In Guam and the Philippines, an idol, fetich, or spirit.
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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.
A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron.
A tau cross with a loop at the top, used as an attribute or sacred emblem, symbolizing generation or enduring life. Called also crux ansata.
The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus.
Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled.
An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.
socks that reach just above the ankle.
An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook.
Same as Anchylose.
Same as Anchylosis.
A disease caused by the hookworm parasites of the genus Ancylostoma (especially Ancylostoma duodenale), and Necator americanus. Typically, infection in humans occurs in the small intestine. In the small intestine they suck the blood from the wall and, when present in large numbers, produce a severe anaemia. Called also miner's anaemia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anaemia, Egyptian chlorosis.
A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle.
An initial sound, as of a word or syllable.
An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents.
See Annals.
A writer of annals.
Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style.
To record in annals.
A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi: goddess of plenty.
A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.
The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.
To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
One who, or that which, anneals.
The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.
Connecting; annexing.
A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Ch/topoda, including the Oligoch/ta or earthworms and Polych/ta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Ch/topoda.
Of or pertaining to the Annelida. One of the Annelida.
Of the nature of an annelid.
See Annelida.
An animal resembling an annelid.
Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.
The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.
One who favors annexation.
One who annexes.
Annexation.
An annexationist.
The act of annexing, or the thing annexed; appendage.
A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation.
Capable of being annihilated.
Annihilated.
destroyed completely.
criticising vehemently and effectively; making light of; as, afire with annihilating invective.
The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.
One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.
Serving to annihilate; destructive.
One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.
Annihilative.
Annually.
The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Anniversary.
Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S.
To name.
Paronomasia; punning.
a family of chiefly tropical trees or shrubs.
To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon.
the act of adding notes.
A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.
An annotator.
Characterized by annotations; of the nature of annotation.
A writer of annotations; a commentator.
Pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations.
A bird one year old, or that has once molted.
A year old; in Yearly growths.
stated publicly; as, their announced intentions.
The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.
One who announces.
A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy.
The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.
aroused to impatience or anger; as, feeling annoyed by the constant teasing.
One who, or that which, annoys.
Annoying.
That annoys; molesting; vexatious.
Troublesome; annoying.
A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
One who writes for, or who edits, an annual.
Yearly; year by year.
Annual. A yearbook.
A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses.
Nodding; as, annuent muscles (used in nodding).
One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity.
A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.
To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula.
In an annular manner.
Having the form of a ring; annular.
A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.
One of the Annulata.
Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.
A circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt.
A little ring.
That may be Annulled.
One who annuls.
The act of annulling; abolition; invalidation.
Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.
A division of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms.
A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some Zoologists it is applied to the former only.
One of the Annulosa.
Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.
A ring; a ringlike part or space.
To add on; to count in.
Addition to a former number.
That may be announced or declared; declarable.
Foretold; preannounced.
The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.
Pertaining to annunciation; announcing.
One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known.
the other world; land of fairies.
the other world; land of fairies.
A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, having a compressed, bladelike bill and remarkable for communistic nesting.
A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns.
the family comprising the deathwatch beetles.
of or at or relating to an anode. Contrastive to cathodic.
The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.
to coat a metal with an oxide coat by electrolytic action at an anode; -- used especially to coat aluminum.
A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge.
a genus of thin-shelled freshwater mussels.
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