR, relating to angles. Angular 

 motion is the motion of a body about a 

 fixed point, which is measured by the 

 angle described at the centre by lines 

 drawn from its positions at different 

 points of its circular path. By Angular 

 section is meant, in the old geometry, the 

 division of an angle into any number of 

 equal parts. The bisection only of an 

 angle is possible by plane geometry ; the 

 trisection of an angle requires the aid of 

 solid geometry, and the general division 

 of an angle into any proposed number of 

 equal parts is a problem which has not as 

 yet been solved. Angular sections, in 

 modern mathematics, is the name used to 

 denote a branch of analysis, which is 

 employed in the investigation of the pro- 

 perties of circular functions. 



ANGULATE, angled; applied to stems, 

 leaves, petioles, &c., which are of an 

 angular shape. 



ANGUS'TATK, Lat. angustattti, beginning 

 with a narrow base and growing broader ; 

 tapered downwards, or towards the base. 



ANOUS'TICLAVE, from Lat. angustus, 

 narrow, and davits, a knob. A robe or 

 tunic worn by the Roman knights ; it was 

 embroidered with narrow purple knobs, 

 or studs, whereas the laticlave worn by 

 the senators had broad studs. 



ANOCSTIFOLIATE, narrow-leaved; an- 

 gustus, narrow, and/u/ium, a leaf. 



ANOUSTV'RA, talk; a medicinal bark 

 (of the Bonplandia trifoliata] ; is so called 

 beoa use brouuht from An^ustura, in South 

 Amprira. It is occasionally used as a 

 tonic, and In diarrhoea. Spurious angus- 



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tura is a poisonous bark , sometimes found 

 in commerce ; it is obtained from a spe- 

 cies of strychnos. 



ANHELA'TION, from anhelo, to breathe 

 with difficulty. Difficult respiration, with 

 a sense of suffocation. See DTSPNOJA. 



ANHI'MA, an aquatic fowl of Brazil, 

 somewhat like a crane. It is said that 

 when the male or female dies, the living 

 one remains by the carcass till it also 

 expires. 



ANHYDRITE, anhydrous gypsum. A 

 variety of sulphate of lime containing no 

 water of crystallisation. It is also called 

 prismatic gypsum. 



ANHYDROUS, from a, priv., and vSu^, 

 water. Containing no water in combina- 

 tion. Anhydro is a contraction of this 

 word ; e. g. anhydro-sulphuric acid. 



ANIL, one of the indigo plants (indigo- 

 fera}. Anil is the Spanish and Portuguese 

 word for indigo, perhaps from Arabic nila 

 blue. The plant is a native of America. 



ANILLE'ROS, in history, the name given 

 to the moderate party during the Spanish 

 revolution of 1820-23. They directed the 

 Cortes, and were headed by Arguelles and 

 Martinez de la Rosa. 



ANIMAL, an organised and living body, 

 endowed with sensation and the power of 

 voluntary movement, in whole or in part 

 Locomotion, although a general character- 

 istic, is not an essential attribute of ani- 

 mality. There are numerous animals as 

 permanently fixed to their native rocks 

 and coral reefs, as the most deep-rooted 

 plants are to the soil on which they grow. 

 The word anitnal is Latin, from anima, 

 air, breath, soul. 



ANIMAL KINGDOM. The ANIMAL KING- 

 DOM is arranged into four divisions. Di- 

 vision I. Vertebral Animals, so called from 

 their possessing a vertebral column, or 

 spine. Division II. Molluscous Animals, 

 such as shell-fish, which are of a soft 

 structure, and without a skeleton, from 

 mollis, soft. Division III. Articulated 

 Animals, such as the worm, or insect, 

 which are also without a skeleton ; but 

 whose skins or coverings are divided and 

 jointed ; from articulus, a small joint. 

 Division IV. Zoophytes, animals believed 

 to be composed very nearly of a homo- 

 geneous pulp, which is moveable and 

 sensible, and resembles the form of a 

 plant ; from &iy, a living creature, and 

 QUTOV, a plant. 



DIVISION I. 



Vertebral Animals are composed of four 

 Classes: viz., 1. Mammalia, animals whii:h 

 suckle their young ; from mamnui.a. teat; 

 2. Aves, from avis, a bird; Rfptilia, ani- 

 mals that crawl, from repo, to creep; 4. 

 Pisces, from pisris, a fish. 



The FIRST CLASS, Mammalia, is again 

 divided into orders, which are subdivided 



