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y ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. Priestley.

To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.

The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

ion; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge. Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes. Shak.

Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.

were but to roast their eggs. Bacon. And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular.

Soothing.

mbining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

or lengthened. -- Facial angle. See under Facial. -- Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure. -- Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line. -- Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. -- Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more t…

mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.

ngry, or of being inclined to anger. Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything. Whole Duty of Man.

eling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v. 6.

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He annexed a province to his kingdom. Johnson.

The act of annexing, or the thing annexed; appendage. [R.] Shak.

To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon.