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The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.

The state or quality of being English.

The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.

The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger. Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything. Whole Duty of Man.

The quality or state of being angular; angularness.

The quality of being angular.

A state of being angulous or angular. [Obs.]

The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage. "Marks of anility." Sterne.

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…

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.

Capable of being annihilated.

The state of being annihilated. Hooker.

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.

) Not subject to conscious attention; having an indefinite, relatively passive, conscious being; characteristic of the "fringe" or "margin" of consciousness.

The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton.

Quality of being anomalous.

The quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness; also, that which anonymous. [R.] He rigorously insisted upon the rights of anonymity. Carlyle.

The state or quality of being anonymous. Coleridge.