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English and East Indian peoples or languages. -- n. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Indies. Anglo-Norman, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Normans, or to the Normans who settled in England. -- n. One of the English Normans, or the Normans who conquered England. Anglo-Saxon. See Anglo-S…

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.

Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v. 6.

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

ach 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 with progress to maturity.

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

A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenæa courbaril), and much used by varnish makers. Ure.

Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute. [Obs.] Ash.

An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] Kipling.

An animal resembling an annelid.

while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. U…

Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.

Resembling a goose; silly; simple. Sydney Smith.

a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to. She answers him as if she knew his mind. Shak. So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. Milton.

e to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.

The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.

A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers.

Resembling an anther.

Resembling a flower; flowerlike.

Resembling anthrax in action; of the nature of anthrax; as, an anthracoid microbe.