Ancient Mariner, a mariner doomed to suffer dreadful penalties for having shot an albatross, and who, when he reaches land, is haunted by the recollection of them, and feels compelled to relate the tale of them as a warning to others; the hero of a poem by Coleridge.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Anchovy pear * Ancillon, Frederick