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tion to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.

Of another kind. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.

Of another sort. [Archaic] It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.

A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.

Same as Antihelix.

Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]

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.

A floral ornament. See Palmette.

Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

Alternately. [Obs.] Bacon.

That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.

Producing anthers, as plants.

Shaped like an anther; anther-shaped.

Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.

Resembling an anther.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

Destructive to, or hindering the growth of, diphtheria bacilli. -- n.