n. 1. 1 filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria.
Syn. -- order Actinomycetales [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. branched gram-positive bacteria, often found in soil, some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals. some species have been found to produce metabolites which are useful in medicine. Many species of these bacteria have been isolated and extensively screened by pharmaceutical companies and university research groups for production of useful therapeutic agents. Among the agent produced by actinomycetes are tetracyclines, streptomycin, avermectin, and thienamycin [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to actinomycetes.
Syn. -- actinomycetal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From actinomyces, the genus of the organism in which they were first found. ] 1. any of various red antibiotics isolated from soil bacteria with a three-ring heterocyclic nucleus with an attached peptide chain. Actinomycin D is the most well-known and has been used to treat certain tumors. They act by binding to DNA and inhibiting the transcription of RNA. Their binding to DNA has been much studied.
Syn. -- actinomycin actinomycin C actinomycin F1 actinomycin D [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From actinomyces, the genus of the organism in which they were first found. ] The most well-known of the actinomycins (C62H86N12O16), a class of antibiotics which act by binding to DNA and inhibiting synthesis of RNA; they act agains gram-positive bacteria and many eukaryotic organisma. Actinomycin D has been used in human medicine to treat certain tumors.
Syn. -- dactinomycin, actinomycin IV, Cosmegen[ trade name ], actinomycin C1, actinomycin I1 [ PJC ]

n. [ NL. ] (Med.) A chronic infectious disease of cattle and man due to infection with actinomycetes, especially by Actinomyces bovis in cattle and by Actinomyces israeli or Arachnia propionica in man. It is characterized by hard swellings usually in the mouth and jaw. In man the disease may also affect the abdomen or thorax. In cattle it is called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

adj. (Med.) Of or pertaining to actinomycosis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an order comprising parasites of worms.
Syn. -- order Actinomyxidia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a type of parasite of worms. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Adeno- + Gr. &unr_; a cutting, &unr_; to cut. ] (Anat.) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; rural; as a noun, an overseer of the public lands; &unr_; field + &unr_; usage, &unr_; to deal out, manage: cf. F. agronomie. ] The management of land; rural economy; agriculture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Anatomies [ F. anatomie, L. anatomia, Gr. &unr_; dissection, fr. &unr_; to cut up; &unr_; + &unr_; to cut. ] 1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “Animal anatomy” is sometimes called zomy; “vegetable anatomy, ” phytotomy; “human anatomy, ” anthropotomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comparative anatomy compares the structure of different kinds and classes of animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A treatise or book on anatomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so. [ 1913 Webster ]

The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + &unr_;: cf. F. andranatomie. See Anatomy, Androtomy. ] The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe. [ 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 ]

n., etc. Same as Angiology, Angiotomy, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Angio- + Gr. &unr_; a cutting. ] (Anat.) Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Anomia. ] Disregard or violation of law. [ R. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. } [ Gr. 'a`nqrwpos man + &unr_; usage, law, rule. ] The science of the laws of the development of the human organism in relation to other organisms and to environment. -- An`thro*po*nom"ic*al a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ Gr. 'a`nqrwpos man + tomh` a cutting. ] The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Antinomies [ L. antinomia, Gr. &unr_;; 'anti` against + &unr_; law. ] 1. Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule. [ 1913 Webster ]

Different commentators have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An opposing law or rule of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

As it were by his own antinomy, or counterstatute. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Metaph.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; simple + &unr_; a cutting. ] (Surg.) Simple incision. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aponeurosis + Gr. &unr_; a cutting. ] Dissection of aponeuroses. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. } [ Appendix + Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; excision. ] (Surg.) Excision of the vermiform appendix. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. arteriotomia, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; a cutting. ] 1. (Med.) The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.
Syn. -- ascomycetous fungus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 large class of higher fungi .
Syn. -- class Ascomycetes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL.; ascus + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, fungus. ] (Bot.) A large class of higher fungi distinguished by septate hyphæ, and by having their spores formed in asci, or spore sacs; the sac fungi. It comprises many orders, among which are the yeasts, molds, mildews, truffles, morels, etc. The class is coextensive with the phylum Ascomycota. -- As`co*my*ce"tous a. [Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5]

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

n. a phylum of higher fungi, coextensive with the class Ascomycetes. It comprises Hemiascomycetes; Plectomycetes; Pyrenomycetes; Discomycetessac fungi; in some classification systems it is considered a division of the kingdom Fungi.
Syn. -- subdivision Ascomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. . [ PJC ]

n. same as Ascomycota.
Syn. -- Ascomycota, subdivision Ascomycota, subdivision Ascomycotina [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. astronomie, F. astronomie, L. astronomia, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; astronomer; 'asth`r star + &unr_; to distribute, regulate. See Star, and Nomad. ] 1. Astrology. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
And yet methinks I have astronomy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A treatise on, or text-book of, the science. [ 1913 Webster ]

Physical astronomy. See under Physical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An atom; a mite; a pigmy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For anatomy, taken as an atomy. ] A skeleton. [ Ludicrous ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. [ a trademark. ] a yellow crystalline antibiotic (generic name chlortetracycline) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases.
Syn. -- chlortetracycline. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. autonomie. See Autonomous. ] 1. The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metaph.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw or a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota.
Syn. -- basidiomycetous fungi. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. a phylum of fungi with the Basidiomycota [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

adj. of or pertaining to basidiomycetes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. (Bot.) [ NL., fr. NL. & E. basidium + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, fungus. ] (Bot.) A large subdivision of the kingdom Fungi coextensive with the phylum Basidiomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc. Among the classes of the Basidiomycota are: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi). In the 1913 Webster, the Basidiomycetes were defined as "coördinate with the Ascomycetes", and other fungal phyla (the Zygomycota and Deuteromycota) were not mentioned.
Syn. -- Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycotina. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. same as Basidiomycota. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. batrachomyomachi`a; ba`trachos frog + my^s mouse + ma`chh battle. ] The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. bi`os life + no`mos law. ] Physiology. [ R. ] Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; -- they may cause disease in humans and other animals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any of several fungal infections caused by blastomycetes; they are characterized by inflammatory lesions of skin and mucous membranes or internal organs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to blastomycosis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. [ 1913 Webster ]

But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Covered with bloom, as fruit. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of blossoms; flowery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a large bosom; -- of a woman. [ PJC ]