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In company; together. He to England shall along with you. Shak. All along, all trough the course of; during the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper." Addison. -- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs.…

A store closet, as a pantry, cupboard, etc.

A friend; -- a Spanish term applied in the Philippine Islands to friendly natives.

dition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

The diastase of the pancreatic juice.

A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. Priestley.

ffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

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

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for). [Obs.] They anhele . . . for the fruit of our convocation. Latimer.

Anhelous; panting. [R.]

Short of breath; panting.

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

Opposition to imperialism; -- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matt…

A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.

the anticipation of the joys of heaven. The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.