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oughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

d of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

Expressing amusement; as, an amused look.

a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.

A treatise or book on anatomy.

e (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.

lliam the Conqueror, were held. The numbers, names, etc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive righ…

Hook-shaped.

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.

the 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.…

Angrily. [Obs. or Poetic] Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak.

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.

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

An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] Kipling.

To join; to be united. Tooke.

The state of being annihilated. Hooker.

The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

A yearbook.

An anomaly; a deviation from rule. Hooker.