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The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.

ern, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

es, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), ., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

Absence of sensibility to pain. Quain.

h degree which have certain peculiar relations to circles; -- sometimes called bicircular quartics. -- Anallagmatic surfaces, a certain class of surfaces of the fourth degree.

Quality of being analogical.

r group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

Proportion; equality of ratios.

at elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks.

--said esp. of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.

A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.

which thy fathers have set. Prov. xxii. 28. An ancient man, strangely habited, asked for quarters. Scott.

The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.

A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.

The quality of being angelic; excellence more than human.