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ble, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.

A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

Lack of energy; inactivity. -- An*er"gic (#), a.

A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.

mpounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.…

The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

ch annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.

A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanidæ. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.

Having leaves irregularly placed.

o suit; -- usually with to. That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience. Shak. If this but answer to my just belief, I 'll remember you. Shak. As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Pro

esis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. opposite, or in the place of.

To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass. Sir M. Hale.

A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself. T. G. Thomas.

The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior.

A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

To displace by anteversion.