Search the Dictionary

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

th American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.

Almonry. [Improperly so used]

e now denotes a public apology or recantation, and reparation to an injured party, for improper language or treatment.

Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.…

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

Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas. Ammoniacal engine, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia is used as the motive force. -- Sal ammoniac Etym: [L. sal ammoniacus], the salt usually called chloride of ammonium, and formerly muriate of ammonia.…

This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is…

A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

e perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.

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

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. "To annihilate the army." Macaulay.

One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.

Deviating from the proper order of time. -- An`ti*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.

To take up or introduce beforehand, or before the proper or normal time; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate has anticipated a part of his argument.