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An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.

along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

Behavior; bearing. [Obs.] Spenser.

Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

AMENTIFEROUS a.

Bearing catkins. Balfour.

A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

AMYGDALIFEROUS a.

Almond-bearing.

Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. Crabb.

Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becom…

ANCHOVY PEAR n.

ndian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

The bearer of a flag; an ensign. [Obs.] This is Othello's ancient, as I take it. Shak.

ANDROGYNOUS; ANDROGYNAL a.

Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

es, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom cor…

An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael. It varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s. Amer. Cyc.

A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. [Obs.]

d. Give me mine angle: we 'll to the 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…

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

ANTENNIFEROUS a.

Bearing or having antennæ.

ANTHOPHOROUS a.

Flower bearing; supporting the flower.