Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 63
Angulosity (n.) A state of being angulous or angular.
Angulous (a.) Angular; having corners; hooked.
Angust (a.) Narrow; strait.
Angustate (a.) Narrowed.
Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.
Angustifoliate (a.) Alt. of Angustifolious.
Angustifolious (a.) Having narrow leaves.
Angustura bark () See Angostura bark.
Angwantibo (n.) A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
Anhang (v. t.) To hang.
Anharmonic (a.) Not harmonic.
Anhedonia (n.) An inability to experience pleasure.
Anhelation (n.) Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma.
Anhele (v. i.) To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for).
Anhelose (a.) Anhelous; panting.
Anhelous (a.) Short of breath; panting.
Anhima (n.) A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.
Anhinga (n.) An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.
Anhistous (a.) Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.
Anhungered (a.) Ahungered; longing.
Anhydride (n.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.
Anhydrite (n.) A mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).
Anhydrous (a.) 【化】【礦】無水的 Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.
Anhydrous (a.) Without water; especially without water of crystallization [ant: {hydrated}, {hydrous}].
Ani (n.) Alt. of Ano.
Ano (n.) A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
Anicut (n.) Alt. of Annicut.
Annicut (n.) A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation.
Anidiomatical (a.) Not idiomatic.
Anient (v. t.) Alt. of Anientise.
Anientise (v. t.) To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate.
Anigh (prep. & adv.) Nigh.
Anight (adv.) Alt. of Anights.
Anights (adv.) In the night time; at night.
Anil (n.) A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
Anile (a.) Old-womanish; imbecile.
Anileness (n.) Anility.
Anilic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo.
Anilide (n.) One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.
Aniline (n.) An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.
Aniline (a.) Made from, or of the nature of, aniline.
Anility (n.) The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage.
Animadversal (n.) The faculty of perceiving; a percipient.
Animadversion (n.) 責難，非難；批評，責備；評語；意見 The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception. [Obs.]
The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called.
Animadversion (n.) Monition; warning. [Obs.] -- Clarendon.
Animadversion (n.) Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame.
He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions. -- Clarendon.
Animadversion (n.) Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." -- Wesley.
Syn: Stricture; criticism; censure; reproof; blame; comment.
Animadversion (n.) Harsh criticism or disapproval [syn: {censure}, {animadversion}].
Animadversive (a.) Having the power of perceiving; percipient.
Animadverted (imp. & p. p.) of Animadvert.
Animadverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Animadvert.
Animadvert (v. i.) 批判，非難 To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.
Animadvert (v. i.) To consider or remark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with on or upon.
Animadvert (v. i.) To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment.
Animadverter (n.) One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser.
Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
Animal (n.) One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
Animal (a.) Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
Animal (a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
Animal (a.) Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
Animal magnetism. See Magnetism and Mesmerism.
Animal electricity, The electricity developed in some animals, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc.
Animal flower (Zool.), A name given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes, etc.
Animal heat (Physiol.), The heat generated in the body of a living animal, by means of which the animal is kept at nearly a uniform temperature.
Animal spirits. See under Spirit.
Animal kingdom, The whole class of beings endowed with animal life. It embraces several subkingdoms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.
Note: The following are the grand divisions, or subkingdoms, and the principal classes under them, generally recognized at the present time: Vertebrata, including Mammalia or Mammals, Aves or Birds, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces or Fishes, Marsipobranchiata (Craniota); and Leptocardia (Acrania). Tunicata, including the Thaliacea, and Ascidioidea or Ascidians. Articulata or Annulosa, including Insecta, Myriapoda, Malacapoda, Arachnida, Pycnogonida, Merostomata, Crustacea (Arthropoda); and Annelida, Gehyrea (Anarthropoda). Helminthes or Vermes, including Rotifera, Ch[ae]tognatha, Nematoidea, Acanthocephala, Nemertina, Turbellaria, Trematoda, Cestoidea, Mesozea.
Animal (a.) Marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice" [syn: animal(a), carnal, fleshly, sensual].
Animal (n.) A living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna].
Animal, () An organized living creature endowed with sensation. The Levitical law divided animals into clean and unclean, although the distinction seems to have existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The clean could be offered in sacrifice and eaten. All animals that had not cloven hoofs and did not chew the cud were unclean. The list of clean and unclean quadrupeds is set forth in the Levitical law (Deut. 14:3-20; Lev. 11).
Animal, () property. A name given to every animated being endowed with the power of voluntary motion. In law, it signifies all animals except those of the him, in species.
Animal, () Animals are distinguished into such as are domitae, and such as are ferae naturae.
Animal, () It is laid down, that in tame or domestic animals, such as horse, swine, sheep, poultry, and the like, a man may have an absolute property, because they continue perpetually in his possession and occupation, and will not stray from his house and person unless by accident or fraudulent enticement, in either of which cases the owner does not lose his property. 2 Bl. Com. 390; 2 Mod. 319. 1.
Animal, () But in animals ferae naturae, a man can have no absolute property; they belong to him only while they continue in his keeping or actual possession; for if at any they regain their natural liberty, his property instantly ceases, unless they have animum revertendi, which is only to be known by their usual habit of returning. 2 Bl. Com. 396; 3 Binn. 546; Bro. Ab. Propertie, 37; Com. Dig. Biens, F; 7 Co. 17 b; 1 Ch. Pr. 87; Inst. 2, 1, 15. See also 3 Caines' Rep. 175; Coop. Justin. 457, 458; 7 Johns. Rep. 16; Bro. Ab. Detinue, 44.
Animal, () The owner of a mischievous animal, known to him to be so, is responsible, when he permits him to go at large, for the damages he may do. 2 Esp. Cas. 482; 4 Campb. 198; 1 Starkie's Cas. 285; 1 Holt, 617; 2 Str.1264; Lord Raym. 110; B. N. P. 77; 1 B. & A. 620; 2 C. M.& R. 496; 5 C.& P. 1; S. C. 24 E. C. L. R. 187. This principle agrees with the civil law. Domat, Lois Civ. liv. 2, t. 8, s. 2. And any person may justify the killing of such ferocious animals. 9 Johns. 233; 10. Johns. 365; 13 Johns. 312. The owner, of such an animal may be indicted for a common nuisance. 1 Russ. Ch. Cr. Law, 643; Burn's Just., Nuisance, 1.
Animal, () In Louisiana, the owner of an animal is answerable for the damage he may cause; but if the animal be lost, or has strayed more than a day, he may discharge himself from this responsibility, by abandoning him to the person who has sustained the injury; except where the master turns loose a dangerous or noxious animal; for then he must pay all the harm done, without being allowed to make the abandonment. Civ. Code, art. 2301. See Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Animal (n.) [ C ] (Creature) (A1) （除人、鳥、魚和昆蟲之外的）動物；獸；牲畜 Something that lives and moves but is not a human, bird, fish, or insect.
// Wild/ domestic animals.
// Both children are real animal lovers.
// Surveys show that animal welfare has recently become a major concern for many schoolchildren.
Animal (n.) [ C ] (Creature) (B2) （包括人、鳥等的任何）動物 Anything that lives and moves, including people, birds, etc..
// Humans, insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals are all animals.
Animal (n.) [ C ] (Bad person) (Informal) 牲畜般的人；殘暴野蠻的人；豬狗不如的人 An unpleasant, cruel person or someone who behaves badly.
// He's a real animal when he's had too much to drink.
Animal (n.) [ C ] (Type) 某種類型的人（或物） Used to describe what type of person or thing someone or something is.
// At heart she is a political animal.
// She is that rare animal (= she is very unusual), a brilliant scientist who can communicate her ideas to ordinary people.
// Feminism in France and England are rather different animals (= are different).
Animal (a.) (From animals) 取自動物的；以動物為原料的 Made or obtained from an animal or animals.
// Animal products.
// Animal fat/ skins.
Animal (a.) 動物的 Relating to, or taking the form of, an animal or animals rather than a plant or human being.
// The island was devoid of all animal life (= there were no animals on the island).
Animal (a.) (Physical) [ Before noun ] 肉體的；肉慾的 Relating to physical desires or needs, and not spiritual or mental ones.
// As an actor, he has a sort of animal magnetism.
// She knew that Dave wasn't the right man for her but she couldn't deny the animal attraction between them.
Animalcular (a.) Alt. of Animalculine.
Animalculine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." -- Tyndall.
Animalcule (n.) A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc. [Obs.] -- Ray.
Animalcule (n.) (Zool.) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.
Compare: Infusoria
Infusoria (n. pl.) (Zool.) One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size. Formerly, the term was applied to any microbe found in infusions of decaying organic material, but the term is now applied more specifically to one of the classes of the phylum Ciliophora, of ciliated protozoans.
Note: (From 1913 dictionary): They are found in all seas, lakes, ponds, and streams, as well as in infusions of organic matter exposed to the air. They are distinguished by having vibrating lashes or cilia, with which they obtain their food and swim about. They are devided into the orders Flagellata, Ciliata, and Tentaculifera. See these words in the Vocabulary. Formely the term Infusoria was applied to all microscopic organisms found in water, including many minute plants, belonging to the diatoms, as well as minute animals belonging to various classes, as the Rotifera, which are worms; and the Rhizopoda, which constitute a distinct class of Protozoa. Fossil Infusoria are mostly the siliceous shells of diatoms; sometimes they are siliceous skeletons of Radiolaria, or the calcareous shells of Foraminifera.
Compare: Molluscoidea
Molluscoidea, () Including Brachiopoda and Bryozoa. Mollusca, including Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda, Lamellibranchiata or Acephala. Echinodermata, including Holothurioidea, Echinoidea, Asterioidea, Ophiuroidea, and Crinoidea. C[oe]lenterata, including Anthozoa or Polyps, Ctenophora, and Hydrozoa or Acalephs. Spongiozoa or Porifera, including the sponges.
Protozoa, including Infusoria and Rhizopoda. For definitions, see these names in the Vocabulary. Animalcular
Molluscoidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of Invertebrata which includes the classes Brachiopoda and Bryozoa; -- called also Anthoid Mollusca.
Note: Originally the Tunicata were included under Molluscoidea, from which they are known to differ widely in structure and embryology. Molluscoidea were formerly considered a subdivision of Mollusca, but they are now known to have more relationship with Annelida than with Mollusca.
Infusoria (n.) In some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter [syn: Infusoria, subclass Infusoria].
Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiac[ae], and the siliceous Diatomace[ae].
Spermatic animalcules. See Spermatozoa.
Compare: Spermatozoa
Spermatozoon (n.; pl. Spermatozoa.) (Biol.) Same as Spermatozoid.
Compare: Spermatozoid
Spermatozoid (n.) (Biol.) The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoon. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.
Spermatozoid (n.) A motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm [syn: antherozoid, spermatozoid].
Animalcule (n.) Microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium [syn: animalcule, animalculum].
Animalculism (n.) The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.
Animalculist (n.) One versed in the knowledge of animalcules.
Animalculist (n.) A believer in the theory of animalculism.
Animalcula (n. pl. ) of Animalculum.
Animalculum (n.) An animalcule.
Animalish (a.) Like an animal.
Animalism (n.) The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
Animality (n.) Animal existence or nature.
Animalization (n.) The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
Animalization (n.) Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation.
Animalized (imp. & p. p.) of Animalize.
Animalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Animalize.
Animalize (v. t.) To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. --Warburton.
Animalize (v. t.) To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
Animalize (v. t.) To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.
The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. -- Coleridge.
Animalize (v.) Represent in the form of an animal [syn: animalize, animalise].
Animalize (v.) Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him" [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise].
Animalize (v.) Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise].
Animally (adv.) Physically. -- G. Eliot.
Animalness (n.) Animality. [R.]
Animastic (a.) Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.
Animastic (n.) Psychology. [Obs.]
Animated (imp. & p. p.) of Animate.
Animating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Animate.
Animate (v. t.) 賦予生命，使有生命；使活潑，使有活力，使有生氣；激勵，鼓舞 To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
Animate (v. t.) To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre. -- Dryden.
Animate (v. t.) To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice. -- Knolles.
Syn: To enliven; inspirit; stimulate; exhilarate; inspire; instigate; rouse; urge; cheer; prompt; incite; quicken; gladden.
Animate (a.) 有生命的； 活的； 有生氣的； 生氣勃勃的 Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
The admirable structure of animate bodies. -- Bentley.
Animate (a.) Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate" [ant: {inanimate}].
Animate (a.) Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings" [ant: {inanimate}, {non-living}, {nonliving}].
Animate (a.) Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage" -- T.E.Lawrence [syn: {sentient}, {animate}] [ant: {insensate}, {insentient}].
Animate (v.) Heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: {inspire}, {animate}, {invigorate}, {enliven}, {exalt}].
Animate (v.) Give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons" [syn: {animize}, {animise}, {animate}].
Animate (v.) Make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: {enliven}, {liven}, {liven up}, {invigorate}, {animate}] [ant: {blunt}, {deaden}].
Animate (v.) Give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: {animate}, {recreate}, {reanimate}, {revive}, {renovate}, {repair}, {quicken}, {vivify}, {revivify}].
Animated (a.) Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
Animated (a.) (Energetic) (C2) 活躍的；生氣勃勃的 Full of interest and energy.
// There was an extremely animated discussion on the subject.
// They must have been having an interesting conversation - they both looked very animated.
Animated (a.) (Image) （電影等）動畫製作的，動畫的；（木偶、模型等）能活動的；（繪畫）栩栩如生的 Animated films, drawings, models, etc. are ones that are photographed or created by a computer and shown in a way that makes them move.
Animatedly (adv.) With animation.
Animater (n.) One who animates.
Animating (a.) Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing.
Animation (n.) 活潑，生氣，卡通製作 The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.
The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. -- Bp. Hall.
Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation. -- Landor.
Animation (n.) The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit 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.
Syn: Liveliness; vivacity; spirit; buoyancy; airiness; sprightliness; promptitude; enthusiasm; ardor; earnestness; energy. See Liveliness.
Animation (n.) The condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" [syn: animation, life, living, aliveness].
Animation (n.) The property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed" [syn: animation, vitality].
Animation (n.) Quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous [syn: animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification].
Animation (n.) The activity of giving vitality and vigour to something [syn: vivification, invigoration, animation].
Animation (n.) The making of animated cartoons.
Animation (n.) General activity and motion [syn: liveliness, animation].
Animation, () The creation of artificial moving images.
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Animative (a.) Having the power of giving life or spirit. -- Johnson.
Animator (n.) One who, or that which, animates; an animater. -- Sir T. Browne.
Animator (n.) Someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people [syn: energizer, energiser, vitalizer, vitaliser, animator].
Animator (n.) The technician who produces animated cartoons.
Anime (a.) (Her.) Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal. -- Brande & C.
Anime (n.) A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenaea courbaril), and much used by varnish makers. -- Ure.
Anime (n.) A hard copal derived from an African tree [syn: Zanzibar copal, anime].
Anime (n.) Any of various resins or oleoresins [syn: anime, gum anime].
Animism (n.) The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
Animism (n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter. -- Tylor.
Animism (n.) The doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls; "animism is common among primitive peoples."
Animist (n.) One who maintains the doctrine of animism.
Animist (a.) Of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism [syn: animist, animistic].
Animist (n.) One who accepts the doctrine of animism
Animistic (a.) Of or pertaining to animism. -- Huxley. Tylor. Animose
Animistic (a.) Of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism [syn: animist, animistic].