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Literal. [Obs.] "Alphabetical servility." Milton.

use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

r phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative. Ammunition bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.]

ion for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't. [Colloq. & illiterate speech.]

A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

A collection of literary fragments.

length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

he times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.

termediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

A writer of annals. The monks . . . were the only annalists in those ages. Hume.

Alliteration. [Obs.] Tyrwhitt.

A writer of annotations; a commentator.

A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.

To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.

A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.

Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.

A writer or utterer of aphorisms.