of or pertaining to Anguilla; as, Anguillan sea food specialties.
a natural family of eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn.
Eel-shaped.
an order of elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent.
Anguineous.
Snakelike.
To distress with extreme pain or grief.
suffering anguish; experiencing extreme pain, distress, or anxiety
A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners.
The quality of being angular.
To make angular.
Having angles or corners; angled; as, angulate leaves.
A making angular; angular formation.
Angularly toothed, as certain leaves.
An instrument for measuring external angles.
Angulous.
A state of being angulous or angular.
Angular; having corners; hooked.
To augur.
Narrow; strait.
Narrowed.
The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.
A narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank.
Having narrow leaves.
A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
To hang.
Not harmonic.
Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma.
To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for).
Anhelous; panting.
Short of breath; panting.
A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.
a family of aquatic birds of South America. They are called screamers due to their harsh trumpeting call.
An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.
Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.
Ahungered; longing.
An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.
A mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).
Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.
Not idiomatic.
To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate.
Nigh.
In the night time; at night.
A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
Old-womanish; imbecile.
Anility.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo.
One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.
Made from, or of the nature of, aniline.
A disease caused by chronic exposure to aniline; aniline toxicity.
The state of being an old woman; old-womanishness; dotage.
The faculty of perceiving; a percipient.
The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.
Having the power of perceiving; percipient.
To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.
One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser.
Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules.
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.
One versed in the knowledge of animalcules.
An animalcule.
an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities.
Like an animal.
The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities or objectives; preoccupation with sensual, physical, or carnal pleasures.
of or pertaining to animalism.
Animal existence or nature.
The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
Physically.
Animality.
Psychology.
Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
With animation.
One who animates.
Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing.
The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.
Having the power of giving life or spirit.
One who, or that which, animates; an animater.
A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymen/a courbaril), and much used by varnish makers.
The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
One who maintains the doctrine of animism.
Of or pertaining to animism.
Vehemence of temper.
Mere spiritedness or courage.
Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute.
Animating spirit; intention; temper.
An electro-negative atom or group of atoms, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.
a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not ionize in aqueous solutions.
An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.
The seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it.
a visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes.
of or pertaining to aniseikonia.
A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds.
Of or derived from anise; as, anisic acid; anisic alcohol.
Inequality of the pupils of the eyes.
Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.
A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc. A group of perching birds which are anisodactylous.
reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size).
Methyl phenyl ether, C6H5.O.CH3, got by distilling anisic acid or by the action of methide on potassium phenolate.
Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.
Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.
Not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts; -- said of crystals with three unequal axes.
Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.
Having unequal petals.
Having unequal leaves.
A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.
A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.
A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size; -- opposed to isospore.
Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.
Of unequal strength.
Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.
Anisotropic.
The univalent radical, CH3.O.C6H4-, of which anisol is the hydride. The univalent radical CH3.O.C6H4.CH2-; as, anisyl alcohol. The univalent radical CH3.O.C6H4.CO-, of anisic acid.
In Guam and the Philippines, an idol, fetich, or spirit.
The capital city of Turkey. Population (2000) = 2,890,025.
A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons.