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Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob.

The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

In an amenable manner.

To manage. [Obs.] Spenser.

Behavior; bearing. [Obs.] Spenser.

An explosive consisting of a mixture of powdered aluminium and nitrate of ammonium.

A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. Milton.

Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), ., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.

The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines. Milton. Bp. Bull.

The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists. [R.] Thus died this imaginary king; and Anabaptistry was suppressed in Munster. Pagitt.

To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename. [R.] Whitlock.

A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

at of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis." The anabasis of Napoleon. De Quincey.

Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever. [Obs.]

Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature.

The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.