A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

Of or pertaining to anaphora; as, anaphoric reference.

Absence of sexual appetite.

Same as Antaphrodisiac.

Capable of blunting the sexual appetite. Anything that reduces the sexual appetite.

Produced without concourse of sexes.

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

Shock resulting from anaphylaxis{2}. It is a severe form of physiological shock, often having a fatal outcome, and is caused by an extreme immunological reaction to antigens. It is characterized by smooth muscle contraction and capillary dilation throughout the body, initiated by antibodies of the IgE class. It is usually seen when an antigen to which a person has become hypersensitized is injected intravenously or subcutaneously. It is also called generalyzed anaphylaxis or systemic anaphylaxis, and sometimes anaphylaxis.

Hypersensitivity (to a foreign antigen) resulting from prior contact with the same or a related substance.

loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor.

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

A filling up; restoring a defective part; especially, promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.

A substance which promotes anaplerosis.

A form of spirometer.

Relating to respiration.

Not apodeictic; undemonstrable.

An accessory process in many lumbar vertebr/.

Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.

One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.

Lawless; anarchical.

Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

The doctrine or practice of anarchists.

An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

To reduce to anarchy.

Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.

One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.

Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.

Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive.

A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

a genus comprising the squash bugs.

Severe generalized edema.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.

Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks.

Styptic.

One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate.

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

a genus of plants consisting of a single species, rose of Jericho (also called resurrection plant).

compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images.

Not astigmatic; free of astigmatism; -- pertaining to a lens or lens system, and used especially of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.

To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.

The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

Of or pertaining to anastomosis.

openbills.

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema.

Anathematization.

The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation.

To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed.

One who pronounces an anathema.

An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

Same as Anatifa.

Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatif/, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.

Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.

Compound interest.

Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations.

In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.

The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.

The act of anatomizing.

To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

A dissector.

The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.

Native carbonate of soda; natron.

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous.

Same as Annotto.

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

Ancestral.

With regard to ancestors.

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

A female ancestor.

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

An anchoret.

The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.

Fit for anchorage.

Abode of an anchoret.

Anchor-shaped.

Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

A female anchoret.

Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

Hermitlike.

The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.

Same as Anchoret.

One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse.

An anchoress.

Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

a woman television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute. Male correlate of anchorwoman.

an anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.

a woman television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute. Female correlate of anchorman.

A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.

A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one.

The process of formation of a stiff joint; also, the abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint which has become stiff.

Of or pertaining to anchylosis.

An ensign or flag.

In ancient times.

The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

Antiquity; what is ancient.

Age; antiquity.

The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.

A maidservant; a handmaid.

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

Hook-shaped.

See Ankle.

A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow.

The olecranon, or the elbow.

The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.

Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow.

A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

Elbowlike; anconal.

A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.

Doubt; uncertainty.

A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.

Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. A movement or piece in andante time.

Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.