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A machine or automaton in the form of a human being.

A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.

A meteor appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Andromeda, -- whence the name.

The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.

roduced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi. [R.]

Anthropophagous.

A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray.

A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johns…

A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion.

A spore of some algæ, which has male functions.

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy. [R.]

A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.

Near. [R.] "It did not come anear." Coleridge. The measure of misery anear us. I. Taylor.

Beneath. [Scot.]

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

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