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Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifæ, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

ght in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than hi…

nstrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo. [R.]

m or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.

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

he northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.

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.

A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennæ or feelers of Crustacea.

is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system. Draper.

Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla. -- n.

One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States. Pickering.

Opposition to imperialism; -- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matt…

Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

ho is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.