Anagrams of: AAEHNS

• A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.

• The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.

• A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.

• The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.

• The guildhall of a Hanse.

• A fee payable to the Hanse, particularly its entrance fee and the impost levied on non-members trading in its area.

• That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.

• A tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda.

• The fruit of this tree, having a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed.

• adult female chicken

• adult female bird

• flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing

• female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster

• express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'

• A female.

• (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.

• (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.

• (personal, sometimes affectionate, old-fashioned) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.

• (personal, old-fashioned) Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.

• (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).

• (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day