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in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

ace, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

ll fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

If; though. See An, conj. [Obs.] Chaucer. As they will set an house on fire, and it 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.

region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

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.

A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. Dryden.

To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

ron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

f; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

Serving to assuage pain; soothing. The anodyne draught of oblivion. Burke.

der Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic, or Periodical year. See under Year.

espond to. She answers him as if she knew his mind. Shak. So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. Milton.

Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson.

The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.