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Near. [R.] "It did not come anear." Coleridge. The measure of misery anear us. I. Taylor.

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.

A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.

there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

scious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

The univalent radical, CH3OC6H4, of which anisol is the hydride.

The state or quality of being anonymous. Coleridge.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

ecome less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.

One who has an antipathy. [R.] "Antipathist of light." Coleridge.

ally refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

The practice of aping; an apish action. Coleridge.

Apparentness; state of being apparent. Coleridge.

Belonging; appertaining. [Now usually written appurtenant.] Coleridge.

The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

to another thing; an appurtenance. Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge.

A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. "The weather being too hot for the apron." Hughes.

Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.