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SUPPLEMENT. 



ANA 



Aemian chatterer, is an example, though I ANACYCLCS, a genus of Mediterranean 

 now referred to the subgenus Bombycilla. ! comj.ositsc resembling chamomile. 



AMPHIBIOLITE, the Linuwan uame of] ANADYOMENE, a name of Aphrodite, re- 

 parts of amphibia, or fragments of reptiles ferring to her rising from the sea. 

 ound in the fossil state. I ANAESTHESIA, want of consciousness of 



AMPHIBOLI, a lamily of seansorial birds, touch, or weakened consciousness to the 

 Of Illiger, including those with external and sense of pain, in medicine, 

 versatile posterior toes. | ANAESTHETICS, any substances which 



AMPHIBOLOGY, an equivocal expression or 'weaken or suspend the susceptibility to touch 

 sentence, in Rhetoric, admitting of more or pain, such as ether, chloroform, &c. 

 than one interpretation. | ANAGLYPHIC, the opposite of diaglyphic. 



AMPHICCEUAX, a term to signify that being raised or embossed in opposition to 



In reddish crystallised masses in Finland and which they have to maintain their vitality 

 Sweden. for the time being. In art, anamorphosis is 



AMPLIFICATION, in Rhetoric, the ex- applied to drawings so executed that when 

 pansion of a subject by dwelling on its viewed in the ordinary way they appear con- 

 tletaiU and the language of description. fused, or represent objects dissimilar to those 



AMYGDALIC ACID, an organic acid ob- the y represent at other points of view, or 

 tained by the elimination of ammonia from when r flectt "i in curved mirrors, &c, 

 amygdaline and assimilating water. ANAPHORA, the Rhetorical name given to 



the re P etltlou of words or expressions at the 



anic acid under >e action of e^ulsine and 



w ^40 27 22- above the transverse process or diapophysis 



AMYLFNE, or AMYLK, the hydrocarbon to the side of the centrum, and projects more 

 base of Amy lie alcohol, or hydrated oxide of or less backward as the vertebne come 

 Amyle. nearer to the sacrum. Some of the rodent*, 



AMYLUREA, urea in which the radical as the hare, have it weM developed. 

 amyle replaces hydrogen. ANASTATICA, the rose of Jericho, A.Hiero- 



AMYRINE, a resin obtained from the white chuntina, which is much admired for the 

 canary wood of the Philippine Islands. singular property that when it ripens from 



ASACARDIC ACID, an acrid, fatty matter, the condition of a trivial herb with white 

 contained in the fruit of the cashew nut, flowers it rolls itself up into a ball and be- 

 Anacardium Occidentale. comes detached from the soil, being blown 



ANACOLYPPA, an Indian plant whose about by the wind till it reaches some in. n-t 



JuiCL' is said to be an antidote to the bite of place, when it unrolls itself into its natural 



the cobra. f'>nn. Under the alternate influence of 



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