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nnelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having to teeth at the hinge. [Written also Anodonta.]

Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. [Written also anomoural, anomouran.]

To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to. She answers him as if she knew his mind. Shak. So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. Mi…

Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]

the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.

ue trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. [Written also anue.] Bacon.

A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. [Written also antimoniate.]

Combined with or containing antimony; as, antimoniureted hydrogen. [Written also antimoniuretted.]

Odd; fantastic. [In this sense, written antic.]

the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Written also anoura.]

Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Also written anourous.]

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

A writer or utterer of aphorisms.

The writer of the Apocalypse.

Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. [Obs.] Locke.

Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. "To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone." Macaulay.

One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.