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Not changed in form by inversion. Anallagmatic curves, a class of curves of the fourth degree which have certain peculiar relations to circles; -- sometimes called bicircular quartics. -- Anallagmatic surfaces, a certain class of surfaces of the fourth degree.

The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.

Produced without concourse of sexes.

ensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."

intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle. "Our ancient bickerings." Shak. Remove not the ancient landmarks, which thy fathers have set. Prov. xxii. 28. An ancient man, strangely habited, asked for quarters. Scott.

To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic. It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man. W. Taylor.

A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels. The same mythology commanded the general consent; the same angelology, demonology. Milman.

A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." [Obs.] Chaucer.

generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v. 6.

Not harmonic. The anharmonic function or ratio of four points abcd on a straight line is the quantity (ac/ad):(bc/bd), where the segments are to regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters.

ant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for). [Obs.] They anhele . . . for the fruit of our convocation. Latimer.

A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.

A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenæa courbaril), and much used by varnish makers. Ure.

Mere spiritedness or courage. [Obs.] Skelton. Such as give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she [the crocodile] loveth. Holland.

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

ed under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.