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To name. [R.]

Paronomasia; punning.

Anything anomalous. [R.]

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

Having anomalous feet.

An anomaly; a deviation from rule. Hooker.

Irregular; departing from common or established rules.

With irregularity.

Having anomalous flowers.

Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.

In an anomalous manner.

Quality of being anomalous.

Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.…

A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

Having leaves irregularly placed.

A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.

Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. [Written also anomoural, anomouran.]

One of the Anomura.

Disregard or violation of law. [R.] Glanvill.

A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.