The poetical dialect, consisting chiefly in certain anomalies peculiar to poetry; in letters and syllables added to the ends of words; a kind of licence commonly permitted to poetry in every language. Lowth's Isaiah, Preliminary Dis.

Were there no uniformity in human actions, and were every experiment, which we could form of this kind, irregular and anomalous, it were impossible to collect any general observations concerning mankind; and no experience, however accurately digested by reflection, would ever serve to any purpose. Hume's Essays.

ANOMALY, in Astronomy, is the angular distance of a planet at any time from its aphelion, or apogee. This is called the true anomaly: mean anomaly is the angular distance from the same point at the same time, supposing the body to have moved uniformly, with its mean angular velocity.

Hence we have the anomalistic year, which is sometimes used by astronomers to denote the time from the sun leaving its apogee till it returns to it again.

Now the motion of the sun's apogee is 1' 2" every year in longitude, or, as referred to the equinox; therefore, the progressive motion of the apogee will be 11".75; and hence, the anomalistic must be longer than the sidereal year, by the time the sun employs in moving over 11.75 of longitude at its apogee; whence the length of the anomalistic revolution, as determined by

Lalande, is 365 d. 6 h. 14m. 2 sec.

ANOMIA, in Conchology, the name of a large genus of bivalves, found on the sea-shore in all parts of the world; two species in a fossile state are occasionally met with in this country.

ANOMOEANS (from a priv. and ouotos, like), in Ecclesiastical History, a name applied to the pure Arians

of the fourth century, who denied any resemblance between the essence of the Father and the Son.

ΑΝΌΜΥ, ανομια (a word of common occurrence in the Septuagint and New Testament), from a, not,

and vouos, law.

A transgression of the law, iniquity.

If we have respect unto the infinite mercy of God; and, to the object of this mercy, the penitent and faithful heart, there is no sin, which to borrow the word of Prudentius, is not venial; but, in respect of the anomy, or disorder, there is no sin which is not worthy of eternal death. Bp. Hall's Polemical Works.

AÑON', ad. On An; i. e. On or in ane or one (s. s. instant, moment, minute). Immediately, instantly. To hys felawes he wende anon, & bad hem hardi be; So þat þe Brytones were vp þe poynt to fle. Aruirag, oure kynge's broper, wende forp anon pore. And dude on pe kynge's armes, hym self as yt were. R. Gloucester, p. 63.

Right now the highe windes blowe :
And anon after thei ben lowe.
Gower. Con. A. The Prologue.
But this that is sowen on the stony lond: this it is that
herith the word of god, and anoon with joie takith it.

Wiclif. Matthew, cap. xiii.
And ever and anone, when none was ware,
With speaking looks, that close embaisage bore,
He rov'd at her, and told his secret care;
For all that art he learned had of
yore.

VOL. XVII.

Spenser's Faerie Queene, book iii. c. ix.

He was perfumed like a milliner,
And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
A pouncet-box: which ever and anon,
He gave his nose, and took't away againe.

Shakespeare's 1st p. Henry IV. act i. Land, houses, moveables, any mony, mine to day, his anon, whose to-morrow? Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.

I had rather that a father should be hasty with his children, so he be appeased anon, than slow to anger, and as hard to be pleased again. Holland's Plutarch's Morals.

Have ye seen the morning sky,
When the dawn prevails on high,
When anon, some purply ray
Gives a sample of the day,
When, anon, the lark, on wing,
Strives to soar, and strains to sing?

ANONYMOUS, a.
ANONYMOUSLY,
ANON'YMAL.

}

Phillips's Happy Swain.

a, not, and ovoμa, a name. Without a name; nameless.

"Hence," says the historian [Diogenes Laërtius]," it has come to pass, that to this present time may be found in the boroughs of the Athenians anonymous altars: a memorial of the expiation then made." These altars, it may be presumed, were called anonymous, because there was not the name of any particular deity inscribed upon them. Lardner's Jew. and Hea. Testimonies.

I would know whether the edition is to come out anonymously. Swift's Works. ANOREXIA, or ANOREXY (from a priv. and opery, I desire), in Medicine, loathing of food and loss of apothers; but is a general attendant on many. petite. This disease seldom exists independent of

Physiology, an entire privation of the sense of smelling. ANOSMIA (from a priv. and oow, to smell), in Cullen arranges this disease in the class Locales; and order Dysæsthesiæ.

ography, once a province of some importance, on ANOŠSI, ANDROBEIZAHA, or CARCAUSOI, in Gethe S. E. of the island of Madagascar, and partly in the possession of the French, who have had a settlement at 23°, 12', and 26° S. lat. and is separated by the river Fort Dauphin since the year 1642. Mandrerei from the territory of the Ampatres, including several peninsulas and islands ranged along

It lies between

the sea-coast; and is very fertile in pasturage, and fruit trees. Aloes formed, at one time, an important article of exportation to the settlers, and gold and iron mines are said to have been found in the interior.

Rice

flourishes well in the district; and sometimes two harvests may be obtained from one sowing. Wines also are made here from sugar canes and from honey. The indolence of the natives, however, prevents them from improving their great natural advantages, and to themselves, principally, the province has, of late years, been abandoned. The French describe the inhabitants as exceedingly licentious in their morals; and their religion as consisting of the mixed worship of an evil and good spirit.

The principal towns are Ambonnettanha, Andravoule, Cocombes, Fananghaa, Franchere, Imanhal, Imours, Maromamou, and Marufontonts. Fort Dauphin, the French garrison of the province, was built by direction of Captain Rivault, in 1644, on an eminence, 170 feet from the level of the sea, near a capacious bay, and about six miles from the mouth of the principal river, Ramevout, or Tramour. Between eleven and twelve years afterwards (1655), it was destroyed by fire, on occasion of saluting a new governor, and not re-established until 1663. The walls were at this time built of a strong mixture of sand and flint, over

4 N

ANON. ANOSSI.

ANOTHER.

ANOSSI. laid with cement. The early French governors attempted various methods of improving their influence with the natives, but, on the whole, treated them very capriciously. One of the first superintendants of the colony, a M. Prouis, married the daughter of a native chieftain, and obtained considerable confidence with the islanders, until internal dissentions in the garrison, and the pressure of a famine, caused the French settlers to revolt from him. On

his release, he ventured to seize some of the na-
tives as slaves, whom he sold to the Dutch at Mauri-
tius; and, to appease the inhabitants of the province,
was obliged to be recalled. During subsequent wars
with the natives, Fort Dauphin has resisted the attack
of 10,000 men. Another French governor, after its
re-erection, married into a native family, and pos-
sessed greater influence over the inhabitants than
ever the French had exercised; but in the close of the
seventeenth century, the settlers were driven entirely
away. In 1725, a M. Robert projected a new settle-
ment here, which was not, however, carried into effect
until 1768, from which time to the present the colony
has dwindled away, and no authentic accounts of it
have lately reached Europe.
ANOTH'ER, a.
ANOTH'ER-GAINS,

ANOTH'ER-GATES,

ANOTH'ER-GUESS.

One other.

Another is found in composition with Gains, Gates, Guess. See GAINS, &c.

And wo so anoper monne's god býnýme wole mýd vnrygt,
Mýd rygt he may ys owe lese, gyf þe defendor aþ þe myzte.
R. Gloucester, p. 198.

For who so will another blame, He seketh ofte his own shame, Whiche els might be right still. Gower. Conf. 4. book ii. For if he that cometh prechith another crist whom we prechidden not, or if ghe taken a nothir spyryt whom ghe tooken not, or a nothir gospel which ghe resseyuyden not, rightli ghe schulden suffre. Wiclif. 2 Corynth. ch. xi. For yf he that cometh, preache another Jesus, the him whome we preached or yf ye receaue another sprete, then that which ye haue receaued, ether another gospell then yt ye haue receaued, ye might

right well haue been cōtet.

Bible, 1539.

When he had ceas'd his ill-resounding noise,
Another flap-mouth'd mourner, black and grim,
Against the welkin vollies out his voice;
Another and another answer him.

Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.
For stature one doth seem the best away to bear;
Another for her shape, and to stand beyond compare;
Another for the fine composure of a face:
Another short of these, yet for a modest grace,
Before them all preferr'd.

Drayton's Polyolbion, Song xxvi.

I tell you true, said she, whatsoever you think of me, you will one

day be as I am; and I, simple though I sit here, thought once my penny as good silver as some of you do and if my father had not played the hasty fool, it is no lie I tell you, I might have had another gains husband than Dametas. Sidney's Arcadia.

And 'twas agreed

By storm and onslaught to proceed.
This being resolv'd, in comely sort
They now drew up t' attack the fort;
When Hudibras, about to enter
Upon another-gate's adventure,
To Ralpho call'd aloud to arm,
Not dreaming of approaching storm.

Butler's Hudibras, pt. I. can. iii. If you are bent to wed, I wish you another-gess wife than Socrates had; **** And as I wish you may not light upon such a Xanthippe, so I pray that God may deliver you from a Wife of such a generation, that Strowd our Cook here at Westminster said his wife was of. Howell's Letters.

One man can no more discern the objects of his own understanding, and their relations, by the faculties of another, than he can see

THER

with another man's eyes, or one ship can be guided by the helm of AND Wollaston's Religion of Nature, Though the image of one point should cause but a small tension of this membrane, another, and another, and another stroke must in ANSARS their progress cause a very great one, until it arrives at last to the highest degree. Burke, on the Sublime and Beautiful.

It is one thing to hear the language of a friend, whose heart is pure as water, and another to hear the words of a base dissembler, Sir Wm. Jones's Hitópadésa.

ANOTTO, ANOTTO, ARNOTTO (the Roucou of the French), in Commerce, a red dye prepared in the West Indies from the seed capsules of the Bixa Orleanæ, a tree of South America. The seeds are contained in a pod, similar to a chestnut, enclosed in a pulp of a disagreeable smell and bright red colour. When separated from the outer husk, they are put into water to ferment for eight or ten days, during which time they are agitated with wooden paddles, and the kernels being carefully separated from the pulp, the liquor is strained, and boiled. In the course of the latter operation, the colour rises to the top as a thick red scum; it is then put into a vessel to cool, when it is shaped into balls, or long rolls, weighing from two to three pounds, and packed for sale, each ball being enclosed in the leaf of a tree. These, when fit for use, are rather hard and dry, of a brown colour on the outside, and a dull red within. The English, at one time, had a manufactory of anotto at St. Angelo, but the preparation of it is now entirely in the hands of the Spaniards. It is much used in the dairies of England and Holland to colour cheese and butter. Amongst the poor it is a substitute for saffron, and was formerly used in the composition of chocolate. The Spanish Indians use it medicinally, and it is supposed to be an antidote to the poisonous juice of manihot, or cassada. It will not dissolve in water, but merely tinges it of a pale brown colour. It is soluble in alkaline salts, which do not change its colour, and is used in varnishes and lacquers, to give the orange cast, also in dying wax vermilion. Silk and wool will receive a dye of bright orange from it, which will not change by acids or alum, but is discharged by exposure to the air, or the use of soap.

ANSE, ANSES (Lat. handles), in Astronomy, those projecting parts of the planet Saturn's ring, which are visible in its opening, and have the appearance of handles attached to the planet. It was first given by Huygens.

ANSARS, ENSYRIANS, or NASSARIS, in Geography, the name of a people of Syria, who possess the chain of mountains which extends from Antakia to the river Nahr-el-Kabir. They are divided into different tribes, or sects: the Kadmousia, who reverence women, and practice the most licentious amusements during the course of their nocturnal assemblies; the Kelbia, who pay their adorations to the dog; and the Shamsia, or worshippers of the sun. The doctrine of metempsychosis or transmigration of souls, is an article of belief among many of the Ansarians; others reject the notion of the immortality of the soul; but their opinions are either very fluctuating or ill-ascertained by Europeans. The country of the Ansarians is divided into three principal districts, cultivated by their chiefs, who are denominated mokaddamins, a title annually acknowledged by the pacha of Tripoli, on the payment of a stipend. The mountains inhabited by the Ansarians are not so steep as those of Lebanon; and, of course, are better adapted to the purposes of cultivation and pasturage; but they are unfortunately more

ANSIKO.

ANSARS. exposed to the marauding expeditions of the Turks than their neighbours: and, though the territory of Ansars produces great abundance of olives, tobacco, and wine, it is much more thinly inhabited than the provinces of the Druzes and Maronites.

