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

The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

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…

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular.

Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so calle…

nful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

That part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.

Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter. Tylor.

Not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts; -- said of crystals with three unequal axes. Dana.

reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.

Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

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.