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The quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness; also, that which anonymous. [R.] He rigorously insisted upon the rights of anonymity. Carlyle.

A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearl…

A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

A group of insects which includes the lice.

Distorted vision, in which straight lines appear bent.

toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.

A hymenopterous insect of the Linnæan genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

Any aphid from which ants obtain honeydew.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius.

A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

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

That which goes before in time; that which precedes. South. The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. Max Miller.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.

A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.