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Anomal
(gcide) | Anomal \A*nom"al\, n.
Anything anomalous. [R.]
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anomalous
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anomalies
(encz) | anomalies,anomálie n: Zdeněk Brožanomalies,odchylky n: pl. Zdeněk Brožanomalies,odlišnosti n: Zdeněk Brož |
anomalous
(encz) | anomalous,anomální adj: Zdeněk Brožanomalous,nenormální adj: Zdeněk Brožanomalous,neobvyklý adj: Zdeněk Brožanomalous,nezvykle Zdeněk Brožanomalous,odlišný adj: Zdeněk Brožanomalous,podivný adj: Zdeněk Brožanomalous,zvláštní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
anomalously
(encz) | anomalously,anomálně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
anomaly
(encz) | anomaly,anomálie anomaly,nepravidelnost n: Zdeněk Brožanomaly,odchýlení n: Zdeněk Brožanomaly,odchylka n: Zdeněk Brož |
chromosomal anomaly
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congenital anomaly
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true anomaly
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Anomalies
(gcide) | Anomaly \A*nom"a*ly\, n.; pl. Anomalies. [L. anomalia, Gr. ?.
See Anomalous.]
1. Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything
anomalous.
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We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the
various anomalies and contending principles that are
found in the minds and affairs of men. --Burke.
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As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater
anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.
--Darwin.
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2. (Astron.)
(a) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion,
as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The
eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the
center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean
anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's
angular motion were uniform.
(b) The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the
motion of a planet.
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3. (Nat. Hist.) Any deviation from the essential
characteristics of a specific type.
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Anomaliped
(gcide) | Anomaliped \A*nom"a*li*ped\(#), Anomalipede \A*nom"a*li*pede\,
a. [L. anomalus irregular + pes, pedis, foot.]
Having anomalous feet.
[1913 Webster]Anomaliped \A*nom"a*li*ped\, n. (Zool.)
One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more
or less united to the outer and inner ones.
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Anomalipede
(gcide) | Anomaliped \A*nom"a*li*ped\(#), Anomalipede \A*nom"a*li*pede\,
a. [L. anomalus irregular + pes, pedis, foot.]
Having anomalous feet.
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Anomalism
(gcide) | Anomalism \A*nom"a*lism\, n.
An anomaly; a deviation from rule. --Hooker.
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anomalistic
(gcide) | Month \Month\ (m[u^]nth), n. [OE. month, moneth, AS.
m[=o]n[eth], m[=o]na[eth]; akin to m[=o]na moon, and to D.
maand month, G. monat, OHG. m[=a]n[=o]d, Icel. m[=a]nu[eth]r,
m[=a]na[eth]r, Goth. m[=e]n[=o][thorn]s. [root]272. See
Moon.]
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;
the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the
length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the
name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called
a month.
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Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or
twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed.
--Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the
common law is generally changed, and a month is
declared to mean a calendar month. --Cooley's
Blackstone.
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A month mind.
(a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] --Shak.
(b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a
month after death. --Strype.
Calendar months, the months as adjusted in the common or
Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November,
containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February,
which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29.
Lunar month, the period of one revolution of the moon,
particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are
distinguished, as the synodical month, or period from
one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m.
2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from
one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36
s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to
the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the
anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to
perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and
the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the
ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7
s.
Solar month, the time in which the sun passes through one
sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1
s.
[1913 Webster]Anomalistic \A*nom`a*lis"tic\, Anomalistical
\A*nom`a*lis"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. anomalistique.]
1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
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2. (Astron.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance
of a planet from its perihelion.
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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, or Periodical year. See under Year.
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Anomalistic
(gcide) | Month \Month\ (m[u^]nth), n. [OE. month, moneth, AS.
m[=o]n[eth], m[=o]na[eth]; akin to m[=o]na moon, and to D.
maand month, G. monat, OHG. m[=a]n[=o]d, Icel. m[=a]nu[eth]r,
m[=a]na[eth]r, Goth. m[=e]n[=o][thorn]s. [root]272. See
Moon.]
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;
the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the
length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the
name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called
a month.
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Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or
twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed.
--Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the
common law is generally changed, and a month is
declared to mean a calendar month. --Cooley's
Blackstone.
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A month mind.
(a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] --Shak.
(b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a
month after death. --Strype.
Calendar months, the months as adjusted in the common or
Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November,
containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February,
which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29.
Lunar month, the period of one revolution of the moon,
particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are
distinguished, as the synodical month, or period from
one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m.
2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from
one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36
s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to
the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the
anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to
perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and
the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the
ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7
s.
Solar month, the time in which the sun passes through one
sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1
s.
[1913 Webster]Anomalistic \A*nom`a*lis"tic\, Anomalistical
\A*nom`a*lis"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. anomalistique.]
1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
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2. (Astron.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance
of a planet from its perihelion.
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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, or Periodical year. See under Year.
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Anomalistic month
(gcide) | Anomalistic \A*nom`a*lis"tic\, Anomalistical
\A*nom`a*lis"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. anomalistique.]
1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
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2. (Astron.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance
of a planet from its perihelion.
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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, or Periodical year. See under Year.
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Anomalistic revolution
(gcide) | Anomalistic \A*nom`a*lis"tic\, Anomalistical
\A*nom`a*lis"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. anomalistique.]
1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
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2. (Astron.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance
of a planet from its perihelion.
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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, or Periodical year. See under Year.
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Anomalistic year
(gcide) | Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS. ge['a]r; akin to
OFries. i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r,
Dan. aar, Sw. [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr. ? a season of the year,
springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, Zend
y[=a]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore.]
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1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the
ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its
revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year;
also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this,
adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and
called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354
days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360
days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days,
and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of
366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on
account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
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Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer.
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Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly
commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued
throughout the British dominions till the year 1752.
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2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about
the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
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3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak.
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Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from
perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6
hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds.
A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased
person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. {A
month's mind}, under Month.
Bissextile year. See Bissextile.
Canicular year. See under Canicular.
Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the
computation of time.
Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354
days.
Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from
leap year.
Embolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, the period of
13 lunar months, or 384 days.
Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are
reckoned, or the year between one annual time of
settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another.
Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic.
Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and
Julian.
Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary.
Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical
months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.
Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar.
Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above.
Platonic year, Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and
Sabbatical.
Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from
any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6
hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds.
Tropical year. See under Tropical.
Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an
act or an event, in order that an entire year might be
secured beyond all question. --Abbott.
Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini;
A. D. or a. d.
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Anomalistical
(gcide) | Anomalistic \A*nom`a*lis"tic\, Anomalistical
\A*nom`a*lis"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. anomalistique.]
1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
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2. (Astron.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance
of a planet from its perihelion.
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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, or Periodical year. See under Year.
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Anomalistically
(gcide) | Anomalistically \A*nom`a*lis"tic*al*ly\, adv.
With irregularity.
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Anomaloflorous
(gcide) | Anomaloflorous \A*nom`a*lo*flo"rous\, a. [L. anomalus irregular
+ flos, floris, flower.] (Bot.)
Having anomalous flowers.
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Anomalopidae
(gcide) | Anomalopidae \Anomalopidae\ n.
1. 1 a natural family comprising the flashlightfishes.
Syn: family Anomalopidae.
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anomalops
(gcide) | anomalops \anomalops\ n. 1
a fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; it inhabits warm
waters of the West Pacific and Puerto Rico. It is called also
flashlight fish.
Syn: flashlight fish
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anomalopteryx
(gcide) | anomalopteryx \anomalopteryx\ n.
1. 1 the smallest moa (Anomalopteryx oweni); it is a
slender moa about the size of a large turkey.
Syn: Anomalopteryx oweni.
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Anomalopteryx oweni
(gcide) | anomalopteryx \anomalopteryx\ n.
1. 1 the smallest moa (Anomalopteryx oweni); it is a
slender moa about the size of a large turkey.
Syn: Anomalopteryx oweni.
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Anomalous
(gcide) | Anomalous \A*nom"a*lous\, a. [L. anomalus, Gr. ? uneven,
irregular; 'an priv. + ? even, ? same. See Same, and cf.
Abnormal.]
Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal;
irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.
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Anomalously
(gcide) | Anomalously \A*nom"a*lous*ly\, adv.
In an anomalous manner.
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Anomalousness
(gcide) | Anomalousness \A*nom"a*lous*ness\, n.
Quality of being anomalous.
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Anomaly
(gcide) | Anomaly \A*nom"a*ly\, n.; pl. Anomalies. [L. anomalia, Gr. ?.
See Anomalous.]
1. Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything
anomalous.
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We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the
various anomalies and contending principles that are
found in the minds and affairs of men. --Burke.
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As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater
anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.
--Darwin.
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2. (Astron.)
(a) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion,
as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The
eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the
center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean
anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's
angular motion were uniform.
(b) The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the
motion of a planet.
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3. (Nat. Hist.) Any deviation from the essential
characteristics of a specific type.
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Campostoma anomalum
(gcide) | Stone \Stone\, n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. st[=a]n; akin to OS. &
OFries. st[=e]n, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten,
Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. ?, ?, a
pebble. [root]167. Cf. Steen.]
1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular
mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy
threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a
stone." --Chaucer.
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They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for
mortar. --Gen. xi. 3.
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Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are
called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the
finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone
is much and widely used in the construction of
buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers,
abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.
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2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." --Chaucer.
"Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." --Shak.
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3. Something made of stone. Specifically:
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(a) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.]
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Lend me a looking-glass;
If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
Why, then she lives. --Shak.
