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Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

es 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. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.

A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.

Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.

A condition in the wood of some trees in which the rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling. When pain and anguish wring the brow. Sir W. Scott.

A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury. Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him. Shak.

A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

e. -- For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence, reflection, refraction, position, repose, fraction, see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection, Refraction, etc.

A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

or the element which, in electro- chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation. Faraday.

A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size; -- opposed to isospore.

great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.

Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.

electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.

A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda- lime feldspar, usually labradorite.

or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils. Do the strings answer to thy noble hand Dryden.

egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.