anonymous

[In Sw. anonym; Fr. anonyme; Sp. & Ital. anonimo; Port. anonymo. From Gr. ἀνώνυμος (αnōnumos): ἀν (απ), priv., and ὄνομα (onoma) = name.] *1. Which has not received a name, implying, however, that one will yet be attached to it. "These animalcules serve also for food to another anonymous insect of the waters."-Ray. 2. Intentionally namele . Used (a) Of the authorship of verbal statements, writings, publications, . Eng . , ch. xii, anonymous letters."- Macaulay : Hist. (b) Of writers not appending their names to their literary productions; of benevolent men withholding their names when they give charity. "The combatants on both sides were generally an onymous."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xxiii. "Nearly a hundred years have pa ed since an anonymous benefactor founded in France a prize for virtue."- Daily News , 3rd August, 1878. ạn-on-y-mous-lý, adv. [Eng. anonymous; -ly .] With no name attached to it. IMG:content-0564.jpg:[blocks in formation] an-on-y-moŭs-ne , s. [Eng. anonymous; -ne .] The state of being anonymous; anonymity, anonymosity. * a-nô'on, adv. [ANON.] ăn-op-lō-thë're, s. [ANOPLOTHERIUM.] The English name (1.) Spec. Of the Anoplotherium commune. the aquatic cloven-hoofed animal which Cuvier has called A no plot here."-Owen: Brit. Fo . Mammals and Birds (1846), p. xviii. (2.) Gen. Of any fo il mammal belonging to the same family. Cervine A no plot here: Dichobune Cervinum. [DICHOBUNE, A NO PLOT HERE.] ăn-op-lō-thër-i-dæ, s. pl. [ANOPLOTHERIUM.] A family of mammals belonging to the order Pachyderm at a. All are extinct. [ANOPLOTHERIUM.]