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annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing.

American Federation of Labor.

Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation. "Religious agitations." Prescott.

from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument Whewell.

articular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak.

A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet''ic.

A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast. Andrews.

A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.

An initial sound, as of a word or syllable.

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

The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl in monosyllable.

Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.

A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short.