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A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.

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

An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2

ter the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

Historical records; chronicles; history. The short and simple annals of the poor. Gray. It was one of the most critical periods in our annals. Burke.

Addition to a former number. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word. [R.] J. R. Seeley.

Want or defect of sight; blindness.

A feldspar closely related to orthoclase, but triclinic. It is chiefly a silicate of sodium, potassium, and aluminium. Sp. gr., 2.57 -- 2.60.

One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.

Of another kind. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ"mic, *e"mic (#), a.

Resembling a goose; silly; simple. Sydney Smith.

To be opposite to; to face. The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin.

To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass. Sir M. Hale.

ho goes before; a predecessor. The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys.

ey are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

Before in time; antecedent. Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius. Sir G. C. Lewis.