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 A N C A N C (3 11 ) a-fhore. 2. The two bowers, which are ufed for fempervirens, or ever-green alkanet, a native of Bri(hips to ride in a harbour.. 3. The dream anchor. tain and Spain. 4. The grapnel. See Stream-anchor, Grap- ANCHYLOBLEPHARON, among phyficians, denotes a cohefion of the eye-lids. nel. The (hank of an anchor is to be three times the ANCIENT. SccAntient, and Antiquity. length of one of its flukes; and a (hip of 500 tons ANCIENTLY, in fome old datutes, a term ufed to dehath her flieet-anchor of 2000 weight; and fo propor- note feniority. tionably for others, fmaller or greater. The anchor ANCLABRIS, in Roman antiquity, the table whereon is faid to*be a-peak, when the cable is perpendicular the prieds eat their portion of the facrifices. between the hawfe and the anchor. See Hawse. ANCLAM, a town of Pomerania in Germany, fituated0 An anchor is faid to come home, when it cannot on the river Pene, in E. long. 14°, and N. lat. 54, hold the fhip. An anchor is foul, when, by the turn- about 45 miles N. W. of Stetin. ing of the fhip, the cable is hitched about the fluke. ANCLE, in anatomy. See Talus. To Jhoe an anchor, is to fit boards upon the flukes, ANCOBER, or Rio-cobre, a river on the coad of that it may hold the better in foft ground. When the Guinea in Africa. anchor hangs right up and down by the fhip’s fide, it ANCILIA, in antiquity. See Ancyle. is faid to be a cock-bell, upon the fhip’s coming to an ANCON. See Olecranon. ANCONA, a fea-port town of Italy, fituated on the anchor. The inhabitants of Ceylon ufe large dones indead gulph of Venice,, in E. longi 15°, and N. lat. 43° 2o of anchors; and in foitie other places of the Indies, It is the capital of a marquifate of the fame name, the anchors are a kind of wooden machines, 'loaded fubjedt to the pope. ANCONfEUS, in anatomy, one of the mufdes of the withjlones. Anchor, in architefture, a fort of carving, fomething elbow. See Anatomy-, p. 197. refembling an anchor. It is commonly placed as part ANCONES, in architedture, the corners or coins of of the enrichments of the boultins of capitals of the walls, crofs-beams, or rafters-. Tufcan, Doric, and Ionic orders; and alfo of the ANCONY, in mineralogy, denotes a bloom of iron fathe boultins of bed-mouldings of the Doric, Ionic, fliioned into a flat bar about three feet long, with a and Corinthian cornices; anchors and eggs being car- fquare rough knot at each end. ANCRE, a town of Picardy in France, upon a river of ved alternately through the whole building. Anchor, in heraldry, are emblems of hope, and are the fame name, between Corbie and Bapaame. taken for fuch in a fpiritual,. as well as a temporal ANCRET, in heraldry, the fame with anchored. See Anchored. fenfe. ANCHORAGE, or Anchoring-ground, a place ANGUAH, a city of the province of Alovahat, in the where a fhip may cad anchor. northern parts of Egypt. The bed anchoring-ground is diff clay or hard ANGUBITUS, among ancient phyficians, a term to defand; and the bed place for riding at anchor is, where note that affedtion of the eyes in which they feemed to a fhip is land-locked, and out of the tide. contain fand. p Anchorage, in law, is a duty upon fhips for the ufe ANCUD, a province of Chili in S. America, having of the port or harbour where they cad anchor. on the wed the Archipelago of the fame name; the ANCHORALIS procejj'us. See Coracoides. Andes on the ead ; the country of Oforno on the ANCHORED, or Ankered, is faid of a crofs, the north ; and the country of Magellan on the louth. four extremities of which referable the flukes of an ANCYLE, in antiquity, a kind of fliield that fell, as anchor. was pretended, from heaven, in the reign of NumaPomThe crofs refembles very much the crofs-moline ; pilius; at which time, likewife, a voice was heard, the whole difference between them confiding only yi declaring that Rome fliouldbe midrefs of the world as this, that the anchored crofs is fomewhat fnarper at long as (he fliould preferve this holy buckler; It was the points than the moline. See Moline. kept with great care in the temple of Mars,, under the ANCHOVY, in ichthyology, the Englifh name of the diredlion of twelve prieds; and led any fliould attempt clupea encraficolus. See Clupea. to deal it, eleven others were made fo like, as not to ANCHUSA, or Alkanet, in botany, a genus of the be didinguiflied from the facred one. Thefe ancylia pentandria monogynia clafs. The corolla is fliaped were carried in proceflion every year round the city of like a tunnel. There are eight fpecies of the anchu- Rome. fa; viz. 1. The officinalis, a native of France and Ancyle, in furgery, a didortion of the joints. the warmer parts of Europe. The root of the officiamong phyficians, denotes a nalis is not now ufed in medicine ; its principal ufe is ANCYLOGLGSSUM, contradlion of the ligaments of the tongue, hindering, for colouring oils, unguents, pladers, <bc. 2. The fpeech, angudifolia, a native of Italy and Germany. 3. The. a furgeon’s crooked probe. See-. undulata, a native of Spain. 4. The orientalis, a ANCYLOMELE, Probe. native of the E. Indies; 5. The virginiana, a native ANCYLOSIS, in furgery. See Ancyle. of Virginia. 6. The lanata, a native of Algiers. ANCYROIDES, among anatomids. See Coracoides 7. The tindtoria, a native of Montpelier. 8. The ANCZAJC-