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some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious. "Ambrosial food." "Ambrosial fragrance." Milton.

Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.

opying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc.

A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so. The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.…

A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.

The actual appearance of an angel to man.

Of or pertaining to Anjou in France. -- n. A native of Anjou.

; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at…

A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers.

ng, high wall, with turrets, in front gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.

A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.

Loss of voice or vocal utterance.

Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.

The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

y success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.

Appearance. [Obs.] Chaucer.