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ss is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.

A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be. God said unto Moses, I am that am. Exod. iii. 14.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

ts hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications.

f, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc.

One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy. Cheyne.

he same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera. Dana.

ew to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so. The 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.

A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.

Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v. 6.

A disease due to inhaling the poisonous fumes present in the manufacture of aniline.

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.

ncinaria (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.