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A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds.

act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

Immorality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. -- a. Ambrosial; immortal.

An administrative territorial division in Denmark and Norway.

A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism. T. Warton.

un's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

tead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton.

A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.

ion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

ed a geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

, 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 matters of commerce and imperial defense. -- An`ti-im*pe"ri*al*ist, n.…

Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

any rate; in any event. Anyhow, it must be acknowledged to be not a simple selforiginated error. J. H. Newman. Anyhow, the languages of the two nations were closely allied. E. A. Freeman.

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage…