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e. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly. Darwin.

A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word. [R.] J. R. Seeley.

ome themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.

in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

y. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6.

principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.

ect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius.

chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.

Man eaters; cannibals. Shak.

Relating to cannibalism or anthropophagy.

A cannibal. W. Taylor.

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

position to imperialism; -- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matter…

Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.

waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

ew Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.…

Anything exactly opposite or contrary. Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.