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To add on; to count in. [Obs.] Wollaston.

Addition to a former number. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.

The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.

In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.

One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States. Pickering.

A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.

ncluded Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. R. Cyc.

One of the Aptera.

To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.

The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. Bailey.

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

Asseverative.

A tempering, or mixing in due proportion.

Temperance; attemperament. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted. Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise. Hammond.