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The back part of the neck. Spenser.

An African bird of the genus Schizorhis, related to the plantain eaters.

Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general. [Obs.] Gayton.

nted; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n.

Anapestic.

A sofa or divan.

A sofa having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.

usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.

A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow. A young upstart jackanapes. Arbuthnot.

One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.

A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares, Shawnees, and several other tribes.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper. Naperian logarithms. See under Logarithms.

To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.

A small, insignificant fellow. [Colloq.]

An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally. Winter aconite, a plant (Eranthis hyemalis) allied to the aconites.

Same as Anapest, Anapestic.

The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.

of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.

metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure. Hadley. Trochaic, iambic, and anapestic verses . . . are measured by dipodies. W. W. Goodwin.