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

f the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

se an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

s), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

s; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

Old age; also, old people. [R.] Wronging the ancientry. Shak.

instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow. [Obs.] Boucher.

with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi. [R.]

m the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor. Watts.

d, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. [Written also aneurysmal.]

stalks of angelica. Angelica tree, a thorny North American shrub (Aralia spinosa), called also Hercules' club.

A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. [Obs.]

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.