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-work and an index, affected by the pressure of the air on plates exposed to its action. ANEU`RIN, a British bard at the beginning of the 7th century, who took part in the battle of Cattraeth, and made it the subject of a poem. ANEURISM, a tumour, containing blood, on the coat of an artery. ANGARA, a tributary of the Yenisei, which passes through Lake Baikal. ANGEL, an old English coin, with the archangel Michael piercing the dragon on the obverse of it. ANGEL-FISH, a hideous, voracious fish of the shark family. ANGELIC DOCTOR, Thomas Aquinas. ANGEL`ICA, a faithless lady of romance, for whose sake Orlando lost his heart and his senses. ANGELICA DRAUGHT, something which completely changes the affection. ANGELICO, FRA, an Italian painter, born at Mugello, in Tuscany; became a Dominican monk at Fiesole, whence he removed to Florence, and finally to Rome, where he died; devoted his life to religious subjects, which he treated with great delicacy, beauty, and finish, and conceived in virgin purity and child-like simplicity of soul; his work in the form of fresco-painting is to be found all over Italy (1387-1455). AN`GELUS, a devotional service in honour of the Incarnation. ANGERS` (77), on the Maine, the ancient capital of Anjou, 160 m. SW. of Paris, with a fine cathedral, a theological seminary, and a medical school; birthplace of David the sculptor. ANGERSTEIN, JOHN, born in St. Petersburg, a distinguished patron of the fine arts, whose collection of paintings, bought by the British Government, formed the nucleus of the National Gallery (1735-1822). ANGI`NA PEC`TORIS, an affection of the heart of an intensely excruciating nature, the pain of which at times extends to the left shoulder and down the left arm. ANGLER, a fish with a broad, big-mouthed head and a tapering body, both covered with appendages having glittering tips, by which, as it burrows in the sand, it allures other fishes into its maw. ANGLES, a German tribe from Sleswig who invaded Britain in the 5th century and gave name to England. AN`GLESEA (50), i. e. Island of the Angles, an island forming a county in Wales, separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait, flat, fertile, and rich in minerals. ANGLESEY, MARQUIS OF, eldest son of the first Earl of Uxbridge, famous as a cavalry officer in Flanders, Holland, the Peninsula, and especially at Waterloo, at which he lost a leg, and for his se
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