[Ancæus], a son of Neptune, who, having left a flagon of wine to pursue a boar, was killed by it.
[Ancelot], a French dramatic poet, distinguished both in tragedy and comedy; his wife also a distinguished writer (1792-1875).
[Ancenis] (4), a town on the Loire, 23 m. NE. of Nantes.
[Ancestor-worship], the worship of ancestors that prevails in primitive nations, due to a belief in [Animism] (q. v.).
[Anchieta], a Portuguese Jesuit, born at Teneriffe, called the Apostle of the New World (1538-1597).
[Anchi`ses], the father of Æneas, whom his son bore out of the flames of Troy on his shoulders to the ships; was buried in Sicily.
[Anchitherium], a fossil animal with three hoofs, the presumed original of the horse.
[Anchovy], a small fish captured for the flavour of its flesh and made into sauce.
[Anchovy pear], fruit of a W. Indian plant, of the taste of the mango.
[Ancient Mariner], a mariner doomed to suffer dreadful penalties for having shot an albatross, and who, when he reaches land, is haunted by the recollection of them, and feels compelled to relate the tale of them as a warning to others; the hero of a poem by Coleridge.