ancient.

ANCON. A corner or angle of a knee-timber.--_Ancon_ [Sp.] Harbour, bay,
or anchorage.

ANCOR-STRENG. A very old designation of a cable.

ANCYLE. A kind of dart thrown with a leathern thong.

ANDREA-FERRARA. _See_ FERRARA.

ANDREW, OR ANDREW MILLAR. A cant name for a man-of-war, and also for
government and government authorities.

ANDROMEDA. A hemispherical medusa found in the Indian and Red Seas. The
body is transparent and brownish, with a black cross in the middle, and
has foliaceous white arms on the under part.

ANDROMEDAE {a}. (Alpheratz.) A star of the first magnitude in the
constellation of Andromeda.

ANELACE. The early name for a dirk or dagger usually worn at the
girdle.

ANEMOMACHIA. A whirlwind or hurricane in old writers.

ANEMOMETER, OR WIND-GAUGE. An instrument wherewith to measure the
direction and velocity of wind under its varying forces--a desideratum
at sea.

ANEMONE. _See_ ANIMAL FLOWERS.

ANEMOSCOPE. A vane index with pointers to tell the changes of the wind
without referring to the weather-cock.

AN-END. The position of any spar when erected perpendicularly to the
deck. The top-masts are said to be _an-end_ when swayed up to their
usual stations and fidded. To strike a spar or plank _an-end_ is to
drive it in the direction of its length. (_See_ EVERY ROPE AN-END.)

ANENT, OR ANENST. Opposite to; over against.

ANEROID. A portable barometer or instrument for showing variations of
the weather by the pressure of the atmosphere upon a metallic box
hermetically sealed.

ANEROST. A coast-word of the western counties for _nigh_ or _almost_.

ANEW. Enough, as relating to number.

ANGEL-FISH. The _Squatina angelus_, of the shark family. It inhabits the
northern seas, is six or eight feet long, with a cinereous rough back
and white smooth belly; the mouth is beneath the anterior part of the
head, and the pectoral fins are very large. (Also, _Chaetodon_.)

ANGEL-HEAD. The hook or barb of an arrow; probably _angle-head_.

ANGEL-SHOT. A ball cut in two, and the halves joined by a chain.

ANGIL. An old term for a fishing-hook [from the Anglo-Saxon _ongul_, for
the same]. It means also a red worm used for a bait in angling or
fishing.

ANGLE. The space or aperture intersected by the natural inclination of
two lines or planes meeting each other, the place of intersection being
called the vertex or angular point, and the lines legs. Angles are
distinguished by the number of