Angleworm An"gle·worm` noun (Zoology) A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus , frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm .
Anglian An"gli·an adjective Of or pertaining to the Angles. --
noun One of the Angles.
Anglic An"glic adjective Anglian.
Anglican An"gli·can adjective [
Angli the Angles, a Germanic tribe in Lower Germany. Confer
English .]
1. English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc. 2. Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.
Anglican An"gli·can noun 1. A member of the Church of England. Whether Catholics, Anglicans , or Calvinists.
Burke.
2. In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.
Anglicanism An"gli·can·ism noun 1. Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England. 2. The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party. 3. Attachment to England or English institutions.
Anglice An"gli·ce adverb [ New Latin ]
In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn.
Anglicify An·glic"i·fy transitive verb [ New Latin
Anglicus English +
-fly .]
To anglicize. [ R.]
Anglicism An"gli·cism noun [ Confer French
anglicisme .]
1. An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. Dryden. 2. The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.
Anglicity An·glic"i·ty noun The state or quality of being English.
Anglicization An`gli·ci·za"tion noun The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.
Anglicize An"gli·cize transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Anglicized ;
present participle & verbal noun Anglicizing .]
To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
Anglify An"gli·fy transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Anglified ;
present participle & verbal noun Anglifying .] [ Latin
Angli +
-fly .]
To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin.
Angling An"gling noun The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line. Walton.
Anglo- An"glo- [ New Latin
Anglus English. See
Anglican .]
A combining form meaning the same as English ; or English and , or English conjoined with ; as, Anglo- Turkish treaty, Anglo- German, Anglo- Irish. Anglo-American ,
. Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. --
noun A descendant from English ancestors born in America, or the United States. Anglo-Danish ,
adjective Of or pertaining to the English and Danes, or to the Danes who settled in England. Anglo-Indian ,
adjective Of or pertaining to the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages. --
noun One of the Anglo- Indian race born or resident in the East Indies. Anglo-Norman ,
adjective Of or pertaining to the English and Normans, or to the Normans who settled in England. --
noun One of the English Normans, or the Normans who conquered England. Anglo-Saxon .
See Anglo-Saxon in the Vocabulary.
Anglo-Catholic An"glo-Cath"o·lic adjective ,
Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.
Anglo-Catholic An"glo-Cath"o·lic noun A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman.
Anglo-Catholicism An"glo-Ca·thol"i·cism noun The belief of those in the Church of England who accept many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant.
Anglo-Saxon An"glo-Sax"on noun [ Latin
Angli- Saxones English Saxons.]
1. A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon , or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old") Saxon. 2. plural The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest. It is quite correct to call Æthelstan "King of the Anglo-Saxons ," but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon " is simply nonsense.
E. A. Freeman.
3. The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English ). See Saxon . 4. One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense.
Anglo-Saxon An"glo-Sax"on adjective Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.
Anglo-Saxondom An"glo-Sax"on·dom noun The Anglo- Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo- Saxon race.
Anglo-Saxonism An"glo-Sax"on·ism noun 1. A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold. 2. The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.
Anglomania An"glo·ma"ni·a noun [
Anglo'cf +
mania .]
A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.
Anglomaniac An`glo·ma"ni·ac noun One affected with Anglomania.
Anglophobia An`glo·pho"bi·a noun [ Anglo- + Greek ... fear.]
Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. --
An"glo*phobe noun
Angola An·go"la noun [ A corruption of
Angora .]
A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.
Angola pea An·go"la pea` (Botany) A tropical plant ( Cajanus indicus ) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea .
Angor An"gor (ăn"gŏr)
noun [ Latin See
Anger .]
(Medicine) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.
Angora An·go"ra (ăn*gō"rȧ)
noun A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc. Angora cat (Zoology) ,
a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat . See Cat . --
Angora goat (Zoology) ,
a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.
Angostura bark An`gos·tu"ra bark` (än`gŏs*tō"rȧ bärk`). [ From Angostura , in Venezuela.] An aromatic bark used as a tonic, obtained from a South American of the rue family ( Galipea cusparia, or officinalis ). U. S. Disp.
Angoumois moth An`gou`mois" moth" (?; 115). [ So named from Angoumois in France.] (Zoology) A small moth ( Gelechia cerealella ) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the interior of the grain, leaving only the shell.
Angrily An"gri·ly adverb In an angry manner; under the influence of anger.
Angriness An"gri·ness noun The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger. Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything.
Whole Duty of Man.
Angry An"gry adjective [
Compar. Angrier ;
superl. Angriest .] [ See
Anger .]
1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [ Obsolete]
God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit.
Jer. Taylor.
2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore. 3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves.
Gen. xlv. 5.
Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice?
Eccles. v. 6.
4. Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An
angry countenance."
Prov. xxv. 23. 5. Red. [ R.]
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave.
Herbert.
6. Sharp; keen; stimulated. [ R.]
I never ate with angrier appetite.
Tennyson.
Syn. -- Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.
Anguiform An"gui·form adjective [ Latin
angius snake +
-form .]
Snake-shaped.
Anguilliform An·guil"li·form adjective [ Latin
anguilla eel (dim. of
anguis snake) +
-form .]
Eel- shaped. » The "
Anguillæformes " of Cuvier are fishes related to thee eel.
Anguine An"guine adjective [ Latin
anguinus , from
anguis snake.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. "The
anguine or snakelike reptiles."
Owen.
Anguineal An·guin"e·al adjective Anguineous.
Anguineous An·guin"e·ous adjective [ Latin
anguineus .]
Snakelike.
Anguish An"guish noun [ Middle English
anguishe ,
anguise ,
angoise , French
angoisse , from Latin
angustia narrowness, difficulty, distress, from
angustus narrow, difficult, from
angere to press together. See
Anger .]
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Ex. vi. 9.
Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child.
Jer. iv. 31.
Rarely used in the plural: -
Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes , and make your prayer to him.
Latimer. Syn. -- Agony; pang; torture; torment. See
Agony .
Anguish An"guish transitive verb [ Confer French
angoisser , from Latin
angustiare .]
To distress with extreme pain or grief. [ R.]
Temple.
Angular An"gu·lar adjective [ Latin
angularis , from
angulus angle, corner. See
Angle .]
1. Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure. 2. Measured by an angle; as, angular distance. 3. Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. Angular aperture ,
Angular distance .
See Aperture , Distance . --
Angular motion ,
the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to the body. --
Angular point ,
the point at which the sides of the angle meet; the vertex. --
Angular velocity ,
the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing.
Angular An"gu·lar noun (Anat.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
Angularity An`gu·lar"i·ty noun The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
Angularly An"gu·lar·ly adverb In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners. B. Jonson.
Angularness An"gu·lar·ness noun The quality of being angular.
Angulate An"gu·late transitive verb To make angular.
Angulate, Angulated An"gu·late, An"gu·la`ted adjective [ Latin
angulatus , past participle of
angulare to make angular.]
Having angles or corners; angled; as, angulate leaves.
Angulation An`gu·la"tion noun A making angular; angular formation. Huxley.
Angulo-dentate An"gu·lo-den"tate adjective . [ Latin
angulus angle +
dens ,
dentis , tooth.]
(Botany) Angularly toothed, as certain leaves.
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