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g fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.

horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object.

A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.

Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.

rface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

, 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.

Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

he region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

under Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic, or Periodical year. See under Year.

One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

d spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective. --Ap`o*chro"ma*tism (#), n.

Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.

Of or pertaining to Appius. Appian Way, the great paved highway from ancient Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312 b. c.

To ply; to move. [R.] I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water. T. Moore.

nus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.