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The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.

group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria.

The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.

t noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

it of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

Thorough or downright, in a good sense. [Obs.] An arrant honest woman. Burton.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered p…

Divination by means of small bones or dice.

An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.

es or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.

; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts. The attainment of every desired object. Sir W. Jones.

The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.

In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length. Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.

See Algorism. [Obs.] Chaucer. Augrim stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration. -- Noumbres of Augrim, Arabic numerals. Chaucer.