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stant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its i…

ia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis." The anabasis of Napoleon. De Quincey.

ter the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

The unfolding or dénouement. [R.] De Quincey.

nd analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

ance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

ng built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the c…

One who animates. De Quincey.

n ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.

A balancing; equipoise. [R.] De Quincey.

it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.

A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey.

unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey.

the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

The quality of being apprehensible. [R.] De Quincey.

Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.

(in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey.