[Anhalt-Dessau, Leopold, Prince of], a Prussian field-marshal, served and distinguished himself in the war of the Spanish Succession and in Italy, was wounded at Cassano; defeated Charles XII. at the Isle of Rügen, and the Saxons and Austrians at Kesseldorf (1676-1747).
[Anichini], an Italian medallist of the 16th century; executed a medal representing the interview of Alexander the Great with the High Priest of the Jews, which Michael Angelo pronounced the perfection of the art.
[Aniline], a colourless transparent oily liquid, obtained chiefly from coal-tar, and extensively used in the production of dyes.
[Animal heat], the heat produced by the chemical changes which go on in the animal system, the intensity depending on the activity of the process.
[Animal magnetism], a name given to the alleged effects on the animal system, in certain passive states, of certain presumed magnetic influences acting upon it.
[Animism], a belief that there is a psychical body within the physical body of a living being, correspondent with it in attributes, and that when the connection between them is dissolved by death the former lives on in a ghostly form; in other words, a belief of a ghost-soul existing conjointly with and subsisting apart from the body, its physical counterpart.
[An`io], an affluent of the Tiber, 4 m. above Rome; ancient Rome was supplied with water from it by means of aqueducts.
[Anise], an umbelliferous plant, the seed of which is used as a carminative and in the preparation of liqueurs.
[Anjou`], an ancient province in the N. of France, annexed to the crown of France under Louis XI. in 1480; belonged to England till wrested from King John by Philip Augustus in 1203.
[Ankarström], the assassin of Gustavus III. of Sweden, at a masked ball, March 15, 1792, for which he was executed after being publicly flogged on three successive days.