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

Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the 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. Gilda…

In ancient times.

The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.

A movement or piece in andante time.

Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew. Dryden.

lant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.

, a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. -- Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. -- Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. -- Curvilineal…

Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.

The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.

The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.

s of the angle meet; the vertex. -- Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing.

ssly anxious or eager (for). [Obs.] They anhele . . . for the fruit of our convocation. Latimer.

In the night time; at night. [Archaic] Does he hawk anights still Marston.

ubkingdoms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

t, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.

A division of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

At another time; then; again. Sometimes he trots, . . . anon he rears upright. Shak. Anon right, at once; right off. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Ever and anon, now and then; frequently; often. A pouncet box, which ever and anon He gave his nose. Shak.