(n)low shrubby plant having yellow flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; Bermuda and southeastern United States to West Indies and eastern Mexico, Syn.Hypericum hypericoides
(n)shrubby plant having yellow to apricot flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; southeastern United States: New York to Texas, Syn.Hypericum crux andrae
(n)English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917), Syn.Andrew Huxley, Andrew Fielding Huxley
(n)7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845), Syn.Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory
(n)17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875), Syn.President Andrew Johnson, President Johnson, Andrew Johnson
(n)plant with nearly leafless stalk topped by a cluster of red or reddish lavender flowers; California to Oregon, Syn.Andrew's clintonia, Clintonia andrewsiana
(n)United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918), Syn.Andrew Dickson White, Andrew D. White
n. 1.1 one of the twelve apostles of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland. Syn. -- Saint Andrew, St. Andrew, Saint Andrew the Apostle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious speeches to the multitude. [ 1913 Webster ]