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s of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed to a transcendental curve.

One learned about algæ; a student of algology.

A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.

ltered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.

By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.

A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.

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

ish and East Indian peoples or languages. -- n. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Indies. Anglo-Norman, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Normans, or to the Normans who settled in England. -- n. One of the English Normans, or the Normans who conquered England. Anglo-Saxon. See Anglo-Saxon…

Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable. What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course Holland. This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton.

The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.

An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

Antecedent; preceding in time. "Capable of antecedaneous proof." Barrow.

The state or condition of being antecedent; priority. Fothherby.

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

Before in time; antecedent. Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius. Sir G. C. Lewis.

tinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.

ords, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

A student of bees. [R.] Emerson.