Anagrams of ANVILING

• To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something).

• To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.

• To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink.

• (vexillology) (current, operational) To lower or "dip" a carried flag or banner in a salute by a forward reducing of the angle of the pike/flagstaff with respect to the ground; in extreme instances, as when saluting a monarch, both the banner and the finial of the pike are allowed to rest upon the ground.

• To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.

• To conceal as with a veil.

• pertaining to living persons

• the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

• people who are still living

• the condition of living or the state of being alive

• the financial means whereby one lives

• true to life; lifelike

• (informal) absolute

• still in existence

• still in active use

• (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried

• wash or flow against

• cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

• wash one's face and hands

• a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

• a period of sleeplessness

• the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)

• a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

• a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering

• the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes

• To take; undertake for.

• (as a godparent) To undertake for at the baptismal font; be godfather or godmother to.

• A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position