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(b) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. --Gray.
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Should some relenting eye
Glance on the where our cold relics lie. --Pope.
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4. (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the
kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
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5. One of the testes; a testicle. --Shak.
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6. (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a
cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
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7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice
varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]
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Note: The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8
lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5
lbs.
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8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness;
insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
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I have not yet forgot myself to stone. --Pope.
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9. (Print.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of
stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a
book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also
imposing stone.
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Note: Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other
words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or
stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or
pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or
stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone
falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some
adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed
by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone;
as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still,
etc.
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Atlantic stone, ivory. [Obs.] "Citron tables, or Atlantic
stone." --Milton.
Bowing stone. Same as Cromlech. --Encyc. Brit.
Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as
after the explosion of a meteor.
Philosopher's stone. See under Philosopher.
Rocking stone. See Rocking-stone.
Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when
stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for
weapons and tools; -- called also flint age. The {bronze
age} succeeded to this.
Stone bass (Zool.), any one of several species of marine
food fishes of the genus Serranus and allied genera, as
Serranus Couchii, and Polyprion cernium of Europe; --
called also sea perch.
Stone biter (Zool.), the wolf fish.
Stone boiling, a method of boiling water or milk by
dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages.
--Tylor.
Stone borer (Zool.), any animal that bores stones;
especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow
in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava.
Stone bramble (Bot.), a European trailing species of
bramble (Rubus saxatilis).
Stone-break. [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the
genus Saxifraga; saxifrage.
Stone bruise, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a
bruise by a stone.
Stone canal. (Zool.) Same as Sand canal, under Sand.
Stone cat (Zool.), any one of several species of small
fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus
Noturus. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they
inflict painful wounds.
Stone coal, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal.
Stone coral (Zool.), any hard calcareous coral.
Stone crab. (Zool.)
(a) A large crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the
southern coast of the United States and much used as
food.
(b) A European spider crab (Lithodes maia).
Stone crawfish (Zool.), a European crawfish ({Astacus
torrentium}), by many writers considered only a variety of
the common species (Astacus fluviatilis).
Stone curlew. (Zool.)
(a) A large plover found in Europe ({Edicnemus
crepitans}). It frequents stony places. Called also
thick-kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee.
(b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]
(c) The willet. [Local, U.S.]
Stone crush. Same as Stone bruise, above.
Stone eater. (Zool.) Same as Stone borer, above.
Stone falcon (Zool.), the merlin.
Stone fern (Bot.), a European fern (Asplenium Ceterach)
which grows on rocks and walls.
Stone fly (Zool.), any one of many species of
pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Perla and allied
genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait.
The larvae are aquatic.
Stone fruit (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a
drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry.
Stone grig (Zool.), the mud lamprey, or pride.
Stone hammer, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a
thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other,
-- used for breaking stone.
Stone hawk (Zool.), the merlin; -- so called from its habit
of sitting on bare stones.
Stone jar, a jar made of stoneware.
Stone lily (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid.
Stone lugger. (Zool.) See Stone roller, below.
Stone marten (Zool.), a European marten (Mustela foina)
allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; --
called also beech marten.
Stone mason, a mason who works or builds in stone.
Stone-mortar (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used
in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short
distances.
Stone oil, rock oil, petroleum.
Stone parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Seseli
Labanotis}). See under Parsley.
Stone pine. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under Pine,
and Pi[~n]on.
Stone pit, a quarry where stones are dug.
Stone pitch, hard, inspissated pitch.
Stone plover. (Zool.)
(a) The European stone curlew.
(b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the
genus Esacus; as, the large stone plover ({Esacus
recurvirostris}).
(c) The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.]
(d) The ringed plover.
(e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to
other species of limicoline birds.
Stone roller. (Zool.)
(a) An American fresh-water fish (Catostomus nigricans)
of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive,
often with dark blotches. Called also stone lugger,
stone toter, hog sucker, hog mullet.
(b) A common American cyprinoid fish ({Campostoma
anomalum}); -- called also stone lugger.
Stone's cast, or Stone's throw, the distance to which a
stone may be thrown by the hand; as, they live a stone's
throw from each other.
Stone snipe (Zool.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler.
[Local, U.S.]
Stone toter. (Zool.)
(a) See Stone roller
(a), above.
(b) A cyprinoid fish (Exoglossum maxillingua) found in
the rivers from Virginia to New York. It has a
three-lobed lower lip; -- called also cutlips.
To leave no stone unturned, to do everything that can be
done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.
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Eccentric anomaly
(gcide) | Eccentric \Ec*cen"tric\ ([e^]k*s[e^]n"tr[i^]k), a. [F.
excentrique, formerly also spelled eccentrique, fr. LL.
eccentros out of the center, eccentric, Gr. 'e`kkentros; 'ek
out of + ke`ntron center. See Ex-, and Center, and cf.
