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The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

Like or related to man; human. [R.] Owen.

n form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.

The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy. Owen.

A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming.

Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. Owen. Here is an anticipatory glance of what was to be. J. C. Shairp.

Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

ny; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

rariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.

Diametrically opposite. His antipodal shadow." Lowell.

A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

To bend forward. [R.] Owen.

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.

Gently opening the bowels; laxative. -- n.

in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].

ence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

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

The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.