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((Jr. di/airaitrrof.) A foot in Greek and uf two short syllables followed by a long, belt) iflha dactyle. ANaTHORA. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Rhetoisor phrases at (he commencement s. Thus in Cicero, Verr. iv. c. 10., Verres calumniatores apponebat. Verves ade e jubebat, eognotcebat, Pi r i ex judicubat. AN \l'l OTIIERIUM Set Anopi.otherium. v NAIli 1IY. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Poliition of a country in which not only lawful mi. bin regular government dejaev by force. Hence Milton metaphorically terms his personified Chaos an •' Anarch." AN AKKHi't II \s A name conceived by Gesner and applied by Linnajus to a genus of spiny. finned o eous laracteriaed by having their mandibular, palatine, and vomerine bones armed with lai tubercles, bearing on their summits small enamelled teeth; anteriorly the jaws support longer and more conical U means of this powerful dental apparatus the species of this genus, which inhabits the northern seas, called the " wolffish," is enabled to break and bruise the testaceous defensive coverings of shellfish, the soft parts of which form its ordinary: (Lat anas, a duck.) The name of a Linnasan genus of Anserine birds, characterised by a large, broad, at the margin with numerous thin, transverse, projecting plates; and an obtuse papillose or ciliate tongue. The subdivisions of this extensive group of web footed birds, which were indicated by Ltnntsus, have since been raised to the rank of genera (see An atid«), and the term Anas is now restricted to the species which present a flattened bill, the base of which is always of greater breadth than depth, as wide (or wider) at the extremity as at the beginning; with nostrils placed nearer the upper margin and tn.se of the bill. The legs are shorter and placed farther back than in the goose (iuuer); they have a shorter neck, and the windpipe is dilated at its lower end into two o eous capsules, of which the left is usually the larger. The ducks, thus characterised, are subdivided into those which have the hind toe provided with a membrane, and those in which it is naked. Both divisions are again broken up into numerous minor groups, which are tuished by generic terms. [s. 59]