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an form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.

A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short.

"Lords of antic fame." Phaer.

ive preconception. Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke.

Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.

The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine. -- An`ti*log`a*rith"mic, a.

ony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. Warburton.

Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long.

A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

To any extent; in any degree; at all. You are not to go loose any longer. Shak. Before you go any farther. Steele.

A person of consideration or standing. [Colloq.] All the men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. Lond. Sat. Rev.

ught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.

An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude.