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A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.

Even as; as; so. [Obs.] Chaucer.

a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.

Height of degree; highest point or degree. He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue. Shak.

l times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.

tality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]

A misplacing or error 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.

is virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home. -- To cast anchor, to drop or let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest. -- To cat the anchor, to hoist the anchor to the cathead and pass the ring-stopper. -- To fish the anchor, to hoist the flukes to the…

auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.

A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches. [Archaic] Unto-the angel of the church of Ephesus write. Rev. ii. 1.

form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.

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.

The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.