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A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron.

Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.

A remedy against gout.

The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.

Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.

An antidiphtheritic agent.

The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine. -- An`ti*log`a*rith"mic, a.

An antinephritic remedy.

Enumeration of parts or particulars.

Serving to open; aperient. Harvey.

See under Calcite.

The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. Milton. The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. Prescott. The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.

fficer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

Divination by means of numbers.

A book containing the principles of this science. Arithmetic of sines, trigonometry. -- Political arithmetic, the application of the science of numbers to problems in civil government, political economy, and social science. -- Universal arithmetic, the name given by Sir Isaac Newton to algebra.

Of or pertaining to arithmetic; according to the rules or method of arithmetic. Arithmetical complement of a logarithm. See Logarithm. -- Arithmetical mean. See Mean. -- Arithmetical progression. See Progression. -- Arithmetical proportion. See Proportion.

Conformably to the principles or methods of arithmetic.