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Satan. [Obs.] Chaucer. Wyclif.

., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

ct attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.

The American widgeon (Anas Americana).

benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.

southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person. -- Ban"tu,…

A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

or adhered to. I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed. Shak. Apostles' creed, Athanasian creed, Nicene creed. See under Apostle, Athanasian, Nicene.

A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck. [Written also gaddwell.]

A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.

To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.

or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc. Ray.

(Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.

A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.

A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

al consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in s…

A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open- beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak.

Having a thick tongue; --applied to a group of lizards (Pachyglossæ), including the iguanas and agamas.

A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.