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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  • "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

  • Straight to my heraldry terms list! Thanks, ruzuzu.

    November 3, 2012