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Spineless, as certain fishes.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid.

A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.

An anacatharic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.]

An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]

Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism. T. Warton.

To refer to, or put into, a wrong time. [R.] Lowell.

Containing an anachronism; anachronistic. -- An*ach"ro*nous*ly, adv.

Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.

That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics. Encyc. Brit.

A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate. Walker.

Lacking grammatical sequence. -- An`a*co*lu"thic*al*ly, adv.

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.