ana

from The Century Dictionary.

• A general term for books recording miscellaneous sayings, anecdotes, and gossip about a particular person or subject; the sayings and anecdotes themselves. See -ana.
• noun See anna.
• 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.
• noun A prefix of Greek origin, meaning up, upon, along, throughout, back, again, etc., as in anabasis.
• noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
• adverb 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).
• adverb In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
• noun Internet, slang Anorexia (used especially by the pro-ana movement).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a collection of anecdotes about a person or place
• noun mother of the ancient Irish gods; sometimes identified with Danu