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An*cille" (&?;), n. [OF. ancelle, L. ancilla.] A maidservant; a handmaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

{ An*cip"i*tal (&?;), An*cip"i*tous (&?;), } a. [L. anceps, ancipitis, two-headed, double; an- for amb- on both sides + caput head.] (Bot.) Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

An*cis"troid (&?;), a. [Gr. &?;; &?; a hook + &?; shape.] Hook-shaped.

An"cle (&?;), n. See Ankle.

An"come ("km), n. [AS. ancuman, oncuman, to come.] A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow. [Obs.] Boucher.

||An"con ("km), n.; L. pl. Ancones (&?;). [L., fr. Gr. 'agkw`n the bent arm, elbow; any hook or bend.] (Anat.) The olecranon, or the elbow.

Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

{ An"con (&?;), An"cone (&?;), } n. [See Ancon, above.] (Arch.) (a) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. [Obs.] Gwilt. (b) A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.

{ An"co*nal (&?;), An*co"ne*al (&?;), } a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.

||An*co"ne*us (&?;), n. [NL., fr. L. ancon elbow.] (Anat.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

An"co*noid (&?;), a. Elbowlike; anconal.

An"co*ny (&?;), n. [Origin unknown.] (Iron Work) A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

-an*cy. [L. -antia.] A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.

And (&?;), conj. [AS. and; akin to OS. endi, Icel. enda, OHG. anti, enti, inti, unti, G. und, D. en, OD. ende. Cf, An if, Ante-.] 1. A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.

(a) It is sometimes used emphatically; as, "there are women and women," that is, two very different sorts of women.

(b) By a rhetorical figure, notions, one of which is modificatory of the other, are connected by and; as, "the tediousness and process of my travel," that is, the tedious process, etc.; "thy fair and outward character," that is, thy outwardly fair character, Schmidt's Shak. Lex.

2. In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.

At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton.

3. It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.

When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.

4. If; though. See An, conj. [Obs.] Chaucer.

As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon.

And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

An"da*ba*tism (&?;), n. [L. andabata a kind of Roman gladiator, who fought hoodwinked.] Doubt; uncertainty. [Obs.] Shelford.

An`da*lu"site (&?;), n. (Min.) A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.

||An*dan"te (&?;), a. [It. andante, p. pr. of andare to go.] (Mus.) Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n. A movement or piece in andante time.

||An`dan*ti"no (&?;), a. [It., dim. of andante.] (Mus.) Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.

Some, taking andante in its original sense of "going," and andantino as its diminutive, or "less going," define the latter as slower than andante.