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Spineless, as certain fishes.

A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate. Walker.

Without, or not developing, an allantois.

Without, or not developing, an amnion.

The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).

; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

ted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta. Anchor ice. See under Ice. -- Anchor ring. (Math.) Same as Annulus, 2 (b). -- Anchor stock (Naut.), the crossbar at the top of the shank at right angles to the arms. -- The an…

A variety of the lever escapement with a wide impulse pin.

he candied leaf stalks of angelica. Angelica tree, a thorny North American shrub (Aralia spinosa), called also Hercules' club.

hese there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

In Guam and the Philippines, an idol, fetich, or spirit.

th's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malari…

ace. The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin.

attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.

Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal. Anticlinal line, Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line from which strata dip in opposite directions, as from the ridge of a roof. -- Anticlinal vertebra (Anat.), one of the dorsal vertebræ, which in many animals has an upright spine toward which the spines of the n…