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A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.

It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.

A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

A meteor appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Andromeda, -- whence the name.

ppellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling. When pain and anguish wring the brow. Sir W. Scott.

curved lines. -- External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. -- Facial angle. See under Facial. -- Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure. -- Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line. -- Oblique a…

ssive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

ale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anæmia, Egyptian chlorosis.

gth, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with…

quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.

gure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

king an antidote. Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South.

Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed. -- n.

ous. Antilogous pole (Eccl.), that pole of a crystal which becomes negatively electrified when heated.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

e name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero…