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or mind; excruciating distress. But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9. Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer. iv. 31.

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…

Angular; having corners; hooked. [R.] Held together by hooks and angulous involutions. Glanvill.

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

al of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.

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

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

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

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…

The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.

to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice. Knolles.

n inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal. Brande & C.

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

spiritedness or courage. [Obs.] Skelton. Such as give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she [the crocodile] loveth. Holland.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

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

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

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