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Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.

Attachment to England or English institutions.

A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.

Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.] I never ate with angrier appetite. Tennyson.

monic. 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.

Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.

uished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity. Lamb.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar.

A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. -- n.

The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.

d to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

man race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations. P. Cyc.

Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.

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

-- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matters of commerce and imperia…

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.