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Styptic. [Obs.] Coxe.

One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

cdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

Angularly toothed, as certain leaves.

Narrowed.

The act or making narrow; a straitening or contacting. Wiseman.

Having unequal petals.

See Annelida.

To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.

A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

An annotator. [R.]

Characterized by annotations; of the nature of annotation.

A writer of annotations; a commentator.

Pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations. [R.]

One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity. Lamb.