Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB

2. Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like. [Colloq. or Lowx]

I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything.
Richardson.

Any thing, written as two words, is now commonly used in contradistinction to any person or anybody. Formerly it was also separated when used in the wider sense. "Necessity drove them to undertake any thing and venture any thing." De Foe.

-- Anything but, not at all or in any respect. "The battle was a rare one, and the victory anything but secure." Hawthorne.

-- Anything like, in any respect; at all; as, I can not give anything like a fair sketch of his trials.

A"ny·thing, adv. In any measure; anywise; at all.

Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed.
Robynson (More's Utopia).

A`ny·thing·a"ri·an (?), n. One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

A"ny·way (?), A"ny·ways (?), adv. Anywise; at all. Tennyson. Southey.

A"ny·where (?), adv. In any place. Udall.

A"ny·whith`er (?), adv. To or towards any place. [Archaic] De Foe.

A"ny·wise (?), adv. In any wise or way; at all. "Anywise essential." Burke.

A·o"ni·an (·ō"nĭ·an), a. [From Aonia, a part of Bœotia, in Greece.] Pertaining to Aonia, in Bœotia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there.

-- Aonian fount, the fountain of Aganippe, at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the Muses.