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.
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.
Opposition to government in general.
One who opposes all government.
Opposed to all human government.
Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23/ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.
Alleviating arthritis. A remedy for alleviating arthritis.
Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. A remedy for asthma.
Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. A remedy for asthma.
To put up (an ante).
A preceding act.
Being before, or in front.
belonging to a period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
Antecedent; preceding in time.
To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.
The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.
That which goes before in time; that which precedes.
Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion.
One who goes before; a predecessor.
A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.
The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel.
A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers. Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.
See Ant/cians.
A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.
A forerunner; a precursor.
To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; ; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.
Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.
Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. One who lived before the Deluge.
A genus formerly called genus Comatula.
A natural family of feather stars; formerly called family Comatulidae.
Something done before another act.
An ornament fixed upon a frieze. An ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof. An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.
A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself.
One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.
Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.
Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)
Tending to check vomiting. A remedy to check or allay vomiting.
Being before the time of Moses.
Being or occurring before the creation of the world.
An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.
Before birth.
Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.
A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.
Belonging to the antenn/.
Bearing or having antenn/.
Shaped like antenn/.
A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antenn/ or feelers of Crustacea.
A number that precedes another.
Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement.