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A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.

About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular.

A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

y; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly host recorded in Luke ii. 14. Eadie.

0º. -- Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. -- Alternate angles. See Alternate. -- Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to t…

t (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

An instrument for measuring external angles.

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage. "Marks of anility." Sterne.

n 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.…

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

nual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

To be opposite to; to face. The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin.

Opposition to government in general. [R.]

One who opposes all government. [R.]

Opposed to all human government. [R.]

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.

Alternately. [Obs.] Bacon.

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