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the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

One of the rounded prominences of the lower surface of the lateral hemispheres of the cerebellum, each side of the vallecula.

upreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

ship directly over it. -- The anchor is atrip, or aweigh, when it is lifted out of the ground. -- The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. -- At anchor, anchored. -- To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, wit…

Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

he eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border.

Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.

A narrow circle of some distinct color on a surface or round an organ.

The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.

A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.

The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other, named antistrophe, in returning from west to east…

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.