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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.

A condition in the wood of some trees in which the rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

Without a brain; brainless. Todd & B.

Over against; as, he lives anent the church.

Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.

Lack of energy; inactivity. -- An*er"gic (#), a.

Containing no liquid; -- said of kind of barometer. Aneroid barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.

Once. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Same as Anæsthesia, Anæsthetic.

The herb dill, or dillseed.

A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor. Watts.

Soothing.

mor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. [Written also aneurysmal.]

Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew. Dryden.

Anfractuous; as, anfractuose anthers.

A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.

Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born. -- An*frac"tu*ous*ness, n.

A mazy winding.

Exaction of forced service; compulsion. [Obs.] Speed.