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 ANI '• 1 (3 16 ) tufe fcales : The tail is thick and obtiife like the head ; AMIMA, among divines and naturalifts, denotes the its colour.is white, interfperfed with brownilh rings; foul, or principle of life, in animals. the margins of the fcaies are of an iron-colour; An ima, among chemifts, denotes the volatile or fpiriand the top of the head is blue. See Plate XXII. tous parts of bodies. fig. 3. 14. The eryx, a native of Britain and like- An i m a_ bepatis, is a name by which fome call fal martis, wife of America, has 126 fcuta on the belly, and 136 or fait of iron, on account of its fuppofed efficacy in on the tail. It is of an alh-colour above, with three difeafes of the liver. black lines interfperfed, and blueilh below : It is a- Anima faturni, a white powder obtained by pouring dibout a fpan in length, ancl about the thicknefs of a ft^kd vinegar on litharge, of confiderable ufe in enaman’s finger. 15. The fragilis, a native of Europe, melling. See Enamel. has 135 fcuta on the belly, and 135 on the tail. Avima, or Animato, in mufic, the fame with allegro. 16. The ventralis, a native of Carolina, has 127 fcuta See Allegro. on the belly, and 223 on the tail. It is of a greenifh ANIMACHA, a river of India, in the kingdom of Maalh-colour, and its tail is about thrice as long as its labar. It rifes in the kingdom of Calicut, and falls body. According to Linnseus, none of this genus are into the ocean fix leagues from Cranganor. It is alfo poifonous. the name of a town upon the river. ANGULAR, in a general fenfe, denotes fomething re- ANIMADVERSION, in matters of literature, is ufed lating to, or that hath angles. See Angles. to fignify, fometimes correftion, fometimes remarks ANGULARIS fcapuLs, the name by which fome ana- upon a book, 6"c. and fometimes a ferious confideratomills call the levator fcapulse. See Anatomy, tion upon any point. page 194. ANIMAL, in natural hiftory, an organized body enwith fenfation: Thus, minerals are faid to grow ANGURIA> botany, a genus the monoecia dian- dowed or increafe ; plants to grow and live; but animals adria clafs. inThere are only threeoffpecies of the anguria, viz. the trilobata, pedata, and trifoliata, all na- lone to have fenfation. See Natural History. ANIMALS, in heraldry, are much ufed, both as beartives of America. ANGUS, a Ihire or county of Scotland, bounded on ings and fupporters. See Heralory. the north by the Ihire of Merns, on the call by the Animal, ufed adjectively, denotes any thing belongGerman ocean, on the fouth by the frith of Tay, ing to, or partaking of the nature of animals. Thus, which divides it from the Ihire of Fife, and on the animal aflions, thofe that are peculiar to animals ; fuch are fenfation and mufcular motion. weft by the fhire of Perth. This county, which for the moft part is exceeding Animal fpirits. See NERvousy?«L'. fertile, is otherwife called Forfarlhire, from its capital Animal fyflem denotes the whole clafs of beings endowed with animal life, otherwife called animal kingForfar. ANGUSTICLAVIA, in Roman antiquity, a tunica dom. embroidered with little purple ftuds. It was worn by ANIMALCULE,-an animal fo minute in its fize, as the Roman knights, as the laticlavia was by the fe- not to be the immediate objeft of our fenfes. See M1 croscope. nators. or Animate, in a general fenfe, deANHALT, a province of the circle of Upper Saxony, ANIMATED, in Germany, lying fouthward of the duchy of Mag- notes fomething endowed with animal life. It alfb imports a thing to be impregnated with vermin or anideburg. ANHELATIO, or Anhelitus, among phyficians, a malcules. ANIME, in heraldry, a term ufed when the eyes of afnortnefs of breath. ANHINGA, in ornithology, the trivial name of a fpecies ny rapacious creature are born of a different tin&ure from the creature itfelf. of plows. See Plotus. ANHYDROS, in botany, an obfolete name of the fola- ANIMETTA, among ecclefiaftical writers, denotes the cloth wherewith the cup of the eucharift is covered. num. See Solanum. ANI, in ornithology, the trivial name of a fpecies of ANIMI diliqitium, fainting or fwooning. ANINGA, in commerce, a root which grows in the Ancrotophaga. . See Crotophaga. ANIAN, a large maritime country on the eaftern coaft tilles ifilands, and is pretty much like the China plant. of Africa, lying between the equator, and 120 N. lat. It is ufed by fugar-bakers, for refining the fugar ; and and between 40° and 50° E. long. is more effeftual, and lefs dangerous, than the fubliAnian is'alfo the name of a ftrait, fuppofed to lie be- mate of mercury and arfenic. , tween the north-eaft of Afia and north-weft of A- ANJOU, a country, or rather earldom of France, bounded by the province of Maine on the north, by Tourain merica. ANJENGO, a fmall town and factory on the Malabar on the eaft, by Poiftou on the fouth, and by Britany on the weft. coaft, belonging to our -Eaft-India company. ANIENS, or Aniente, a law-term, fignifying to be ANISCALPTOR, in anatomy, a name by which fome call the latiffimus dorfi. See page 195. Void, or of no force. ANIL, in botany, afynonyme of & fpecies of indigofera. ANITERSOR, in anatomy, another name by which fome call the latiffimus dorfi. See Indigofera. ANKER,