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A record made by an anemograph.

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind. Knight.

The art of recording the direction and force of the wind, as by means of an anemograph.

he Christian Church; -- so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly host recorded in Luke ii. 14. Eadie.

e is the quantity (ac/ad):(bc/bd), where the segments are to regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters.

The seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it. "Oil of aniseed." Brande & C.

A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. De Colange.

To record in annals. Sheldon.

A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.

Not according to rule; abnormal. [Obs.]

f one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.

Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.

s 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.

According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.

fire. Num. ix. 15. For man looketh on the outward appearance. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. Judge not according to the appearance. John. vii. 24.

or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments. According to the appointment of the priests. Ezra vi. 9.

Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.

Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.