n. [ Gr. &unr_; without head or chief;
Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Lawless; anarchical. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. anarchisme. ] The doctrine or practice of anarchists. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. anarchiste. ] An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To reduce to anarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. anarchie. See Anarch. ]
Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their re&unr_;koning of years. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; without joints + -poda. See Anarthrous. ] (Zool.) One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to
a. (Zool.) Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Gr.
prop. n. (Geography) The capital
n. [ F., properly, a duck. ] An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. Canarie, L. Canaria insula one of the Canary islands, said to be so called from its large dogs, fr. canis dog. ]
Canary grass,
Canary stone (Min.),
Canary wood,
Canary vine.
n.;
Make you dance canary
With sprightly fire and motion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Zool.) A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called
Canary bird flower (Bot.),
n. a thorny shrub or small tree (Geoffroea decorticans) common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
a. See Coplanar. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. co- + plane. ] (Math.) Situated in one plane. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. di- + plane. ] (Math.) Of or pertaining to two planes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
The exhaustless granary of a world. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ From
n. [ L. lanaria, fr. lanarius belonging to wool, lana wool. ] A place for storing wool. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ See Miscellany. ] Of or pertaining to miscellanies. Shaftesbury. --
a. [ L. panis bread. ] Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A storehouse for bread. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Turk. fanar, fr. NGr.
‖n.;
n. (Zool.) One of the Planarida, or Dendrocœla; any turbellarian worm. --
‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A division of Turbellaria; the Dendrocœla. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Planaria + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like the planarians. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. planarius level. See Plane, a. ] Of or pertaining to a plane. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
[ So called from a whistling sound which it makes. ] (Zool.) The beluga, or white whale. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ It., from solfo sulphur. ] A sulphur mine. [ 1913 Webster ]