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.

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.

Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.

Anodyne.

Unthinkable.

To anoint with oil.

Anointed.

One who anoints.

The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment.

A small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizard (Anolis carolinensis) with the ability to change skin color.

A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanid/. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.

Anything anomalous.

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

Having anomalous feet.

An anomaly; a deviation from rule.

Irregular; departing from common or established rules.

With irregularity.

Having anomalous flowers.

a natural family comprising the flashlightfishes.

a fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; it inhabits warm waters of the West Pacific and Puerto Rico. It is called also flashlight fish.

the smallest moa (Anomalopteryx oweni); it is a slender moa about the size of a large turkey.

Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.

In an anomalous manner.

Quality of being anomalous.

Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.

A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

Having leaves irregularly placed.

A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.

One of the Anomura.

Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans.

Disregard or violation of law.

Straightway; at once.

A genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order Anonace/, including the soursop.

Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc.

One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for /pseudonym./

The quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness; also, that which anonymous.

Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

In an anonymous manner; without a name.

The state or quality of being anonymous.

A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.

A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

One of the two orders of Nemerteans. See Nemertina.

A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

A group of insects which includes the lice.

Defect or absence of sight; blindness.

Loss of appetite for food.

causing loss of appetite; as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.

Not according to rule; abnormal.

To adorn.

Having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals.

A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar.

A feldspar closely related to orthoclase, but triclinic. It is chiefly a silicate of sodium, potassium, and aluminium. Sp. gr., 2.57 -- 2.60.

Distorted vision, in which straight lines appear bent.

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.

A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite.

Loss of the sense of smell.