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Love; affection. [Obs.]

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman.

To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the c…

One affected with Anglomania.

ak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.

f the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.

In any measure; anywise; at all. Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy.

Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.

Affected with apoplexy. [Obs.] Shak.

Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal.

Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper. An ardent and impetuous race. Macaulay.

In an ardent manner; eagerly; with warmth; affectionately; passionately.

Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor.

An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.

Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. "Artificial tears." Shak.

In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. Pope.