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  • English Word Anode Definition 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.
  • English Word Anodon Definition A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge.
  • English Word Anodyne Definition Serving to assuage pain; soothing.
  • English Word Anodyne Definition Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.
  • English Word Anodynous Definition Anodyne.
  • English Word Anoil Definition To anoint with oil.
  • English Word Anoint Definition To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
  • English Word Anoint Definition To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.
  • English Word Anoint Definition Anointed.
  • English Word Anointed Definition of Anoint
  • English Word Anointer Definition One who anoints.
  • English Word Anointing Definition of Anoint
  • English Word Anointment Definition The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment.
  • English Word Anolis Definition A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanidae. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.
  • English Word Anomal Definition Anything anomalous.
  • English Word Anomalies Definition of Anomaly
  • English Word Anomaliped Definition Alt. of Anomalipede
  • English Word Anomaliped Definition One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.
  • English Word Anomalipede Definition Having anomalous feet.
  • English Word Anomalism Definition An anomaly; a deviation from rule.
  • English Word Anomalistic Definition Alt. of Anomalistical
  • English Word Anomalistical Definition Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
  • English Word Anomalistical Definition Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion.
  • English Word Anomalistically Definition With irregularity.
  • English Word Anomaloflorous Definition Having anomalous flowers.
  • English Word Anomalous Definition Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.
  • English Word Anomalously Definition In an anomalous manner.
  • English Word Anomalousness Definition Quality of being anomalous.
  • English Word Anomaly Definition Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.
  • English Word Anomaly Definition The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.