Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-NAS'TO-MOSE
AN-AS-TO-MAT'ICA-NAS-TOM'O-SY, or A-NAS-TO-MO'SIS
A-NAS'TO-MOSE, v.i. [s as z. Gr. ανα, and στομα, mouth.]
To inosculate; to unite the mouth of one vessel with another, as the arteries with the veins. – Darwin. Encyc.
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