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One who amputates.

One who amuses.

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy. Cheyne.

One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

One who, or that which, analyzes.

The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron.

An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

One who pronounces an anathema. Hammond.

One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.

One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.

One who relates or collects anecdotes.

one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury. Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him. Shak.

One who angles.

The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line. Walton.

nited States. Anglo-Danish, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Danes, or to the Danes who settled in England. Anglo-Indian, a. Of or pertaining to the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages. -- n. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Indies. Anglo-Norman, a. O…