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A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

Alternately answering.

Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges.

The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver i…

To enlarge. [R.] To maintain and ampliate the external possessions of your empire. Udall.

enter of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

oörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. D. C. Eaton.

Microörganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it. Sternberg.

Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. -- n.

The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

90º. -- Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. -- Alternate angles. See Alternate. -- Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to…

nt (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

An instrument for measuring external angles.

The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage. "Marks of anility." Sterne.

on and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.…

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

nnual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.