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p, used as an attribute or sacred emblem, symbolizing generation or enduring life. Called also crux ansata.

bers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anæmia, Egyptian chlorosis.

A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle. [Written also anelace.]

See Annals.

A writer of annals. The monks . . . were the only annalists in those ages. Hume.

To record in annals. Sheldon.

One who, or that which, anneals.

to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy. Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy. Shak.

that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant. Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.

A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ipse (Astron.), an eclipse of the sun in which the moon at the middle of the eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border.

A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.

on of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.

in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.

A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having to teeth at the hinge. [Written also Anodonta.]

To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.

The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton.

Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. [Written also anomoural, anomouran.]