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others not injurious to vitality, that out. The Antarctic Current, beginning at 

 the coast of Victoria Land, proceeds north- 

 east and east to the shores of South America, 

 carrying vast quantities of ice, which melts 

 as the current proceeds, though the drift ice 

 frequently reaches between fifty and sixty 

 degrees of latitude. These influences cool 



this invention may now be safely applied to 

 the extinction of fire in inhabited houses, 

 without injury to the occupants. 



AXNIVITE, a variety of impure grey copper 

 found with iron pyrites in Auniviors, 

 Switzerland. 



ANNI-AIRE, the French name for French! the South American coast-line, 

 publications which appear annually. ANTE-FIX.E, heads of animals and other 



ANNULAR ECLIPSE, an eclipse of the sun ornaments under the eaves of temples, 

 ;n which, the moon being concentric with the through which the water from the roof is 

 sun to the observer's line of vision, and her ! allowed to flow off, similar to the Gothic gar- 

 disc not sufficient to exclude his wholly ! gouilles ; also used to designate the upright 

 from view, the margin of the solar disc is ornamental terminations of the joint tiles or 

 visible all round and outside that of the harm! on the edge of the eaves, 

 moon. ANTEPILAXI, two classes of Roman sol- 



ANOBICM, a Fabrician genus of Coleo- diers, the Principes and Hastati, so called 

 pterous insects, with a nearly round unmar- j because they were drawn up before the 



ginated thorax, clavatc palpi, filiform an- 

 tennae, and entire labium. 

 ANODYNE, any medicin* for relieving 



Triarii, who were armed with the long spear 

 r pilum. 

 ANTHELMINTICS, medicines which expel 



pain, such as narcotics, sedatives, &c. lor destroy intestinal worms. 



ANOMIA, a Linnsean genus of Vermes tes- 1 ANTHEMION, the ornamentation of Greek 

 tacea, now confined to a genus of acephalous and Roman decoration derived from flowers, 

 molluscs, with two thin irregular and un- ' such as the honeysuckle, <fec. 

 equal valves, one of which is flatter than | ANTHESIS, the period of the expansion of 

 other, and notched at the principal flowers when the fertilization occurs. 



margin, long labial tentacles, &c. They ar< 

 found on the shells of the oyster and other 

 molluscs. 



ANTHOZOA, synonymof Actinozoa. 

 ANTHROPOLOGY, the science of mankind, 

 or the human race, and its various subdivi- 



ANOMODONTIA, an order of extinct rep-'sions. It includes Ethnology, or the con- 

 tiles, including the Dicynodontia, Crypto- sideration of var ous races ; Ethnography, o- 

 dontia, and Cynodontia. ! the study of their works ; and Archaeology, 



ANOREXY, loss of appetite. , or the traces and remains of man's past 



ANORTHOSCOPE, an instrument invented existence. 



by M. Plateau, of Brussels, consisting of two ANTIARINE, the poisonous principle or 

 rotating discs, one behind the other being antjar poison found in the upas tree of Java, 

 transparent and having figures upon it Antiaris Toxicaria, which belongs to the 

 which are seen through narrow slits in the genus A rtocarpacece. 



opaque body of the other. The figures which : ANTI-ATTRITION, synonymous with Anti- 

 are drawn distorted thus appear in various friction. 



combinations and actions as correct and, ANTIBRACHIUM, the fore-arm between 

 amusing pictures. This kind of anamor- the elbow and hand. 



phogis has been accomplish. ed in various ANTICHTHON, an imaginary region r.f 

 manners by recent toys of great ingenuity, Pythagorean philosophers, nearer to the 



uch as the Phantoscope, Phenakistoscope, central fire than this earth. 



&c., and especially by some of the arrange- 

 ments of the Magic Lantern. 



ANOSMIA, loss of the sense of smell. 



ANSE DE PANIER, (French,) an exceed' 

 ingly elegant series of arches now much 



ANTICOCS, an an AIT whose lobes face the 

 style, or a petal on the side of the flower 

 facing the observer as it grows. 



ANTIFRICTION, any thing which diminishes 

 the friction of machinery when in motion , 



in bridge-building. They are elliptical curves such as lubricants, and certain metallic 

 in section, and give great lightness and grace alloys, as aluminium, bronze, which, when 



In their effect. 



ANTALGIC, relieving pain. 



ANTARCTIC Region. This region, com- 

 posed partly of continent, partly of ocean, 



employed as sockets, give the minimum of 

 metallic resistance to motion. 



ANTILKGOMKNA, those books of the New 

 Testament of the authority of which dig- 



has yei been very little explored. The land | putes existed at one time, though now re- 

 appears to be much more elevated and of ceived into the canon of inspiration. They 



greater extent than that of the Arctic Circle, 

 but it is all but unapproachable from the 

 more continuous barrier of ice hitherto pro- 



included the Epistle to the Hebrews, Second 

 Epistle of Peter, Epistles of James and Jude, 

 1 the Second and Third Episties of John, 



seuted to all explorers. The Ocean contains as also the Apocalypse. 

 abont two millions of square miles within ANTILOIMIC, those remedies which were 

 the Circle, but the ice advances further from | employed in averting or curing the plague, 

 the Pole th n in the Northern regions, and i ANTIMONITE, grey antimony ore, or 

 (be climate is more intensely cold through- native sulphide of antimony. 

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