Search the Dictionary

ics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

isorder, in general. There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their reFuller.

Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifæ, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.

pplication of the principles of anatomy, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

cting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

to the cathead and pass the ring-stopper. -- To fish the anchor, to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and pass the shank painter. -- To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.

Former; sometime. [Obs.] They mourned their ancient leader lost. Pope. Ancient demesne (Eng. Law), a tenure by which all manors belonging to the crown, in the reign of William the Conqueror, were held. The numbers, names, etc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows…

ee An, conj. [Obs.] Chaucer. As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon. And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame. He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions. Clarendon.

alf years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

ound in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

rrespondent; conformable; hence, comparable. What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course Holland. This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton.

A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

principles, conduct, course, history. J. H. Newman. If the troops . . . prove worthy of their antecedents, the victory is surely ours. Gen. G. McClellan.

Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.

s, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.

tion; intuitive preconception. Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke.