A species of dropsy, from a serous humor spread between the skin and flesh; or an accumulation of lymph in the cellular membrane, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin. NWAD ANASARCA.2
To inosculate; to unite the mouth of one vessel with another, as the arteries with the veins. NWAD ANASTOMOSE.2
In rhetoric and grammar, an inversion of the natural order of words; as saxa per et scopulos, for per saxa et scopulos. NWAD ANASTROPHE.2
Octahedrite; octahedral oxyd of titanium; a mineral that shows a variety of colors by reflected light, from indigo blue to reddish brown. It is usually crystallized in acute, elongated, pyramidical octahedrons. NWAD ANATASE.2
1. Excommunication with curses. Hence, a curse or denunciation by ecclesiastical authority, accompanying excommunication. This species of excommunication was practiced in the ancient churches, against notorious offenders; all churches were warned not to receive them; all magistrates and private persons were admonished not to harbor or maintain them, and priests were enjoined not to converse with them, or attend their funeral. NWAD ANATHEMA.2
There are two kinds of anathemas, judiciary and abjuratory. The former is pronounced by a council, pope or bishop; the latter is the act of a convert who anathematizes the heresy which he abjures. NWAD ANATHEMA.3
2. In heathen mythology, an offering, or present made to some deity and hung up in a temple. Whenever a person quitted his employment, he set apart, or dedicated his tools to his patron-deity. Persons who had escaped danger remarkably, or been otherwise very fortunate, testified their gratitude by some offering to their deity. NWAD ANATHEMA.4
Interest upon interest; the taking of compound interest; or the contract by which such interest is secured. [Rarely used.] NWAD ANATOCISM.2
1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of an animal body, to discover their situation, structure and economy. NWAD ANATOMY.2
2. The doctrine of the structure of the body, learned by dissection; as, a physician understands anatomy. NWAD ANATOMY.3
3. The act of dividing any thing, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; as, the anatomy of a plant, or of a discourse. NWAD ANATOMY.4
4. The body stripped of its integuments; a skeleton, or the corporeal frame of bones entire, without the skin, flesh and vessels; an improper use of the word, and vulgar. NWAD ANATOMY.5
5. Ironically, a meager person. NWAD ANATOMY.6
Overthrowing; defeating; prostrating; a word applied to the dialogues of Plato, which represent a complete defeat in the gymnastic exercises. NWAD ANATREPTIC.2
1. Soda or mineral fixed alkali. NWAD ANATRON.2
2. Spume or glass gall, a scum which rises upon melted glass, in the furnace, and when taken off, dissolves in the air, and then coagulates into common salt. NWAD ANATRON.3
3. The salt which collects on the walls of vaults. NWAD ANATRON.4
One from whom a person descends, either by the father or mother, at any distance of time, in the tenth or hundredth generation. An ancestor precedes in the order of nature or blood; a predecessor, in the order of office. NWAD ANCESTOR.2
The goat’s eye; an abscess in the inner angle of the eye; an incipient fistula lachrymalis. NWAD ANCHILOPS.2
1. An iron instrument for holding a ship or other vessel at rest in water. It is a strong shank, with a ring at one end, to which a cable may be fastened; and with two arms and flukes at the other end, forming a suitable angle with the shank to enter the ground. NWAD ANCHOR.2
In seamen’s language, the anchor comes home, when it is dislodged from its bed, so as to drag by the violence of the wind, sea or current. NWAD ANCHOR.3
Foul anchor is when the anchor hooks or is entangled with another anchor, or with a wreck or cable, or when the slack cable is entangled. NWAD ANCHOR.4
The anchor a cock bill, is when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cat head, ready to be let go. NWAD ANCHOR.5
The anchor a peek, is when it is drawn in so tight as to bring the ship directly over it. NWAD ANCHOR.6
The anchor is a trip, or a weigh, when it is just drawn out of the ground, in a perpendicular direction, either by the cable or the buoy-rope. NWAD ANCHOR.7
To back an anchor is to lay down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home. NWAD ANCHOR.8
At anchor is when a ship rides by her anchor. Hence, to lie or ride at anchor. NWAD ANCHOR.9
To cast anchor, or to anchor, is to let go an anchor, to keep a ship at rest. NWAD ANCHOR.10
To weigh anchor is to heave or raise the anchor out of the ground. NWAD ANCHOR.11
Anchors are of different sizes. The principal, and that on which most dependence is placed, is the sheet anchor. Then come the best bower, the small bower, the space anchor, the stream anchor, and the kedge anchor, which is the smallest. NWAD ANCHOR.12
2. In a figurative sense, that which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety. NWAD ANCHOR.13
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast. Hebrews 6:19. NWAD ANCHOR.14
3. In architecture, anchors are carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor. It is commonly a part of the ornaments of the boultins of capitals in the Tuscan, Doric and Ionic orders, and on the moldings of cornices. NWAD ANCHOR.15
In heraldry, anchors are emblems of hope. NWAD ANCHOR.16
1. To place at anchor; to moor; as to anchor a ship. NWAD ANCHOR.18
2. To fix or fasten on; to fix in a stable condition NWAD ANCHOR.19
1. To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship anchored off the isle of Wight. NWAD ANCHOR.21
2. To stop; to fix or rest on. NWAD ANCHOR.22
1. Anchor-ground; a place where a ship can anchor, where the ground is not too rocky, nor the water too deep nor too shallow. NWAD ANCHORAGE.2
2. The hold of a ship at anchor, or rather the anchor and all the necessary tackle for anchoring. NWAD ANCHORAGE.3
3. A duty imposed on ships for anchoring in a harbor. NWAD ANCHORAGE.4
A hermit; a recluse; one who retires from society into a desert or solitary place, to avoid the temptations of the world and devote himself to religious duties. Also a monk, who, with the leave of the abbot, retires to a cave or cell, with an allowance from the monastery, to live in solitude. NWAD ANCHORET.2
1. Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; as, ancient authors, ancient days. Old, says Johnson, relates to the duration of the thing itself, as an old coat; and ancient to time in general, as an ancient dress. But this distinction is not always observed. We say, in old times, as well as ancient times; old customs, etc. In general, however, ancient is opposed to modern, and old to new, fresh or recent. When we speak of a thing that existed formerly, which as ceased to exist, we commonly use ancient, as ancient republics’ ancient heroes, and not old republics, old heroes. But when the thing which began or existed in former times, is still in existence, we use either ancient or old; as, ancient statues or paintings, or old statues or paintings; ancient authors, or old authors, meaning books. But in these examples ancient seems the most correct, or best authorized. Some persons apply ancient to men advanced in years still living; but this use is not common in modern practice, though found in scripture. NWAD ANCIENT.2
With the ancient is wisdom. Job. NWAD ANCIENT.3
2. Old; that has been of long duration; as, an ancient forest; an ancient city. NWAD ANCIENT.4
3. Known from ancient times; as the ancient continent, opposed to the new continent. NWAD ANCIENT.5
1. In scripture, very old men. Also, governors, rulers, political and ecclesiastical. NWAD ANCIENT.7
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people. Isaiah 3:14; Jeremiah 19:1. NWAD ANCIENT.8
God is called the Ancient of days from his eternal existence. Daniel 7:9, 13, 22. NWAD ANCIENT.9
Hooker uses the word for seniors, “They were his ancients,” but the use is not authorized. NWAD ANCIENT.10
2. Ancient is also used for a flag or streamer, in a ship of war; and for an ensign or the bearer of a flag, as in Shakespeare. Cowel supposed the word, when used for a flag, to be a corruption of end-sheet, a flag at the stern. It is probably the Fr. enseigne. NWAD ANCIENT.11
Ancient demain, in English Law, is a tenure by which all manors belonging to the crown, in the reign of William the Conqueror, were held. The numbers, names etc. of these were all entered in a book called Domes-day Book. NWAD ANCIENT.12
Pertaining to a maid servant, or female service; subservient as a maid servant. NWAD ANCILLARY.2
Doubtful, or double; double-faced or double-formed; applied to the stem of a plant, it signifies a two edged stem, compressed and forming two opposite angles. NWAD ANCIPITAL.2
The olecranon, the upper end of the ulna, or elbow. NWAD ANCON.2
In iron works, a piece of half wrought iron, in the shape of a bar in the middle, but rude and unwrought at the ends. A piece of cast iron is melted off and hammered at a forge, into a mass of two feet long and square, which is called a bloom; then, carried to a finery, and worked into an ancony; it is then sent to a chafery, where the ends are wrought into the shape of the middle, and whole is made into a bar. NWAD ANCONY.2
And 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 an orange; that is, give me an apple, add or give in addition to that, an orange. John and Peter and James rode to New York, that is, John rode to New York; add or further, Peter rode to New York; add James rode to New York. NWAD AND.2
In music, a word used to direct to a movement moderately slow, between largo and allegro. NWAD ANDANTE.2
An 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. NWAD ANDIRON.2
The dissection of a human body, especially of a male. NWAD ANDRANATOMY.2
Having two sexes; being male and female; hermaphroditical. NWAD ANDROGYNAL.2
In botany, the word is applied to plants which bear both male and female flowers from the same root, as birch, walnut, oak, chestnut, mulberry, etc. These plants constitute the monecian class in Linne’s system, and frequently have an amentum, thong or catkin, for a calyx. NWAD ANDROGYNAL.3
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 by M. Vaucanson, appeared at Paris is 1738, representing a flute player. NWAD ANDROID.2
1. A northern constellation, behind Pegasus, Cassiopeia and Perseus, representing the figure of a woman chained. The stars in this constellation, in Ptolemy’s catalogue, are 23; in Tycho’s 22; in Bayer’s 27; in Flamsted’s 84. NWAD ANDROMEDA.2
2. The name of a celebrated tragedy of Euripides, now lost. NWAD ANDROMEDA.3
Man-eaters; but the word is little used, being superseded by anthropophagi, which see. Herodotus mentions people of this character. NWAD ANDROPHAGI.2
In its original sense, secret history, or facts not generally known. But in more common usage, a particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident; a single passage of private life. Procopius gave the title of anecdotes to a book he published against Justinian and his wife Theodora; and similar collections of incidents in the lives of eminent men are now common. NWAD ANECDOTE.2
Wind-flower; a genus of plants of numerous species. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens, of which their double flowers are among the most elegant ornaments. NWAD ANEMONE.2
Sea Anemone. See Animal-Flower. NWAD ANEMONE.3
A preternatural dilatation or rupture of the coats of an artery. This is encysted or diffused. The encysted aneurism is when the coats of the artery being only dilated, the blood is confined to its proper coat. Of this kind is the varicose. The diffused aneurism includes all those in which, from an aperture in the artery, the blood is spread about in the cellular membrane, out of its proper course. NWAD ANEURISM.2
Over again; another time; in a new form; as, to arm anew; to create anew. NWAD ANEW.2
Winding; full of windings and turnings; written less correctly, anfractuose. NWAD ANFRACTUOUS.2
1. Literally, a messenger; one employed to communicate news or information from one person to another at a distance. But appropriately, NWAD ANGEL.2
2. A spirit, or a spiritual intelligent being employed by God to communicate his will to man. Hence angels are ministers of God, and ministring spirits. Hebrews 1:7, 14. NWAD ANGEL.3
3. In a bad sense, an evil spirit; as, the angel of the bottomless pit. Matthew 25:41; 1 Corinthians 6:3; Revelation 9:11. NWAD ANGEL.4
4. Christ, the mediator and head of the church. Revelation 10:1. NWAD ANGEL.5
5. A minister of the gospel, who is an embassador of God. Revelation 2; Revelation 3. NWAD ANGEL.6
6. Any being whom God employs to execute his judgments. Revelation 16. NWAD ANGEL.7
7. In the style of love, a very beautiful person. NWAD ANGEL.8
1. An instrument of music, somewhat resembling a lute. NWAD ANGELOT.2
2. An ancient English coin struck at Paris while under the dominion of England; so called from the figure of an angel supporting the escutcheon of the arms of England and France. Also, a small rich sort of cheese made in Normandy. NWAD ANGELOT.3