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The record of a single event or item. "In deathless annal." Young.

he bell. This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you. Shak.

which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

Being or occurring before the creation of the world. Young.

To attribute a human form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.

beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak.

ided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. Lamb.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

To any extent; in any degree; at all. You are not to go loose any longer. Shak. Before you go any farther. Steele.

er; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."

The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.

garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. Which apparition, it seems, was you. Tatler.

An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such…

e agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.

To know or learn with certainty. [Obs.] G. You are too much distrustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how. Beau. & Fl.

Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.] A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. Jer. Taylor.

What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.[Obs.] If you can neglect Your own appropriaments. Ford.