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r others, or by the intent to do such injury. Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him. Shak.

ly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

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

An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.

A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.

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.

A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.

A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that. Dr. H. More.

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson.

A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

ayable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

Having anomalous flowers.

f bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

To be opposite to; to face. The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin.