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Not transmitting heat; -- opposed to diathermanous.

Athermanous.

Shaped like an ear of grain.

An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.

Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of, atheroma. Wiseman.

To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an obelus.

A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.

To repent; to displease; to disgust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing. "Athirst for battle." Cowper.

Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.

The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.

The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.

Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. --A*threp"tic (#), a.

Across; from side to side of. Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras.

equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in th…

A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

Relating to the atlas.