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of Chancery. Council of Ancients (French Hist.), one of the two assemblies composing the legislative bodies in 1795. Brande.

The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

ving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.

than a right angle, or less than 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…

In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn.

The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus. Ankle bone, the bone of the ankle; the astragalus.

culata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill. Bouvier.

The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. Shipley.

heeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. [U.S.]

Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.

The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

n apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.