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The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton.

To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin.

th sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.…

Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.

To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.

The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.

ers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.

iation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly. Dar…

A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.

Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. Ray.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

Transformation into the form of a human being.

heistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise.

An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.