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  • English Word Anemone Definition A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.
  • English Word Anemone Definition The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone.
  • English Word Anemonic Definition An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.
  • English Word Anemonin Definition An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.
  • English Word Anemony Definition See Anemone.
  • English Word Anemorphilous Definition Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.
  • English Word Anemoscope Definition An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.
  • English Word Anencephalic Definition Alt. of Anencephalous
  • English Word Anencephalous Definition Without a brain; brainless.
  • English Word Anenst Definition Alt. of Anent
  • English Word Anent Definition Over against; as, he lives anent the church.
  • English Word Anent Definition About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular.
  • English Word Anenterous Definition Destitute of a stomach or an intestine.
  • English Word Aneroid Definition Containing no liquid; -- said of a kind of barometer.
  • English Word Aneroid Definition An aneroid barometer.
  • English Word Anes Definition Once.
  • English Word Anesthesia Definition Alt. of Anesthetic
  • English Word Anesthetic Definition Same as Anaesthesia, Anaesthetic.
  • English Word Anet Definition The herb dill, or dillseed.
  • English Word Anethol Definition A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor.
  • English Word Anetic Definition Soothing.
  • English Word Aneurism Definition A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery.
  • English Word Aneurismal Definition Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis.
  • English Word Anew Definition Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew.
  • English Word Anfractuose Definition Anfractuous; as, anfractuose anthers.
  • English Word Anfractuosities Definition of Anfractuosity
  • English Word Anfractuosity Definition A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity.
  • English Word Anfractuosity Definition A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain.
  • English Word Anfractuous Definition Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.
  • English Word Anfracture Definition A mazy winding.