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

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

A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc. [Obs.] Ray.

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

One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith.

An animalcule.

Like an animal.

The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

Animal existence or nature. Locke.

The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.

Physically. G. Eliot.

Animality. [R.]

An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.

Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.

Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. "The aboral or abactinal area." L. Agassiz.

Ivory black or animal charcoal. Weale.

An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.

Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum. [Obs.]

The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.