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  • English Word Anights Definition In the night time; at night.
  • English Word Anil Definition A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
  • English Word Anile Definition Old-womanish; imbecile.
  • English Word Anileness Definition Anility.
  • English Word Anilic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo.
  • English Word Anilide Definition One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.
  • English Word Aniline Definition 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 It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl.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.
  • English Word Aniline Definition Made from, or of the nature of, aniline.
  • English Word Anility Definition The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage.
  • English Word Animadversal Definition The faculty of perceiving; a percipient.
  • English Word Animadversion Definition The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.
  • English Word Animadversion Definition Monition; warning.
  • English Word Animadversion Definition Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame.
  • English Word Animadversion Definition Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment.
  • English Word Animadversive Definition Having the power of perceiving; percipient.
  • English Word Animadvert Definition To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.
  • English Word Animadvert Definition To consider or remark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with on or upon.
  • English Word Animadvert Definition To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment.
  • English Word Animadverted Definition of Animadvert
  • English Word Animadverter Definition One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser.
  • English Word Animadverting Definition of Animadvert
  • English Word Animal Definition 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.
  • English Word Animal Definition One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
  • English Word Animal Definition Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
  • English Word Animal Definition Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
  • English Word Animal Definition Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
  • English Word Animalcula Definition of Animalculum
  • English Word Animalcular Definition Alt. of Animalculine
  • English Word Animalcule Definition A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.
  • English Word Animalcule Definition An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.