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.

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 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.

Of or pertaining to anosmia.

An order of small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace, including the fairy shrimps and the brine shrimps.

One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

Of another kind.

Of another sort.

Of another sort.

See Annotto.

See Anura.

See Anurous.

A former term used to refer to an abnormal condition due to deficient oxygenation of the arterial blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness; now the term is replaced by the term hypoxemia.

A physiological state in which insufficient oxygen reaches the tissues of the body, especially when of sufficient severity to cause permanent damage; severe hypoxia.

Of, pertaining to, or suffering from, anoxia.

A name given to either of the projecting ends of Saturn's ring.

Having a handle.

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

A Linn/an order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.

a family name used in some classifications for the swans.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.

Resembling a goose; silly; simple.

A reply to a charge; a defense.

Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.

The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.

In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.

One who answers.

Having no answer, or impossible to be answered.

A hymenopterous insect of the Linn/an genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

See Ant bird, under Ant, n.

See Anti-, prefix.

An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete; plural of ant cow. See Aphips.

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is Myrmeleon formicarius.

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

A remedy for neutralizing acidity, especially of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent. Counteractive of acidity.

Corrective of acrimony of the humors.

Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.

Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent.

Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.

Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.

muscles having opposite effects; the contraction of one neutralizes the contraction of the other.

To act in opposition.

Contest; opposition; antagonism.

Alleviating pain. A medicine to alleviate pain; an analgesic.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system.

Away from the ambulacral region.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft. A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

The capital city of Madagascar. Population (2000) = 1,000,000.

Antaphrodisiac.

An antaphroditic medicine.

Alleviating apoplexy. A medicine used for alleviating apoplexy.