Chapter Angelica's Draught to Animals of A by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Angle with a Silver Hook (To) To buy fish at market.

Angling The father of angling, Izaak Walton (1593--1683). Angling is called "the gentle craft"; shoemaking was also so called. Probably there is a pun concealed in the first of these; a common bait of anglers being a "gentle." In the second case, St. Crispin was a Roman gentleman of high birth, and his craftsmen took from him their title of "gentle" (generosi).

Angoulaffre of the Broken Teeth, a giant "12 cubits in height." His face measured 3 feet across; his nose was 9 inches long; his arms and legs were each 6 feet; his fingers 6 inches and 2 lines; his enormous mouth was armed with sharp pointed yellow tusks. He was descended from Goliath, and assumed the title of "Governor of Jerusalem." Angoulaffre had the strength of 30 men, and his mace was the trunk of an oak-tree 300 years old. Some say the Tower of Pisa lost its perpendicularity by the weight of this giant, who one day leaned against it to rest himself. He was slain by Roland, the paladin; in single combat at the Fronsac. (Croquemitaine.)

Angry (The). Christian II, of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, was so called on account of his ungovernable temper. (1513--1559.)

Angular Cross-grained; of a patchy temper; one full of angles, whose temper is not smooth.

Angurvadel Frithiof's sword, inscribed with Runic letters, which blazed in time of war, but gleamed with a dim light in time of peace. (See Sword.)

Anima Mundi [the soul of the world ], with the oldest of the ancient philosophers, meant "the source of life"; with Plato, it meant "the animating principle of matter," inferior to pure spirit: with the Stoics, it meant "the whole vital force of the universe."

Stahl (1710) taught that the phenomena of animal life are due to an immortal animal, or vital principle distinct from matter.

Animal To go the entire animal, a facetious euphuism for "To go the whole hog." (See Hog.)

Animal Spirits Liveliness and animation arising from physical vigour.

Animals admitted into Heaven (The) They are ten: (1) Jonah's whale; (2) Solomon's ant; (3) the ram caught by Abraham and sacrificed instead of Isaac; (4) the cuckoo of Belkis; (5) the camel of the prophet Saleh; (6) Balaam's ass; (7) the ox of Moses; (8) the dog Kratim of the Seven Sleepers; (9) Mahomet's ass, called Al Borak; and (10) Noah's dove.

Animals in Christian Art The ant symbolises prudence; the ape, malice, lust, and cunning; the ass, sobriety, or the Jewish nation; the asp, Christ, or Christian faith; the bee, industry; the camel, submission; the cock, vigilance; the dog, fidelity; the fox, fraud and cunning; the hog, impurity; the lamb, innocence; the leopard, sin; the ox, pride; the wolf, cruelty.

Some animals are appropriated to certain saints: as the calf or ox to Luke; the cock to Peter; the eagle to John the Divine; the lion to Mark; the raven to Benedict, etc.

The lamb, the pelican, and the unicorn, are symbols of Christ.

The dragon, serpent, and swine, symbolise Satan and his crew.

Animals sacred to special Deities To Apollo, the wolf, the griffon, and the crow; to Bacchus, the dragon and the panther; to Diana, the stag; to Æsculapius, the serpent; to Hercules, the deer; to Isis, the heifer; to Jupiter, the eagle; to Juno, the peacock and the lamb; to the Lares, the dog; to Mars, the horse and the vulture; to Mercury, the cock; to Minerva, the owl; to Neptune, the bull; to Tethys, the halycon; to Venus, the dove, the swan, and the sparrow; to Vulcan, the lion, etc.