ANSER, in Astronomy, a star of the fifth or sixth magnitude, first brought into order by Hevelius, situated between the Swan and Eagle, in the milky way. ANSERES, in Ornithology, the third order of birds, according to the Linnæan classification. See ZOOLOGY, Div. ii.

ANSERINA, in Botany, wild tansey, or goose-grass, which was formerly used medicinally. See Potentilla, BOTANY, Div. ii.

ANSERMA, SANTA ANNA DE, a city of the province and government of Popayan, 50 leagues N. E. of Popayan. It is situated in the district and jurisdiction of the audience of Quito, and the vicinity abounds in gold and salt mines. The climate is very hot in its temperature, and is subject to storms, which are frequently accompanied by balls of fire, and do serious

mischief.

ANSIBARII, AMPSICARII, or AMPSIVARII, in Ancient Geography, a people of Germany, who, being driven from their own territory by the Chauci, in the time of Nero, took possession of some land occupied by the Frisians, which had belonged to the Romans; and were not permitted to enjoy it, but were compelled to wander about in search of a place to receive them, until they became extinct. TACIT. Ann. xiii. 53-55. ANSIKO, ANZIKO, or Micocco, in Geography, a kingdom on the western coast of Africa, situated almost under the equator, and bounded on the N. by the deserts of Nubia, on the S. by Sonda and Songo, two districts of Congo, on the E. by the river Umbre, or Vambre, which discharges its waters into the great river Zaire, and on the W. by the kingdom of the Amboes. The country that constitutes Ansiko extends, according to others, from the kingdom of Nubia to Cacaugo. The natives, in general, are in the most barbarous state, practising indiscriminate warfare on other tribes, and preferring a wandering life. They are characterized by a fearless desperation; and, according to the Portuguese accounts, by an unequalled rapacity and can-. nibalism. So familiarized are they to blood, and so entirely free from the usual sympathies of our nature, that they will even expose human flesh for sale in their shambles or markets. They fatten their slaves, it is added, for their tables, and torture them with such continued cruelties, that the unhappy victims very readily hail death as a deliverance from further persecution. M. Dapper, in his Description de l'Afrique, gives an affecting account of these atrocities; and observes, that the father will feast without horror on the body of his son, the son on his father, and brothers and sisters on each other. The females too, in this quarter of the globe, appear to have lost all the ordinary feelings of nature: they are handsome in their persons, but readily abandon their offspring, and sometimes. even kill them with their own hands.

The Jagos, or Giagos, are the principal inhabitants of this province, and are more relentless in their disposition than the original natives. They are dispersed throughout the regions of the interior; and are supposed to have come from Sierra Leone, and to have ravaged the whole coast, as far as the kingdom of Benguela. Their

ANSPACH.

descendants, however, are now principally confined to ANSIKO. Ansiko, and the S. E. quarter of Angola. In their religion, the natives are idolaters: they pay their adorations to the sun and moon, the former of whom they personify under the figure of a male, and the latter of a female; they also practise the Jewish ceremony of circumcision. On any emergency, such as an irruption of their neighbours into their territories, amongst the preparations for battle, they are accustomed to offer up numerous sacrifices at the shrines of their tutelary deities. The king of Ansiko is pompously styled the Great Micocco; he reigns over 13 districts, or kingdoms, and is conjectured to be one of the most despotic sovereigns of Africa.

The exterior badge of distinction among the inhabitants of Ansiko is a red or black cap, made of Portuguese velvet; the lower orders of people are naked from the waist upward, and are compelled to walk barefooted, in token of inferiority. The natives frequently anoint their bodies with a curious composition of palm-oil and white sandal-wood. For arms, the Ansikos make use of small bows, which are fabricated from a tough wood, and ornamented with the skins of serpents. They are considered very dexterous archers; and, though implacable to their enemies, are faithful and honourable allies. Their battle-axes are used as instruments of aggression and defence, and answer every purpose of a shield; in addition to this, they wear a sort of dirk, or dagger, which they attach to their bodies by belts of ivory, and encase in serpents' skins.

Ansiko is celebrated for its copper-mines, and a red and white sanders' wood that it produces in abundance. It teems with wild beasts of almost every description, particularly lions and rhinoceroses, said to have been originally brought from Congo.

