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||An`gwan*ti"bo (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.

An*hang" (&?;), v. t. [AS. onhangian.] To hang. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An`har*mon"ic (&?;), a. [F. anharmonique, fr. Gr. 'an priv. + &?; harmonic.] (Math.) Not harmonic.

The anharmonic function or ratio of four points abcd on a straight line is the quantity (ac/ad):(bc/bd), where the segments are to be regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters.

An`he*la"tion (&?;), n. [L. anhelatio, fr. anhelare to pant; an (perh. akin to E. on) + halare to breathe: cf. F. anhélation.] Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

An*hele" (&?;), v. i. [Cf. OF. aneler, anheler. See Anhelation.] To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for). [Obs.]

They anhele . . . for the fruit of our convocation. Latimer.

An"he*lose (&?;), a. Anhelous; panting. [R.]

An*he"lous (&?;), a. [L. anhelus.] Short of breath; panting.

||An"hi*ma (&?;), n. [Brazilian name.] A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

||An*hin"ga (&?;), n. [Pg.] (Zoöl.) An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

An*his"tous (&?;), a. [Gr. 'an priv. + "isto`s web, tissue: cf. F. anhiste.] (Biol.) Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.

An*hun"gered (&?;), a. Ahungered; longing. [Archaic]

An*hy"dride (&?;), n. [See Anhydrous.] (Chem.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.

An*hy"drite (&?;), n. [See Anhydrous.] (Min.) A mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

An*hy"drous (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; wanting water; 'an priv. + "y`dwr water.] Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.

||A"ni (&?;) or ||A"no (&?;), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.

||An"i*cut, ||An"ni*cut (&?;), n. [Tamil anai kattu dam building.] A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

An*id`i*o*mat"ic*al (&?;), a. [Gr. 'an priv. + E. idiomatical.] Not idiomatic. [R.] Landor.

{ An"i*ent, An`i*en"tise (&?;), } v. t. [OF. anientir, F. anéantir.] To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A*nigh" (&?;), prep. & adv. [Pref. a- + nigh.] Nigh. [Archaic]

{ A*night" (&?;), A*nights" (&?;), } adv. [OE. on niht.] In the night time; at night. [Archaic]

Does he hawk anights still? Marston.

An"il (&?;), n. [F. anil, Sp. anl, or Pg. anil; all fr. Ar. an-nl, for al-nl the indigo plant, fr. Skr. nla dark blue, nl indigo, indigo plant. Cf. Lilac.] (Bot.) A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.

An"ile (&?;), a. [L. anilis, fr. anus an old woman.] Old-womanish; imbecile. "Anile ideas." Walpole.

An"ile*ness (&?;), n. Anility. [R.]

An*il"ic (&?;), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo. [R.]

An"i*lide (&?;), n. (Chem.) One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.