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The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.

The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

A condition in the wood of some trees in which the rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.

Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.

An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ"mic, *e"mic (#), a.

The state or condition of being antecedent; priority. Fothherby.

The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.

The condition or state of being free from fever.

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

In a reeking condition. Swift.

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

prince to officers in every county, to muster and array the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war. Blackstone.

A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.

ution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.

In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet. The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king. Dewey.

The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.