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Any disorder of the vasomotor system; neurosis of a blood vessel. --An`gi*o*neu*rot"ic (#), a.

To put before; to prefer. [Obs.] Bailey.

A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.

s regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic, a. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic*al*ly, adv.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

A book of antiphons. Chaucer.

, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody.

Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciæ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

Dissection of aponeuroses.

One who apportions.

Wearing an apron. A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope.

Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.

A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europæum; -- called also camphor of asarum.

A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.

ing to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty. [Written also Asmonæan.]

To stun; to astonish; to stupefy. [Obs.] Chaucer.