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Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. Ampullaceous sac (Zoöl.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells.

Flask-shaped; dilated.

One of the rounded prominences of the lower surface of the lateral hemispheres of the cerebellum, each side of the vallecula.

Related to, or of the nature of, anaërobies.

A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera. Dana.

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

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

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.

One who relates or collects anecdotes.

A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

d securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. -- Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventi…

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

To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice. Knolles.

er, C6H5OCH3, got by distilling anisic acid or by the action of methide on potassium phenolate.

A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron.

Capable of being annihilated.

The state of being annihilated. Hooker.

Serving to annihilate; destructive.