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to the cathead and pass the ring-stopper. -- To fish the anchor, to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and pass the shank painter. -- To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.

Former; sometime. [Obs.] They mourned their ancient leader lost. Pope. Ancient demesne (Eng. Law), a tenure by which all manors belonging to the crown, in the reign of William the Conqueror, were held. The numbers, names, etc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows…

See An, conj. [Obs.] Chaucer. As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon. And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame. He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions. Clarendon.

A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

orrespondent; conformable; hence, comparable. What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course Holland. This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton.

A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

s principles, conduct, course, history. J. H. Newman. If the troops . . . prove worthy of their antecedents, the victory is surely ours. Gen. G. McClellan.

Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.

es, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.

otion; intuitive preconception. Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke.

ntaining a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.

certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority.