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ine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.

ight as to bring to ship directly over it. -- The anchor is atrip, or aweigh, when it is lifted out of the ground. -- The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. -- At anchor, anchored. -- To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which…

authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

f an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.

To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.

rits. See under Spirit. -- Animal kingdom, the whole class of beings endowed with animal life. It embraces several subkingdoms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.…

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.

The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis.

Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.

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.

Having the power of giving life or spirit. Johnson.

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.