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take no other liberty than that of omitting or retaining the 
letter h, at pleafure ; whereas others make no fcruple to 
ufe e for JE, v for w, s for z, and c for k; and vicevcrfa. 
But, befides anagrams formed as above, we meet with 
another kind in ancient writers, made by dividing a tingle 
"word into feveral; thus, Jus tinea mus, are formed out of 
the word, fujliniamus. Anagrams are fometimes alfo made 
•out of feveral words : f'uch is that on the question put by 
Pilate to our Saviour, Quid ejl veritas ?.whereof we have 
this admirable anagram, viz. Eft vir qui adejl. The Cab- 
ballilfs among the Jews are profefled anagrammatifts; the 
third part of their art, which they call themuru, that is, 
changing,” being nothing but the art of making ana- 
grams, or of finding hidden and myfiical meanings in 
names; which they do by changing, tranfpofing, and dif¬ 
ferently combining, the letters of thofe names. Thus, of 
,U the letters of Noah’s name, they make pi grace; of 
nnro the Mefiiah, they make net” he fliall rejoice. 
ANAGRAM'MATISM, f. The act or pradice of 
making anagrams.—The only quinteflence that hitherto 
the alchymy of wit could draw out of names, is anagram- 
matifm, or metagrammatifm, which is a difiblution of a 
name truly written into his letters, as his elements, and a 
new connexion of it by artificial tranfpofition, without ad¬ 
dition, fubtradion, or change of any letter into different 
words, making fome perfeft fenfe applicable to the per¬ 
son named. Camden. 
ANAGR AM'M ATIST, f. [from anagram."] A ma¬ 
ker or compofer of anagrams. Thomas Billon, a pro¬ 
vincial, was a celebrated anagrammatift, and retained by 
Louis XIII. with a penfion of 1200 livres, in quality of 
anagrammatifit to the king. 
To AN AGRAM'M AT 1 ZE, v.n. \anagrammatifer , Fr.] 
To make anagrams. 
A'NAGRAPHE, f. [of avayjatpn, of ocvx, and 
to write.] A defeription, a regifiering or recording of 
ads ; an inventory, a breviate. 
A'NAGROS, f. in commerce, a meafure for grain, ufed 
in fome cities of Spain, particularly at Seville ; forty-fix 
anagros make about io| quarters of London. 
ANAG'Y'RIS, f. [avacyegi;, Gr. from the'name of a. 
a town in Attica.] In botany, a genus of the decandria 
monogynia clafs, ranking in the natural order of papilio- 
■riaceae or leguminofse. The generic charafters are—Ca¬ 
lyx : perianthium bell-fhaped; mouth five-toothed, the 
tipper pair of teeth more deeply divided. Corolla : pa¬ 
pilionaceous; ftandard obcordate, ftra'ght, emarginate, 
broader than the other petals, twice as long as the calyx; 
wings ovate-oblong, flat, longer than the fktndard ; keel 
firaight, very long. Stamina : filaments parallel, diftinft, 
rifing ; antherse fimpte. Piftillum : germ oblong ; flyle 
Ample, rifing; fiigma villofe. Pericarpium : an oblong, 
large, roundifh, -obtufe legume, a little reflex. Seeds : 
fix, or more, kidney-form. — EJJential Character. Standard 
and wings fhorter than the keel in a papilionaceous corolla. 
Fruit, a legume. 
Species. 1. Anagyris foetida, or ftinking bean trefoil: 
leaves ovate, flowers axillary. This grows wild in the 
fouth of France, in Spain, Italy, and Sicily; alfo about 
Smyrna. It is a fhrub which ufually rifes to the height 
of eight or ten feet, and produces its flowers in April and 
May, which are of a bright yellow colour, growing in 
fpikes fomewhat like thofe of the laburnum. The feeds 
are never perfeded in this country, which is the reafon 
of its prefent fcarcity in England. 
2. Anagyris cretica : leaves oblong, racemes longer. A 
native of Candia, and fome of the iflands of the Archipe¬ 
lago, and is at prefent very rare in the Englifh gardens. 
This fort has longer leaves than the former, and flowers 
later in the fummer, fo that it never produces feeds. It 
Is probably only a variety. 
