n. [ Gr. &unr_; without head or chief; 'an priv. + &unr_; beginning, the first place, magistracy, government. ] The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. anarchique. ] Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions. [ 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. ] 1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general. [ 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 Arthropoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a`narqros without joints, without the article; 'an priv. + 'a`rqron joint, the article. ] 1. (Gr. Gram.) Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Without joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Madagascar. Population (2000) = 1, 000, 000. [ PJC ]

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. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canary grass, a grass of the genus Phalaris (Phalaris Canariensis), producing the seed used as food for canary birds. --
Canary stone (Min.), a yellow species of carnelian, named from its resemblance in color to the plumage of the canary bird. --
Canary wood, the beautiful wood of the trees Persea Indica and Persea Canariensis, natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands. --
Canary vine. See Canary bird flower, under Canary bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Canaries 1. Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. “A cup of canary.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A canary bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A quick and lively dance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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 finch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canary bird flower (Bot.), a climbing plant (Tropæolum peregrinum) with canary-colored flowers of peculiar form; -- called also canary vine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a thorny shrub or small tree (Geoffroea decorticans) common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
Syn. -- chanal, Geoffroea decorticans. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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.; pl. Granaries [ L. granarium, fr. granum grain. See Garner. ] 1. A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: (Fig.), A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to breadbasket, used figuratively; as, Ukraine, the granary of the Soviet Union. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The exhaustless granary of a world. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Lanarkshire, a county in Scotland. ] (Min.) A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. -- n. A writer of miscellanies. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. fana`ri lighthouse, Gr. fana`rion lantern; -- from a lighthouse on a point projecting into the Golden Horn. ] A quarter of Constantinople which, after the Turkish conquest of the city, became the chief Greek quarter; hence, the Greek officials of Turkey, or phanariots, as a class. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ n. Also . [ NGr. Fanariw`ths, fr. Phanar. See Phanar. ] One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. L. Planariæ E. -rias [ NL. See Planary. ] (Zool.) Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Planarida, or Dendrocœla; any turbellarian worm. -- Pla*na"ri*an, a. [1913 Webster]

‖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 ]