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Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.

One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Hemans.

ned without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.

Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.

inistration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.

A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.

It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several…

A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.

Existence or state of angels.

The state of being an angel; angelic nature. Mrs. Browning.

To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic. It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man. W. Taylor.

The state or quality of being English.

men in America. -- n. A descendant from English ancestors born in America, or the United 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.…

The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.

The quality or state of being angular; angularness.

A state of being angulous or angular. [Obs.]

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage. "Marks of anility." Sterne.