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An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.

Of or pertaining to anemometry.

An anemograph. Knight.

The act or process of ascertaining the force or velocity of the wind.

Same as Angiology, Angiotomy, etc.

A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

Producing one seed only in a seed pod.

With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.

Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. Dunglison.

The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.

A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.

One affected with Anglomania.

An instrument for measuring external angles.

Not idiomatic. [R.] Landor.

Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

Not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts; -- said of crystals with three unequal axes. Dana.

Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.

A disease due to the presence of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's…

In the year of the Christian era; as, a. d. 1887.