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Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.

Compound interest. [R.] Bouvier.

Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations. Hume.

In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.

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

One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.

The act of anatomizing.

To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. Hume.

A dissector.

The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

Native carbonate of soda; natron.

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray.

Same as Annotto.

Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.

The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.

Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.

Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the c…

A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2