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A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

s kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

ocolyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18. It has been variously interpreted.

An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. "The heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition." Milton. I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition. Shak.

man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.

on; an arbitrary punishment. It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

A soothsaying; a foretelling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The past or preterit tense of Arise.

nce; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.

wn, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings. He arrogated to himself the right of deciding dogmatically what was orthodox doctrine. Macaulay.

Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance. [R.] Dr. H. More.

gen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having and odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen.

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

To pretend to possess; to take in appearance. Ambition assuming the mask of religion. Porteus. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Shak.

Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.

Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous. Burke.

One who practices astrology; one who professes to foretell events by the aspects and situation of the stars.

sequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects.