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Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. "The agnatic succession." Blackstone.

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.

Without female organs; male.

A female albino. Holmes.

Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador. Prescott.

An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families]. Thackeray.

A female ancestor.

A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.

The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.

Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.

The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.

The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

A spore of some algæ, which has male functions.

and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by…

Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body…

The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.