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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.

Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.

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

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.

n 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.

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

An opposing law or rule of any kind. As it were by his own antinomy, or counterstatute. Milton.

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

A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc. ; an ancient institution.

Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Also written anourous.]

One who is destitute of feeling.

Destitute of skin. Brande & C.

Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.

Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.

A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.

A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.

who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.