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Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use. Specifically (Anat.),

Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] "Absonous to our reason." Glanvill.

Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. Glanvill.

A mingling of different things; admixture. Glanvill.

n ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky. Her aguish love now glows and burns. Granville.

ity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.

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

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

The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

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

Disregard or violation of law. [R.] Glanvill.

n. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

Act of striking or conflicting. [R.] Glanvill.

ive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory. In a confident and assertive form. Glanvill. As*sert"ive*ly, adv. -- As*sert"ive*ness, n.

in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill.

That which attracts, as a magnet. The motion of the steel to its attrahent. Glanvill.

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. Love is begot by fancy. Granville.

To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill.

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.