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An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans.

The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.

Affected with albinism.

One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.

an alien; alienage. The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent.

One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev.

Same as Alcoranist.

A climber of the Alps.

One excessively ambitious. [R.]

Attachment to the United States.

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism. T. Warton.

An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.

Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism.

Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.

A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold.

A disease due to inhaling the poisonous fumes present in the manufacture of aniline.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

The seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it. "Oil of aniseed." Brande & C.