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An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8

A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.

ar; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly. Darwin.

Not the same; different. He winks, and turns his lips another way. Shak.

To be opposite to; to face. The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin.

-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.

gure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthromorphous plant. "Anthromorphous apes." Darwin.

A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.

A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic, a. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic*al*ly, adv.

A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise.

oir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.

An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary. Bp. Berkeley.

A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.