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To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins. The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. I. Taylor.

The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

Compound interest. [R.] Bouvier.

as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and pass the shank painter. -- To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.

The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

rivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connect…

tion and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.…

A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.

The common white lily (Lilium candidum). So called because it is usually introduced by painters in pictures of the Annunciation.

A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.

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

perty of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

ness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics,…