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See Canker, n., 1.

Roving; nomadic.

See Nomad, n.

A nomad. [R.]

Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe. -- No*mad"ic*al*ly, adv.

The state of being a nomad.

To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage. The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the Rivers Irtish, Obi, Kama, and Volga. W. Tooke.

The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. -- Ad`e*nom"a*tous, a.

Anything anomalous. [R.]

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

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.