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Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.…

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

A work published under the name of some one other than the author.

Published under the name of some one other than the author.

t along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.

ween two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. Burke.

High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.

t. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

nty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. South.

anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.

Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.

A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.

Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.

The quality of being angelic; excellence more than human.

excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke. Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon.

e river there. Shak. A fisher next his trembling angle bears. Pope. Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90º. -- Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. -- Alternate angles. See Alternate. -- Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a…

used by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy. Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy. Shak.