Webster's Dictionary 1828

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ANOINTER

ANOINT'ER, noun One who anoints.

2621

ANOINTING

ANOINT'ING, participle present tense Smearing with oil; pouring on oil, or other oleaginous substance; consecrating.ANOINT'ING, noun The act of smearing with oil; a consecrating.

2622

ANOINTMENT

ANOINT'MENT, noun The act of anointing, or state of being anointed.

2623

ANOLE

ANO'LE, noun A species of lizard in the W. Indies, of a yellowish color, having several blue and green stripes running down its back.

2624

ANOMALIPED

ANOM'ALIPED, adjective [Gr. inequality and Latin pes, foot.]An epithet given to fowls, whose middle toe is united to the exterior by three phalanges, and to the interior by one ...

2625

ANOMALISM

ANOM'ALISM, noun An anomaly; a deviation from rule.

2626

ANOMALISTIC

ANOMALIS'TIC,ANOMALIS'TICAL, adjective Irregular; departing from common or established rules.In astronomy, the anomalistic year is the time in which the earth passes through her...

2627

ANOMALISTICAL

ANOMALIS'TICAL, a. Irregular; departing from common or established rules.In astronomy, the anomalistic year is the time in which the earth passes through her orbit, which is lon...

2628

ANOMALOUS

ANOM'ALOUS, adjective Irregular; deviating from a general rule, method or analogy; applied, in grammar, to words which deviate from the common rules of inflection; and in astron...

2629

ANOMALOUSLY

ANOM'ALOUSLY, adverb Irregularly; in a manner different from common rule, method or analogy.

2630

ANOMALY

ANOM'ALY, noun [Gr. inequality, equal, similar.]1. Irregularity; deviation from the common rule; thus oxen, the plural of ox, is an anomaly in grammar, as the regular plural wou...

2631

ANOMEANS

ANO'MEANS, noun [Gr. dissimilar.]In church history, the pure Arians, as distinguished from the Semi-Arians.

2632

ANOMIA

ANO'MIA, noun [Gr. rule.]A genus of bivalve shells, so called from their unequal valves; the beaked cockle.

2633

ANOMITE

AN'OMITE, noun A fossil shell of the genus anomia.

2634

ANOMORHOMBOID

ANOMORHOM'BOID, noun [Gr irregular, and of a rhomboidal figure.]A genus os spars, pellucid, and crystaline, of no determinate form externally, but breaking into regular rhomboid...

2635

ANOMY

AN'OMY, noun [Gr.] A violation of law. [Rarely used.]

2636

ANON

ANON', adverb1. Quickly; without intermission:soon; immediately.The same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. Matthew 13:20.2. Sometimes; now and then; a...

2637

ANONYMOUS

ANON'YMOUS, a [Latin anonymus; Gr. name. See Name.]Nameless; wanting a name; without the real name of the author; as, an anonymous pamphlet.

2638

ANONYMOUSLY

ANON'YMOUSLY, adverb Without a name.

2639

ANOPLOTHER

AN'OPLOTHER,ANOPLOTHE'RIUM, noun [Gr. a beast.]This is the name which Cuvier has given to a genus of animals, whose bones are found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; a genus no...

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ANOPLOTHERIUM

ANOPLOTHE'RIUM, n. [Gr. a beast.]This is the name which Cuvier has given to a genus of animals, whose bones are found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; a genus now extinct.

2641

ANOPSY

ANOP'SY, noun [Gr. sight.] Want of sight; invision. [Little used.]

2642

ANOREXY

AN'OREXY, noun [Gr. appetite.Want of appetite, without a lothing of food.

2643

ANOTHER

ANOTH'ER, adjective [an, or one and other.]1. Not the same; different; as, we have one form of government; France, another2. One more, in addition to a former number, indefinite...

2644

ANOTHER-GAINES

ANOTH'ER-GAINES, adverb Of another kind. obsolete

2645

ANOTHER-GATES

ANOTH'ER-GATES, adverb Of another sort. obsolete

2646

ANOTHER-GUISE

ANOTH'ER-GUISE, adjective Of a different kind; different. This is a vulgar word, and usually contracted into other guess.