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oint where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton.

A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.

Ahungered; longing. [Archaic]

Nigh. [Archaic]

In the night time; at night. [Archaic] Does he hawk anights still Marston.

Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." Wesley.

Having the power of perceiving; percipient. [Archaic] Glanvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment. [Archaic] Grew.

Anhilated. [Archaic] Swift.

To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.

The festival celebrated (March 25th) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day.

Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.

Of another sort. [Archaic] It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.

Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic] Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton.

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.

, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.

To or towards any place. [Archaic] De Foe.

Open; ev [Archaic] Fotherby.

The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. [Archaic] Wiseman.