||An*ci"le (&?;), n. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.
An"cil*la*ry (&?;), a. [L. ancillaris, fr. ancilla a female servant.] Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.
The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province.
Hallam.
An*cille" (&?;), n. [OF. ancelle, L. ancilla.] A maidservant; a handmaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.
{ An*cip"i*tal (&?;), An*cip"i*tous (&?;), } a. [L. anceps, ancipitis, two-headed, double; an- for amb- on both sides + caput head.] (Bot.) Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.
An*cis"troid (&?;), a. [Gr. &?;; &?; a hook + &?; shape.] Hook-shaped.
An"cle (&?;), n. See Ankle.
An"come ("km), n. [AS. ancuman, oncuman, to come.] A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow. [Obs.] Boucher.
||An"con ("km), n.; L. pl. Ancones (&?;). [L., fr. Gr. 'agkw`n the bent arm, elbow; any hook or bend.] (Anat.) The olecranon, or the elbow.
Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.
{ An"con (&?;), An"cone (&?;), } n. [See Ancon, above.] (Arch.) (a) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. [Obs.] Gwilt. (b) A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.
{ An"co*nal (&?;), An*co"ne*al (&?;), } a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.
||An*co"ne*us (&?;), n. [NL., fr. L. ancon elbow.] (Anat.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
An"co*noid (&?;), a. Elbowlike; anconal.
An"co*ny (&?;), n. [Origin unknown.] (Iron Work) A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.
-an*cy. [L. -antia.] A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.
And (&?;), conj. [AS. and; akin to OS. endi, Icel. enda, OHG. anti, enti, inti, unti, G. und, D. en, OD. ende. Cf, An if, Ante-.] 1. A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
(a) It is sometimes used emphatically; as, "there are women and women," that is, two very different sorts of women.
(b) By a rhetorical figure, notions, one of which is modificatory of the other, are connected by and; as, "the tediousness and process of my travel," that is, the tedious process, etc.; "thy fair and outward character," that is, thy outwardly fair character, Schmidt's Shak. Lex.
2. In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.
At least to try and teach the erring soul.
Milton.