English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Anatomizing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Anatomize
Anatomy
(n.)
The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the
different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation,
structure, and economy; dissection.
Anatomy
(n.)
The science which treats of the structure of organic
bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
Anatomy
(n.)
A treatise or book on anatomy.
Anatomy
(n.)
The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual,
for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a
discourse.
Anatomy
(n.)
A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has
the appearance of being so.
Anatreptic
(a.)
Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's
refutative dialogues.
Anatron
(n.)
Native carbonate of soda; natron.
Anatron
(n.)
Glass gall or sandiver.
Anatron
(n.)
Saltpeter.
Anatropal
(a.)
Alt. of Anatropous
Anatropous
(a.)
Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its
development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to
orthotropous.
Anatto
(n.)
Same as Annotto.
Anbury
(n.)
Alt. of Ambury
Ancestor
(n.)
One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative
of heir.
Ancestor
(n.)
An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is
regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
Ancestor
(n.)
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the
father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a
fore father.
Ancestorial
(a.)
Ancestral.
Ancestorially
(adv.)
With regard to ancestors.
Ancestral
(a.)
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an
ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.