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ANVIL (from Anglo-Saxon anfilt or onfilti, either that on which something is " welded " or " folded," cf. German /alien, to fold, or connected with other Teutonic forms of the word, cf. German ambuss, in which case the final syllable is from " beat," and the m ...

ANVILLE, JEAN BAPTISTS BOURGUIGNON D' (16971782), perhaps the greatest geographical author of the i8th century, was born at Paris on the 1 1 th of July 1697. His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at the age of twelve he was a ...

ANI (anc. Abnicum), an ancient and ruined Armenian city, in Russian Transcaucasia, government Erivan, situated at an altitude of 4390 ft., between the Arpa-chai (Horfxuiu) and a deep ravine. In 961 it became the capital of the Bagratid kings of Armenia, and wh

ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul), a term first used as a noun or adjective to denote a living thing, but now used to designate one branch of living things as opposed to the other branch known as plants. Until the discovery of protoplasm, and th

... re than a synonym for the heavens in general and even his title as king ANUBIS— ANVILLE '57 or father of the gods has little of the personal element in it. A consort Antum (or as some scholars prefer to read, Aoatum) is assigned to him, on the theory that ever ...

... ance or the lyth century, and it is not altogether surprising that Theodore de Banville should have condemned one of the most solidly useful of household necessaries as a " hideous monster."

... inistration in 1804 though he increased his pension. Auckland was included in Granville's ministry of " All the Talents " as president of the board of trade in 1806. He held the appointments of auditor and director of Greenwich hospital, recorder of Grantham, ...

... ctors and others nonconductors of electricity. In conjunction with his friend Granville Wheeler (d. 1770), he conveyed the electricity from rubbed glass, a distance of 886 ft., along a string supported on silk threads (Phil. Trans., 1735-1736, 39, pp. 16, 166 ...

... seemed to render it more feasible. Thus the discovery of Stephen Gray and of Granville Wheeler that the electrical influence of a charged Leyden jar may be conveyed to a distance by means of an insulated wire gave rise to various proposals, of which perhaps t ...

... o his Les Amoureuses in 1858; and there are delightful examples by Theodore de Banville. In Germany the triolet has attracted much attention. Those which had been written before his day were collected by Friedrich Rassmann, in 1815 and 1817. But as early as 17 ...

... the Constitutions of Clarendon (1164), the Assize of the Forest (1184) and in Glanvill. Civil Matters. — Civil actions came to be classified as local and transitory, the former where the cause of action could only arise in a particular county, such as trespass ...