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The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.

The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.

A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman.

A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold.

Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; 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 t…

animadvert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare. Dryden.

ganized 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 with…

ich, in electro- chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation. Faraday.

A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.

A disease due to the presence of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's…

any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Characterized by annotations; of the nature of annotation.

That may be announced or declared; declarable. [R.]

ject to conscious attention; having an indefinite, relatively passive, conscious being; characteristic of the "fringe" or "margin" of consciousness.

Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.

Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. [Written also anomoural, anomouran.]

A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearl…

rupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).