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irit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron.

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes.

Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.

Angrily. [Obs. or Poetic] Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak.

Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

In the night time; at night. [Archaic] Does he hawk anights still Marston.

ce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

he solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

. See under Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic, or Periodical year. See under Year.

A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearl…

That which goes before in time; that which precedes. South. The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. Max Miller.

One who goes before; a predecessor. The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys.

To celebrate with anthems. [Poet.] Sweet birds antheming the morn. Keats.

ng to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets. He published a geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

tion of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria.