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pits and limeftone-quarries; and, in Gloucefterfhire, they 
are as common on the ploughed lands as pebbles in other 
places. 
ANOMOE'ANS, f. in eccldiaftical hi (lory, the name 
by which the pure Arians were called in the fourth cen¬ 
tury, in contradidlion to the,Semi-Arians. The word is 
formed from the Greek, ariy.'oi®-, different, difliniilar: 
for the pure Arians afferthd, that the Son was in nature 
different from, and in nothing like, the Father; whereas 
the Semi-Arians acknowledged a likenefs of nature in the 
Son; at the fame time that they denied, with the pure 
Arians, the confubflantiality of the world. The Semi- 
Arians condemned the Anomocans in the council of Sc-, 
lencia; and the Anomceans, in their turn, condemned the 
Semi-Arians in the councils of Conftantinopk and Antioch, 
ending the word 0//.0 i©-', like, out of the Formula of Ri¬ 
mini and that of Conflantinoplc; 
ANOMORKOMBOFDIA,/, in natural hiftory, the 
.name of a genus of fpars ; the word is derived from the 
Greek avay-aync., irregular, and ^oy.^o^rti, a rhomboidal 
figure. The bodies of this genus are pellucid cryftaliine 
fpars of no determinate or regular external form, but al¬ 
ways breaking into regularly rhomboidal mall’es ; cn.fily 
fifiile, and compofed of plates miming both, horizontally 
and perpendicularly through the maffes, but cleaving more 
• readily and evenly in an horizontal than in a perpendicular 
direction; the plates being ever compofed of irregular ar¬ 
rangements of rhomboidal concretions. Of this genus there 
{ire"five know n ipecies. 1. A white, bright, and /battery, 
one ; found in great quantities in the lead-mines of Derby- 
fhire, York (hi re, and Wales. 2. A milk-white, opaque, 
and (battery, one, found in fome parts qf France, and very 
plentifully in Germany, and fometimes in Wales and Scot¬ 
land, and in the hills ot Yorkfliire. 3. A hard, dull, and 
fnow-white, one, found in fome of the mines in Derbyfhire, 
and in many of our northern counties. 4. A hard, grey, 
and pellucid, one, found in the lead-mines of Yorkfhire, 
and very common in Germany. And, 3. A pellucid and 
oolourlefs one, found in the lead-mines of Derbyfhire and 
Yorkfhire. Ail thefe, in fome degree, have their double 
refra&ion of the ifland cryftal. See Island-Crystal. 
ANOM'PHALOUS, adj. [of a and oy.<poe\®-, a navel, 
Gr.] Without a navel, as it is fuppofed our firft parents 
were created, not wanting nourifhment in the womb that 
Way, 
A'NOMY,/. [of a. priv. and voy/&, Gr. ] Breach of 
law._If fin be good, and juft, and lawful, it is no more 
Civil, it is no fin, no anomy. Bramhall. 
ANON', adv. [Junius imagines it to be an elliptical 
form of fpcaking for in one, that is, in one minute ; Skinner 
from a and nean, or near-, Minlhew from on cw.J Quickly; 
foon; in a fhort time.—He was not without defign at that 
prefent, as (hall be made out anon ; meaning by that de¬ 
vice to withdraw himfelf. Clarendon. Sometimes; now 
and then ; at other times. In this fenfe is ufed ever and 
anon, for now and then : 
Full forty days he pafs’d, whether on hill 
Sometimes, anon in fhady vale, each night. 
Or harbour’d in one cave, is not reveal’d. Milton. 
ANO'NA, /. in botany. See Achras, Annona, 
Chrisophyllum, Cratzeva, Sloanea. 
ANO'NIS,/ in botany. See Glycine, Hedisarum, 
Ononis, Sophora. 
ANO'NYMOUS, adv. [of a priv. and ovoy.ee, name- 
lefs, Gr.] Something that is namelefs, or of which the 
name is concealed. It is a term ufually applied to books 
which do not exprefs the author’s name, or to authors 
\vhofe names are unknown. 
Anonymous, in law. The fending anonymous letters 
demanding money, &c; is felony by the black act, 9 Geo. I. 
cap. 22. See Letter. 
ANO'NYMOUSLY, adv. Without a name .—1 would 
know whether the edition is to come qut anonymovjly, among 
complaints of fpvirions editions. 
