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A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.

f the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

s), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

s; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

Old age; also, old people. [R.] Wronging the ancientry. Shak.

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

A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow. [Obs.] Boucher.

with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

m the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor. Watts.

d, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. [Written also aneurysmal.]

stalks of angelica. Angelica tree, a thorny North American shrub (Aralia spinosa), called also Hercules' club.

A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. [Obs.]

Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc. [Obs.] I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . the greatest anger and soreness still continued. Temple.

sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

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.

The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.

and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.