ANCON
AN'CON, noun [Latin ancon; Gr. the elbow.]The olecranon, the upper end of the ulna, or elbow.
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ANCONE
AN'CONE, noun [Latin ancon, Gr.] In architecture, the corner of a wall, crossbeam or rafter.
ANCONY
AN'CONY, noun [Probably from Gr., the cubit, from its resemblance to the arm.]In iron works, a piece of half wrought iron, in the shape of a bar in the middle, but rude and unwr...
AND
AND, conjunctionAND is a conjunction, connective or conjoining word. It signifies that a word or part of a sentence is to be added to what precedes. Thus, give me an apple and a...
ANDALUSITE
AN'DALUSITE, noun A massive mineral, of a flesh or rose red color; sometimes found crystallized in imperfect four-sided prisms, nearly or quite rectangular. Its hardness is near...
ANDANTE
ANDAN'TE, [Eng. to wend, to wander.]In music, a word used to direct to a movement moderately slow, between largo and allegro.
ANDEAN
AN'DEAN, adjective Pertaining to the Andes. The great chain of mountains extending through S. America.
ANDIRA
ANDI'RA, noun A species of bat in Brazil, nearly as large as a pigeon.
ANDIRON
AND'IRON, nounAn iron utensil used, in Great Britain, where coal is the common fuel, to support the ends of a spit; but in America, used to support the wood in fire places.
ANDORINHA
ANDORIN'HA, noun The Brazilian swallow.
ANDRANATOMY
ANDRANAT'OMY, noun [Gr. a man and dissection.]The dissection of a human body, especially of a male.
ANDREOLITE
AN'DREOLITE, noun A mineral, the harmotome, or cross-stone.
ANDROGYNAL
ANDROG'YNAL,ANDROG'YNALLY, adverb With the parts of both sexes.
ANDROGYNALLY
ANDROG'YNALLY, adv. With the parts of both sexes.
ANDROGYNOUS
ANDROG'YNOUS, adjective [Gr. a man and woman.]Having two sexes; being male and female; hermaphroditical.In botany, the word is applied to plants which bear both male and female ...
ANDROGYNUS
ANDROG'YNUS, noun A hermaphrodite.
ANDROID
AN'DROID, noun [Gr. man and form.]A machine, in the human form, which, by certain springs, performs some of the natural motions of a living man. One of these machines, invented ...
ANDROMEDA
ANDROM'EDA, noun1. A northern constellation, behind Pegasus, Cassiopeia and Perseus, representing the figure of a woman chained. The stars in this constellation, in Ptolemy's ca...
ANDROPHAGI
ANDROPH'AGI, [Gr. man, and to eat.]Man-eaters; but the word is little used, being superseded by anthropophagi, which see. Herodotus mentions people of this character.
ANEAR
ANE'AR, preposition Near.
ANECDOTE
AN'ECDOTE, noun [Gr. to publish, part, given out.]In its original sense, secret history, or facts not generally known. But in more common usage, a particular or detached inciden...
ANECDOTICAL
ANECDOT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to anecdotes.
ANELE
ANE'LE, verb transitive To give extreme unction. [Not used.]
ANEMOGRAPHY
ANEMOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. wind, and description.] A description of the winds.
ANEMOLOGY
ANEMOL'OGY, noun [Gr. wind, and discourse.] The doctrine of winds, or a treatise on the subject.
ANEMOMETER
ANEMOM'ETER, noun [Gr. wind, and to measure.] An instrument or machine for measuring the force and velocity of the wind.
ANEMONE
ANEM'ONE,ANEM'ONY, noun [Gr. from wind.]Wind-flower; a genus of plants of numerous species. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens, of which their double flowers are amon...