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, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. "The anguine or snakelike reptiles." Owen.

Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.

Connecting; annexing. Owen.

ontending 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. Darwin.

Belonging to the antennæ. Owen.

Like or related to man; human. [R.] Owen.

The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy. Owen.

Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. Owen. Here is an anticipatory glance of what was to be. J. C. Shairp.

To bend forward. [R.] Owen.

in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).

advancing near. "The approach of summer." Horsley. A nearer approach to the human type. Owen.

The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.

n arm, to go with the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. "When arm in armwe went along." Tennyson. -- To keep at arm's length, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.…

In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order. Shak. And twenty, rank in rank, they rode arow. Dryden.

Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise. Owen.

upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty- five cents.

A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

The relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first.

Developed from an independent center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.