3. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

Prov. xxvii. 2.

While I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

John v. 7.

As a pronoun another may have a possessive another's, pl. others, poss. pl. other'. It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another another. It is also used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, "love one another," that is, let each love the other or others. "These two imparadised in one another's arms." Milton.

An*oth"er-gaines` (&?;), a. [Corrupted fr. another-gates.] Of another kind. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

An*oth"er-gates` (&?;), a. [Another + gate, or gait, way. Cf. Algates.] Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.

An*oth"er-guess (&?;), a. [Corrupted fr. another-gates.] Of another sort. [Archaic]

It used to go in another-guess manner.

Arbuthnot.

A*not"ta (&?;), n. See Annotto.

An*ou"ra (?; 277), n. See Anura.

An*ou"rous (&?;), a. See Anurous.

||An"sa (&?;), n.; pl. Ansæ (&?;). [L., a handle.] (Astron.) A name given to either of the projecting ends of Saturn's ring.

An"sa*ted (&?;), a. [L. ansatus, fr. ansa a handle.] Having a handle. Johnson.

An"ser*a`ted (&?;), a. (Her.) Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

||An"se*res (&?;), n. pl. [L., geese.] (Zoöl.) A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

||An`se*ri*for"mes (&?;), n. pl. (Zoöl.) A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.

An"ser*ine (&?;), a. [L. anserinus, fr. anser a goose.] 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.

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