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a. [ Gr. &unr_; without juice. ] (Physiol.) Without chyme. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'akro`tomos cut off sharp; 'a`kros extreme + te`mnein to cut. ] (Min.) Having a cleavage parallel with the base. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; unusual ('a priv. + &unr_; custom) + &unr_; marriage. ] (Bot.) Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a`gamos unmarried; 'a priv. + ga`mos marriage. ] (Biol.) Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In (Bot.), cryptogamous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Characterized by allogamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Published under the name of some one other than the author. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_; marriage. ] (Bot.) Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; running upward; &unr_; + &unr_; a running, &unr_; to run. ] 1. (Zool.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. D. C. Eaton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Angio- + monospermous. ] (Bot.) Producing one seed only in a seed pod. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Angio- + Gr. &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. animosus, fr. animus soul, spirit, courage. ] Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute. [ Obs. ] Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; without name; 'an priv. + &unr_;, Eol. for &unr_; name. See Name. ] Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an anonymous manner; without a name. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being anonymous. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. dro`mos a running. ] (Bot.) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Good against scrofulous disorders. Johnson. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to apogamy.
Syn. -- apogamic, apogametic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

/mhw>, a. See Arrhizal, Arrhizous, Arrhythmic, Arrhythmous. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; rhythm. ] (Med.) Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; seed. ] (Bot.) Destitute of seeds; aspermatous. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth. ] Not possessing a mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; nuptial bed. ] (Bot.) Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Athermanous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; self + &unr_; to assign, hold, sway. ] 1. Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Having independent existence or laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Azym. ] Unleavened; unfermented. “Azymous bread.” Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam. “A balsamous substance.” Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + ramous. ] (Biol.) Having, or consisting of, two branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. blasphemus, Gr. &unr_;. ] Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. “Blasphemous publications.” Porteus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor from the Holy One of Heaven
Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable, as in the above example. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blasphemous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Foggy; misty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Camouse ] Depressed; flattened. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Though my nose be cammoused. B. Jonson [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Awry. [ Obs. ] Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ F. camus (equiv. to camard) flat-nosed, fr. Celtic Cam croked + suff. -us; akin to L. camur, camurus, croked. ] Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; curved + &unr_; seed. ] (Bot.) Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. kata` down + dro`mos a running. ] 1. (Bot.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. kata` down + 'ana` up + dro`mos running, course. ] (Zool.) Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chromous acid, a bluish gray powder, CrO.OH, of weak acid properties and regard as an acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to chyme. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. [ Gr. &unr_; closed (fr. &unr_; to shut) + ga`mos marriage. ] (Bot.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. koi^los hollow + &unr_; seed. ] (Bot.) Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Coletit. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series. [ 1913 Webster ]