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Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. [Written also aneurysmal.]

Of or pertaining to Anjou in France. -- n. A native of Anjou.

Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris.

Of or pertaining to the Angles. -- n.

English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.

joined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish. Anglo-American, . Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. -- n. A descendant from English ancestors born in America, or the United States. Anglo-Danish, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Danes,…

Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.

Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. "The anguine or snakelike reptiles." Owen.

aracter; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn t…

Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo. [R.]

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

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

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

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.

Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.

Of or pertaining to animism. Huxley. Tylor.

Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

Of or pertaining to the Annelida. -- n.