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  • English Word Anaesthetic Definition That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc.
  • English Word Anaesthetization Definition The process of anaesthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anaesthetics.
  • English Word Anaesthetize Definition To render insensible by an anaesthetic.
  • English Word Anaglyph Definition Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.
  • English Word Anaglyphic Definition Alt. of Anaglyphical
  • English Word Anaglyphic Definition Work chased or embossed relief.
  • English Word Anaglyphical Definition Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; -- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work.
  • English Word Anaglyptic Definition Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief.
  • English Word Anaglyptics Definition The art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc.
  • English Word Anaglyptograph Definition An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed.
  • English Word Anaglyptographic Definition Of or pertaining to anaglyptography; as, anaglyptographic engraving.
  • English Word Anaglyptography Definition The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc.
  • English Word Anagnorisis Definition The unfolding or denouement.
  • English Word Anagoge Definition An elevation of mind to things celestial.
  • English Word Anagoge Definition The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.
  • English Word Anagogic Definition Alt. of Anagogical
  • English Word Anagogical Definition Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.
  • English Word Anagogics Definition Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures.
  • English Word Anagogy Definition Same as Anagoge.
  • English Word Anagram Definition Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
  • English Word Anagram Definition To anagrammatize.
  • English Word Anagrammatic Definition Alt. of Anagrammatical
  • English Word Anagrammatical Definition Pertaining to, containing, or making, an anagram.
  • English Word Anagrammatism Definition The act or practice of making anagrams.
  • English Word Anagrammatist Definition A maker anagrams.
  • English Word Anagrammatize Definition To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.
  • English Word Anagraph Definition An inventory; a record.
  • English Word Anakim Definition Alt. of Anaks
  • English Word Anaks Definition A race of giants living in Palestine.
  • English Word Anal Definition Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands.