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A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.

A meteor appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Andromeda, -- whence the name.

The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.

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

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

Anthropophagous.

A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray.

A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. 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 Johns…

A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion.

A spore of some algæ, which has male functions.

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy. [R.]

A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.

To abandon. [Obs.] Enforced the kingdom to aband. Spenser.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.

Unrestrainedly.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.