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the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.

A substance incapable of being electrified by friction. Faraday.

, in electro- chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation. Faraday.

ng with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.

) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day.

answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell. This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you. Shak.

te; to make before the true time. And antedate the bliss above. Pope. Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.

To attribute a human form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.

The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican pa…

ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. 2 Sam. xv. 15. He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. Acts xvii. 31. Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting. Shak.

to the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25.

Probation or novitiate. [Obs.] This day my sister should the cloister enter, And there receive her approbation. Shak.

ove's spring. Shak. April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever. Dunglison.

A mandrel in lathe turning. Knight. Arbor Day, a day appointed for planting trees and shrubs. [U.S.]

the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night. Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.

Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays. Arming press (Bookbinding), a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.

Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).