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A-MAN/DO-LA, n. A green marble.

A-MAN-U-ENSIS, n. [L. from manus.] A person whose
employment is to write what another dictates.
AM'A-RANTH, or AM-A-RANTH US, n. [Gr. apapavтos.]
Flower-gentle; a genus of plants, of many species.
AM A-RANTH, n. A color inclining to purple.
AM-A-RANTHINE, a. Belonging to amaranth; consist-
ing of, containing, or resembling amaranth.
A-MARI-TUDE, n. [L. amaritudo ]

much use

A-MAK U-LENCE, n Bitterness. A-MARU-LENT, 4. Bitter.

Bitterness. [Not

AM-A-RYL/LIS, n. In botany, Hly-daffodil.

A-MASS, v. t. [Fr. amasser. 1. To collect into a heap; to gather a great quantity; to accumulate. 2. To collect in great numbers; to add many things together. A-MASS, n. An assemblage, heap, or accumulation. [This is superseded by mass.]

A-MASS ED, (a-mäst') pp. Collected in a heap, or in a great quantity or number; accumulated.

A-MASSING, ppr. Collecting in a heap, or in a large quantity or number.

A-MASS MENT, n. A heap collected; an accumulation. † A-MATE', v. í. To accompany; also, to terrify, to perplex.

AM-A-TEUR', n. [Fr.] A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, as to music or painting; one who has a taste for the arts. Burke.

AM-A-TOR CU-LIST, n. An insignificant lover. AM-A-TORI-AL, AM-A-TOʻRI-OÜS, or AM'A-TO-RY, a. [L. amatorius.] 1. Relating to love; causing love; produced by sexual intercourse.-2. In anatomy, a term applied to the oblique muscles of the eye. AM-A-TO'RI-AL-LY, adv. In an amatorial manner. AM-AU-RO'SIS, n. [Gr. apavpos.] A loss or decay of sight, without any visible defect in the eye, except an immovable pupil; called also gutta serena.

A-MAZE, v. t. To confound with fear, sudden surprise, or wonder; to astonish.

A-MAZE, n. Astonishment; confusion; perplexity, arising from fear or wonder. It is chiefly used in poetry, and is nearly synonymous with amazement. A-MAZ'ED, (a-mazd') pp. Astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder.

A-MAZ'ED-LY, ade. With amazement; in a manner to confound. [Little used.]

A-MAZ/ED-NESS, n. The state of being confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; astonishment; great wonder. A-MAZE MENT, n. Astonishment; confusion or perplexity, from a sudden impression of fear, surprise, or won

der.

A-MAZING, ppr. 1. Confounding with fear, surprise, or wonder. 2. a. Very wonderful; exciting astonishment or perplexity.

A-MAZING-LY, adv. In an astonishing degree. AMA-ZON, n. [Gr. a and palos.] 1. The Amazons are said, by historians, to have been a race of female warriors, who founded an empire on the river Thermodon, in Asia Minor. 2. A warlike or m sculine woman; a virago. AM-A-ZONI-AN, a. 1. Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon. Applied to females, bold; of masculine manners; warlike. 2. Belonging to the river Amazon or Maranon, in South America, or to Amazonia.

AMB, AM. About; around; used in composition. [Sax. emb, ymb; W. am; Gr. aμpi; L. am or amb.] AM-BA'GES, n. [L. amb and ago.] 1. A circumlocution; a circuit of words to express ideas which may be expressed in fewer words. 2. A winding or turning. AM-BA'GI-OUS, 4. Circumlocutory; perplexed; tedious. AM-BAS-SADE', n. Embassy. Shak.

AM BASSA-DOR, n. [This is the more common orthography; but good authors write also embassador; and, as the orthography of embassy is established, it would be better to write embassador. See EMBASSADOR.] AM-BASSA-DRESS, n. The wife of an ambassador. AM BAS-SAGE, Į AM BAS-SY, AM/BE, or AMBI, n. [Gr. aμßn.] Literally, a brim; but in surgery, an instrument for reducing dislocated shoulders. Also the mango tree.

An embassy.

AMBER, n. [Fr. ambre; Sp. ambar.] A hard, semi-pellucid substance, tasteless, and without smell, except when pounded or heated, when it emits a fragrant odor. It is found in alluvial soils, or on the sea shore, in many places; particularly on the shores of the Baltic, in Europe, and at Cape Sable, in Maryland, in the United States. AM BER, a. Consisting of, or resembling amber. AMBER, v. t. To scent with amber. AMBER-DRINK, n. A drink resembling amber in color. AMBER-DROP-PING, a. Dropping amber. Milton. AM BER-SEED, n. Musk-seed, resembling millet. AMBER-TREE, n. The English name of a species of anthospermum, a shrub.

AMBER-GRYS, n. [amber, and Fr. gris.] A solid, opake ash-colored, inflammable substance, variegated like mar ble, remarkably light, rugged on its surface, and highly valued as a material in perfuinery.

AM-BI-DEXTER, n. [L. ambo and dexter.] 1. A person who uses both hands with equal facility. 2. A double dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes.-3. In law, a juror who takes money of both parties, for giving his verdict; an embracer. AM-BI-DEX-TERI-TY, or AM-BI-DEX TROUS-NESS, n. The faculty of using both hands with equal facility double dealing; the taking of money from both parties

for a verdict.

AM-BI-DEX/TROUS, a. Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease; practicing or siding with both parties

AM'BI-ENT, a. [L. ambiens.] Surrounding; encompassing on all sides; investing. AM-BIG E-NÁL, a. [L. ambo and genu.] An ambigenal hyperbola is one of the triple hyperbolas of the second order, having one of its infinite legs falling within an angle formed by the asymptotes, and the other without. AM/BI-GU, n. An entertainment, or feast, consisting of a medley of dishes. King.

AM-BI-ĞU'I-TY, n. [L. ambiguitas.] Doubtfulness or uncertainty of signification, from a word's being susceptible of different meanings; double meaning.

AM-BIG/U-OUS, a. [L. ambiguus.] Having two or more meanings; doubtful; being of uncertain signification; susceptible of different interpretations.

AM-BIG'U-OUS-LY, adv. In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.

AM-BIG/U-QUS-NESS, n. The quality of being ambiguous; uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; and, hence, obscurity. AM-BILE-VOUS, a. [L ambo and lævus.] Left-handed, on both sides.

AM-BIL/O-GY, n. [L. ambo, and Gr. λoyos.] Talk or language of doubtful meaning.

AM-BIL'O-QUOUS, a. [L. ambo and loquor.] Using ambiguous expressions.

AMBIT, n. [L. ambitus.] The line that encompasses a thing; in geometry, the perimeter of a figure. The periphery or circumference of a circular body.

AM-BI TION, n. [L. ambitio.] A desire of preferment or of honor; a desire of excellence or superiority. It is used in a good sense; as, emulation may spring from a laudable ambition. It denotes, also, an inordinate desire of power or eminence, often accompanied with illegal means to obtain the object.

AM-BI TION, v. t. [Fr. ambitionner.] Ambitiously to seek after. King. [Little used.] AM-BITIOUS, a. 1. Desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or excellence; aspiring; eager for fame. 2 Showy; adapted to command notice or praise. 3. Eager to swell or rise higher.

AM-BITIOUS-LY, adv. In an ambitious manner.
AM-BI TIOUS-NESS, n. The quality of being ambitious.
AM/BLE, v. i. [Fr. ambler.] 1. To move with a certain
peculiar pace, as a horse, first lifting his two legs on one
side, and then changing to the other. 2. To move easy,
without hard shocks. 3. To move by direction, or to
move affectedly.

AM BLE, n. A peculiar pace of a horse.
AM BLER, n. A horse which ambles; a pace..

AM BLI-GON, or AM/BLY-GON, n. [Gr. außλus and
yovia.] An obtuse-angled triangle.
AM-BLIGO-NAL, a. Containing an obtuse angle.

AM BLI-GO-NITE, n. [Gr. aμßλvy@vtos.] A greenish-col

ored mineral.

AM BLING, ppr. or a. Lifting the two legs on the same side, at first going off, and then changing.

AM BLING-LY, adr. With an ambling gait. AM/BLY-O-PY, n. [Gr. aμßλvs and wy.] Incipient amaurosis; dullness or obscurity of sight.

AM/BO, n. [Gr. apßwv ; L. umbo.] A reading desk, or pulpit.

AM-BRE-A'DA, n. A kind of factitious amber.

AM-BRO SIA, (am-bro-zha) n. [Gr. a and poros.] 1. In heathen antiquity, the imaginary food of the gods. 2. Whatever is very pleasing to the taste or smell. AM-BRO/SI-A€, a. Having the qualities of ambrosia. AM-BROSIAL, (am-bro'-zhal) a. Partaking of the nature or qualities of ambrosia; fragrant; delighting the taste or smell. Ben Jonson uses ambrosiac in a like sense, and Bailey has ambrosian, but these seem not to be warranted by usage.

AM-BROSIAN, a. Pertaining to St. Ambrose. AM BRO-SIN, n. In the middle ages, a coin struck by the dukes of Milan, on which St. Ambrose was represented AM BRY, n. [contracted from Fr. aumonerie, almonry.] 1 An almonry; a place where alms are deposited for dis tribution to the poor. 2. A place in which are deposited

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AMBS-ACE', (Rmz-äse') n. [L. ambo, and ace.] A double ace, as when two dice turn up the ace. AMBU-LANT, &. [L. ambulans.] Walking; moving from place to place.

AM-BU-LATION, n. [L. ambulatio.] A walking about; || the act of walking.

↑ AM BU-LA-TIVE, 4. Walking.

AM BU-LA-TOR, n. In entomology, a species of lamia. Cyc.

AM BU LA-TO-RY, s. 1. That has the power or faculty of walking. 2. Pertaining to a walk. 3. Moving from place to place; not stationary.

AM BU-LA-TORY, ■. A species of ichneumon AM BU-RY, or AN/BU-RY, n. [qu. L. umbo; Gr. aubuv.] Among farriers, a tumor or wart on a horse, full of blood. AM BOS-CADE, n. [Fr. embuscade.] 1. A lying in wait for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. 2. A private station in which troops lie concealed with a view to attack their enemy by surprise; ambush. Shakspeare uses the word ambuscado.

AM BUSCADE, . t. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a concealed position.

AM BUS-CA-DED, pp. Having an ambush laid against, or attacked from a private station.

AM BUS-CA-DINĜ, ppr. Lying in wait for; attacking

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AM BUSHED, pp. Lain in wait for; suddenly attacked from a concealed station.

AM BUSH-ING, ppr. Lying in wait for.
AM B¬H-MENT, a. Án ambush; which see.
FAM-BUST, 4. [L. ambustus.] Burnt; scalded.

AM BUSTIÓN, n. [L. ambustio.] A burning; a burn or scald.
A MEIVA, A species of lizard found in Brazil.
AM EL, . Fr. email.] The matter with which metallic
bodes are overlaid; but its use is superseded by enamel.
A-MEL 10-RATE, . t. [Fr. ameliorer.] To make better;
to improve, to meliorate. Christ. Obs. Buchanan.
AMELIORATE, e. i. To grow better; to meliorate.
A MELIORATION, n. A making or becoming better;
improvement; melioration.

A-MEN. This word, with slight differences of orthography, as in all the dialects of the Assyrian stock. As a rek, it signifies to confirm, establish, verify; to trust, or give confidence; as a noun, truth, firmness, trust, confidence, as an adjective, firm, stable. In English, after the oriental manner, it is used at the beginning, but more generally at the end of declarations and prayers, in the sense of, be it firm, be it established. The word is used also as a noun. "All the promises of God are amen in (st; that is, firmness, stability, constancy.

A MỀ NÀ-BLE, a. [It. menare; Fr. mener.] Liable to answer, responsible; answerable; liable to be called to

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A-MENDS', n. plu. [Fr. amende.] Compensation for an in jury; recompense; satisfaction; equivalent. A-MÉN I-TY, n. [L amanitas; Fr. aménité.] Pleasantness agreeableness of situation; that which delights the eye AMENT, n. [L. amentum.] In botany, a species of inflorescence, from a common, chaffy receptacle. A-MEN-TA CEOUS, a. Growing in an ament; resembling a thong.

A-MEN TY, . [Fr. amentie.] Madness.

A-MERCE, (a-mers') v. t. [a for on, or at, and Fr. merci.] 1. To inflict a penalty at mercy; to punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion or mercy of the court. 2. To inflict a pecuniary penalty; to punish in general. A-MERCE A-BLE, a. Liable to amercement. A-MERCED, (a-merst') pp. Fined at the discretion of a court A-MERCE/MENT, (a-mers-ment) n. A pecuniary penalty inflicted on an offender at the discretion of the court. A-MER CER, n. One who sets a fine at discretion upon an offender.

A-MER CIA-MENT, n. Amercement. Selden.

A-MER I-CA, n. [from Amerigo Vespucci.] One of the great continents.

A-MER I-CAN, a. Pertaining to America.

A-MER/I-CAN, n. A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America.

A-MER I-CAN-ISM, n. An American idiom; the love which American citizens have for their own country. A-MERI-CAN-IZE, v. t. To render American; to naturalize in America.

A-MERI-CIM, n. A species of lizard.

AM/ESS, n. A priest's vestment. See AMICE.
AM-E-THODI-CAL, a. Out of method; irregular.
A-METH'O-DIST, n. A quack.

AME-THYST, n. [L. amethystus.] A sub-species of
quartz, of a violet blue color, of different degrees of in-
tensity. It is wrought into various articles of jewelry.
AME-THYST, in heraldry, signifies a purple color.
AM-E-THYST INE, a. Pertaining to or resembling amethyst
AMI-A, n. A genus of fish in Carolina.

A MI-A-BLE, a. [Fr. amiable; L. amabilis.] 1. Lovely; worthy of love; deserving of affection; applied usually to persons. 2. Pretending or showing love. Shak. A/MÍ-A-BLE-NESS, n. The quality of deserving love; loveliness.

A/MI-A-BLY, adv. In an amiable manner; in a manner to excite or attract love.

AMI-ANTH, n. [Gr. apiavros.] Earth-flax, or mounAM-I-ANTH US, tain flax; a mineral substance, somewhat resembling flax.

AM-I-ANTH'I-FORM, a. Having the form or likeness of

amianth.

AM-I-ANTHIN-ITE, n. A species of amorphous mineral, a variety of actinolite.

AM-I-ANTH OID, n. [amianth, and Gr. tidos.] A mineral which occurs in tufts, composed of long capillary filaments, flexible and very elastic.

AM-I-ANTH OID, a Resembling amianth in form.
AM'I-CA-BLE, a. [L. amicabilis.] 1. Friendly; peace-
able; harmonious in social or mutual transactions. 2
Disposed to peace and friendship.

AMI-CA-BLE-NESS, n. The quality of being peaceable or friendly; friendliness.

AM/I-CA-BLY, ade. In a friendly manner.

A-MICAL, 4. Friendly. W. Watson.

AMICE, n. [L. amictus.] A square linen cloth that a Catholic priest ties about his neck, hanging down behind under the alb, when he officiates at mass. A-MID', prep. [a, and Sax. midd.] 1. In the midst or A-MIDST', middle. 2. Among mingled with. 3. Surrounded, encompassed, or enveloped with. Amid is used mostly in poetry.

A-MID SHIPS. In marine language, the middle of a ship with regard to her length and breadth.

AM-1-LOT, n. A white fish in the Mexican lakes.
A-MISS, a. 1. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper
2. adv. In a faulty manner; contrary to propriety, truth,
law, or morality.

A-MISS, n. Culpability; fault. Shak.
A-MISSION, n. Loss. More.

A-MIT, v. t. To lose. Brown.

AM-1-TY, n. [Fr. amitié.] Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; harmony good understanding.

AMMA, n. [Heb. DR.] 1. An abbess, or spiritual moth er. 2. A girdle or truss used in ruptures. [Gr. appa.] AM MAN, n. [G amtmann; D. amptman.] In some European nations, a judge who has cognizance of civil causes In France, a notary.

AM/MITE, or HAM MITE, n. [Gr. appos.] A sand-stone or free-stone, of a pale-brown color.

AMMO-CETE, n. An obsolete name of the ammodyte. In
Cuvier, the name of a genus of fish,
AM/MO-CHRYSE, n. [Gr. appos and xpuros.] A yellow,||
soft stone, found in Germany.

AMMO-DYTE, n. [Gr. appos and duw.] The sand eel, à genus of fish of the apodal order.

AM-MŌ'NI-A, or AM/MO-NY, n. Volatile alkali; a substance, which, in its purest form, exists in a state of gas. AM-MO NI-A¤, or AM-MO-NIA-CAL, a. Pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties.

AM-MO NI-A€, or AM-MŌNI-Á¤ GUM, n. A gum resin, from Africa and the East.

AM-MONI-AN, a. Relating to Ammonius, surnamed Saccas, of Alexandria, the founder of the eclectic system of philosophy.

AM MO-NITE, n. [cornu ammonis, from Jupiter Ammon.] Serpent-stone, or cornu ammonis, a fossil shell, curved into a spiral form, like a ram's horn.

AM-MONI-UM, n. A name given to the supposed metallic basis of ammonia.

AM-MO-NI U-RET, n. The solution of a substance in ammonia. Ed. Encyc.

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AM-MU-NITION, n. [L. ad and munitio.] Military stores, or provisions for attack or defense. In modern usage, the signification is confined to the articles which are used in the discharge of fire-arms and ordnance of all kinds as powder, balls, bombs, various kinds of shot, &c.—Ammunition-bread, bread, or other provisions to supply troops. AMNES-TY, n. [Gr. aμvnoria.] An act of oblivion; general pardon of the offenses of subjects against the government, or the proclamation of such pardon.

† AM-NICO-LIST, n. One who dwells near a river. AM-NIG E-NOUS, a. Born of a river.

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AM/NI-OS, or AM/NI-ON, n. [Gr. apviov.] The innermost membrane su rounding the fetus in the womb. AM-NI-OTIC, a. Obtained from the liquor of the amnios. AM-O-BE AN, a. Alternately answering. Warton. AM-O-BE/UM, n. [Gr. apoißaios.] A poem in which persons are represented as speaking alternately

AM-O-LITION, n. A removal; a putting away. Bp. Ward.

A-MO/MUM, n. [Gr. aμwpov.] A genus of plants, all natives of warm climates, and remarkable for their pungency and aromatic properties.-True amomum is a round fruit, from the East, of the size of a grape. A-MONG', (a-mung') prep. [Sax. onmang, ongemang.] A-MONGST, (a-mungst') 1. In a general or primitive sense, mixed or mingled with. 2. Conjoined or associated with, or making part of the number. 3. Of the number. A-MONI-AN, a. [from Ammon or Hammon.] Pertaining to Jupiter Ammon, or to his temple and worship in Upper Egypt.

AM-O-RADO, n. [L. amor.] A lover. See INAMORATO, which is chiefly used.

A-MORE, n. A name given, by Marcgrave, to a tribe of fish, of three species, the pizuma, guacu, and tinga. AM-O-RE ANS, n. A sect of Gemaric doctors or commentators on the Jerusalem Talmud.

AM-O-RET', n. [L. amor; Fr. amourette.] A lover; an amorous woman; also, a love-knot, or a trifling love affair. Chaucer.

AMO-RIST, n. [L. amor.] A lover; a gallant; an inamorato. Boyle.

A-MORNINGS, ade. In the mornings.
AM-O-ROSA, n. [It.] A wanton woman.
AM-O-ROSO, n. [It.] A lover a man enamored.

AMO-ROUS, a. [Fr. amoreux. 1. Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond. 2. In love; enamored. Shak. 3. Pertaining or relating to love; produced by love; indicating love. Milton. Waller.

AM'O-ROUS-LY, adv. In an amorous manner.

AM/O-ROUS-NESS, n. The quality of being inclined to love, or to sexual pleasure; fondness.

A-MORPH'A, n. [Gr. a and popon.] False or bastard indi go, a native plant of Carolina.

A-MORPHOUS, a. [Gr. a and μopon.] Having no determinate form; of irregular shape.

A-MORPHY, n. Irregularity of form; deviation from a determinate shape. Swift.

A-MORT, adv. [L. mors, mortuus., In the state of the dead. Shak.

A-MOR-11-ZATION, or A-MORTIZE-MENT, n. The act or right of alienating lands or tenements to a corporation.

A-MORTIZE, v. t. [Norm. amortizer.] In English law, to alienate in mortmain, that is, to sell to a corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, and their successors. This was considered as selling to dead hands. A-MOTION, n. [L. amotio.] Removal Warton. A-MOUNT', v. i. [Fr. monter.] 1. To rise to or reach, by an accumulation of particulars into an aggregate whole; to compose in the whole. 2. To rise, reach, or extend

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A-MOUNTING, ppr. Rising to, by accumulation or addi tion; resulting, in effect or substance.

A-MOUR', n. [Fr.] An unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an affair of gallantry.

†A-MOVAL, n. [L. amoveo.] Total removal. †A-MOVE', v. t. [L. amoveo.] To remove. Hall. AM/PEL-ITE, n. [Gr. aumeλos.] Cannel coal, or candle coal, an inflammable substance.

AM-PHIB'I-AL, or AM-PHIBI-A, n. [Gr. audi and Bios. In zoology, amphibials are a class of animals, so formed as to live on land, and for a long time under water. AM-PHIB/I-O-LITE, n. [Gr. audißios and Acos.] A fragment of a petrified amphibious animal.

AM-PHIB-I-O-LOGI-CAL, a. Pertaining to amphibiology AM-PHIB-I-OL/O-GY, n. [Gr. appi, Bios, and λoyos.] A discourse or treatise on amphibious animals, or the history and description of such animals. AM-PHIBIOUS, a. 1. Having the power of living in two elements, air and water. 2. Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures.

AM-PHIB I-OUS-NESS, n The quality of being able to live in two elements, or of partaking of two natures. AM-PHIBI-UM, n. That which lives in two elements, as in air and water.

AM/PHI-BOLE, n. [Gr. αμφίβολος ; αμφι and βαλλω.] Α name given by Hauy to a species of minerals, including the tremolite, hornblend, and actinolite.

AM-PHI-BOLIC, a. Pertaining to amphibole; resembling amphibole. Cooper.

AM-PHIB-O-LOGI-CAL, a. Doubtful; of doubtful meaning AM-PHIB-O-LOGI-CAL-LY, ado. With a doubtful meaning. AM-PHI-BOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. audißodoyia.] A phrase or discourse susceptible of two interpretations; and, hence, a phrase of uncertain meaning.

AM-PHIBIO-LOUS, a. [Gr. appißolos.] Tossed from one to another; striking each way, with mutual blows. [L. u.] AM-PHIBO-LY, n. [Gr. appißoλia.] Ambiguity of meaning. Spelman. [Rarely used.]

AM PHI-BRACH, n. [Gr. aμội and ßpaxus.] In poetry, a foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short; as, hǎbêre, in Latin.

AMPHI-COME, n. [Gr. apoi and coμn.] A kind of figured stone, of a round shape.

AM-PHIC-TY-ON'I¤, a. Pertaining to the august council of Amphictyons.

AM-PHIE TY-ONS, n. In Grecian history, an assembly or council of deputies from the different states of Greece, who sat at Thermopyla, but ordinarily at Delphi. AM/PHI-GENE, n. [Gr. app and yevos.] In mineralogy. another name of the leucite or Vesuvian.

AM-PHI-HEX-A-HE DRAL, a. [Gr. appi, and hexahedral.] In crystalography, when the faces of the crystal, counted in two different directions, give two hexahedral outlines, or are found to be six in number.

AM-PHIM/A-CER,. [Gr. audiμakpos.] In ancient poetry, a foot of three syllables, the middle one short, and the others long, as in castitas. AM-PHIS BEN, n. [Gr. audioßaiva.] A genus of serAM-PHIS-BE/NA, pents.

AM-PHIS CI-I, or AM-PHISCIANS, n. [Gr. apoi and oxia.] In geography, the inhabitants of the tropics, whose shadows, in one part of the year, are cast to the north, and in the other, to the south.

AM PHI-TANE, n. A name given by ancient naturalists to a fossil, called by Dr. Hill, pyricubium.

AM-PHI-THEA-TRE, n. [Gr. appearpor.] An edifice AM-PHI-THE A-TER, in an oval or circular form, having its area encompassed with rows of seats, rising higher as they recede from the area, on which people used to sit to view the combats of gladiators and of wild beasts, and other sports.

AM-PHI-THE A-TRAL, a. Resembling an amphitheatre Tooke.

AM-PHI-THE-ATRI-CAL, a. Pertaining to, or exhibited in, an amphitheatre. Warton.

AM/PHI-TRITE, n. [Gr. audirpirn.] A genus of marine animals, of the Linnean order mollusca. AM/PHOR, n. [L. amphora.] Among the Greeks and AM/PHO-RA, Romans, a liquid measure. AMPLE, a. [Fr. ample; L. amplus.] 1. Large; wide; spacious; extended; as, ample room. 2. Great in bulk, or size. Shak. 3. Liberal; unrestrained; without parsimony; fully sufficient; as, ample justice. 4. Liberal; magnificent; as, ample promises. 5. Diffusive; not brief or contracted; as, an ample narrative.

AMPLE-NESS, n. Largeness; spaciousness; sufficiency; abundance.

AM-PLEX'I-CAUL, a. [L. amplexor.] In botany, surroundang, or embracing the stem, as the base of a leaf. AM PLI-ATE, e. t. [L. amplio.] To enlarge; to make greater; to extend. [Little used.]

AM-PLI-ATION, . . Enlargement; amplification; diffuseness. [Little used.]-2. In Roman antiquity, a deferring to pass sentence.

AM FLIFI-CATE, v. t. [L amplifico.] To enlarge; to amplify.

AM-PLIFICATION, n. [L. amplificatio.]

1. Enlargement; extension.-. In rhetoric, diffusive description, or discussion, exaggerated representation; diffuse narrative, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. AM PLÍ-FIED, pp. Enlarged; extended.

AMPLI-FI-EE, A. One who amplifies or enlarges. AM PLI-FY, .t. Fr. amplifier; L. amplifico. 1. To enlarge, to augment; to increase or extend -2. In rhetoric, to enlarge in discussion, or by representation; to treat copiously, so as to present the subject in every view. 3. To enlarge by addition

AM PLI-PS, .i. 1. To speak largely, or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate upon. 2. To exaggerate, to enlarge by representation or descrip

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AMPLI-FY-ING, pp. Enlarging; exaggerating; diffusively treating.

AM FLITUDE, R. [L. amplitudo.] 1. Largeness; extent applied to bodies. 2. Largéness; extent of capa3. Extent of means or city, or intellectual powers. power; abundance; sufficiency.-Amplitude, in astronomy, is an arch of the horizon intercepted between the east and west point, and the centre of the sun or star at its rising or setting.-Amplitude of the range, in projecta's, is the horizontal line subtending the path of a body thrown, or the line which measures the distance it has moved-Magnetical amplitude is the arch of the horizon between the sun or a star, at rising or setting, and the cast or west point of the horizon, by the compass. Encyc. AM PLY, adv. Largely; liberally; fully; sufficiently; coply, in a diffusive manner.

AP TATE, v. t. [L. amputo.] 1. To prune branches of trees or vines; to cut off. 2. To cut off a limb or other part of an animal body; a term of surgery.

AM PU-TA-TED, pp. Cut off; separated from the body. AMPU-TA-TING, ppr. Cutting off a limb or part of the body.

AM PU-TATION, n. [L. amputatie.] The act or operation of cutting off a limb or some part of the body. AM U-LET, . L. amuletum.] Something worn as a remedy or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseams and witchcraft. Amulets, in days of ignorance,

were common.

AM UR-COSITY, n. The quality of lees.

A-ME, v. t. [Fr. amuser.] I. To entertain the mind agreeably to occupy or detain attention with agreeable objects, whether by singing, conversation, or a show of 2. To detain; to engage the attention by

eurosities.

boge or expectation. A MOLD, a-müzd" pp. Agreeably entertained; having the mind engaged by something pleasing A-NOSE MENT, a. That which amuses, detains, or engages the mind; entertainment of the mind; pastime; a plurable occupation of the senses, or that which furabes it, as dancing, sports, or music.

A-NOS ER, . One who amuses, or affords an agreeable ertertainment to the mind.

AMCING, pp. or a. Entertaining; giving moderate pare to the mind, so as to engage it; pleasing. AMOSING LY, adr. In an amusing manner.

A NOSIVE, 4. That has the power to amuse or entertain
La mind

A MOSIVE-LY, ade. In an amusive manner.
A-MYG DA-LATE, a. [L.. amygdalus.] Made of almonds.
A MYG DA-LATE, . An emulsion made of almonds;
m of almonds.

A MYG DA-LINE, a. Pertaining to or resembling the almini.

AMYG DA-LITE, n. A plant; a species of spurge. A MYG DA-LOID, n. [Gr. aμvydaλca.] Tond stone. AMYG DA LOID-AL, a. Pertaining to amygdaloid. AMY-LACEOUS, a." (L. amylum.] Pertaining to starch, or the farinaceus part of grain; resembling starch. ANY LINE, . 'L' amylum.] A farinaceous substance between gum and starch

★MY BALD ISM, ■. In church history, the doctrine of ur veral grace, as explained by Amyraidus.

A MYZ TLÍ, ». A Mexican name of the sea-lion. AY. Nat. an, one, one; D. een; Ger. ein: Sw. and Dua en, Fr. an, un, ane; Sp. un, uno; It. uno, una ; L. W367, VAC, HHum : Gr. tv ; Ir. ein, ean, aon; W. un, yn.] ge, Beling an individual; either definitely, known, certata, specific 1, or understood; or indefinitely, not certain, wown, er specified. Definitely; as, "Noah built an ark proher wood." "Paul was an eminent apostle." In

definitely; as, "Bring me an orange.” nant, the letter n is dropped; as, a man.

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AN, in old English authors, signifies iƒ; as, “an it pleasé your honor."

Ã1ÑA, aã, or a. [Gr. ava.] In medical prescriptions, it sig nifies an equal quantity of the _severa' ingredients; as, wine and honey, ana, da, or a 3 ii. that is, of wine and honey each two ounces.

A'NA, as a termination, is annexed to the names of authors to denote a collection of their memorable sayings. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger. It was used by the Romans, as in Collectaneus, collected, gathered. AN-A-BAPTISM, n. The doctrine of the Anabaptists AN-A-BAPTIST, n. [Gr. ava and Bartierns.] One who holds the doctrine of the baptism of adults, or of the invalidity of infant baptism, and the necessity of rebaptization in an adult age. AN-A-BAP-TISTIC, AN-A-BAP-TISTICAL,

a. Relating to the Anabaptists or to their doctrines.

AN-A-BAPTIST-RY, n. The sect of Anabaptists.

† AN-A-BAP-TIZE, v. t. To rebaptize. Whitlock. ANACA, n. A species of paroquet, about the size of a

lark.

AN-A-CAMP TIE', a. [Gr. ava and каμягw:] Reflecting or reflected.

AN-A-CAMPTIES, n. The doctrine of reflected light. Sce CATOPTRICS.

