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An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.

aving an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.

The quality or state of being angular; angularness.

In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners. B. Jonson.

The quality of being angular.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.

ertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.

Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.

In an annular manner.

Having the form of a ring; annular. Ray.

Good against malaria.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.

Situated at, or near, the apex; apical.

Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate. [R.]

swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.

Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike. Da Costa.

Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles. Armillary sphere, an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions of the important circles of the celestial sphere. Nichol.

Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.