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An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2

annual plant. Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

cessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. Mosheim.

thod of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharsalia, B.C. 48.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

nt Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312 b. c.

A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

enus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

easure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.

A (patented) alloy of aluminium and silver, with a density of about 2.9.

f, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.

the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town.

s was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

ed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.

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

e. They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan! Cowper.

A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.