ana

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A collection of various materials that reflect the character of a person or place: definitive ana of the early American West.
2. n. An item in such a collection.
3. adv. Both in the same quantity; of each. Used to refer to ingredients in prescriptions.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. A general term for books recording miscellaneous sayings, anecdotes, and gossip about a particular person or subject; the sayings and anecdotes themselves. See -ana.
2. A word used in medical prescriptions in a distributive sense, as in Greek, to indicate an equal quantity of each: often written āā, earlier and more correctly āa, where the mark above the first a, according to general medieval practice, represented the omission of n. See tilde.
3. n. See anna.
4. n. A prefix of Greek origin, meaning up, upon, along, throughout, back, again, etc., as in anabasis.
5. n. A suffix of Latin origin, in modern use with a euphonic variant, -i-ana, to form collective plurals, as Scaligerana, Johnsoniana, etc., applied to a collection of sayings of Scaliger, of Johnson, etc., or of anecdotes or gossip concerning them; also sometimes appended to common nouns, as boxiana (annals of pugilism); more recently extended to all the literature of a subject, as Americana, Shaksperiana, etc. Hence sometimes used as an independent word, ana. See ana.

Wiktionary

1. n. A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
2. adv. in prescriptions Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or contracted to aa), / ij. (that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces).
3. n. Internet, slang Anorexia (used especially by the pro-ana movement).
4. adv. In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adv. (Med.) Of each; an equal quantity; , that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a collection of anecdotes about a person or place
2. n. mother of the ancient Irish gods; sometimes identified with Danu