Angulosity (n.) A state of being angulous or angular.
Angulous (a.) Angular; having corners; hooked.
Angust (a.) Narrow; strait.
Angustate (a.) Narrowed.
Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.
Angustifoliate (a.) Alt. of Angustifolious
Angustifolious (a.) Having narrow leaves.
Angustura bark () See Angostura bark.
Angwantibo (n.) A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
Anhang (v. t.) To hang.
Anharmonic (a.) Not harmonic.
Anhelation (n.) Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma.
Anhele (v. i.) To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for).
Anhelose (a.) Anhelous; panting.
Anhelous (a.) Short of breath; panting.
Anhima (n.) A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.
Anhinga (n.) An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.
Anhistous (a.) Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.
Anhungered (a.) Ahungered; longing.
Anhydride (n.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.
Anhydrite (n.) A mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).
Anhydrous (a.) Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.
Ani (n.) Alt. of Ano
Ano (n.) A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
Anicut (n.) Alt. of Annicut
Annicut (n.) A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation.
Anidiomatical (a.) Not idiomatic.
Anient (v. t.) Alt. of Anientise
Anientise (v. t.) To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate.
Anigh (prep. & adv.) Nigh.
Anight (adv.) Alt. of Anights
Anights (adv.) In the night time; at night.
Anil (n.) A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
Anile (a.) Old-womanish; imbecile.
Anileness (n.) Anility.
Anilic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo.
Anilide (n.) One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.
Aniline (n.) An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.
Aniline (a.) Made from, or of the nature of, aniline.
Anility (n.) The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage.
Animadversal (n.) The faculty of perceiving; a percipient.
Animadversion (n.) The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.
Animadversion (n.) Monition; warning.
Animadversion (n.) Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame.
Animadversion (n.) Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment.
Animadversive (a.) Having the power of perceiving; percipient.
Animadverted (imp. & p. p.) of Animadvert
Animadverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Animadvert
Animadvert (v. i.) To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.
Animadvert (v. i.) To consider or remark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with on or upon.
Animadvert (v. i.) To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment.
Animadverter (n.) One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser.
Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
Animal (n.) One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
Animal (a.) Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
Animal (a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
Animal (a.) Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
Animalcular (a.) Alt. of Animalculine
Animalculine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules.
Animalcule (n.) A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.
Animalcule (n.) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.
Animalculism (n.) The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.
Animalculist (n.) One versed in the knowledge of animalcules.
Animalculist (n.) A believer in the theory of animalculism.
Animalcula (pl. ) of Animalculum
Animalculum (n.) An animalcule.
Animalish (a.) Like an animal.
Animalism (n.) The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
Animality (n.) Animal existence or nature.
Animalization (n.) The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
Animalization (n.) Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation.
Animalized (imp. & p. p.) of Animalize
Animalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Animalize
Animalize (v. t.) To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
Animalize (v. t.) To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
Animalize (v. t.) To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.
Animally (adv.) Physically.
Animalness (n.) Animality.
Animastic (a.) Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.
Animastic (n.) Psychology.
Animated (imp. & p. p.) of Animate
Animating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Animate
Animate (v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
Animate (v. t.) To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
Animate (v. t.) To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
Animate (a.) Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
Animated (a.) Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
Animatedly (adv.) With animation.
Animater (n.) One who animates.
Animating (a.) Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing.
Animation (n.) The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.
Animation (n.) The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness; as, he recited the story with great animation.
Animative (a.) Having the power of giving life or spirit.
Animator (n.) One who, or that which, animates; an animater.
Anime (a.) Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.
Anime (n.) A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenaea courbaril), and much used by varnish makers.
Animism (n.) The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
Animism (n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.
Animist (n.) One who maintains the doctrine of animism.
Animistic (a.) Of or pertaining to animism.