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Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.

answered the bell. This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you. Shak.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

Belonging to the antennæ. Owen.

The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.

Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower. Gray.

Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

A beetle which feeds on flowers.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

A description of flowers.

Resembling a flower; flowerlike.

The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.

A fossil plant, like a petrified flower.

A discourses on flowers. [R.]

A extravagant fondness for flowers. [R.]

Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects.

Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.

Flower bearing; supporting the flower.