akey (aka)

[Native term.) The monetary standard of the Gold Coast of Africa, equal to 20 grains of gold-dust, or about 80 cents. akimbo, akimbow (a-kim'bō), prep. phr. as adv. or a. [Recently also written akembo, akembow, earlier a - kimbo, a - kembo, a kimbow, a kembo, on kimbo, on kimbow, and by apheresis kimbo, kimbow, kembo (used attrib. as an adj. and also as a verb: see kimbo, kimbow), also with perverted termination, a- kimboll, a- kem boll, on kemboll, a kenbold, a kenbol, early mod. E. a kenbow, on kenbow, The hoost .. 126 set his hond in kenebowe.... Woulst thow, said he to Beryn, for to skorne me? Tale of Beryn (ed. Furnivall), 1837. A book through which folly and ignorance, those brethren so lame and impotent, do ridiculously look very big and very dull, strut and hobble, cheek by jowl, with their arms on kimbo , being led and supported, and bully-backed by that blind Hector, Impudence. Dennis, Pope's E . on Criticism, p. 30. That struts in this fashion with his Arms a kimbo , like a City Magistrate. Dryden, A mph i try on, ii. She would clap her arms a kimbo . alabaster Steele , Spectator, No. 187. akin (a-kin'), prep. phr. as adv. or a. [ Akin to thine is this declining frame, And this poor beggar claims an Uncle's name. Wert thou akin to me in some new name Dearer than sister, mother, or all blood, I would not hear thee speak. Beau . and Fl . , Knight of Malta, i. 3. (6) Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties: as, envy and jealousy are near akin; "pity's akin to love," Southern, Oroonoko, ii. 1. Near akin as the judicial and military actions originally are, they are naturally at first discharged by the same agency. H. Spencer, Prin, of Sociol., § 528. = Syn. Kin, kindred, cognate, analogous. akinesia (ak-i-nē'si-ä), n. [NL., ἀκινησία , quiescence, motionle ne , κινεῖν , move.] Paralysis of the motor nerves; lo of the power of voluntary motion. Also written a cines i a , akinesis . a kinesic (ak-i-nē'sik), a. Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by akinesia. akinesis (ak-i-ne's is), n. Same as akinesia . Rom. arch., a wing or a small apartment placed on each side of the atrium of a Roman house. Audsley. - Ala cinerea (ash-gray wing), a triangular area on each side of the hinder part of the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain, darker than the rest and containing nuclei of the vagus and glo opharyngeus nerves. Ale cord is (wings of the heart), in entom., the series of attachments of the dorsal ve el or heart of an insect to the walls of the body or other support. In Insect a it [the dorsal ve el] is attached to the wall of the body, and sometimes even to the tracheæ (in the larvæ of the Muscide), by the alæ cord is . Gegenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 283. Ale nas i (wings of the nose), the parts forming the outer or lateral boundaries of the nostrils. - Ale of the diaphragm, in an at., its lateral leaflets. -Alæ vomer is (wings of the vomer), the lateral projections of the superior border of the vomer. - Ala notha (false wing), in ornith., the parapterum; the scapular, axillary, and tertial feathers of a bird's wing, collectively considered. - Ala sphenoidal is, wing of the sphenoid bone, especially the greater wing. See cut under sphenoid. - Ala spuria, in ornith. See alula. - Ala vesper til i on is (bat's wing), a term applied to the broad ligament of the human uterus and a ociated parts, from some fancied resemblance to a bat's wing. A lab am i an (al-a-bä'mi-an), a. and n. I. a. Akkad, n. See Accad . Akkadian, a . and n. See Accadian . akmite, n. See acmite . aknee (a-ne'), prep . phr . as adv . [ a kne , а спе , on kne , on cneowe , Aknee they fell before the Prince. Southey, Madoc. aknowt, a know led get. Older forms of acknow, acknowledge.