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Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively. The admirable structure of animate bodies. Bentley.

That may be announced or declared; declarable. [R.]

A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.

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

A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke…

The quality of being desirable. Bramhall.

Desirable; capable or worthy of being the object of desire. Bramhall.

Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil. After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. Addison.

Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil. Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance. Tillotson. Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. Gladstone.

approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. Temple.

A variety of the gazelle (Antilope, or Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries. (b) A squirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. (c) A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel).

e no art at all. Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. Crabb.

all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable. Jer. Taylor.

ogarithmic sines and tangents, which, by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc. -- Artificial numbers, logarithms. -- Artificial person (Law). See under Person. -- Artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms of the natural, tangents,…

Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness. "Asperity of character." Landor. It is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.

m interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

t exceedingly. [Archaic] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

Any article or separable part of one's assets.