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A dissector.

The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

Native carbonate of soda; natron.

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray.

Same as Annotto.

Sociable. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

pses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

Same as Appanage.

ifferent curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best a…

Freedom from spherical aberration.

longs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment. "Wealth . . . the appanage of wit." Swift.

A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.

A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form.

The quality of being deathless; immortality.

Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century. Athanasian creed, a formulary, confession, or exposition of faith, formerly supposed to have been drawn up by Athanasius; but this opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles (5th century). It is a s…