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 A N O ( g: 14 ) A N S Somi of the ancients' ufed it to denote fervitude ; the than the tropical year, on account of the preceffion of Romans reprefented by it liberty and nobility. It is the equinoxes. See Precession, and Astronomy. an emblem of fecrecy, if it have a feal; and of love, ANOMALOUS, a term applied to whatever is irreguif the cypher, the face, or the arms of the perfon be- lar, or deviates from the rule obferved by other things lotrnd are ingraved upon it. of the like nature.ANNULLING, a term fometimes ufed for cancelling, ANOMALY, in aflronomy, an irregularity in the moor making void, a deed, fentence, or the like. tion of the planets, whereby they deviate from the aANNUNClADA, Annuntiada, or Annuntiata, phelion or apogee. an order of knighthood in Savoy, firft inftituted by ANOMIA, in zoology, a genus of fflell-infeAs belongAmadeus I. in the year 1409 ; their collar was of 15 ing to the order of vermes teHacea. The ligula is elinks, interwoven one with another, in form of a true marginated, and the cilii are fixed to the fuperior lover’s knot, and the motto, F. E. R. T-. fignifying, valve; it has two lineal brachii longer than the body: Fortitude ejus Rkodutn tenuit. Amadeus VIII. gave The valves of the ffiell are equal. There are 25 fpethe name Annunciada to this order, which was. for- cies of the anomia'; fuch of them whofe hifiory is merly known by that of ths knot of love, changing known, are all natives of the European feas. at the fame time the image of St Maurice patron of ANOMOEANS, in church-hiHory, ancient heretics, Savoy, which hung at the collar, for that of the Vir- who afferted that the Son was of a nature different, gin Mary, and, inftead of the motto above-mentioned, and in nothing like to that of the Father. fubfiituting the words of the angel’s falutation. ANOMORHOMBOIDIA, in natural hifiory, a genus Annunci ada is alfo the tide of feveral religious orders, of cryfialline fpars, of no determinate form, eafily fifinftituted at different times, and at different places, file, but cleaving more readily in an horizontal than in honour of the annunciation. See the next article. in a perpendicular diredion, their plates being compoANNUNCIATION, the tidings brought by the angel fed of irregular arrangements of ihort and thick rhomGabriel to the Virgin Mary of the incarnation of boidal concretions. See Spar. ANONA, in botany, a genus of the polyandria polygyChrift. Annunciation is alfo a feflival, kept by the church nia clafs. The calix is three-leaved; the petal? are on the 25 th of March, in commemoration of thefe ti- fix; the fruit is a roundiffi berry containing many feeds. There are 8 fpecies of the anona, viz. the dings. In the Romifli church, on this feaft, the pope per- muricata, fquambfa, reticulata,.paluflris, glabra, triforms the ceremony of marrying or cloyflering a cer- loba, Afiatica, and Africana. All of them natives of tain number of maidens, who are prefented to him in the Indies. the church, clothed in white ferge, and muffled, up ANONIS, in botany. See Ononis. from head to foot: An officer Hands by, with pur- ANONYMOS, in botany, a fynonime of a fpecies of and feveral other plants. See Spermafes containing notes of fifty crowns for thofe who make fpermacoce choice of marriage, and notes of a hundred for thofe coce. ANONYMOUS, fomething that is namelefs, or of which who chafe the vei-i. the name is concealed. Annunciation is likewife a title given by the Jews Anonymous, in chemifiry. See Adiaphorous. part of the ceremony of the paffover. _ ANNUNTIATOR, the name of an officer in the church ANOREXY, in medicine, a loathing of meat, or want of appetite. of Conftantinople. It was his bufinefs to inform the ANOT. See Annot. people of the feflivals that were to be celebrated. ANOCTORON, a term ufed by fome ecclefiaftical wri- A NOTH, one of the Scilly iflands. See Sc illy. ANOUT, a fmall ifland in the Schagerrack, or that ters for a church. See Church. ANOCISTI, in zoology, an obfolete name of the echi- part of the fea of Denmark which has Norway on the north, Jutland on the wefi, nus. See Echinus. 0 and the ifle of Zealand on ANODYNE, in pharmacy, a term applied to medicines the fouth ; it lies in 13 E. long, and 56° 36'N. lat. ANSA, a river in Friuli in’Italy, which difchafges'itwhich mitigate pain. Among anodynes may be reckoned all relaxing re- felf into the gulf of Venice. medies, dilutees, and medicines which by any means ANSiE, in aHronomy,. the parts of Saturn’s ring, which deflroy acrimony, or expel wind, together with the are to be feen on each fide of that planet, when viewcompound, medicines of the ffiops, which pafs under ed through a telefcope. See Astronomy. a fmall town of France in the Lyonnois, four this name; fuch as the anodyne balfam made of Caftile ANSE, leagues, north of Lyons. foap, opium, camphire, faffron, and fpirit of wine. ANOLYMPIADS, in Grecian antiquity, an appella- ANSEL-WEIGHT, the fame with auneel-weight. See Auncel. tion given by the Elaeans to fuch Olympic games as ANSELM’/ Art, or St Anselm’/ Art. See Art. had been celebrated under the direftion of other Hates ANSER, in ornithology, the trivial name of a fpecies of befides themfelves. See Olympiad. ANOMOLISTICAL Year, in aHronomy, the time ans. See An s. that the earth takes to pafs through her orbit: it is ANSERES, the name which Linnteus gives to his third order of birds. This order is difiinguilhed by the alfo called the periodical year. The fpace of time belonging to this year is greater following marks: The beak is covered with a fmooth fitin