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ANDALVSITK, a massive mineral, of a 

 !esh-red colour, and vitreous lustre, 

 which takes its name from Andalusia, in 

 Spain, where it was first found. Its chief 

 elements are alumina, silica, and potash, 

 coloured by a minute portion of oxide of 

 iron. It occurs in primitive rocks; chiefly 

 in gneiss in Knirland, Scotland, and Ire- 

 land. Mohs places it among the gems. 



ANDA'XTE, an Italian term (literally 

 going') employed in music to denote a 

 movement moderately slow between largo 

 and allegro. 



ANDE'NA, in old writings, the swath 

 made in mowing of hay ; as much ground 

 as a man cau stride over at once. 



AN DERSO'N i A , the generic name of a tree 

 of New Holland ; class penlandria, order 

 inonogynia. Jsamed in honour of Dr. 0. 

 Anderson. 



ANDI'RA. 1. The name of a species of 

 Brazilian bat, "nearly as large as a 



pigeon. * 2. The generic name of the 



cabbage-tree ; a lofty tree which grows in 

 the East and "West Indies, and other hot 

 countries : class diadelphia. order decan- 

 dria.^ The bark and seed are used in 

 medicine. 



ANDRAJ;A'TOMY, from avr^, a man, and 

 avotTiu.i6>, to cut up. The dissection of 

 the human body, particularly of the male. 



AXDRENE'T.*, a tribe of hymenoptera, 

 embracing all those genera of bees M'hich 

 live solitarily, and consist of two kinds of 

 individuals, males and females. They 

 correspond with the andrents of Fabricius, 

 and take their name from the typical 

 genus andrena. 



ANDROC^'CM, from etvv,^, a male, and 

 eizof, a house. In botany all that part of 

 a flower to which the male organs belong ; 

 the male apparatus of a plant. 



ANDHO'GINAL, \ Gr. otv^oyuvos , from 



ANDRO'CINE, >avj, a man, and JOIMJ. 



ANDRO'GIXOTJS, ' a woman. Haying two 

 sexes, or being an hermaphrodite. In 

 botany, the term is applied, 1. To flowers 

 -which have both male and female organs. 



2. To plants which have separate 



male and female flowers. Such plants 

 constitute the Monoecious class in the 

 Linnsean system, and have frequently 

 aments. 



AN'DROID, from avr,e, a man, and it^o;, 

 likeness. In mechanics, a figure con- 

 structed so as to imitate the actions or 

 motions of man. See AUTOMATON. 



ANDRO'MEDA. 1. In astronomy, a con- 

 stellation of the northern hemisphere, 

 behind Pegasus, Cassiopeia, and Perseus, 

 representing a woman chained. It is 

 fabled to have been formed in memory of 

 Andromeda, daughter of Cepheus and 

 Cassiopeia, and wife of Perseus, whom 

 her father chained to a rock, and left ex- 



posed to a sea-monster. 2. In botany, 



the March cystus: a genus of the class 

 decandria, and order monogynia, of which 

 there is one British species. This beau- 

 tiful tribe of plants takes its name like- 

 wise from the fable of Andromeda, being 

 found in dreary and northern wastes, 

 feigned to be the abodes of hobgoblins 

 and monsters. 



AN'DROX, in Grecian antiquity, an 

 apartment for the use of men ; hence, 

 among ecclesiastical writers, the southern 

 side of a church, which was anciently 

 appropriated to the men ; the northern 

 being appointed for the women. Among 

 the Greeks and Romans, the andron 

 was always in thelower part of the house, 

 and the gynoecea or women's apart- 

 ments in the upper. 



ANDROPETALOUS, from avr.$, a male, and 

 wratXov, a petal. A term used in botany 

 to describe double flowers, which are pro- 

 duced by the conversion of the stamens 

 into petals, as is exemplified in most 

 double flowers. 



AXDRO'PHORON, \ f rom v/j, a male, a 



ANDRO'PHORUM, ] stamen, and ci^ut, 

 to bear. The columnar expansion in the 

 centre of some flowers on which the sta- 

 mens seem to grow, as in the passion- 

 flower. 



AXDROPO'GON, a genus of plants ; man's- 

 beard, from etvr,%, a man, and xu-yvt, 

 a beard. Class polygamia,(yrAer monaecia. 

 There are many species, all natives of 

 warm climates ; two of them are known 

 to physicians under the names of Indian 

 nard and camel's-hay, or sweet-rush. 



ANDRO'TOMT. See ANDRAJJATOMT . 



ANDRUM, a kind of elephantiasis of the 

 scrotum, which is epidemic in the south 

 of Asia, particularly Malabar. The root 

 of the word is Indian. 



AXDRTALA, the downy sow-thistle, a 

 genus of exotics. Class syngenesia, order 

 polygamia tequaUs. 



ANELECTRIC, non-electric ; from at, not, 

 and r^ixr^ov, electricity. 



ANEM'IA, a genus of cryptosramous 

 plants of the order filices. There are five 

 species, all perennials, and natives of the 

 West Indies and South America. >'amed 

 from KYIIM>;, the wind. 



AN-EMO'LOOY, from a.itiM>:, the wind, 

 and Aeys? , discourse. The doctrine of the 

 winds, or a treatise on the subject of 

 aerial currents. 



AXEMO'METER, from HULLO; , the wind, 

 and pT|6v, measure. A machine or in- 

 strument for measuring the force or velo- 

 city of the wind : called also a wind-gage 

 (q.V.) An instrument of this sort wasflrst 

 i invented by "Wolfius. 

 | ANZ'MOSE, the wind-flmcer, a genus of 



