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Aneurin
Language; Encyclopedias
A British bard at the beginning of the 7th century, who took part in the battle of Cattraeth, and made it the subject of a poem.
Acorn-shells
Language; Encyclopedias
A crustacean attached to rocks on the sea-shore, described by Huxley as "fixed by its head," and "kicking its food into its mouth with its legs."
Lord Acton
Language; Encyclopedias
A descendant of the former, who became a leader of the Liberal Catholics in England, M.P. for Carlow, and made a peer in 1869; a man of wide learning, and the projector of a universal history by ...
Adumbla
Language; Encyclopedias
A cow, in old Norse mythology, that grazes on hoar-frost, "licking the rime from the rocks—a Hindu cow transported north," surmises Carlyle.
Accadians
Language; Encyclopedias
A dark, thick-lipped, short-statured Mongol race in Central Asia, displaced by the Babylonians and Assyrians, who were Semitic.
