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The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.

A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.

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.

The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families]. Thackeray.

A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.

The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

Doubt; uncertainty. [Obs.] Shelford.

Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy. [R.]

Unpublished narratives. Burke.

With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.

and bait, with or without a rod. Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there. Shak. A fisher next his trembling angle bears. Pope. Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90º. -- Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. -- Alternate angles. See Alternate. -- Angle b…

used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall.

ith the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

o England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.

The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.