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Neither; nor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

dition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.

Of another kind. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.

Of another sort. [Archaic] It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.

See Dinotherium.

A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.

A crab of the genus pinnotheres. See Oyster crab, under Oyster.

A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

on, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.

Here and there; around; in one place and another. Wandering about from house to house. 1 Tim. v. 13.

utside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. B. Jonson.

s himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. [Modern]

An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.

bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation ladder (Naut…

A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass. P. Cyc.