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f>ydia die per omnes. 



The word anacreontic is sometimes 

 placed at the beginning of convivial 

 songs, glees, &c. denotes a gay hilarity of 

 movement, and a free and easy style of 

 performance. 



ANACYGLUS, in botany, a genus of 

 plants of the Syngenesia Polygamia Su- 

 perflua. Essen, char, receptacle chaffy, 

 seeds crowned with an emarginate mar- 

 gin, those at the ray inembranaceous at 

 the sides. There are five species: of 

 which the creticus and orientalis grow 

 naturally in the islands of the Archipela- 

 go. They are low plants, whose branch- 

 es trail on the ground. The first sort has 

 fine cut leaves, like those of chamo- 

 mile ; the flowers are small, white, and 

 grow single, with their heads declining ; 

 these are like those of common May- 

 weed. The second has leaves like those 

 of the ox-eye; the flowers are white, and 

 like those of chamomile. 



ANAGALLIS, in botany, a genus of 

 plants, belonging to the Pentandria Mo- 

 nogynia class of Linnaeus ; the flower of 

 which is monopetalous, multifid, and or- 

 bicular ; the fruit is a globose capsule ; 

 containing only one cell, and dividing ho- 

 rizontally into two hemispheres ; the 

 seeds are numerous and angular. There 

 are six species. 



ANAGRAM, in matters of literature, 

 a 'transposition of the letters of some 

 name, whereby a new word is formed, 

 either to the advantage or disadvantage 

 of the person or thing to which the name 

 belongs ; thus from Galenus is formed 

 Angelus : from James, Simea ; and so of 

 others. 



Those who adhere strictly to the defi- 

 nition of an anagram, take no other liber- 

 ty than that of omitting or retaining the 

 letter h, at pleasure ; whereas others 

 make no scruple to use e for <e, v for w, 

 s for z, and c for A? ; and vice versa. 



ANAGYRIS, bean-trefoil, in botany, a 

 genus of plants with papilionaceous flow- 

 ers, the vixillum of which is shorter than 

 any of the other petals, and its fruit an 

 oblong pod, containing kidney-like seeds: 

 to this it is to be added, that three leaves 

 stand on every petal. It belongs to the 

 Diadelphiu Decandria class of Lin- 

 naeus. 



According to Martyn, there are three 

 species : viz. the foetida, cretica, and ino- 

 dorata. The first grows wild in the 

 south of France, in Spain, Italy, and Si- 

 cily ; also about Symrna. It is a shrub 

 that rises 8 or 10 feet high, and produces 



its flowers in April and May, which are 

 of a bright yellow colour, growing on 

 spikes, somewhat like those of the la- 

 burnum : the seeds are never perfected 

 in this country. The second is a native of 

 Canada, and some of the islands of the 

 Archipelago, and is very rare in English 

 gardens. The third is an upright shrub, 

 equal to a middle-sized tree: branches 

 hanging down, frequently scandent : a na- 

 tive of the woods of Cochinchina. 



These may be propagated by laying 

 down their tender branches in the spring 1 , 

 observing to tongue them in the same 

 manner as the layers of carnations. 



ANALCIME, in mineralogy, a species 

 of Zeolite, found crystallized in the cavi- 

 ties of Basalt. The primitive form of its 

 crystals is a cube. It is sometimes found 

 crystallized in cubes, whose solid angles 

 are wanting, and three small triangular 

 faces in place of each ; sometimes in po- 

 lyhedrons with twenty-four faces. Spe- 

 cific gravity 2. Colour white, sometimes 

 red. When rubbed, it acquires only a 

 small degree of electricity, and with dif- 

 ficulty. Before the blow-pipe it melts 

 without frothing into a white transparent 

 glass. 



ANALEMMA, in geometry, a projec- 

 tion of the sphere on the plane of the me- 

 ridian, orthographically made by straight 

 lines and ellipses, the eye being supposed 

 at an infinite distance ; and in the east or 

 west points of the horizon. See MAPS. 



AJTALEMMA denotes likewise an instru- 

 ment of brass or wood, upon which this 

 kind of projection is drawn, with an hori- 

 zon and cursor fitted to it, wherein the 

 solstitial colure, and all circles parallel to 

 it, will be concentric circles ; all circles 

 oblique to the eye will be ellipses ; and 

 all circles whose planes pass through the 

 eye will be right lines. The use of this 

 instrument is to show the common astro- 

 nomical problems. 



ANALOGY, in matters of literature, a 

 certain relation and agreement between 

 two or more things, which in other re- 

 spects are entirely different; thus the 

 foot of a mountain bears an analogy to the 

 foot of an animal, although they are two 

 very different things. 



There is likewise an analogy between 

 beings that have some conformity or re- 

 semblance to one another ; for example, 

 between animals and plants, and between 

 metals and vegetables ; but the analogy 

 is still stronger between two different 

 species of certain animals. 



AXALORY, among grammarians, is the 

 correspondence which a word or phrase 



