Noah Webster
Anthology
ANTHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a flower, and a discourse, a collection.]
1. A discourse on flowers.
2. A collection of beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams. In the Greek church, a collection of devotional pieces.
AN'THONY'S FIRE, A popular name of the crysipelas, supposed to have been so named from the saint in Italy, to whom those, who were affected, applied for a cure.