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A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman.

Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks.

Styptic. [Obs.] Coxe.

One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

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

Not astigmatic; --said esp. of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.

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.

The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

Of or pertaining to anastomosis.

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).

The quality of being deathless; immortality.

Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century. Athanasian creed, a formulary, confession, or exposition of faith, formerly supposed to have been drawn up by Athanasius; but this opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles (5th century). It is a s…

A division of the Bantus, dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

Same as Anadiplosis. Gibbs.

An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired. "An euthanasia of all thought." Hazlitt. The kindest wish of my friends is euthanasia. Arbuthnot.

Same as Euthanasia.