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An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.

A crystalline compound used as an antipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

rent. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

Paul . . . says he could wish, to save them from it, to become an anathema, and be destroyed himself. Locke. Anathema Maranatha Etym: (see 1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."…

, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge. Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes. Shak.

Experienced; versed. [Obs.] Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm. Berners.

intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers. O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. Milton.

t, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. -- For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence, reflection, refraction, position, repose, fraction, see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection, Refraction, etc.

A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.

ngle meet; the vertex. -- Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing.

Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.

w largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.

An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.

Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal. Brande & C.

Inequality of the pupils of the eye.

Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.

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

A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.

The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]