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A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

Of or pertaining to anastomosis.

Experienced; versed. [Obs.] Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm. Berners.

eroid barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.

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.

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9. Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer. iv. 31.

Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

ds; chronicles; history. The short and simple annals of the poor. Gray. It was one of the most critical periods in our annals. Burke.

a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant. Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.

A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearl…

A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

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

he valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton.

equence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.

A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic, a. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic*al*ly, adv.

The upper, contrary-moving current of the atmosphere over a monsoon.

. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. Mosheim.

At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.