AN’AKIM or ANAK, a giant of Palestine, whose descendants were terrible for their gigantic stature.  The Hebrew spies said that they themselves were mere grasshoppers in comparison of them.

  I felt the thews of Anakim,
  The pulses of a Titan’s heart.

Tennyson, In Memoriam, iii.

(The Titans were giants, who, according to classic fable, made war with Jupiter or Zeus, 1 syl.)

ANAMNES’TES (4 syl), the boy who waited on Eumnestes (Memory).  Eumnestes was a very old man, decrepit and half blind, a “man of infinite remembrance, who things foregone through many ages held,” but when unable to “fet” what he wanted, was helped by a little boy yclept Anamnestes, who sought out for him what “was lost or laid amiss.”  (Greek, eumnestis, “good memory;” anamne’stis, “research or calling up to mind.”)

  And oft when things were lost or laid amiss,
  That boy them sought and unto him did lend;
  Therefore the Anamnestes cleped is,
  And that old man Eumnestes.

Spenser, Faery Queen, ii. 9 (1590).

ANANI’AS, in The Alchemist, a comedy by Ben Jonson (1610).

("Wasp” in Bartholomew Fair, “Corbaccio” in The Fox, “Morose” in The Silent Woman, all by B. Jonson.)

ANARCHUS, king of the Dipsodes (2 syl.), defeated by Pantag’ruel, who dressed him in a ragged doublet, a cap with a cock’s feather, and married him to “an old lantern-carrying hag.”  The prince gave the wedding-feast, which consisted of garlic and sour cider.  His wife, being a regular termagant, “did beat him like plaster, and the ex-tyrant did not dare call his soul his own.”—­Rabelais, Pantagruel, ii. 31 (1533).

ANASTA’SIUS, the hero of a novel called Memoirs of Anastasius, by Thomas Hope (1770-1831), a most brilliant and powerful book.  It is the autobiography of a Greek, who, to escape the consequences of his crimes and villainies, becomes a renegade, and passes through a long series of adventures.

Fiction has but few pictures which will bear comparison with that of Anastasius, sitting on the steps of the lazaretto of Trieste, with his dying boy in his arms.—­Encyc.  Brit.  Art.  “Romance.”

ANASTASIUS GRUeN, the nom de plume of Anton Alexander von Auersperg, a German poet (1806-1876).

ANASTERAX, brother of Niquee [ne.kay], with whom he lives in incestuous intercourse.  The fairy Zorphee, in order to withdraw her god-daughter from this alliance, enchanted her.—­Amadis de Gaul.

AN’CHO, a Spanish brownie, who haunts the shepherds’ huts, warms himself at their fires, tastes their clotted milk and cheese, converses with the family, and is treated with familiarity mixed with terror.  The Ancho hates church bells.

ANCIENT MARINER (The), by Coleridge.  For the crime of having shot an albatross (a bird of good omen to seamen) terrible sufferings are visited upon him, which are finally remitted through his repentance; but he is doomed to wander over the earth and repeat his story to others as a warning lesson.