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Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo. [R.]

nce of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anæmia, Egyptian chlorosi…

or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.

A division of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoölogists it is applied to the former only.

A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns.

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

A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.

e northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.

joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennæ or feelers of Crustacea.

s, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system. Draper.

Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla. -- n.

One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States. Pickering.

Opposition to imperialism; -- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matt…

Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

o is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.