Emily Dickinson Lexicon

A-NAPH'O-RA, n. [Gr. from αναφερω.]

1. A figure in rhetoric, when the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more succeeding verses or clauses of a sentence; as, “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world?” – Johnson.
2. Among physicians, the discharge of blood or purulent matter by the mouth. – Encyc. Coxe.