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To name. [R.]

Paronomasia; punning.

Before birth. Shelley.

A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. [Written also antimoniate.]

Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.

Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

An antivaccinist.

fferent curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best ap…

Freedom from spherical aberration.

The quality of being apportioned or in proportion. [Obs. & R.]

A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body. Dunglison.

See Annotto.

A salt of arsenic acid.

An asiphonate mollusk.

A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.

lp, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

An assassin.

One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland.