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

See Anemone. Sandys.

One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for "pseudonym."

The quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness; also, that which anonymous. [R.] He rigorously insisted upon the rights of anonymity. Carlyle.

Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

In an anonymous manner; without a name. Swift.

The state or quality of being anonymous. Coleridge.

Contest; opposition; antagonism. [Obs.] Antagony that is between Christ and Belial. Milton.

See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint.

An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

o figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

Loss of voice or vocal utterance.

Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.

To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. [Archaic] The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer.

Same as Astrogeny. -- As`*tro*gon"ic, a.

Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

An aboriginal or autochthonous condition.

An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.

a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.