712 A N G 
AN'GUISHFD, adj. Seized with anguifli; tortured; 
cxceilively panned. Mot in ufe. 
AN'GUIUM SENECTZE,y] called alfo cxuvite. The 
ilkins of ferpents that are caft'in fpring; the (lough or call 
(kin of a fnake is as good. A decoction of it boiled in 
wine is laid to cure deafnefs, pain in the ears, See. 
AN'GU L AR, adj. Having angles or corners; cornered. 
Confiding of an angle.—As for the figure of crydal, it is 
for the mod part hexagonal, or fix-cornered, being built 
upon a confuted matter, from whence, as it were from a 
root, angular figures arife, even as in the amethyff and ba- 
ialtes. Biown. 
AMGULA'RITY.y. The quality of being angular, or 
having corners. 
AN'GULARLY, adv. With angles or corners.—Ano¬ 
ther part of the fame folution afforded us an ice angularly 
figured. Boyle. 
AN'GUHARNESS, Jj. The quality of being angular. 
AN'GULATED, adj. Formed with angles or corners. 
—Topazes, amethyfts, or emeralds, w hich grow in fiffures, 
are ordinarily cryllallized, or Ihot into angulated figures; 
whereas, in the (trata, they are found in rude lumps, like 
yellow, purple, and green, pebbles. Woodward. 
ANGULO'SITY, f. Angularity; cornered form. 
AN'GU LOUS, adj. Hooked ; angular.—Nor can it be 
a difference, that the parts of folid bodies are held toge¬ 
ther by hooks, and angulous involutions; lince the cohe¬ 
rence of the parts of thefe will be of as difficult a concep¬ 
tion. Glanville. 
ANGU'RIA, f. [ayy©-, Gr. a veffel.] In botany, age- 
nusof the monoecia diandria clafs, and ranking in tire na¬ 
tural order of cucurbitaceas. The generic charaiSfers are 
— I. Male flowers. Calyx: monophyllous, quinquefid, 
fuelling at the bafe; divilions lanceolate, fliort. Corolla: 
pentapetalous, (preading, grow ing to the border of the ca¬ 
lyx. Stamina: filaments two, oppolite, inferted into the 
calyx ; anthera creeping up and down. II. Female flow'- 
ers. Calyx and corolla: as in the male. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments as in the male, but no antherae. Piftillum : germ 
inferior oblong ; ffyle femibifid; (ligmas bifid, acute. Pe- 
ricarpium: a pome oblong, quadrangular, bilocular. 
Seeds: very many, oval, compreffed, neftling.— F.Jftntial 
CharaEler. Male. Calyx, five-cleft; corolla five-petal- 
led. Female. Calyx, five-cleft; corolla, five-petalled; 
pome inferior, two-celled, many-feeded. 
Species, i. Anguria trilobata: leaves three-lobed. This 
plant l as a very (Fining appearance. The leaves are al¬ 
ternate, large, and three-lobed ; the lobes oblong, acumi¬ 
nate, flat, entire, except that they have a few toothlets on 
the edge; the outer ones ufually have a blunt appendicle 
with a terminating toothlet, refembling the rudiment of a 
fourth and fifth lobe. Tendrils the length of the leaves. 
Peduncles of the male flowers folitary from the axils, long, 
and bearing at the end about twenty fubaggregate, feffile, 
inodorous, beautiful, vermilion-coloured, flowers, opening 
fucceflively. They are perfedlly thofe of the next fpecies, 
except that the petals are more round. Jacquin had not 
an opportunity of obferving the female flowers. Native 
of Carthagena in South America, and flowers in June. 
2. Anguria pedata: leaves pedate, ferrate. This is a 
perennial plant, climbing trees by means of long tendrils 
to the height of twenty feet. Flowers inodorous, with 
orange-coloured petals. Fruits an inch in length, the 
thicknefs of the middle finger, green with longitudinal 
white flreaks, and filming. Seeds white. Plunder's fi¬ 
gure has male and female flowers on the fame plant. Jac¬ 
quin has always found them on different plants: and yet, 
from the analogy which this genus bears to cucumbers, he 
fufpedls that the anguria may fometimes be monoecous, 
as Plunder has reprefented it. Native of St. Domingo, and* 
flowers in September. The fruit is ripe in December. 
3. Anguria trifoliata: leaves ternate, quite entire. This 
differs, in having the leaves quite entire, and narrower; 
and feveral fruits collected together. Native of St. Do¬ 
mingo. See Cucu rbita. 
A N H 
AN'GUS, a (hire of Scotland, fometimes called Forfar, 
from the name of the county-town, is bounded on the north 
by Aberdeenfliire, on the north-eafl by Kincardinfliire, on 
the eaft by the German ocean, on the fouth by the frith 
of Tay, and on the wed by Perthfhire. Its length and 
breadth are nearly equal, about thirty-five miles. It has 
many lakes and hills, with quarries of (late and freeftone, 
mines of lead and iron ore ; the lower grounds are fertile 
in corn and pafture; and, along the coalt, the falmon-fifh- 
ery is very extenlively carried on. The principal rivers 
are the North and South Elk. 
ANGU'ST, adj. \_angufius, Lat.] Narrow; flrait. 
ANGUSTA'TION, f. The aid of making narrow; 
(fraitening: the (fate of being narrowed.—The caufe may 
be referred either to the grumoufnefs of the blood, or to 
obdrudtion of the vein fomewhere in its paffage, by lome 
angvjlation upon it by part of the tumour. Wijiman. 
ANGUSTICLA'VIA,/! in Roman antiquity, a tunica 
embroidered with little purple duds. It was worn by the 
Roman knights, as the laticlavia was by the fenators. 
AN'HALT, an ifland of Denmark, in North Jutland, 
lying in the Categat, eight miles from the coal! of Jutland, 
ten from Zealand, and (even from Holland. It is dange¬ 
rous for feamen, for which reafon there is a light-hou/e. 
Anhalt, a principality of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, is a long narrow trad!, fituated betwixt 
the rivers Elbe and Saal, about ninety miles in length 
from ead to wed, but of unequal breadth, the greated be¬ 
ing on the ead fide, which is but thirty-five miles. The 
Iioufe of Anhalt, from whence the electors of Saxony and 
Brandenburg are (aid to derive their original, is a very an¬ 
cient and honourable family. The bed geneaologifls de¬ 
duce their origin from Berenthobaldus, who made war 
upon the Thuringians in the fixth century: it has produ¬ 
ced many princes who make a great figure in the German 
hidory. Joachim Erned, who died in 1586, left five fons, 
who divided the principality among them. All of them 
having children, and being of equal authority, they una- 
nimoufly agreed to fubmit to the elded of the family, who 
has the fupreme government, which is Anhalt-DeJJ'au. The 
others are, Anhalt-Bcrnlmrg, Anhalt-Schaumhurg, Ankalt- 
Cocthen, and Anhalt-Zerbjl. The Saxons acknowledge that 
the inhabitants of thefe little independent fovereignties live 
in the land of milk and honey. Thefe petty princes pof- 
fefs lands diffident for their expences, the revenues being 
reckoned at about half a million of dollars. The tax on 
lands is four percent, which, rating them at twenty years 
purchafe, is not quite one (hilling in the pound. Upon an 
emergency the (objects are able to raife half a million ex¬ 
traordinary. The towns in thefe little dates are not fo nu¬ 
merous in proportion to the extent of country as Saxony, 
but they are better peopled. It is bounded on the S. by 
the county of Mansfield, on the W. by the duchy of 
Halberdadt, on the E. by the duchy of Saxony, and on 
the N. by the duchy of Magdeburg. It abounds in corn, 
and is watered by the Salde and Mulda ; its principal trade 
is in beer. 
Anhalt-water. It is in the Brandenburg Difpenfa- 
tory, and is the fp. vini red!, diddled from turpentine, and 
twelve or thirteen other ingredients of the aromatic kind; 
but a more elegant fpirit of this kind may be obtained by 
mixing a proper quantity of the eifential oils of rofemary, 
lavender, (age, or other fuch like, with the common oil 
of turpentine, and then diddling them. This water is an 
excellent cordial. 
ANHELA'TION,y. [anhelo, Lat.] The ad! of pant¬ 
ing; the date of being out of breath. A (hortnefs of 
breath, or a difficult and fmall, but quick, refpiration, 
which happens to found perfons, efpecially fat people, and 
valetudinarians, after flrong exercife. In fevers, drop- 
fies, adhmas, pleiiriiies, See. there is always an anhelitus. 
To exprefs this, Hippocrates often ufes the word pneuma. 
But this amongd the chemids fignifies fmoke, and alfo 
horfe-dung; this lad is termed alfo, when hot, candnpe - 
ricon. 
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