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voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike. Macaulay.

, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.

r exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. "To annihilate the army." Macaulay.

refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent. -- a.

Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.

d of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

y branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.

sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform. Macaulay.

umber of persons; anyone; any person. His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody. Macaulay.

In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.

ed to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fle…

gretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. "To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone." Macaulay.

exaltation. "The apotheosis of chivalry." Prescott. "The noisy apotheosis of liberty and machinery." F. Harrison.

plex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

on or diameter of the sun. To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay. What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heaven…

request. I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. Horsley. They appealed to the sword. Macaulay.

e judgment seat. * Cor. v. 10. One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay.