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One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity. Lamb.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.

A flying buttress. Gwilt.

An alloy of nicked with copper and zinc; German silver.

Facing each other.

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak.

ending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

In a manner to give aid. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literatu…

Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. - -n.

of May (Old Style). The quarter-days anciently in Scotland were Hallowmas, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas. New English Dict.

Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.

Possessing the property of touching at two points. -- n.

Blatant quality.

; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

In a blatant manner.

Boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.