in natural history, an organized body endowed with sensation: Thus, minerals are said to grow or increase; plants to grow and live; but animals alone have sensation. See NATURAL HISTORY.

ANIMALS, in heraldry, are much used, both as bearings and supporters. See HERALDRY.

used adjectively, denotes any thing belonging to, or partaking of the nature of animals. Thus, animal actions, those that are peculiar to animals; such are sensation and muscular motion.

ANIMAL spirits. See NERVOUS fluid.

ANIMAL system denotes the whole class of beings endowed with animal life, otherwise called animal kingdom.