Excentral.]
1. Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line
of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit;
pertaining to deviation from the center or from true
circular motion.
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2. Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses,
spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole
or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same
center; -- opposed to concentric.
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3. (Mach.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod
in a steam engine.
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4. Not coincident as to motive or end.
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His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to
those of his master. --Bacon.
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5. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or
established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed
sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular;
anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. "This brave and
eccentric young man." --Macaulay.
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He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. --Savage.
[1913 Webster]
Eccentric anomaly. (Astron.) See Anomaly.
Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that
the work held by it may be altered as to its center of
motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric
combinations of eccentric circles.
Eccentric gear. (Mach.)
(a) The whole apparatus, strap, and other parts, by which
the motion of an eccentric is transmitted, as in the
steam engine.
(b) A cogwheel set to turn about an eccentric axis used to
give variable rotation.
Eccentric hook or Eccentric gab, a hook-shaped journal
box on the end of an eccentric rod, opposite the strap.
Eccentric rod, the rod that connects an eccentric strap
with any part to be acted upon by the eccentric.
Eccentric sheave, or Eccentric pulley, an eccentric.
Eccentric strap, the ring, operating as a journal box, that
encircles and receives motion from an eccentric; -- called
also eccentric hoop.
Syn: Irregular; anomalous; singular; odd; peculiar; erratic;
idiosyncratic; strange; whimsical.
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anomala
(wn) | Anomala
n 1: genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of
plants; includes several pests of cultivated grasses [syn:
Anomala, genus Anomala] |
anomala orientalis
(wn) | Anomala orientalis
n 1: introduced into United States from the Orient; larvae feed
on roots of sugarcane and other grasses [syn: {Oriental
beetle}, Asiatic beetle, Anomala orientalis] |
anomalist
(wn) | anomalist
n 1: someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases |
anomalistic month
(wn) | anomalistic month
n 1: period between successive perigees; approximately 27.5546
days |
anomalistic year
(wn) | anomalistic year
n 1: time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to
perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec |
anomalopidae
(wn) | Anomalopidae
n 1: a family of fish including: flashlight fishes [syn:
Anomalopidae, family Anomalopidae] |
anomalops
(wn) | anomalops
n 1: fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of
the western Pacific and Puerto Rico [syn: anomalops,
flashlight fish] |
anomalopteryx
(wn) | anomalopteryx
n 1: the smallest moa; slender moa about the size of a large
turkey [syn: anomalopteryx, Anomalopteryx oweni] |
anomalopteryx oweni
(wn) | Anomalopteryx oweni
n 1: the smallest moa; slender moa about the size of a large
turkey [syn: anomalopteryx, Anomalopteryx oweni] |
anomalous
(wn) | anomalous
adj 1: deviating from the general or common order or type;
"advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe" |
anomalous communication
(wn) | anomalous communication
n 1: communication by paranormal means [syn: {psychic
communication}, psychical communication, {anomalous
communication}] |
anomalously
(wn) | anomalously
adv 1: in an anomalous manner; "this man behaves anomalously" |
anomalousness
(wn) | anomalousness
n 1: deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
[syn: anomaly, anomalousness] |
anomaly
(wn) | anomaly
n 1: deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
[syn: anomaly, anomalousness]
2: a person who is unusual [syn: anomaly, unusual person]
3: (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular
distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun) |
chromosomal anomaly
(wn) | chromosomal anomaly
n 1: any change in the normal structure or number of
chromosomes; often results in physical or mental
abnormalities [syn: chromosomal aberration, {chromosomal
anomaly}, chrosomal abnormality, chromosonal disorder] |
congenital anomaly
(wn) | congenital anomaly
n 1: a defect that is present at birth [syn: birth defect,
congenital anomaly, congenital defect, {congenital
disorder}, congenital abnormality] |
family anomalopidae
(wn) | family Anomalopidae
n 1: a family of fish including: flashlight fishes [syn:
Anomalopidae, family Anomalopidae] |
genus anomala
(wn) | genus Anomala
n 1: genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of
plants; includes several pests of cultivated grasses [syn:
Anomala, genus Anomala] |
genus anomalops
(wn) | genus Anomalops
n 1: type genus of the family Anomalopidae |
genus anomalopteryx
(wn) | genus Anomalopteryx
n 1: small moas |
hydrangea anomala
(wn) | Hydrangea anomala
n 1: deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy
flowers in fairly flat heads [syn: climbing hydrangea,
Hydrangea anomala] |
neomys anomalus
(wn) | Neomys anomalus
n 1: a type of water shrew [syn: Mediterranean water shrew,
Neomys anomalus] |
true anomaly
(wn) | true anomaly
n 1: the angular distance of a point in an orbit past the point
of periapsis measured in degrees |
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