Definition of "anemony" [a•nem•o•ny]

• Archaic form of anemone. (noun)

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• "And thus is Olwen described: 'More yellow was her hair than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood-anemony amidst the spray of the meadow fountains.'"
• "She bathes him with her tears, and those precious tears have such a virtue, that Adonis appears all of a sudden transformed into an anemony or wind-flower."
• "Their gills, too, and crefts tefemble an anemony: and they have white fpots, not wtrf large, on the extremity of their bill and tail."