An*hy"dride (&?;), n. [See Anhydrous.] (Chem.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.
An*hy"drite (&?;), n. [See Anhydrous.] (Min.) A mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).
An*hy"drous (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; wanting water; 'an priv. + "y`dwr water.] Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.
||A"ni (&?;) or ||A"no (&?;), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
||An"i*cut, ||An"ni*cut (&?;), n. [Tamil anai kattu dam building.] A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.
An*id`i*o*mat"ic*al (&?;), a. [Gr. 'an priv. + E. idiomatical.] Not idiomatic. [R.] Landor.
{ An"i*ent, An`i*en"tise (&?;), } v. t. [OF. anientir, F. anéantir.] To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate. [Obs.] Chaucer.