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downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.

A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. Milton.

Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

he rounded prominences of the lower surface of the lateral hemispheres of the cerebellum, each side of the vallecula.

ge," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.

Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), ., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

r in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. Crabb.

its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

ts elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality. No one,…

used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton.

A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. Dryden.

very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

A narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank.

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.

To be opposite to; to face. The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin.

l; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic] Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton.