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A recalling to mind; recollection.

A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

th male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.

A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray.

Near. [R.] "It did not come anear." Coleridge. The measure of misery anear us. I. Taylor.

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

One who relates or collects anecdotes.

The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest. It is quite correct to call Æthelstan "King of the Anglo-Saxons," but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense. E. A. Freeman.

ariety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. -- Angora goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.

A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

ed as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl.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.

mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

nconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. De Colange.

To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.

The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.

ds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.

A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.