Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, animated, excited; showing a desire to fight: said of an animal and represented by giving the eyes, etc., a tincture different from that of the body.
- noun The name of various resins, also known in pharmacy as elemi (which see).
- noun A kind of copal, the produce principally of a leguminous tree, Trachylobium Hornemannianum, of Zanzibar.
- noun The produce of a very nearly allied tree of tropical America, Hymenæa Courbaril, known in the West Indies as the locust-tree.
- noun Indian copal, produced by Vateria Indica. See
Vateria . - noun Sometimes called
gum anime .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.
- noun A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (
Hymenæa courbaril ), and much used by varnish makers.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
anime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various resins or oleoresins
- noun a hard copal derived from an African tree
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ruzuzu commented on the word animé
"In heraldry, animated, excited; showing a desire to fight: said of an animal and represented by giving the eyes, etc., a tincture different from that of the body."
--Cent. Dict.
November 2, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word animé
Straight to my heraldry terms list! Thanks, ruzuzu.
November 3, 2012