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See Arquebus. [Obs.]

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron.

Lawless; anarchical. [R.] We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor.

Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

The doctrine or practice of anarchists.

An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

To reduce to anarchy.

e there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman.

Opposition to government in general. [R.]

One who opposes all government. [R.]

Opposed to all human government. [R.]

Opposite to the 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.

Opposed to monarchial government. Bp. Benson. Addison.

An enemy to monarchial government.

A severe critic. Knowles.

Severely critical.

Severely criticism.