n. (Med.) A skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Med.) of or pertaining to achondroplasia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ See Arrogate. ] (Rom. Law) To adopt (a person who is his own master). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adrogatio, arrogatio, fr. adrogare. See Arrogate. ] (Rom. Law) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. adroit; à (L. ad) = droit straight, right, fr. L. directus, p. p. of dirigere. See Direct. ] Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. “Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant.” Horsley. “He was adroit in intrigue.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Dexterous; skillful; expert; ready; clever; deft; ingenious; cunning; ready-witted. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an adroit manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Skill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Aëro- + hydrodynamic. ] Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aërohydrodynamic wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aëro- + Gr. &unr_; a running. ] (Aëronautics) (a) A shed for housing an airship or aëroplane. (b) A ground or field, esp. one equipped with housing and other facilities, used for flying purposes. -- A`ër*o*drom"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. 1. an airfield equipped with control tower and hangers as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo.
Syn. -- airport, aerodrome [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Sp., fr. almendra almond. ] The lofty Brazil-nut tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'amfi`dromos running about or around. ] Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. anadrome. ] (Zool.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers. [ 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. [ Gr. 'an priv. + 'andh`r a man. ] (Bot.) Destitute of stamens, as certain female flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + kefalh` head. ] Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ , a. [ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + E. diœcious. ] (Bot.) Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*œ"cism, -di*e"cism n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + &unr_; house. ] (bot.) The stamens of a flower taken collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a hormone, such as testosterone or androsterone, that promotes development and maintenance of typical male sexual characteristics. They are mostly produced in the testes. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to androgens; having physiological effects like that of an androgen. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ } a. [ L. androgynus, Gr. &unr_;; 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + gynh` woman: cf. F. androgyne. ] 1. Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An hermaphrodite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) An androgynous plant. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a man. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Gr. 'androeidh`s of man's form; 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + e'i^dos form. ] A machine or automaton in the form of a human being. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. } (Astron.) A meteor appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Andromeda, -- whence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A shower of these meteors takes place every year on November 27th or 28th. The Andromedes are also called Bielids, as they are connected with Biela's comet and move in its orbit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. When bound to a rock and exposed to a sea monster, she was delivered by Perseus. ] 1. (Astron.) A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (bot.) A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. andron, Gr. 'andrw`n, fr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man. ] (Gr. & Rom. Arch.) The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + pe`talon leaf. ] (Bot.) Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'androfa`gos; 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + fagei^n to eat. ] Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Anthropophagous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + fe`rein to bear. ] 1. (Bot.) A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL.; Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + pw`gwn the beard. ] (Bot.) A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including Andropogon sorghum and Andropogon halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as Andropogon nardus and Andropogon schœnanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + sfi`gx sphinx. ] (Egypt. Art.) A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, a man + &unr_; a seed. ] (Bot.) A spore of some algæ, which has male functions. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + &unr_; a cutting. Cf. Anatomy. ] Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, a man. ] (Bot.) A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; wanting water; 'an priv. + "y`dwr water.] Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids. [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.) Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia. -- n. A remedy for hydrophobia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Good against dropsy. -- n. A remedy for dropsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the scenery hung at back of stage. Also called in Britain backcloth.
Syn. -- background, backcloth [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the background, setting, or circumstances of an event; as, the backdrop for the summit meeting. [ PJC ]

{ } n. [ F. banderole, dim. of bandière, bannière, banner; cf. It. banderuola a little banner. See Banner. ] A little banner, flag, or streamer. [ Written also bannerol. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Banderole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R. C. Ch.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Room in a bed. [ In this sense preferably bed room. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then by your side no bed room me deny. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To sprinkle, as with drops. [ 1913 Webster ]

The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + hydroguret. ] (Chem.) A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England the name is given to the tormentil, once used as a remedy for dysentery. [ 1913 Webster ]