n. A stony meteor lacking chondrules. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to achondrite. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. chondritic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`kros extreme + &unr_; sound. ] The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray + &unr_; voice. ] (Physics) An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Physics) Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Same as Egophony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aëro- + Gr. &unr_; voice. ] (a) A form of combined speaking and ear trumpet. (b) An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an allophone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252-1284). [ 1913 Webster ]

Alphonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under the patronage of Alphonso the Wise. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, not following, wanting sequence; 'an priv. + &unr_; following. ] (Gram.) A lack of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.
Syn. -- anacoluthia [ 1913 Webster ]

See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Antihypochondriac. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Antichthones [ Gr. &unr_;; 'anti` against + &unr_; the earth. ] 1. A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun. Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Counteractive of hypochondria. -- n. A remedy for hypochondria. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. antiphona, fr. Gr. 'anti`fwna. See Anthem. ] 1. A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A verse said before and after the psalms. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. A book of antiphons or anthems. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. antiphonarium. See Antiphoner. ] A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. antiphonaire. See Antiphon. ] A book of antiphons. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Antiphonal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Antiphonies [ See Antiphon. ] 1. A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

O! never more for me shall winds intone,
With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; turned opposite ways. ] (Rhet.) An argument retorted on an opponent. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal; incapable of all but whispered speech. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. aphonia, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; voiceless; 'a priv. + &unr_; voice: cf. F. aphonie. ] (Med.) Loss of voice or vocal utterance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; silent; 'a priv. + &unr_; voice, sound, fr. &unr_; to sound. ] A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound. -- Aph*thon"gal a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. archon, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ruler, chief magistrate, p. pr. of &unr_; to be first, to rule. ] (Antiq.) One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preëminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates. -- Ar*chon"tic a. [1913 Webster]

n. The office of an archon. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. archontat. ] An archon's term of office. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Gr. 'a`rchwn, p. pr. See Archon. ] (Zool.) The group including man alone. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Med.) Chondritis of a joint. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Zool.) Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells. -- n. An asiphonate mollusk. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖‖ } n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; a tube. ] (Zool.) A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. audire to hear + Gr. &unr_; sound. ] An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Authochthons L. Autochthones [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, pl. &unr_;, from the land itself; a'yto`s self + &unr_; earth, land. ] 1. One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is original to a particular country, or which had there its origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being autochthonal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Aboriginal; indigenous; native. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An aboriginal or autochthonous condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + Gr. &unr_; a sound. ] (Med.) An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; that may be increased + &unr_; sound, voice. ] A pneumatic reproducer for a phonograph, controlled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Malay bālachān. ] A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. bary`s heavy + fwnh` a sound, voice. ] (Med.) Difficulty of speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Paleon.) A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. bi`os life + photo + fwnh` sound, voice. ] An instrument combining a cinematograph and a phonograph so that the moving figures on the screen are accompanied by the appropriate sounds; -- an archaic term replaced by movie projector. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Ir. breitheamh judge. ] An ancient Irish or Scotch judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brehon laws, the ancient Irish laws, -- unwritten, like the common law of England. They were abolished by statute of Edward III. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; windpipe + &unr_; sound. ] A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Jewelry) A stone of convex form, highly polished, but not faceted; also, the style of cutting itself. Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]