The zimbos, or zimbi, is the current coin of the country, which consists of a shell, imported from Loando, in Angola. Latterly, these tribes appear to have become more commercial, and conduct a great proportion of the trade between Congo and the interior. ANSLAIGHT', n. or A.S. Ön-rlagen. Impactus. Dashed or beaten against;

ONSLAUGHT.

past tense of on-plazan, to dash or beat against.
LAU. Your worship knows, I ever was accounted
The most debosh'd, and please you to remember,
Every day drunk too, for your worship's credit,
I broke the butler's head too.

SEB. No, base Pallaird,

AN

ANSTRU

graphical and topographical changes that have taken SPACH. place on the continent have entirely altered its original divisions and bailiwics, of which there were fifteen. In THER. the year 1791 the last margrave retired to England, and WESTER. the principality became an integral part of the kingdom of Prussia. Since that time it has repeatedly changed its masters. In 1806 Buonaparte gave it to Bavaria; and subsequent treaties have confirmed its annexation to that kingdom; an indemnity having been given to Prussia elsewhere. According to its original extent, it contained a surface of about 1,800 square miles, with a population of 252,295 inhabitants; of whom, from 8,000 to 9,000 were Jews. The established religion is the Lutheran.

Christian Frederic, the last margrave, rendered this district a very great service, by the introduction of various agricultural and other improvements; particularly in the breed of horses, having been intermixed with the English breed, and oxen and cows with those of Switzerland. Great numbers of fat oxen are annually exported to Alsace, and other places; and immense quantities of corn to various parts of Europe. Fruit, wine, and hops, are cultivated here with considerable advantage; and there are several flourishing manufactures in the different towns of which the district is composed.

The capital, or chief town, also called ANSPACH, or ANSBACH, is situated on the Lower Rezat, about 30 miles from Nuremberg; and contains a population, including the adjacent communes, of about 12,000 inhabitants. It has, within these ten or eleven years, been created the capital of the circle of the Rezat, in Bavaria, and at the same time the head of a district, which contains 126 square miles, and 14,000 inhabitants. This city is said to owe its origin to Gumbredt, son of Duke Gosbert I., who founded here a monastery of Benedictine monks, which was secularized in 1563. During the existence of the monastery, from those causes which were the means before the reformation of laying the foundation of many towns, Anspach gradually advanced in extent and population. Houses rose in succession round the convent, till the town was purchased by the margrave of Nuremberg. There are still some interesting objects to be seen in this town, particularly the prince's castle and gardens, the church of St. John, in which are the tombs of the former princes; an orphan-school, and an hospital. There is also an academy, consisting of six classes, with an inspector, three professors, and five other teachers. The prince's library is very valuable, containing upwards of 15,000 volumes. It had also a collection of medals, but these have been removed to Berlin. The town has a respectable manufactory of woollen and cotton cloths, besides those of earthenware, white lead, and playing-cards, and is, upon the whole, a well-governed place.

ANSTEY, a small township in the county of Leicester, about four miles from that city, and 100 from London.

ANSTRUTHER EASTER, a royal burgh and parish of Scotland, in Fifeshire, 10 miles from St. Andrew's, containing a population of about 1,000 persons. It is remarkable chiefly for its harbour, which is deemed the finest on the E. coast of the country.

ANSTRUTHER WESTER, a borough, parish, and seaport of Scotland, in the county of Fife, 23 miles from Edinburgh, on the N. shore of the Frith of Forth. To

ANSWER

this parish is annexed the Isle of May; and the borough, ANSTRU in conjunction with Anstruther Easter, Crail, Pitten- THER weem, and Kilrenny, returns one member to parliament. WESTER The inhabitants, about 393 in number, export lobsters to various parts, particularly to London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. They also catch white fish in abundance. AN'SWER, v. A. S. Andypaɲian: of unAN'SWER, n. settled etymology. AND in AN'SWERABLE, Gothic appears to have had the force of the Latin. Contra. Swarian, I doubt not (says Thwaites), signified pri

AN'SWERABLY, AN'SWERABLENESS, AN'SWERER.

mitively, to speak. To speak in return or opposition to any thing before spoken to any thing before affirmed or required, or demanded.

To reply to in speech or writing; and so-to account for, to excuse, or justify. And also

To satisfy the expectations or demands; to serve, or accomplish the aims, purposes, or intentions. To be or act in return to any thing, in compliance with, in accommodation, proportion, or relation to. po he kyng of France herde pis, he answerede þer to, bat he hadde hym self lond y now, and tresour al so. R. Gloucester, p. 32.

