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Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.

includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoölogists it is applied to the former only.

ich are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in l…

A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar.

r damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.

of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. opposite, or in the place of.…

ommon "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.

The group that includes man only.

ttempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.

cks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

me focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective. --Ap`o*chro"ma*tism (#), n.

st, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.

holic belief, the pope is the successor of St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only apostle who has successors in the apostolic office. -- Apostolical succession, the regular and uninterrupted transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period. Hook.…

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

ld appalled wight. [Obs.] Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [Obs.] An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield.

body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.