Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Anear \A*near"\, prep. & adv. [Pref. a- + near.]
   Near. [R.] ``It did not come anear.'' --Coleridge.

         The measure of misery anear us.          --I. Taylor.

Anear \A*near"\, v. t. & i.
   To near; to approach. [Archaic]