anormal 
cf. abnormal) of LL. lunniialun, < Gr. avu/ia'Aot;, 
irregular: see anomalous.] Not according to 
rule; abnormal; aberrant; anomalous; mon- 
strous. 
anorthie (au-6r'thik), a. [< Gr. av- priv. + 
bptiof, straight, right (see ortho-), + -ic.] 1. 
Without right angles. 2. In mineral., having 
unequal oblique axes; triclinic: as, anorthie 
feldspar. 
anorthite (an-6r'thit), n. [< Gr. av- priv. + 
op66f, straight (see ortho-), + -ite 2 .] A triclinic 
lime feldspar, found in small transparent crys- 
tals on Mount Vesuvius, and existing also as a 
constituent of some rocks. See feldspar. 
anorthitic (an-6r-thit'ik), a. [< anorthite + 
-ie.] Pertaining to or containing anorthite: 
as, anorthitic lavas. 
anorthopia (an-6r-tho'pi-a), n. [NL., < Gr. itv- 
priv. + op66f, straight (see ortho-), + uif> (<JTT-), 
eye, face.] In pathol., obliquity of vision; 
squinting. N. E. D. 
anorthoscope (an-or'tho-skop), n. [< Gr. av- 
priv. + opfoi;, straight (see ortho-), + rsiunrtiv, 
view.] An instrument for producing a peculiar 
kind of optical illusion by means of two disks 
rotating rapidly one behind the other. The pos- 
terior disk is transparent, and has certain distorted figures 
painted upon it; the anterior in opaque, but pierced with 
a number of narrow slits, through which the figures on 
the posterior disk are viewed. The effect depends on 
the persistence of impressions on the retina, the instru- 
ment being in principle the same as the zoetrope. 
Anorthura (an-6r-thu'ra), n. [NL., < Gr. awpOoc, 
erect ((.avd, up, + op66f, right), + oitpd, tail.] A 
genus of very short-tailed wrens, of the family 
Troglodytidw : a name proposed as a substitute 
for Troglodytes (which see). 
anosmia (an-os'mi-a), n. [NL., < Gr. avoafiof, 
also avoi/JOf, without smell, < av- priv. + bafifi, 
older form 6<S//;;, smell, < b&iv, to smell, akin to 
L. odor, smell: see odor.] In pathol., a loss of 
the sense of smell. 
anosphresy (an-os'fre-si), n. [< Gr. av- priv. + 
6<T0pJ7tj<f. smell, < batypaiveadat, to smell, catch 
scent of.] Same as anosmia. 
Anostoma (an-os'to-ma), n. [NL.,< Gr. avu, up, 
+ ar6fta, mouth.] ' A genus of pulmoiiate gas- 
tropods, of the family ifeKcirf<B, naving the last 
whorl of the shell turned up toward the spire. 
The type is A. ringens (Linnsous). Fischer, 1807. 
Anostomatinse (an-os'to-ma-ti'ne), n. pi. 
[NL., irreg. < Anostomus (-mat-) (tlie typical 
genus) + -tiue.] A subfamily of fishes, of the 
family Cliaracinida;. The technical characters are an 
adipose fin, teeth in both jaws well developed, dorsal fin 
short, gill-openings rather narrow (the gill-membranes 
being attached to the isthmus), and nasal openings re- 
mote from each other. They are mostly small species 
from Brazil and Guiana. Also written A nogtominte. 
another (a-nuTH'er), a. and pron. [< ME. 
another, usually written an other; orig. and 
still prop, two words, an other, not differing 
in grammatical status from the definite cor- 
relative the other; in AS. simply other: see 
aw 1 and otherl. The uses are simply those of 
other with an preceding. The pronominal uses 
are not divided from the adjective uses.] 1. 
A second, a further, an additional; one more, 
one further: with a noun expressed or under- 
stood, (a) Of the same series. 
Another yet? A seventh? I'll see no more. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. 
["The vulgar tu quoque, 'you're another,' which is part 
of the slang of the streets, is, as might be expected, not 
modern." Davies, Sup. Eng. Gloss. 
Jlointer, If it were an other but thon, it were a knaue. 
M. Mery. Ye are an other your selfe, sir, the lorde us 
both.saue. Udall, Koister Bolster, iii. 5. 
"You mistake me, friend," cries Partridge: "I did not 
mean to abuse the cloth ; I only said your conclusion was 
a lion aequitur." 
" You are another," cries the sergeant, "an' you come to 
that ; no more a sequitur than yourself." 
Fielding, Tom Jones, ix. 6.) 
(6) Of the same kind, nature, or character, 
though different in substance : used by way of 
comparison. 
And like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. 
Drydeu, Alexander's Feast, 1. 125. 
2. A different, distinct (with a noun expressed or 
understood) ; especially, of persons, a different 
person, some one else, any one else, (a) Dis- 
tinct in place, time, or personality, or non- 
identical individually. 
He winks and turns his lips another way. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 90. 
The hero could not have done the feat at another hour 
in a lower mood. Emerson, Courage. 
My glory will I not give to another. Isa. xlii. 8. 
(1>) Of a different kind, nature, or character, 
though the same in substance : used by way of 
contrast : as, he has become another man. 
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{Another always implies a series of two or more, starting 
with one, which is uften necessarily expressed : as, he tried 
one, and then another; he went one way, and I went an- 
"tin / ; they went out one after anotl" i-. 
Tis one thing for a soldier to gather laurels, and 'tis 
niiiither to scatter cypress. Sir rue, Tristram Shandy, vi. X. 
The public mind was then reposing from one great effort 
and collecting strength fur u/<i>r/i> r. 
blacaulay, Lord Bacon.] 
One another, originally a mere collocation of one (as 
subject) with another (as object), now regarded as a com- 
pound pronoun. 
The bishop and the Duke of Gloster's men . . . 
Do pelt so fast at one muithrr'n pate 
That many have their giddy brains knocked out. 
Shak., -2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 
This is my commandment, that ye love one another. 
John xv. 12. 
Bear ye one another's burdens. Gal. vi. 'J. 
That is : Bear ye (each one of you) another's burdens. So 
each other (which see, under each). 
another-gainest, a. Same as another-gates. 
tlir P. Kidney. 
another-gatest (a-nuTH'er-gats), . [Orig. gen., 
'of another gate,' of another way or fashion: 
see another and gate 2 , and gait. . The last sylla- 
ble came to be shortened, another-gets, whence 
by erroneous understanding another-gess, -ghess, 
-guess, and by erroneous "correction" (see ex- 
tract from Landor) another-guise. The isolated 
formanother-gaines, if not a misprint for another- 
gaites, shows confusion with another-kiiis, a. v.] 
Of another kind; of a different sort: as, "a- 
other-gates adventure," S. Sutler, Hudibras, I. 
iii. 428. 
another-guesst (a-nuTH'er-ges), a. [A corrup- 
tion of another-gates, q. v.] Same as another- 
gates. 
The truth on't is, she's anotherghea Morsel than old 
Bromia. Dryden, Amphitryon, iii. 
No, no, another-guea lover than I : there he stands. 
Goldsmith, Good-Natured Man, ii. 
Burke uses the word another-gws, in which expression 
are both vulgarity and ignorance. The real term is another- 
guite; there is nothing of guessing. Landor. 
[See etymology, above.] 
another-guisef(a-nuTH'er-giz), a. [An errone- 
ous "correction* of another-guess, assumed to 
be for another + guise, but really a corruption of 
another-gates, q. v.] Same as another-gates. 
another-kins, [Orig.gen., 'of another kind': 
see another and kind, and cf. another-gates.] Of 
another kind ; of a different sort. [Prov. Eng.] 
anotta, anotto (a-not'a, -6), n. Same asarnotto. 
Anoura, anouran, etc" See Antira, etc. 
Anoiis (an'o-us), . [NL., < Gr. avoof, cpntr. 
avovf, silly, without understanding, < a- priv. + 
ixiof, contr. vovf, mind, understanding : see nous.~\ 
A genus of longipennine 
natatorial birds, the nod- 
dy terns or noddies, of the 
subfamily Sterninw and 
family Laridai: synonymous with 
Gavia. It is the type of a group Anoete, 
distinguished from other tenis in having the 
tail graduated instead of forked, by the pal- 
mation of the toes being very ample, and by 
other characters. There are several species, 
found upon all warm and tropical seas. They 
are of a sooty-brown or blackish color, with 
white on the top of the head. The best-known species is 
A. stolidity. See noddy. 
anoxemia, anoxaemia (an-ok-se'mi-a), . [NL., 
strictly anoxaemia, < Gr. av- priv. + ox(ygen) + 
Gr. alua, blood.] Deficiency of oxygen in the 
blood. Also anoxyhemia, anoxyhiemia. 
anoxyhemia, anoxyhaemia (an-ok-si-he'mi-a), 
n. Same as anoxemia. 
ans. An abbreviation of answer, n. 
ansa (an'sa), .; pi. ansa; (-se). [L.] 1. In 
archatol., a handle, as of a vase. Bronze and terra- 
cotta vase-handles are often found curiously ornamented, 
or bearing inscriptions or 
stamps, while the objects 
to which they belonged, 
being of thinner or less 
durable substance, have 
perished. 
2. pi. In astron., the 
parts of Saturn's ring 
which are to be seen 
on each side of the 
planet when viewed 
through a telescope : 
so called because 
they appear like han- 
dles to the body of 
the planet. 3. In 
anat., a looped nerve 
or loop-like nerv- 
ous structure. Ansse 
Vleussensl, in anat., 
several small Strands Of Bronze Ansa, or Handle of a Vase.- 
the cervical sympathetic Grzco-Roman work from Pompeii. 
Noddy Tern 
(Anoiis stoli- 
tlus). 
answer 
cord which sometimes pass in front of and form loops 
around the subclavian artery. Ansa hypoglossi, '" 
int'il., a loop formeil from the dcseendens Dypogloflfli and 
a comiminicans nerve derived from the second and third 
cervical urnvs. Ansa lenticularis, in nnnl., a fiuscicu- 
lus of white nerve-tissue which passes from the nu-ilian 
part of the crusta of the brain under the thalamus to reach 
the lenticular nucleus. 
ansar, ansarian (an'siir, au-sa'ri-an), n. [< 
Ar. ait-iidyir, < ill, the, + tiiiqir, auxiliary.] A 
helper; an auxiliary , specifically, one of those 
inhabitants of Medina who befriended Moham- 
med when he fled thither from Mecca, A. D. 
622. 
As for those who led the way, the first of the Mohadjers 
tudthoAiuan, . . . God is well pleased with them ; . . . 
He hath made ready for them gardens ... to abide in 
for aye. Rodu'ell, tr. of the Koran, sura ix., verse 101. 
ansate, ansated (an'sat, -sa-ted), a. [< L. an- 
xii lux, furnished with a handle ((. ansa, a handle), 
+ -ed 2 .] Having a handle or handles, or some- 
thing in the form of a handle. 
ansation (an-sa'shon), . [< ansate + -ion.'] 
The art of making handles, or of fitting them 
to utensils. Jour. Brit. Arenisol. Ass., XV. 69. 
anse (ans), n. [= F. anse, < L. ansa."] An ansa 
(which see) ; specifically, in old ordnance, one 
of the curved handles of a cannon. 
Anser (an'sfer), . [L., a goose, orig. "hanser, 
= G. gans = AS. gus, E. goose, q. v.] 1. A genus 
of lamellirostral palmiped birds ; the geese. 
The name is used with varying latitude, sometimes as 
conterminous with the modern subfamily . 1 njferin<e, but 
oftener of late restricted to the typical species resembling 
the domestic goose, such as the Aimer cinereus or Anser 
albifroiut of Europe. See goone. 
2. Iii astron., a small star in the Milky Way, 
between the Swan and the Eagle. 
Anseranas (an-ser-a'nas), n. [NL. (Lesson, 
1828), < L. anser, goose, + anas, duck: see An- 
ser and Anas.] A genus of geese, having the 
feet semipalmate. There is but one species, 
the Australian swan-goose, Anseranas melano- 
leuca. 
anserated (an'se-ra-ted), a. In her., having 
the extremities divided and finished with the 
heads of lions, eagles, serpents, etc. : 
applied to crosses. Also gringoU. 
Anseres (an'se-rez), n. pi. [NL., pi. 
of L. anser: see Anser."] 1. In the 
Linnean system (1766), the third or- 
der of birds, including all " water- 
birds," or palmipeds, and equivalent 
to the series Xatatores of modern naturalists. 
2. An order or suborder of birds correspond- 
ing to the Lamellirostres of Cuvier, or to the 
Chenomorpha; of Huxley : in this sense of nearly 
the same extent as the family Ana tida>, or lamel- 
lirostral birds exclusive of the flamingos. 
Anseridse (an-ser'i-de), . pi. [NL., < Anser 
+ -ida:~\ The geese ; the subfamily Anserinai 
raised to the rank of a family. 
Anseriformes (an"se-ri-f6r'mez), . pi. [NL., 
< L. anser, goose, + forma, shape.] In Garrod's 
classification, a series of birds approximately 
equivalent to the Linnean Anseres. See An- 
seres, 1. 
Angelinas (an-se-ri'ne), . pi. [NL., < Anse r + 
-ip.] 1. A group of lamellirostral palmiped 
birds, more or less exactly equivalent to An- 
seres, 2. 2. A subfamily of the family Anati- 
<te, including the geese as distinguished from 
ducks, swans, or mergansers. 
anserine (an'se-rin), a. [< L. anscrinus, < anser, 
a goose: see Anser. ] 1. Relating to or resem- 
bling a goose, or the skin of a goose : sometimes 
applied to the skin when roughened by cold 
or disease (goose-flesh). 
No anserine skin would rise thereat, 
It's the cold that makes him shiver. 
Hood, The Forge. 
Hence 2. Stupid as a goose; foolish; silly. 
3. Specifically, in ornith., resembling a goose 
or duck so closely as to be included in the fam- 
ily Anatidte; being one of the Anatida;. The 
anserine birds, technically, are not only geese and goose- 
like species, but swans, ducks, mergansers, etc. 
anserous (an'se-rus), a. [< L. anser, a goose, 
+ -OMS.] Same as anserine, 1 and 2. Sydney 
8m i tli. 
anslaightt (an'slat), n. An incorrect form (per- 
haps a misprint) of onslaught. It occurs only 
in the passage quoted. 
I do remember yet that aiulaight; thou wast beaten 
And fled'st before the butler. 
Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas, ii. 2. 
answer (an'ser), n. [Early mod. E. also an- 
sweare, < ME. anxirt'i; itnxinir, nu*irire, answare, 
andswere, andsware, etc., < AS. andswaru, ond- 
swaru, f. (= OS. antswor, m., = OFries. ondser, 
