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ce of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

e under Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic, or Periodical year. See under Year.

One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

To ply; to move. [R.] I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water. T. Moore.

runus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

From one part to another of; at random through; about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner. [Colloq. U. S.]

Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.

The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

anet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. -- Ascending node having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northwar…

Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.

t obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine.

An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.

Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. Spenser.

Act of rising. The . . . assurgency of the spirit through the body. Coleridge.

f these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization.

The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

s. Thomson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.