3. Anagyris inodora: leaves pinnate ; calyxes inflated, 
■coloured; legumes comprefled, firaight; racemes termi- 
®ating, oblong. Native of the woods of Cochinchina. 
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Propagation and Culture. Thefe may be propagated by 
laying down their tender branches in the fpring, obferv- 
i.ng to tongue them in the fame manner as the layers of 
carnations, being careful in dry weather to fupply them 
with water; which, if duly performed, the layers will 
have taken root by the following fpring, when they fliould 
be cut off from the old plants, a little time before they 
begin to put out their leaves, and planted in a warm fitu- 
ation; for, if they are too much expofed to cold winds, 
they w ill be in danger of being deftroyed in a hard win¬ 
ter. This method of propagating thefe plants, is to fup¬ 
ply their defedl: in not producing ripe feeds in this coun¬ 
try ; for the plants which are produced from feeds will be 
much handfomer, and will rife to a much greater height. 
If you propagate thefe plants from feeds, you fliould fow 
them on a moderate hot-bed the beginning of March; or 
in a border of good rich earth, in a well-flickered place, 
lifting over them about half an inch of fine mould, and 
covering them with a common frame, to protect them in 
cafe of fevere weather. If the feeds are good, the plants 
will appear in a month after the feeds are fown; when 
they fliould be inured by degrees to the open air, into 
which they fliould be removed towards the end of May, 
placing them in a flickered lituation ; for this purpofe the 
feeds may be fown in pots, and plunged into a hot-bed, 
becaufe the plants do not bear tranfplanting well till the 
fpring following: and, as they are impatient of cold while 
young, the two firft winters it will be proper to flielter 
them under a common frame, where the glafles may be 
drawn oft'every day in mild weather, that the plants may 
enjoy the open air, which will prepare them for planting 
abroad when they have acquired proper ftrength ; it will 
be very proper to keep thefe plants in pots three years, in 
which time they will have advanced to be in proper con¬ 
dition for planting them into the places where they are in- 
fended to remain ; the beft time for this is about the be¬ 
ginning of April, juft before the plants begin to put out 
new leaves: at which time they fhould be turned out of 
the pots, preferving good balls of earth to their roots, 
planting fome of them againft warm afpe£ted walls, where 
they will not be in danger of fullering by froft ; and the 
others may be planted in warm iituations, where, if they 
are protected in fevere winters by covering the furface of 
the ground about their roots with tanner’s bark, and 
fereening their heads with mats, they may be preferved 
feveral years. The fourth year from lowing, thefe plants 
will begin to produce their flowers, will continue flower¬ 
ing every year after, and will be very proper to intermix 
with other flowering flirubs of the lame grow.th in warm 
fituations. See Cytisus Laburnum. 
Anagyris, or Anagyrus, the name of a place in 
Attica, of the tribe Erechtheis, where a fetid plant, called 
Anagyris , probably the lame with the foregoing, grew in 
great plenty. 
AN AI'TIS, a furname of Venus among the Armenians; 
where the virgins confecrated to her fervice efteemed them- 
felves more dignified by public proftitution. Diana was 
alfo worfhipped under this name by the Lydians. 
ANA'K, [ pjy Heb. i. e. a collar.] The father of the 
Anakims, was the fon of Arba, who gave his name to 
Kirjath-arba, or Hebron, Jolh. xiv. 15. Anak had three 
fons, Sheftiai, Ahiman, and Talmai, chap. xv. 14. and 
Numb. xiii. 22. who, as well as their father, were giants; 
and who, with their pofterity,- all terrible for their fierce- 
nefs and extraordinary ftature, were called Anakims ; in 
comparifon gf whom the Hebrews, who were lent to view 
the land of Canaan, reported that they were but as gralT- 
hoppers, Numb. xiii. ult . Caleb, aflifted by the tribe of 
Judah, took Kirjath-arba, and deftroyed the Anakims, 
Judg. i. 20. and Jolh. xv. 14. in the year of the world 2559. 
ANAL'CES,/ [from a neg. j»nd ctXxv>, ftrength, Gr.] 
Weak, effeminate. Hippocrates ufes this word as an epi¬ 
thet for the Afiatic nations. 
ANALEG'TA, f. [of avaAoila:, of «v« } and ^eyof/.ai^ 
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