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The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.

The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. Encyc. Brit.

ing different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

singer. Alto clef (Mus.) the counter-tenor clef, or the C clef, placed so that the two strokes include the middle line of the staff. Moore.

To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks. [Obs.]

redecessor. [Obs.] Junius and Andronicus . . . in Christianity . . . were his ancients. Hooker.

The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

ertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. "Anecdotical traditions." Bolingbroke.

he nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly host recorded in Luke ii. 14. Eadie.…

To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke. Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon.

Angular; having corners; hooked. [R.] Held together by hooks and angulous involutions. Glanvill.

To join; to be united. Tooke.

The state of being annihilated. Hooker.

An anomaly; a deviation from rule. Hooker.

. Antagonist of Heaven's Almigthy King. Milton. Our antagonists in these controversies. Hooker.

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.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

man epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery. H. Rogers.

, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.