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The act or making narrow; a straitening or contacting. Wiseman.

A narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank.

Having narrow leaves. Wright.

See Angostura bark.

A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.

To hang. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not harmonic. The anharmonic function or ratio of four points abcd on a straight line is the quantity (ac/ad):(bc/bd), where the segments are to regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters.

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for). [Obs.] They anhele . . . for the fruit of our convocation. Latimer.

Anhelous; panting. [R.]

Short of breath; panting.

A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.

Ahungered; longing. [Archaic]

An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.

A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.

A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.

e of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.