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ringing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass. Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like…

Same as Anapest, Anapestic.

The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

le inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray.

One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta. Anchor ice. See under Ice. -- Anchor ring. (Math.) Same as Annulus, 2 (b). -- Anchor stock (Naut.), the crossbar at the top of the shank at right angles to the arms. -- The an…

Anchor-shaped.

Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

Hook-shaped.

A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

pends 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.

Snake-shaped.

Eel-shaped.

haracter; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn…

Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.

Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.

Shaped like antennæ.

Shaped like an anther; anther-shaped.

diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.