Invisible.**—Naturalists suppose another species or order of invisible animalcules, viz. such as escape the cognizance even of the best microscopes, and give many probable conjectures in relation to them. Reason and analogy give some support to the existence of infinite imperceptible animalcules. The naked eye, say some, takes in from the elephant to the mite; but there commences a new order reserved only for the microscope, which comprehends all these from the mite to those 27 millions of times smaller; and this order cannot be yet said to be exhausted, if the microscope be not arrived at its last perfection. See further on this subject the article MICROSCOPE.

**ANIMATED,** or **Animate,** in a general sense, denotes something endowed with animal life. It also imports a thing to be impregnated with vermine or animalcules.

**ANIMATED Horse-Hairs.** See Horse-Hairs.

**ANIMATION** signifies the informing an animal body with a soul.—The different hypotheses of physicians and philosophers, concerning the time of animation, have had their influence on the penal laws made against artificial abortions: it having been made capital to procure miscarriage in the one state, while in the other it was only deemed a venial crime. The emperor Charles V. by a constitution published in 1532, put the matter on another footing; instead of the distinction of an animated and unanimated fetus, he introduced that of a vital and non-vital fetus, as a thing of more obvious and easy decision, and not depending on any system either of creation, traduction, or infusion. Accordingly a fetus is said, in a legal sense, to be animated, when it is perceived to stir in the womb; which usually happens about the middle of the term of gestation.

**ANIME,** in Heraldry, a term used when the eyes of a rapacious creature are borne of a different tincture from the creature itself.

**ANIME,** a resin exuding from the trunk of a large American tree, called by Piso jetaiba, by the Indians courbaril, (a species of Hymenaea). This resin is of a transparent amber colour, a light agreeable smell, and little or no taste. It dissolves entirely, but not very readily, in rectified spirit of wine; the impurities, which are often in large quantity, remaining behind. The Brazilians are said to employ anime in fumigations for pains and aches proceeding from a cold cause: with us, it is rarely, if ever, made use of for any medicinal purposes.

**ANIMETTA,** among ecclesiastical writers, denotes the cloth wherewith the cup of the eucharist is covered.

**ANINGA,** in commerce, a root which grows in the Antilles islands, and is pretty much like the China plant. It is used by sugar bakers for refining the sugar.

**ANJOU,** a province and duchy of France before the revolution, bounded on the east by Touraine, on the south by Poictou, on the west by Bretagne, and on the north by Maine. It is now included under the departments of the Mayne and Loire, and the Sarte and Mayenne. It is 70 miles in length, and in breadth 60. Through this province run five navigable rivers: the Loire, which divides it into two parts; the Vienne, the Toue, the Mayenne, and the Sarte.

The air is temperate, and the country agreeably diversified with hills and meadows. There are 33 forests of oak trees mixed with beech. The country produces white wine, wheat, barley, rye, oats, pease, beans, flax, hemp, walnuts, and some chestnuts. In Lower Anjou they make cider. There are fruit trees of all kinds, and pasture proper for horses. The greatest riches of the province consist in cows, oxen, and sheep. There are several coal and iron mines; and yet there are but two forges in the whole province. There are quarries of marble and of slate; as well as quarries of white stone, proper for building, on the side of the river Loire. Here are also several saltpetre works and some glass-houses. The remarkable towns, besides Angers the capital, are Saumur, Brisac, Pons de Cea, La Fleche, and Beaufort.