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dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which,…

es naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. -- n.

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Written also anoura.]

Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Also written anourous.]

r causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor. The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. Milton.

n indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody. Macaulay.

well there. Aonian fount, the fountain of Aganippe, at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the Muses.

The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.

Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form. -- A*phet"ic*al*ly, adv. New Eng. Dict.

An oily liquid derived from parsley.

rical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constru…