Part 425

<mhw><h1>Anbur-y, Ambury</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"bur-y</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Am"bur*y</hw><mhw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>ampre</ets>, <ets>ompre</ets>, a crooked swelling vein: cf. Prov. E. <ets>amper</ets> a tumor with inflammation. Cf. the first syllable in <ets>agnail</ets>, and <ets>berry</ets> a fruit.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also <altname>fingers and toes</altname>.</def>

<h1>ance</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>*ance</hw>. <ety>[F. <ets>-ance</ets>, fr. L. <ets>-antia</ets> and also fr. <ets>-entia</ets>.]</ety> <def>A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; <as>as, assist<ex>ance</ex>, resist<ex>ance</ex>, appear<ex>ance</ex>, eleg<ex>ance</ex></as>. See <er>-ancy</er>.</def>

<note>&hand; All recently adopted words of this class take either -<i>ance</i> or -<i>ence</i>, according to the Latin spelling.</note>

<h1>Ancestor</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"ces*tor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>ancestre</ets>, <ets>auncestre</ets>, also <ets>ancessour</ets>; the first forms fr. OF. <ets>ancestre</ets>, F. <ets>anc\'88tre</ets>, fr. the L. nom. <ets>antessor</ets> one who goes before; the last form fr. OF. <ets>ancessor</ets>, fr. L. acc. <ets>antecessorem</ets>, fr. <ets>antecedere</ets> to go before; <ets>ante</ets> before + <ets>cedere</ets> to go. See <er>Cede</er>, and cf. <er>Antecessor</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>An earlier type; a progenitor; <as>as, this fossil animal is regarded as the <ex>ancestor</ex> of the horse</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of <i>heir</i>.</def>

<h1>Ancestorial</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`ces*to"ri*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Ancestral.</def>

<i>Grote.</i>

<h1>Ancestorially</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`ces*to"ri*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With regard to ancestors.</def>

<h1>Ancestral</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*ces"tral</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; <as>as, an <ex>ancestral</ex> estate</as>.</def> "<i>Ancestral</i> trees."

<i>Hemans.</i>

<h1>Ancestress</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"ces*tress</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A female ancestor.</def>

<h1>Ancestry</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"ces*try</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>ancesserie</ets>. See <er>Ancestor</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.</def>

<blockquote>Title and <b>ancestry</b> render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.</def>

<h1>Anchor</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"chor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>anker</ets>, AS. <ets>ancor</ets>, <ets>oncer</ets>, L. <ets>ancora</ets>, sometimes spelt <ets>anchora</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/, akin to E. <ets>angle</ets>: cf. F. <ets>ancre</ets>. See <er>Angle</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.</def>

<note>&hand; The common anchor consists of a straight bar called a <i>shank</i>, having at one end a transverse bar called a <i>stock</i>, above which is a ring for the cable, and at the other end the <i>crown</i>, from which branch out two or more <i>arms</i> with <i>flukes</i>, forming with the shank a suitable angle to enter the ground.</note>

<note>Formerly the largest and strongest anchor was the <i>sheet anchor</i> (hence, <i>Fig</i>., best hope or last refuge), called also <altname>waist anchor</altname>. Now the <i>bower</i> and the <i>sheet anchor</i> are usually alike. Then came the <i>best bower</i> and the <i>small bower</i> (so called from being carried on the bows). The <i>stream anchor</i> is one fourth the weight of the bower anchor. <i>Kedges</i> or <i>kedge anchors</i> are light anchors used in warping.</note>