These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Annuloida, Annulosa, Annunciation.
in Huxley's classification, one of the eight primary groups into which he divides the animal kingdom. He places it between the annulosa and the infusoria. He includes under it (1) the trematoda, or flukes; (2) the tæniada, or tape-worms and bladderworms; (3) the tu the turbellaria; (4) the acanthocephala; (5) the nematoidea, or and (6) the rotifera, or wheel animalcules. thread-worms;
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a sub-kingdom of the animal kingdom, corresponding to Cuvier's articulata. Annulosa, signifying ringed, is decidedly better, for the animals ranked under this sub-kingdom have their skeleton, which is external, composed of a series of rings. They are divided into chaetognatha, annelida, crustacea, arachnida, myriapoda, and insecta. The last four are further grouped together under the designation arthropoda.
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the declaration of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary irforming her that she was to become the mother of our Lord. Annunciation or Lady Day is celebrated on the 25th of March. The Italian order of Knights of the Annunciation, now the highest Italian order, was instituted by Amadeus VI., Duke of Savoy, in 1360. The king is always Grand Master. The decoration of the Order consists of a golden shield suspended to a chain or collar of roses and knots, the letters F. E. R. T. being inscribed on the roses, and standing for fortitudo ejus Rhodum tenuit (its bravery held Rhodes). There are two orders of nuns of the Annunciation, French and Italian.
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GABRIELE D'. See D'ANNUNZIO, GABRIELE.
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a sub-genus of ruminating animals. The typical species is the A. depressicornis, a quadruped resembling a small buffalo, found gregarious in the mountains of the island of Celebes.
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a genus of beetles belonging to the family Ptinide. It contains the well known death watch insects, A. striatum, A. tesselatum, etc.
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a medicine which alleviates pain, though, if given in too large doses, it induces stupor. Opium is soporific and anodyne; while belladonna is anodyne and anti-spasmodic.
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a genus of rodent animals inhabitating the W. coast of Africa, resembling the flying-squirrels, but having the under surface of the tail "furnished for some distance from the roots with a series of large horny scales, which, when pressed against the trunk of a tree, may subserve the same purpose as those instruments with which a man climbs up a telegraph pole to set the wires."
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a sub-order of decapod crustaceans, intermediate between macrura and brachyura, differing from the former in the absence of an abdominal fan-shaped fin, as also of natatory feet; and from the latter in ger generally possessing appendages attached to the penultimate segment segment of their abdomen. The sub-order is divided into the families paguridæ, hippidæ, raninidæ, homolidæ, and dromiidæ. Its best known representatives are the hermit crabs (paguridæ.
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a genus of plants, the type of the natural order anoпaceӕ. A. squamosa (sweet sop) grows in the West Indian islands, and yields an edible fruit having a thick, sweet, luscious pulp. A. muricata (sour sop) is cultivated in the West and East Indies; it produces a large pear-shaped fruit, of a greenish color, containing an agreeable, slightly acid pulp. The genus produces other edible fruits, as the common custard apple or bullock's heart, from A. reticulata, and the cherimoyer of Peru, A. cherimolia. ANONACEÆ, an order of exogenous plants classed by Lindley under his ranales, or ranal alliance. They have six petals, hypogynous stamina generally indefinite in number, numerous ovaries, and a many carpeled, succulent, or dry fruit, and alternate simple without stipules. They are trees or shrubs occurring in the tropic ropics of both hemispheres. In 1846 Lindley estimated the known species at 300. Most have a powerful aromatic taste and smell, and the flowers of some are highly fragrant. Some have a succulent and eatable fruit.
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an extinct genus of the ungulata or hoofed quadrupeds, forming the type of a distinct family, which were in many respects intermediate between the swine and the true ruminants. These animals were pig-like in form, but possessed long tails, and had a cleft hoof, with two rudimentary toes.
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an aberrant order of insects, sometimes termed, from their parasitic habits, parasitica or epizoa. They have six legs, no wings, and either two simple eyes or none. They are parasitic upon mammals and birds, and are generally termed lice. There are two sub-orders: (1) Haustellata, or rhyncota, having a mouth with a tubular, very short, fleshy haustellum, and (2) mandibulata, or mallophaga, in which the mouth is provided with two horny mandibles.
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a disease consisting in a diminution or destruction of the sense of smell, sometimes constitutional, but most frequently caused by strong and repeated stimulants, as snuff, applied to the olfactory nerves.
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One of the angels charged by the rabbis with the government of the birds, for every known species was put under the protection of one or more angels.
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An astrologer, born at Parma, where he died in 1440. He wrote Astrological Institutions, a work which has never been printed. Wierius, and some other demonologists, classed him with the sorcerers, because certain charlatans, who healed sores by means of mysterious words, had taken the name of "Anselmites." But Naudé observes that they boasted that they had obtained their gift of healing, not from Anselm of Parma, but from St. Anselm of Canterbury, just as the Salutadores in Spain recognised in Catherine, their patron saint, and those who healed snake-bites in Italy , St. Paul.
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ST., a scholastic philosopher, born at or near Aosta, in H Piedmont, in 1033. In 1060 he entered the monastery of Bec in Normandy of which, in 1078, he became abbot. It was then the most famous monastic school. His friend Lanfranc, who had gone to England, and become Archbishop of Canterbury, died in 1089; and the diocese remained four years without a successor, till in 1093 Anselm was appointed. He was distinguished both as a churchman and a philosopher. His numerous embroilments with William Rufus and his successor, and the unbending spirit which he displayed in these, even when subjected to banishment, indi cate the resoluteness of his character. Anselm was a second Augustine, superior to all his contemporaries in sagacity and dialectical skill, and equal to the most eminent in virtue and piety. He sought to reduce the truths of religion into the form of a connected series of reasonings. It was for this purpose he wrote his "Monologion." In his "Proslogion," he strove to demonstrate the existence of God. His "Cur Deus Homo" (English translation by Prout, 1887) argues the necessity of the Incarnation, all subsequent speculation on which it was profoundly influenced. Besides his philosoph ical treatise, his "Meditations and Let ters" have come down to us, revealing his humble, fervent faith. His works first supplied the impulse to justify Scripture and the Church by reason. He died April 21, 1109, and was buried next to Lanfranc at Canterbury. In 1494 he was canonized.
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