He went to be kyng of France, & schewed him his resons,
þorgh þer ordenance per duzepers gaf respons.
Bifor Sir William pe duzepers gaf ansuere.

Florent howe so thou be to wite
Of Branchus deathe, men shall respite
As nowe to take auengement,
Be so thou stonde in iudgement
Upon certaine condicion,
That thou vnto a question,
Whiche I shall aske, shalt answer.

R. Brunne, p. 141.

Gower, Con, A. book i.

That thou shalt saie vpon this molde, That all women leuest wolde Be soueraine of mans loue. For what woman is so aboue, She hath as who saith, all hir will, And elles maie she nought fulfill What thinge were hir leucst haue. With this answer thou shalt saue Thy selfe, and other wise nought. Our holy liuyng muste agree with so holy a profession. You muste nedes be answerable vnto your hie prieste, and his lawe, in Udall, Paul to the Hebrues, c. xii. youre conuersacion.

Id. Ib.

Thy profession is of hygh excellencye, but to frame thy self aunswerably like vnto it, thou hast nede much diligently to watche about thee. Id, Paul to Timothie, c. vi.

And thus as I told you, concerninge this pece of good abearing: this good answerer hath here borne himself so wel, yt som part he

answereth with vntrouth, som part he answereth a great deal lesse the half, & som part neuer a deale. If me be contet to take this fashion for answering: let ani ma make the against me as manye bookes as he wyl, & put in what matter he list, & I shal neuer nede to studi much for an answer, but mai make answers to thé al shortely & short inough, and answer a lög bok in space of one paper leafe. Sir Thomas More's Works, fo. 987, c. 1. PRINCE. The man, I do assure you, is not heare, For I my selfe at this time have imploy'd him: And sherife, I will engage my word to thee, That I will by tomorrow dinners time, Send him to answere thee, or any man, For any thing he shall be charged withall. And so let me entreat you, leave the house. SHE. I will, my lord: there are two gentlemen

Haue in this robberie lost three hundred markes. PRINCE. It may be so if he haue robb'd these men, He shall be answerable: and so farewell.

Shakespeare's K. Henry IV. parti.

Exceeding wrath thereat was Blandamour,
And gan this bitter answere to him make;
"Too foolish Paridell! that fayrest floure
Wouldst gather faine, and yet no paines wouldst take:
But not so easie will I her forsake.

This hand her wonne, this hand shall her defend." Spenser's Fairie Queene, book iv. c. 2. Answerable whereunto was that heroical determination of Luther, who, after his engagements, against all threats and dissuasions, would go into the city of Worms, though there were as many devils in it as tiles upon their houses. Bp. Hall's Balm of Gilead.

The three kinds of ancient hunting, which distinctly require fleetnesse, scent, and strength, are completely performed in this county by a breed therein, which are answerably qualified.

Fuller's Worthies, Lincolnshire.

And he came, and abode in a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, that, in the very place of his dwelling, there might be an allusion to that style or title, which is frequently given to him of the prophets, by whom he is called Netzar: so as, out of this ground, the appellation which is given him of a Nazarene, however it be, objected to him, by way of reproach, is rather a notable proof of his answerableness to that prediction of the prophets.

Bp. Hall's Paraphrase on Matthew.

If ever any design was unfortunately executed, it must be that of this answerer, who, when he would have it observed, that the author's wit is none of his own, is able to produce but three instances, two of them are mere trifles, and all three manifestly false.

Swift's Apology.

Think upon your last hour, and do not trouble yourself about other people's faults, but leave them there where they must be answered for. Mason, on Self-Knowledge.

When a man asks me a question, I have it in my power to answer, or be silent; to answer softly or roughly, in terms of respect, or in terms of contempt. Beattie's Essay on Truth.

The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon through them-a circumstance which, however trivial in description, has a beautiful effect in landscape.

Gilpin's Tour to the Lakes of Cumberland, &c. If I pay money to a banker's servant, the banker is answerable for it: if I pay it to a clergyman's or a physician's servant whose usual business it is not to receive money for his master, and he embezzles it, I must pay it over again.

Blackstone's Commentaries.

ANT, n. Ant, or Emmett; contracted and } ANT HILL. corrupted from the A. S. Emett, Emet. Skinner. In Ger. Ameis, Ameisse, 'so called (says Wachter), a fugastu, because it is never idle from meisse, idleness; and A. prefixed "otium negat." In A. S. Amet, is, instructu, furnished, provided, from the verb Ametan.

You might haue sene them throng out of the town:
Like ants, when they do spoile the bing of corne,
For winter's dred, which they beare to their den:
When the black swarm creeps ouer all the fields,
And thwart the grasse by strait pathes drags their pray :
The great graines then som on their shoulders trusse,
Some driue the troupe, some chastice eke the slow:
That with their trauail chafed is eche pathe.

Surrey Aenais, book iv.

On ev'ry side are seen descending down,
Thick swarms of Souldiers loaden from the Town.
Thus, in Battalia, march embody'd Ants,
Fearfull of Winter, and of future Wants,
T'invade the Corn, and to their Cells convey
The plunder'd Forrage of their yellow Prey,
The sable Troops, along the narrow Tracks,
Scarce bear the weighty Burthen on their Backs:
Some set their Shoulders to the pond'rous Grain;
Some guard the Spoil, some lash the lagging Train;
All ply their sev'ral Tasks, and equal Toil sustain.

Dryden.

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ANT, in Zoology, the popular name of the Formica of Linnæus. There are various species of this destructive insect; the most curious of which appears to be the termes fatale. They are all equally detrimental to the farmers; and various modes have been from time to time suggested for their destruction. See AGRICULTURE and ENTOMOLOGY, Div. ii.

ANT EGGS, a name generally applied to little white balls, found in the nests of ants; and supposed to be their ova. These are at first of very small dimensions, and bear a striking resemblance to maggots; but as they increase, a silken species of skin appears completely to envelope them. Partridges, pheasants, and other birds consider them excellent food, and destroy an infinite number. See ENTOMOLOGY, Div. ii.

ANT HILLS are the little hillocks which are thrown up by the ants, and in which they brood to the amount of many thousands; sometimes occupying a large portion of pasture lands. See as above.

ANTA. See AHANTA.

ANTA, in Ancient Architecture, a pilaster or square column placed at the corners of the walls of temples, and other buildings. M. Perrault derives their name from ante, before, because placed in front of walls, and quoins of buildings, for security. The anta made a projection from the wall equal to one-eighth of its face, except an ornament projected further, in which case the projection of the anta always equalled that of the ornament. Vitruvius calls those angular antæ, which have but two faces out of the wall, to distinguish them from those placed at the end of walls or porticos which have three faces. Festus confines the use of antæ to the porches of gates or doors.

ANTAB, or ANTIOCHETTE, in Geography, a town of Syria, 130 miles S. W. of Diarbek, and 40 N. of Aleppo. It lies in E. lon. 37°, 25′, N. lat. 36° 42′; and is supposed by some to have been the Antiochia ad Taurum of the Romans. The town is about a league in circumference, and possesses a singular appearance, being built on two hills, and the interjacent valley; on the former of which the dwelling-houses are erected, in the latter the shops. These have flat roofs, and the stranger perceives the people wandering beneath him in the covered streets, while he imagines himself walking on the ground. The river Sejour, which is conveyed by means of aqueducts to the more elevated parts, waters the whole town. The principal manufactories consist of coarse stamped calicoes, and bows and arrows, which form an essential article of commerce. Antab is guarded by a strong castle, which is built on a round hill, and is environed by a deep moat, cut out of the solid rock. Several medals, bearing stamps of the Cappadocian and Syrian monarchs, are occasionally to be met with at this place.

ANTACIDS, in Medicine (from avr, against, and acidus, sharp or acid,) is a term applied to those antidotes which repel or annihilate stomachic acids.

ANTACRIDA, or ANTACRIDS (from avr, against, and acer, sharp,) in Medicine, an antidote similar to the above, being calculated to remove any acrimonious affection, which has been generated either in the whole corporeal system, or in particular parts of it.

ANTEOPOLIS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Egypt, in the Thebaid, E. of the Nile, so named from Antæus, who was conquered by Hercules. After the age of Constantine, the Thebaid became two provinces,

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