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The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman.

Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks.

Styptic. [Obs.] Coxe.

d, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

Not astigmatic; --said esp. of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.

To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins. The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. I. Taylor.

The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

Of or pertaining to anastomosis.

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.

A disease due to the presence of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's…

A feldspar closely related to orthoclase, but triclinic. It is chiefly a silicate of sodium, potassium, and aluminium. Sp. gr., 2.57 -- 2.60.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. -- n.