A N O 
ANOREX'IA, or An'orexy, J . [from a . neg. and 
op.-fig, appetite, Gr. alfo apofitia , ajitia .] A want ot appe¬ 
tite, without loathing of food. See Medicine. 
ANOS'MIA, f. [from a., non, and ocryn, odour, Gr.] 
A diminution or iofs of fmelling. See Medicine. 
AMOS'SI, a province of the illand of Madagafcar, ly¬ 
ing between lat. 23.18. and 26. 0. S. It is watered by many 
rivers, mod of which run into the Franc ' nere , Ramcvatte , or 
Immour , the fpving of which is in a mountain called Mang - 
hage , and difeharges itfelf into the fea in lat. 25. iS. S. 
The mouth of this river is often flopped, and the courfe 
to the fca interrupted, unlefs kept open by the overflow¬ 
ings of great rains and high tides. Next in fize to the 
Franc here is the Marg / ujia , which fprings from a mountain 
called Siliva, and empties itfelf into the fea, where large 
fliips may ride at anchor. Crocodiles breed in thefe and 
all tlte other rivers of the ifland. Between the two rivers 
lies Cape St. llomain, half a mile diftant from the mouth 
of thcFranchere. When the Cape is palled, the coaft forms 
a great bay, which extends to the mouth of the river called 
Dian Panovgc or Pit or ah '. In the middle of this bay the 
land runs out, and slmoft forms a peninfula called Tholan - 
gare . Fort Dauphin lies to the north of this peninfula, 
and Port Dauphin over-againft it. The country is beau¬ 
tiful ; abounds in fruit-trees; is fertile in pafture for cat¬ 
tle ; and, if carefully cultivated, would produce all the 
n'eceffaries of life. It is furrounded by high mountains, 
which are covered with woods and flirubs; but, about 
four miles diftant from Fort Dauphin, the adjacent hills 
are quite deftitute of verdure. The French often dug in 
this neighbourhood for mines of gold and filver, particu¬ 
larly in one mountain, where feveral fprings flow near each 
other and empty themfelves into a neighbouring river. In 
this river they found feveral ftones and heaps intermixed 
with yellow clay, with a great quantity of black and white 
fpangles fhining like filver, which they carefully pounded 
and waflied, but without efteft. About fixty yards above 
thefe fprings the grafs, and every fort of vegetable, ap¬ 
pears half dried and yellow, from a metalline fulphuf, 
which gives that afpedt ; but the top of the mountain is 
covered with a frefh and beautiful verdure. It is faid that 
ths Portuguefe found gold at the foot of this mountain on 
the north fide, but that the place they had dug was filled 
up by the chiefs of the country after the Portuguefe had 
been driven out. 
The province of Anoffi is inhabited by three different 
forts of whites, and four forts of negroes. The whites are 
diftinguiflied by the names of Rohandrians , Anacandrians , 
and Ondzatji . The whites are diflinguifhed from the ne¬ 
groes by the general name of Zaferamina, or Rahimini -, and 
the Rohandrians are diftinguifhed above the other whites. 
When they proceed to an election of a fovereign, whom 
they call Orapiandrian , or Dian Bahouachc , he is chofen 
from the Rohandrian race. Next to him the others hold 
the rank of princes, and are honoured as fuch by all the 
reft of the fubjefts. The Anacandrians are defeendants of 
the chiefs, but who have degenerated, and are accounted 
the baftards of princes, orthofe who are defeended from a 
Rohandrian and any inferior white or black woman. Thefe 
are likevvife called by the name of Onlempajfemaca , or peo¬ 
ple from the fandy parts of Mecca, from whence, they fay, 
came the Rohandrians. Both the Rohandrians and Ana¬ 
candrians wear longhair, which hangs down in curls; and 
enjoy the privilege of killing beads. The Ondzatfi, or 
loweft clafs of whites, are defeended from the baftards of 
the Anacandrians. Thefe are all fi/hermen, and are allowed 
to kill no land animal except a chicken. 
The four claffes of negroes are named Voadziri , Loha - 
vohits , Ont / oa , and Ondeves . The Voadziri, the mod pow¬ 
erful and the richeft, are mafters of feveral villages, and 
defeended from the aborigines of the country. They enjoy 
the privilege of killing beafts, when at a diftance from tlie 
whites, and no Rohandrian or Anacandrian in the village. 
The Lohavohits are defeendants from the Voadziri, and 
alfo lords 5 but with this difference, that the one com¬ 
mands 
