ANA 
monstrous projection is to be delineated: 
this space is called the craticular ectype. 
Lastly, in every areola, or small trapezium, 
of the space a b c d, draw what appears de- 
lineated in the correspondent areola of the 
square ABCD ; and thus you will obtain a 
deformed image, which will appear in just 
proportion to an eye distant from it the 
length of F V, and raised above its height 
VS. 
An image may be deformed mechanically, 
if you place it, having little holes lhade 
here and there in it with a needle, against 
a candle, and observe where the rays go- 
ing through these holes, fall on a plane or 
curve surface ; for they will give the cor- 
responding points of the image to be de- 
formed. 
The practical methods of drawing these 
images is described in the Leipsic Act for 
the year 1711, where we have an account 
of two machines, one for images viewed 
with a cylindrical, and the other with a co- 
nical mirror. The person who has this in- 
strument may take any point at pleasure, 
and while he goes over the outlines of it 
with one pen, another traces the anannor- 
phosis. 
In the cloister of the Minims at Paris, 
there are two anamorphoses traced upon 
two of the sides of the cloister, one repre- 
senting a Magdalen, and the other St. John 
writing his gospel. They are so managed, 
that when viewed directly they appear like 
a kind of landscape, but from a particular 
point of sight they appear very distinctly, 
like human figures, 
ANANAS, See Bromelia, 
ANAPAEST, in ancient poetry, a foot 
consisting of two short syllables and one 
jong : such is the word scopulos. It is just 
the reverse of the dactyl, 
ANAPHORA, in rhetoric, a verbal fi- 
gure, whereby one or more words are re- 
peated in the beginning of several sentences. 
This is a lively and elegant figure, and serves 
very much to engage the attention ; for by 
the frequent return of the same word, the 
mind of the hearer is held in an agreeable 
suspense till the whole is finished. Such is 
that in the Psalms ; “ The voice of the Lord 
is powerful : the voice of the Lord is full of 
majesty : the voice of the Lord shaketh in 
the wilderness.’’ Another from Cicero’s 
fine oration against Catiline ; “ You do no- 
thing, you attempt nothing, you think no- 
thing, but what I not only hear, but also 
see and plainly perceive.” 
ANARCHICHAS, in natural history, 
ANA 
waif-fish, a genus of fishes of the order 
Apodes : head rounded, blunt ; fore-teeth 
in each jaw conic, large, divergent, six or 
more ; grinders in the lower jaw and paiate 
rounded ; gill-membrane seven-rayed ; body 
roundish, caudal-fin distinct. There are 
three species. A. lupus, or ravenous wolf- 
fish, inhabits the northern seas ; grows to 
15 feet long ; it is a most fierce and raven- 
ous fish, and will fasten on any thing 
within its reach. It feeds on shell-fish, 
which it grinds to pieces with its teeth, and 
swallows shells and all : moves slowly with 
something of a serpentine motion; the grind- 
ers are often found fossile, and are called 
toad-stones : the flesh' is good, but not often 
eaten. The fossile teeth were formerly 
much esteemed for imaginary virtues, and 
were set in gold and worn as rings. Not- 
withstanding the ferocity of tins fish, winch 
is as dreadful to the small inhabitants of tire 
water, as the wolf is to those on land, it is 
sometimes attacked and destroyed by an 
enemy of far inferior size and strength, viz. 
the cyclop terns, or lump-fislj, which fastening 
itself on its neck, adheres immoveably, tor- 
menting it in such a manner as to cause its 
death. The -wolffish frequents the deep 
part of the sea, and in the spring ap- 
proaches the coast, in order to deposit its 
spawn among marine plants : the ova are 
about the size of peas ; and the young are 
of a greenish cast, like that of sea-wrack, 
among which they reside for some time af- 
ter their birth. See Plate I. Pisces, fig. 3. 
A. minor is found in the Greenland seas ; 
and the A. pantherinus inhabits the North 
ern and Frozen Ocean. 
ANARRHINUM, in botany, a genus of 
the Didynamia Angiosperma class and or- 
der : calyx five-leaved ; coral with a necta- 
riferous prominence at its base pointing 
downwards ; the upper-lip flat, without 
palate, and the orifice pervious ; capsule 
two-celled, many-valved. There are five 
species. 
ANAS, in natural history, a genus of 
birds of the order Anseres. The bill in this 
genus is strong, broad, flat or depressed, 
and commonly furnished at the end with an 
additional piece termed a nail, the edges of 
the mandibles marked with sharp teeth ; 
nostrils small, oval : tongue broad, edges 
near the base fringed ; toes four, three be- 
fore and one behind, the middle one the 
longest. According to Latham, there are 
98 species, besides varieties ; but .Gmelin 
gives about 1 20 species. 
From the swan downward to the teal, they 
