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an indefinite, relatively passive, conscious being; characteristic of the "fringe" or "margin" of consciousness.

To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response. There was no voice, nor any that answered. 1 Kings xviii. 26.

A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

Belonging to the antennæ. Owen.

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. Smollett.

The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.

ns, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations. P. Cyc.

Pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man. "Anthropologic wisdom." Kingsley. -- An`thro*po*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

To attribute a human form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.

The art of discovering or judging of a man's character, passions. and inclinations from a study of his visible features. [R.]

Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

ing a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. Mosheim.

Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.

A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.

ver; at 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.

the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.