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Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.

An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.

A maidservant; a handmaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind- Fertilized. Lubbock.

About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular.

Containing no liquid; -- said of kind of barometer. Aneroid barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.

Worship paid to angels.

A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.

road, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal. Brande & C.

Not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts; -- said of crystals with three unequal axes. Dana.

The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.

The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.

A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.

Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6.

Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects.

e daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers.

Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid.