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One who writes for, or who edits, an annual. [R.]

Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion. Anomalistic month. See under Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic…

With irregularity.

One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States. Pickering.

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha. [R.]

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

A crossbow. Fosbroke.

A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. Camden.

A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

A crossbow. [Obs.] Blount.

Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidæ. See Filefish.

A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.

An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

A crossbow. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell.

A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.