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t. [A.S. unnan, geunnan=to give.] 1. To give. ( Boucher .) To appropriate, to allot as one's own. ( Jamie son .) IMG:content-0486.png:[blocks in formation] ăn'-a, prefix & s. [From Greek. Gr. ἀνά ( ana ) = up; with numerous significations derived from this primary one. According to Prof. Key, cognate with Lat. an , a, ad, & in; Wel. ad ; Gael. ath or as ; Breton ad or as ; Irish ath , adh , an , or amh ; Old Sax. ant; Mid. Ger. ent or en; Mod. Ger. ent; Dut. ont; Old Frisian and , ont, on, and, ant, und; Dan. & Sw. und; A.S. on, od, æt , and ed. ( Key : Philolog. E ays, pp. 1 to 56.).] 1. As a prefix : Up to increase, or strengthening; repetition, or improvement; back, backwards. (See the various words which follow.) 197 2. As a substantive. [Gr. ἀvá (ana), in the distributive sense each, throughout.] Med. Prescriptions: The like quantity. It is often contracted to ää, ora: as ana 3 oz.; aa 3 oz.; a 3 oz. "In the same weight prudence and innocence take, Ana of each does the just mixture make." Cowley. "He'll bring an apothecary with a chargeable long bill of anas ."-Dryden a-na, a'-nạ, suffix & s. [From Latin. In Fr. ana . Properly, the termination of the neut. pl. in Latin adjectives ending in anus, as in sing. Trojanusa Trojan man; neut. pl . Trojana Trojan things.] 1. As a suffix : Added to proper names, as an appellation of books consisting of clever or witty sayings of deceased men of eminence, and anecdotes regarding them; some doubtle authentic, others as obviously mythic, This use of the term ana seems to have begun in France about the middle of the seventeenth century, whence it spread to other parts of the Continent, and to England. The Scaligerana, or Scaligeriana, appeared in two parts: the first ultimately called, however, Scaligeriana Secund a , first appeared in the year 1666; the former in 1699. Among other Continental ana the Menegeana came forth in 1692, and the Poggiana in 1720. England has had its Walpoliana, its Add is on i an a, its Johnson i an a, its Swift i an a, its Mooriana, .; and some works like Boswell's celebrated Life of Johnson, though not called ana , might with much propriety receive the name. Sometimes ana is made a suffix to the name of a place, as Tun brig i an a = the go ip or scandal of Tun bridge Wells. "They were pleased to publish some Tun brig i an a this season, but such anal I believe there never were so many vile little verses put together before."West to Gray. 2. As an independent word, when it becomes a substantive pl. (See example under No. 1.) ăn-a-bai-nạ, s. [Gr. ἀναβαίνω (anabainō) = to go up: ἀνά ( ana ) = up, and βαίνω (bainō ) = to go.] A genus of plants belonging to the alliance Algales (Sea-weeds) and the order Confervaceæ (Confervas). It is to the A. or Sphærozyga spiral is that the green colour of the water in Bally drain Lake is attributable. (Lindley: Veg. Kingd ., p. 16.)