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Not idiomatic. [R.] Landor.

To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Nigh. [Archaic]

In the night time; at night. [Archaic] Does he hawk anights still Marston.

A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.

Old-womanish; imbecile. "Anile ideas." Walpole.

Anility. [R.]

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

One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

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 It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl.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…

A disease due to inhaling the poisonous fumes present in the manufacture of aniline.

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

The faculty of perceiving; a percipient. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

ng notice; direct or simple perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

Having the power of perceiving; percipient. [Archaic] Glanvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

mark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with on or upon. I should not animadvert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare. Dryden.

One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser.

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…

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

A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc. [Obs.] Ray.