Definition of animal

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Animal (a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites..

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Disorder :: Disorder (n.) Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement.
Digitigrade :: Digitigrade (n.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot..
Wither :: Wither (n.) To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies..
Median :: Median (a.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts..
Halloo :: Halloo (n.) A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.
Scent :: Scent (v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Acephalocyst :: Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin..
Alcoholization :: Alcoholization (n.) Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.
Predatory :: Predatory (a.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
Generation :: Generation (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals..
Sarcode :: Sarcode (n.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.
Burdock :: Burdock (n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals..
Ewe :: Ewe (n.) The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals..
Manure :: Manure (n.) Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc..
Bench :: Bench (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
Rackabones :: Rackabones (n.) A very lean animal, esp. a horse..
Trichinoscope :: Trichinoscope (n.) An apparatus for the detection of trichinae in the flesh of animals, as of swine..
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground..
Vegetable :: Vegetable (n.) A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table..
Noctilucin :: Noctilucin (n.) A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties..
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