A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.

Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.

Having power to amuse or entertain the mind; fitted to excite mirth.

An explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate, a derivative of nitrobenzene, chlorated napthalene, and wood meal.

A friend.

Characterized by lack of the spinal cord.

An almond.

Akin to, or derived from, the almond.

Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds.

An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds.

Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.

An organic acid (C6H5.CH(OH).COOH) extracted from bitter almonds; called also mandelic acid and /-Hydroxybenzeneacetic acid.

Almond-bearing.

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

Almond-shaped.

A univalent hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.

Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.

A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.

One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether.

A micro/rganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.

That part of the starch granule or granulose which is soluble in water.

The formation of starch.

Of or pertaining to amylogen.

A starchlike substance.

Resembling or containing starch; starchlike.

A disorder characterized by deposit of extracellular amyloid{2} in organs or tissues in an amount that interferes with normal function of the affected organ; it is often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma. Called also amyloid degeneration waxy degeneration and lardaceous degeneration.

The conversion of starch into soluble products, as dextrins and sugar, esp. by the action of enzymes.

Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment.

Instrument for determining the amount of starch in a substance.

Starch-forming; amylogenic.

The diastase of the pancreatic juice.

One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.

Characterized by lack of muscular tissue.

Wanting in muscle; without flesh.

Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

If; -- a word used by old English authors.

An it, that is, and it or if it. See An, conj.

Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa) two ounces, / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.

The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines.

The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists.

To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename.

A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called /The Anabasis./

Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever.

suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns.

of or pertaining to anabiosis.

Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature.

any of a variety of synthetic derivatives or analogs of testosterone, which promote the increase of muscle mass and strength. The anabolic steroids are sometimes used by athletes to increase muscular strength so as to enhance their performance in competition. They have serious side effects, and the use of such compounds has been banned by many athletic regulatory committees.

The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism.

A branch of a river that re/nters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil.

Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo).

By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically.

The science of reflected light, now called catoptrics.

Spineless, as certain fishes.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid.

A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.

An anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

See Anchoret, Anchoretic.

An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place.

Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.

To refer to, or put into, a wrong time.

Containing an anachronism; anachronistic.

Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.

That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics.

A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate.

an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another.

Lacking grammatical sequence.

A lack of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.

Pertaining to anachronism.

A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.

A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath.

A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, /He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent./

A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.

A morbid condition in which number of the red blood cells or concentration of hemoglobin decreases below that of normal.

Of or pertaining to anaemia.

Ana/robic bacteria. They are called facultative ana/robes when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate ana/robes, or obligatory ana/robes, when they thrive only in its absence.

Not requiring air or oxygen for life; -- applied especially to those microbes to which free oxygen is unnecessary; ana/robiotic; -- opposed to a/robic.

Micro/rganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it. See obligate anaerobes under anaerobes.

Related to, or of the nature of, ana/robies.

Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic.

See Anaesthesia.

Capable of causing anesthesia; as, an/sthetic agents. Characterized by, or connected with, anesthesia; as, an an/sthetic effect or operation.

A substance which produces anesthesia, as chloroform, ether, etc.

The process of an/sthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by an/sthetics.

To produce anesthesia by an an/sthetic.

rendered insensible by means of anesthesia.

a genus of chiefly Old World herbs.

a genus of moths whose larvae are flour moths.

Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.

Work chased or embossed relief.

Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; -- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work.

Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief.

The art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc.

An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed.

Of or pertaining to anaglyptography; as, anaglyptographic engraving.

The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc.

The unfolding or d/nouement.

An elevation of mind to things celestial.

Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.

Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures.

Same as Anagoge.

To anagrammatize.

Pertaining to, containing, or making, an anagram.

The act or practice of making anagrams.

A maker of anagrams.

To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.