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Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell.

Flask-shaped; dilated.

One who amputates.

See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.]

An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]

The unfolding or dénouement. [R.] De Quincey.

A distorted image.

An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror.

A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

Same as Anamorphosis.

A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

Ancestral. Grote.

With regard to ancestors.

A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

The common recoil escapement.

The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.

½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.