anus

[In Fr. anus; Lat., m.] The lower or posterior opening of the alimentary canal. ạ nû's wa rạ, a-nû's-wâr, s . [Sanscrit.] Philol. A nasal sound given to certain letters in the Indian languages. "Secondly, this an us war a is in most languages pronounced as a distinct nose intonation." Beames : Compar . Gram. of the Aryan Lang. of India, vol. 1. (1872), p. 296.