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An it, that is, and it or if it. See An, conj. [Obs.]

A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.

See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.]

Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.

etained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

See Anæsthesia.

or key. Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, Quantitative, and Volumetric analysis. (Chem.) See under Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, etc.

periment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to synthetic. Analytical or coördinate geometry. See under Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arra…

rom it, to become an anathema, and be destroyed himself. Locke. Anathema Maranatha Etym: (see 1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."

e barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

cks; -- applied to Anatifæ, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.

nifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.

resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

sterial; venerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.

See Ankle.

If; though. See An, conj. [Obs.] Chaucer. As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon. And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone.

See Anemone. Sandys.

The herb dill, or dillseed.