a. [ Pref. a- not + capsular. ] (Bot.) Having no capsule. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 not containing cells cellular
Syn. -- cell-free [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. not made up of or divided into cells cellular
Syn. -- noncellular [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. occurring outside of cells or without the participation of cells. Opposite of cellular. [ PJC ]

a. Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needles. [ 1913 Webster ]

A*cic"u*lar*ly, adv.. [1913 Webster]

a. Acute-angled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ad- + maxillary. ] (Anat.) Near to the maxilla or jawbone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adminicular. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ From Adula, a mountain peak in Switzerland, where fine specimens are found. ] (Min.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alarius, fr. ala wing: cf. F. alaire. ] 1. Pertaining to, or having, wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Axillary; in the fork or axil. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. alarme, It. all' arme to arms ! fr. L. arma, pl., arms. See Arms, and cf. Alarum. ] 1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. [ R. ] “These home alarms.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy palace fill with insults and alarms. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. --
Alarm clock or
watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. --
Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. --
Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fright; affright; terror; trepidation; apprehension; consternation; dismay; agitation; disquiet; disquietude. -- Alarm, Fright, Terror, Consternation. These words express different degrees of fear at the approach of danger. Fright is fear suddenly excited, producing confusion of the senses, and hence it is unreflecting. Alarm is the hurried agitation of feeling which springs from a sense of immediate and extreme exposure. Terror is agitating and excessive fear, which usually benumbs the faculties. Consternation is overwhelming fear, and carries a notion of powerlessness and amazement. Alarm agitates the feelings; terror disorders the understanding and affects the will; fright seizes on and confuses the sense; consternation takes possession of the soul, and subdues its faculties. See Apprehension. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alarmed p. pr. & vb. n. Alarming. ] [ Alarm, n. Cf. F. alarmer. ] 1. To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To keep in excitement; to disturb. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alarmed by rumors of military preparation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Easily alarmed or disturbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The white pavilions rose and fell
On the alarmed air. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an alarmed manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. the act of giving, or tendency to give, needless warnings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. alarmiste. ] One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. alarom, the same word as alarm, n. ] See Alarm. [ Now Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The variant form alarum is now commonly restricted to an alarm signal or the mechanism to sound an alarm (as in an alarm clock.) [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alarius, fr. ala wing. ] Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alary system of insects. Wollaston. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Bot.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Pertaining to the alula. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alveolus a small hollow or cavity: cf. F. alvéolaire. ] (Anat.) 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phon.) Articulated with the tip of the tongue pressing against the alveolar processes of the upper front teeth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Alveolar. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 having columns at both ends but not on the sides.
Syn. -- amphiprostyle, amphistylar, porticoed [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. Resembling an ampulla. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + E. angular. ] Containing no angle. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ancillaris, fr. ancilla a female servant. ] Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Law) An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. angularis, fr. angulus angle, corner. See Angle. ] 1. Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Measured by an angle; as, angular distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angular aperture,
Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. --
Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to the body. --
Angular point, the point at which the sides of the angle meet; the vertex. --
Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being angular; angularness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being angular. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. “Animalcular life.” Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. annularis, fr. annulis ring: cf. F. annulaire. ] 1. Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Banded or marked with circles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Annular eclipse (Astron.), an eclipse of the sun in which the moon at the middle of the eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an annular manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. annularis. See Annular. ] Having the form of a ring; annular. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Good against malaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180° distant from the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. apiculus, dim. of L. apex, apicis. ] Situated at, or near, the apex; apical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- + polar. ] (Biol.) Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike. Da Costa. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. armillarius, fr. L. armilla arm ring, bracelet, fr. armus arm: cf. F. armillaire. See Arm, n. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Armillary sphere, an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions of the important circles of the celestial sphere. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. [ L. articularis: cf. F. articulaire. See Article, n. ] Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process. [ 1913 Webster ]