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Recovery of strength after sickness.

A crystalline compound used as an antipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman.

A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused. Johnson. R. Browning.

Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc. [Obs.] I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . the greatest anger and soreness still continued. Temple.

Physically. G. Eliot.

Methyl phenyl ether, C6H5OCH3, got by distilling anisic acid or by the action of methide on potassium phenolate.

The univalent radical CH3OC6H4CO, of anisic acid.

A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns.

An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ"mic, *e"mic (#), a.

An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.

lection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.

and political geography, and that part of ethnology which deals with distribution and physical environment. -- An`thro*po*ge*og"ra*pher (#), n. -- An`thro*po*ge`o*graph"ic*al (#), a.

actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations. P. Cyc.

A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. [Written also antimoniate.]

A compound of antimonious acid and a base or basic radical.

An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.