[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.