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A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. [Written also anue.] Bacon.

A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. [Written also antimoniate.]

Combined with or containing antimony; as, antimoniureted hydrogen. [Written also antimoniuretted.]

Odd; fantastic. [In this sense, written antic.]

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.]

Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. "To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone." Macaulay.

Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none. Dryden.…

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written corruptly imposthume.]

Belonging; appertaining. [Now usually written appurtenant.] Coleridge.

To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.

a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

of buildings or monuments of an early epoch, inscriptions, implements, and other relics, written manuscripts, etc.

The plant from which the dye is obtained. [Written also orchal and orchil.]

to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

The adaptation of a composition to voices or instruments for which it was not originally written.

The person at whose suit an arrestment is made. [Also written arrestor.]

The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish. [Eng.] [Written also arish, ersh, etc.] The moment we entered the stubble or arrish. Blackw. Mag.

ence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.