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<blockquote>If we <b>anatomize</b> all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. <i>Hume.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Anatomizer</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nat"o*mi`zer</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dissector.</def>

<h1>Anatomy</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nat"o*my</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Anatomies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[F. <ets>anatomie</ets>, L. <ets>anatomia</ets>, Gr. <?/ dissection, fr. <?/ to cut up; <?/ + <?/ to cut.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.</def>

<blockquote>Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by <b>anatomy</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; "Animal anatomy" is sometimes called <plu>zomy</i>; "vegetable anatomy," <i>phytotomy</i>; "human anatomy," <i>anthropotomy</i>.</note>

<cs><col>Comparative anatomy</col> <cd>compares the structure of different kinds and classes of animals.</cd></cs>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A treatise or book on anatomy.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; <as>as, the <ex>anatomy</ex> of a discourse</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>anatomy</b> of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain,

A mere <b>anatomy</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Anatreptic</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>An`a*trep"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[overturning, fr. <?/ to turn up or over; <?/ + <?/ too turn.]</ety> <def> Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's <i>refutative</i> dialogues.</def>

<i>Enfield.</i>

<h1>Anatron</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>An"a*tron</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>anatron</ets>, <ets>natron</ets>, Sp. <ets>anatron</ets>, <ets>natron</ets>, fr. Ar. <ets>al</ets>-<ets>natr<?/n</ets>. See <er>Natron</er>, <er>Niter</er>.]</ety> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Native carbonate of soda; natron.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Glass gall or sandiver.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Saltpeter.</def>

<i>Coxe. Johnson.</i>

<h1>Anatropal, Anatropous</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw><hw>A*nat"ro*pal</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>A*nat"ro*pous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ up + <?/ to turn.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to <i>orthotropous</i>.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<h1>Anatto</h1> <Xpage=<hw>An`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ 54 fitted for checking, fr. <?/ + <?/ to send.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark></def>>

<hw>A*nat"to</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Annotto</er>.</def>

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