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A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties. Johnson.

To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint. Dunglison.

led Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.

g A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.

A messenger. [R.] The dear good angel of the Spring, The nightingale. B. Jonson.

An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused. Johnson. R. Browning.

Of or pertaining to Anjou in France. -- n. A native of Anjou.

A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish. Anglo-American, . Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. -- n. A descendant from English ancestors born in America, or th…

In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners. B. Jonson.

The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

Having the power of giving life or spirit. Johnson.

The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus. Ankle bone, the bone of the ankle; the astragalus.

the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson.

the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.

Straightway; at once. [Obs.] The same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. Matt. xiii. 20.

not thine own mouth. Prov. xxvii. 2. While I am coming, another steppeth down before me. John v. 7.