AN-A-CAR DIUM, n. The cashew-nut, or marking nut. AN-A-CA-THAR TI¤, a. [Gr. ava and κalapois.] Throwing upwards; "cleansing, by exciting vomiting, expecto ration, &c. AN-A-CA-THÃRTI¤, n. A medicine which excites discharges by the mouth or nose.

AN-A-CEPH-A-LE-OSIS, n. [Gr. avakepadáiwois.] Recapitulation of the heads of a discourse. AN-ACHO-RET. See ANCHORET.

AN-A-CHO-RETI-CAL, a. Relating to an anachoret, or

anchoret.

AN-ACH RO-NISM, n. [Gr. ava and Xpovos.] An error in computing time; any error in chronology. AN-ACH-RO-NISTIC, a. Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.

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AN-A-ELASTIC, a. [Gr. ava and λacts.] Refracting; breaking the rectilinear course of light.

AN-A-CLAS TIES, n. That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light, commonly called dioptrics, which

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AN A-DEME, R. [Gr. avadnpa.] A chaplet or crown of flowers. W. Browne.

AN-A-DI-PLOSIS, n. [Gr. ava and diλoos.] Duplication, a figure in rhetoric and poetry, consisting in the repeti tion of the last word or words in a line or clause of a sentence, in the beginning of the next.

A-NAD RO-MOUS, a. [Gr. ava and popos.] Ascending; a word applied to such fish as pass from the sea into fresh waters, at stated seasons.

AN A-GLYPH, 2. [Gr. ava and yλupw.] An ornament made by sculpture.

AN-A-GLYPTIC, a. Relating to the art of carving, engraving, enchasing, or embossing plate.

AN A-GO-GE, or AN A-GO-GY, ". [Gr. avaywyn.] An elevation of mind to things celestial; the spíritual meaning or application of words.

AN-A-GO-GET-I-CAL, a. Mysterious.

AN-A-GOG-1-CAL, a. Mysterious; elevated; spiritual. AN-A-GOGI-CAL-LY, adv. In a mysterious sense; with religious elevation.

AN-A-GOGIES, . Mysterious considerations.

AN A-GRAM, . [Gr. ava and ypaupa.] A transposition of the letters of a name, by which a new word is formed. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy, (attorney general to Charles I., a laborious man,) may be turned into I moul in law. AN-A-GRAM-MAT IE, a. Making an anagram. AN-A-GRAM-MATI-CAL, AN-A-GRAM-MATI-CAL-LY, adv. In the manner of an

anagram.

AN-A-GRAMMA-TISM, n. The act or practice of making anagrams. Camden.

AN-A-GRAM MA-TIST, n. A maker of anagrams.
AN-A-GRAM MA-TIZE, v. i. To make anagrams

AN A GROS, 1. A measure of grain in Spain, containing something less than two bushels.

A'ÑAL, a. [L. anus.] Pertaining to the anus
A-NAL/CIM, n. Cubic zeolite, found in aggregated or
A-NAL CIME,) cubic crystals.

AN A-LEETS, n. [Gr. ava and λɛyw.] A collection of short essays, or remarks. Encyc.

AN A-LEM-MA, n. [Gr. avaλnppa.] 1. In geometry, a projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, orthographically made by straight lines, circles, and ellipses, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west points of the horizon. 2. An instrument of wood or brass, on which this kind of projection is drawn.

AN-A-LEP SIS, n. [Gr. avaλnys.] The augmentation or nutrition of an emaciated body; recovery of strength after a disease.

AN-A-LEP TIC, a. Corroborating; invigorating; giving strength after disease.

AN-A-LEP TIЄ, n. A medicine which gives strength; a restorative.

AN-ALO-GAL, a. Analogous. Hale.

AN-A-LOGI-CAL, a. Having analogy; used by way of analogy; bearing some relation.

AN-A-LOGI-CAL-LY, adv. In an analogical manner; by way of similitude, relation, or agreement. AN-A-LOGI-CAL-NESS, n. The quality of being analogi

cal.

AN-AL'O-GISM, n. [Gr. avaλoyiopos.] An argument from the cause to the effect. Johnson. Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. Crabbe. AN-AL/O-GIST, n. One who adheres to analogy. AN-ALO-GIZE, v. t. To explain by analogy; to form some resemblance between different things; to consider a thing with regard to its analogy to something else. A-NALO-GOUS, a. Having analogy; bearing some resemblance or proportion.

2.

A-NAL/O-GOUS-LY, adv. In an analogous manner. A-NAL'O-GY, n. [Gr. avaλoyia.] 1. An agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. With grammarians, analogy is a conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language. A-NAL Y-SIS, n. [Gr. avaλvois.] 1. The separation of a compound body into its constituent parts; a resolving. 2. A consideration of any thing in its separate parts; an examination of the different parts of a subject, each separately. It is opposed to synthesis.-In mathematics, analysis is the resolving of problems by algebraic equations.In logic, analysis is the tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles. 3. A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a continued discourse, disposed in their natural order. 4. A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense, it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

AN A-LYST, n. One who analyzes, or is versed in analysis. Kirwan.

AN-A-LYTIC, a. Pertaining to analysis; that reAN-A-LYTICAL, solves into first principles; that separates into parts, or original principles; that resolves a compound body or subject. It is opposed to synthetic. AN-A-LYTI-CAL-LY, adv. In the manner of analysis. AN-A-LYTICS, n. The science of analysis.

