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irit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness; as, he recited the story with great animation. Suspended animation, temporary suspension of the vital functions, as in persons nearly drowned.

A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

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

The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.

The act of annexing, or the thing annexed; appendage. [R.] Shak.

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

distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.

f words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.

A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.

A dependency; a dependent territory.

The act of appending. [Obs.]

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common t…

One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.

Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

ext in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix.