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cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the inferior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.

etimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal. Brande & C.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size; -- opposed to isospore.

Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.

Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.

A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other.

g 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 at an angle with the surface and the head and b…

Not the same; different. He winks, and turns his lips another way. Shak.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.

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

That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets. He published a geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.