Search the scanned history of knowledge.

ANKLE, or ANCLE (a word common, in various forms, to Teutonic languages, probably connected in origin with the Lat. angulus, or Gr. &.yicv\os, bent), the joint which connects the foot with the leg (see JOINTS).

ANKLAM, or ANCLAM, a town of Germany in the Prussian province of Pomerania, on the Peene, 5 m. from its mouth in the Kleines HafT, and 53 m. N.W. of Stettin, by the railway to Stralsund. Pop. (1900) 14,602. The fortifications of Anklam were dismantled in 1762

ASTRAGAL (from the Gr. cioTpcryaXos, the ankle-joint), an architectural term for a convex moulding. This term is generally applied to small mouldings, " torus " (<?.*.) to large ones of the same form. The Lesbian astragal referred to by Vitruvius, bk. iv. ch. ...

... a sheaf of spears as a crest, and the motto, " Ready, aye ready." Two miles up Rankle Burn, a right-hand tributary, lies the site of Buccleuch, another stronghold of the Scotts, which gave them the titles of earl (1619) and duke (1663). Only the merest fragmen ...

... lict with Turkey for Syria and Asia Minor, and had no troops to spare for the thankless task of holding the Arabian deserts; the garrisons were gradually withdrawn, and in 1842 Fesal, who had escaped from his prison at Cairo reappeared and was everywhere recog ...

TALUS (Lat. for the " ankle-bone "), in architecture, the slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top, to resist the pressure of the earth behind it.