AN A-LYZE, v. t. [Gr. avaλvw.] To resolve a body into its elements; to separate a compound subject into its parts or propositions, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.

AN'A-LYZED, pp. Resolved into its constituent parts or principles, for examination.

AN A-LYZ-ER, n. One who analyzes; that which analyzes, or has the power to analyze.

AN A-LYZ-ING, ppr. Resolving into elements, constituent parts, or first principles.

AN-A-MORPHOSIS, n. [Gr. ava and poopwois.] In perspective drawings, a deformed or distorted portrait or figure, which, in one point of view, is confused or unintelligible, and, in another, is an exact and regular representa

tion.

A-NANAS, n. The name of a species of pine-apple. AN'A-PEST, n. [Gr. ava and raw.] In poetry, a foot, consisting of three syllables, the two first short, the last long. AN-A-PESTIC, n. The anapestic measure. AN-A-PEST IC, a. Pertaining to an anapest, consisting of anapestic feet.

A-NAPHO-RA, n. [Gr. from avapepo.] 1. A figure in rhetoric, when the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more succeeding verses or clauses of a sentence-2. Among physicians, the discharge of blood, or purulent matter by the mouth. AN-A-PLE-ROT IE, a. [Gr. avanλnpow.] Filling up; supplying or rene ating flesh.

AN-A-PLE-RC г'I€, n. A medicine which renews flesh or wasted part. Core

A-NĂRЄHI€,

AN ARCH, n. The author of confusion; one who excit revolt. Milton a. Without rule or government; in a A-NARCH-CAL, state of confusion; applied to a state or society. Fielding uses anarchial. † AN ARCH-ISM, n. Confusion.

AN ARCH-IST, n. An anarch; one who excites revolt, o promotes disorder in a state

AN ARCH-Y, n. [Gr. avaoxia.] Want of government; a state of society when there is no law or supreme power or when the laws are not efficient; political confusion. A-NAR HI-CHAS, n. The sea wolf.

A'NAS, n. [L.] A genus of water fowl.

AN-A-SXR CA, n. [Gr. ava and caps.] A species of dropsy, from a serous humor spread between the skin and flesh. AN-A-SXR COUS, a. Belonging to anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical

A-NAS-TO-MATIC, a. Having the quality of removing obstructions.

A-NAS TO-MOSE, v. i. [Gr. ava and eropa.] To inosculate; to unite the mouth of one vessel with another, as the arteries with the veins.

A-NAS-TOM O-SY, or A-NAS-TO-MŌ'SIS, n. The inosculation of vessels, or the opening of one vessel into another, as an artery into a vein; the communication of two vessels, as a vein with a vein. A-NAS-TO-MOTIE, a. Opening the mouths of vessels, or removing obstructions.

A-NAS-TO-MOTIC, n. A medicine supposed to have the power of opening the mouths of vessels, and promoting circulation.

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AN-A-THEM-A-TI-ZATION, n. The act of anathematiz ing. Encyc.

A-NATH E-MA-TIZE, v. t. To excommunicate with a denunciation of curses; to pronounce an anathema against Hammond.

A-NATH E-MA-TISM, n. Excommunication. Tooker.
A-NATH E-MA-TIZED, pp. Excommunicated with curses
A-NATH E-MA-TIZ-ER, n. One who anathematizes.
A-NATHE-MA-TIZ-ING, ppr. Pronouncing an anathema
AN-A-TIF ER-OUS, a. (L. anas and fero.] Producing
ducks. Brown.

A-NATO-CISM, n. [L. anatocismus.] Interest upon interest; the taking of compound interest. [Rarely used.] AN-A-TOMI-CAL, a. Belonging to anatomy or dissection; relating to the parts of the body when dissected or separated.

AN-A-TOMI-CAL-LY, adv. In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.

A-NATO-MIST, n. One who dissects bodies; one who is skilled in the art of dissection, or versed in the doctrine and principles of anatomy.

A-NATO-MIZE, v. t. To dissect an animal; to divide into the constituent parts, for the purpose of examining each by itself; to lay open the interior structure of the parts of a body or subject.

A-NATO-MIZED, pp. Dissected, as an animal body
A-NATO-MIZ-ING, ppr. Dissecting.

A-NAT O-MY, n. [Gr. avaroμn.] 1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating, the different parts of an animal body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy. 2. The doctrine of the structure of the body, learned by dissection. 3. The act of dividing any thing, corporea or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts. 4. The body stripped of its integuments; a skeleton; an improper use of the word. 5. Ironically, a meager person. AN-A-TREP TIE, a. [Gr. avaτpenw.] Overthrowing; de. feating; prostrating.

AN A-TRON, n. [Gr. virpov.] 1. Soda, or mineral fixed alkali. 2. Spume, or glass gall, a scum which rises upon melted glass, in the furnace, and, when taken off, dis solves in the air, and then coagulates into common sali 3. The salt which collects on the walls of vaults. AN BU-RV, n. A disease in turneps, or an injury occasioned by a fly.

ANCESTOR, n. [Fr. ancestres; L. antecessor.] One from whom a person descends, either by the father or mother, at any distance of time, in the tenth or hundredth generation. An ancestor precedes in the order of nature of blood; a predecessor in the order of office.

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