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||An*ach"a*ris (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; up + &?; grace.] (Bot.) A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

An*ach"o*ret (&?;), n. An*ach`o*ret"ic*al (&?;), a. See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.]

An*ach"o*rism (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; + &?; place.] An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]

An`a*chron"ic (&?;), An`a*chron"ic*al (&?;), a. Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.

An*ach"ro*nism (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to refer to a wrong time, to confound times; &?; + &?; time: cf. F. anachronisme.] A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

An*ach`ro*nis"tic (&?;), a. Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism. T. Warton.

An*ach"ro*nize (&?;), v. t. [Gr. &?;.] To refer to, or put into, a wrong time. [R.] Lowell.

An*ach"ro*nous (&?;), a. Containing an anachronism; anachronistic. -- An*ach"ro*nous*ly, adv.

An`a*clas"tic (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; to bend back and break; to reflect (light); &?; + &?; to break.] 1. (Opt.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.

2. Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass.

Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.

An`a*clas"tics (&?;), n. (Opt.) That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics. Encyc. Brit.

||An`a*cœ*no"sis (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?;, to communicate; &?; up + &?; to make common, &?; common.] (Rhet.) A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate. Walker.

An`a*co*lu"thic (&?;), a. Lacking grammatical sequence. -- An`a*co*lu"thic*al*ly (&?;), adv.

||An`a*co*lu"thon (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, not following, wanting sequence; 'an priv. + &?; following.] (Gram.) A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

An`a*con"da (&?;), n. [Of Ceylonese origin?] (Zoöl.) A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

A*nac`re*on"tic (&?;), a. [L. Anacreonticus.] Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

A*nac`re*on"tic, n. A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.

An`a*crot"ic (&?;), a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to anachronism.

A*nac"ro*tism (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;, up, again + &?; a stroke.] (Physiol.) A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.

||An`a*cru"sis (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to push up or back; &?; + &?; to strike.] (Pros.) A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

An"a*dem (&?;), n. [L. anadema, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to wreathe; &?; up + &?; to bind.] A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson.

||An`a*di*plo"sis (&?;), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; + &?; to double, &?;, &?;, twofold, double.] (Rhet.) A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

An"a*drom (&?;), n. [Cf. F. anadrome.] (Zoöl.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

A*nad"ro*mous (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; running upward; &?; + &?; a running, &?; to run.] 1. (Zoöl.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.

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.

||A*næ"mi*a (*n"m*), a. [NL., fr. Gr. 'anaimi`a; 'an priv. + a'i^ma blood.] (Med.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

A*næm"ic (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to anæmia.