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Having anomalous feet.

An anomaly; a deviation from rule. Hooker.

Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion. Anomalistic month. See under Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic…

With irregularity.

Having anomalous flowers.

Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.

In an anomalous manner.

Quality of being anomalous.

Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.…

A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

Having leaves irregularly placed.

A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.

Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. [Written also anomoural, anomouran.]

One of the Anomura.

Disregard or violation of law. [R.] Glanvill.

nt of the human organism in relation to other organisms and to environment. -- An`thro*po*nom"ic*al (#), a.

Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.

The tenets or practice of Antinomians. South.

An Antinomian. [R.] Bp. Sanderson.

ors have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.