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Englishmen in America. -- n. A descendant from English ancestors born in America, or the United States. Anglo-Danish, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Danes, or to the Danes who settled in England. Anglo-Indian, a. Of or pertaining to the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages.…

The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

To join; to be united. Tooke.

g, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.…

the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus 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 pos…

- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States. Pickering.

Opposition to imperialism; -- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matt…

s heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.

One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States. Burrill. Bouvier.

The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. "The whole united armament of Greece." Glover.

to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.

of Confederation, the compact which was first made by the original thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789. -- Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same office which an indictment does in a comm…