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This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is…

A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

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

Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becom…

Proportion; equality of ratios.

ach separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror.

int, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.

le perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.

Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. "To annihilate the army." Macaulay.

To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.…

To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit. Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person. Swift.

Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.