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Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

caceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind. Knight.

A description of the winds.

The science of the wind.

An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.

The act or process of ascertaining the force or velocity of the wind.

A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind- Fertilized. Lubbock.

An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

od of some trees in which the rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.

Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born. -- An*frac"tu*ous*ness, n.

A mazy winding.

rs. O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. Milton.

Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace acr…

on; -- contrasted with angle of trail, which is the angle between the tangent to the following edge and the line of motion.

To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin.

Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.

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