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An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use. Specifically (Anat.),

Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.

Of the nature of aphthæ; resembling thrush.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Apollo.

Resembling apoplexy.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a decoction. [Obs.] J. Whitaker.

Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.

Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

ry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary c…

aorta. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton. Triumphal arch, a monumental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.

Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel. Milton.

Of or pertaining to silver; resembling, containing, or combined with, silver.

Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. Shak.

A species of shell (Cypræa argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail.

Anything resembling an arm; as,