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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: ancient history - andromache</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="ancienthistory"> ancient history,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. history from the earliest-known times to the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476. <DD> 2. (Informal, Figurative.) a well-known fact or event of the recent past. Ex. You don't know she'd married? Why, that's ancient history now. </DL> <A NAME="ancientlights"> ancient lights,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) windows whose light must not be overshadowed by new building. </DL> <A NAME="anciently"> anciently, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. in ancient times. <DD> 2. formerly. </DL> <A NAME="ancientofdays"> Ancient of Days,<DL COMPACT><DD> God, as the Eternal Being (in the Bible, Daniel 7). </DL> <A NAME="ancientregime"> ancient regime,=ancien regime.</DL> <A NAME="ancientry"> ancientry, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD> 1. the quality of being very old; ancientness. <DD> 2. old-fashioned style. <DD> 3. antiquity. </DL> <A NAME="ancillary"> ancillary, adjective, noun, pl. -laries.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. subordinate; dependent; subservient. (SYN) subsidiary. <DD> 2. assisting; auxiliary. Ex. an ancillary engine in a sailboat. (SYN) accessory. <DD>noun (British.) 1. a subordinate part; accessory. (SYN) subsidiary. <DD> 2. an assistant; helper. (SYN) accessory. </DL> <A NAME="ancipital"> ancipital, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having two sharp edges, as the stems of certain plants. </DL> <A NAME="ancipitous"> ancipitous, adjective. =ancipital.</DL> <A NAME="ancistroid"> ancistroid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> hook-shaped. </DL> <A NAME="ancon"> ancon, noun, pl. ancones.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a projection like a bracket, used to support a cornice, aconsole, or a corbel. <DD> 2. (Rare.) the elbow. </DL> <A NAME="ancona"> Ancona, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a breed of chicken that originated in Italy, resembling the Leghorns. </DL> <A NAME="anconal"> anconal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like an ancon. </DL> <A NAME="anconeal"> anconeal, adjective. =anconal.</DL> <A NAME="ancy"> -ancy,<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix.) a form of -ance, expressing more distinctly the sense of quality or state, as in ascendancy, buoyancy. </DL> <A NAME="ancylostomiasis"> ancylostomiasis, noun. =hookworm disease.</DL> <A NAME="and"> and, conjunction, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>conj. 1. as well as. Ex. nice and cold. You can come and go in the car. <DD> 2. added to; with; together with; besides. Ex. 4 and 2 make 6. He likes ham and eggs. <DD> 3. as a result. Ex. The sun came out and the grass dried. <DD> 4. (Informal.) to. Ex. Try and do better. Won't you come and see us this weekend? <DD> 5. (Archaic and Dialect.) if; supposing that. Ex. and you please. <DD>noun the character & used as a symbol for the conjunction and. See also ampersand. </DL> <A NAME="and"> AND, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a computer logic circuit or operation in which two connected items are true only if each of the items is true. </DL> <A NAME="and"> and.,<DL COMPACT><DD> andante. </DL> <A NAME="andalusian"> Andalusian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of Andalusia (region in southern Spain) or its people. <DD>noun 1. a native or inhabitant of Andalusia. <DD> 2. any chicken of a breed of medium-sized domestic fowl having black and bluish-black plumage. </DL> <A NAME="andalusite"> andalusite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a very hard silicate of aluminum occurring as a mineral in orthorhombic crystals of various colors. When transparent, it is used as a gem. </DL> <A NAME="andamanese"> Andamanese, noun, pl. -nese, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. one of the Negrito people living in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. <DD> 2. the language of the Andamanese, of no known relationship to any other language. <DD>adj. of the Andamanese or their language. </DL> <A NAME="andante"> andante, adverb, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) <DD>adv., adj. moderately slow. Ex. The movement was played andante (adv.). an andante movement (adj.). <DD>noun a moderately slow movement; piece of music in this time. </DL> <A NAME="andantino"> andantino, adverb, adjective, noun, pl. -nos.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) <DD>adv., adj. slightly faster than andante. <DD>noun a musical composition or part of one that is played andantino. </DL> <A NAME="andean"> Andean, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the Andes (mountain system in South America). </DL> <A NAME="andermass"> Andermass, noun. =Saint Andrew's Day.</DL> <A NAME="andersonshelter"> Anderson shelter,<DL COMPACT><DD> an air-raid shelter of corrugated iron used in Britain during World War II. </DL> <A NAME="andesine"> andesine, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a triclinic feldspar. </DL> <A NAME="andesite"> andesite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an igneous rock occurring in many varieties, in all of which a high-soda plagioclase is the chief constituent. </DL> <A NAME="andiron"> andiron, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of a pair of metal supports for wood burned in a fireplace; firedog. Andirons hold the wood above the floor of the fireplace on legs that are short in back and usually have a high ornamental shaft in front to keep the logs from rolling out of the fireplace. </DL> <A NAME="and"> and/or,<DL COMPACT><DD> both or either. "To earn money from stocks and/or bonds" means to earn it from both stocks and bonds or from either stocks or bonds. </DL> <A NAME="andorran"> Andorran, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with Andorra (country between France and Spain), its people, or their language. <DD>noun a native or inhabitant of Andorra. </DL> <A NAME="andradite"> andradite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a garnet containing calcium and iron, occurring in a variety of colors, such as red, yellow, green, and brown. </DL> <A NAME="andreaferrara"> Andrea Ferrara,<DL COMPACT><DD> a sword or sword blade of a kind greatly esteemed in Scotland toward the end of the 1500's and later. </DL> <A NAME="andrew"> Andrew, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of Christ's twelve apostles, brother of Simon Peter (in the Bible, Mark 3:18). He is the patron saint of Greece, Russia, and Scotland. </DL> <A NAME="androcentric"> androcentric, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having man or the male as its center. </DL> <A NAME="androcles"> Androcles, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Roman Legend.) a slave spared in the arena by a lion from whose foot he had pulled a thorn years before. </DL> <A NAME="androclinium"> androclinium, noun, pl. -ia. =clinandrium.</DL> <A NAME="androclus"> Androclus, noun. =Androcles.</DL> <A NAME="androconium"> androconium, noun, pl. -nia.<DL COMPACT><DD> a patch of scent scales on the wings of male butterflies. </DL> <A NAME="androcracy"> androcracy, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the rule of man or the male; male supremacy. Ex. The stage of gynecocracy was succeeded by the stage of androcracy, and the subjection of women was rendered complete (Lester E. Ward). </DL> <A NAME="androcratic"> androcratic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with androcracy. </DL> <A NAME="androecial"> androecial, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an androecium. </DL> <A NAME="androecium"> androecium, noun, pl. -cia.<DL COMPACT><DD> a name given to the whole of the male organs of a flower; the stamens of a flower (correlative to gynoecium). </DL> <A NAME="androgen"> androgen, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any sex hormone, produced especially by the testes, that induces or strengthens masculine characteristics, such as a beard, large muscles, or a deep voice. Ex. The androgens and estrogens are not sex specific. ... Both are present in varying amounts in normal men and women (Science News Letter). </DL> <A NAME="androgenic"> androgenic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an androgen. adv. androgenically. </DL> <A NAME="androgenicity"> androgenicity, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the capability of a hormone or other substance to strengthen masculine characteristics. </DL> <A NAME="androgyne"> androgyne, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Botany.) an androgynous plant. <DD> 2. =hermaphrodite. </DL> <A NAME="androgynous"> androgynous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Botany.) having flowers with stamens and flowers with pistils in the same cluster. <DD> 2. =hermaphroditic. <DD> 3. of or for both sexes. Ex. Dress will become more androgynous, with class symbols becoming more important than sexual ones (Time). </DL> <A NAME="androgyny"> androgyny, noun. =hermaphroditism.</DL> <A NAME="android"> android, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun an automation in the form of a human being. <DD>adj. of or having to do with a male. Ex. android glands. </DL> <A NAME="androides"> androides, noun. =android.</DL> <A NAME="andrology"> andrology, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of male fertility, especially of disorders of the male reproductive system. noun andrologist. </DL> <A NAME="andromache"> Andromache, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) the brave and loyal wife of Hector, prince of Troy. </DL> <A HREF="andromed.dic">NEXT</A>