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-RANTHUS, n. [Gr. αμαραντος.] 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; consisting of, containing, or resembling amaranth. A-MARI-TUDE, n. [L. amaritudo] Bitterness. [Not much use

↑A-MAK-U-LENCE, Bitterness. A-MAR/U-LENT, a. Bitter.

AM-A-RYL/LIS, n. In botany, lily-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 [This is superseded by mass.]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-mast') 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. † Λ-ΜΑΤΕ', v. i. 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 caste for the arts. Burke.

†AM-A-TOR/CU-LIST, n. An insignificant lover. AM-A-TORI-AL, AM-A-TORI-OUS, or AMA-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-TORI-AL-LY, adv. In an amatorial manner. AM-AU-RO'SIS, n. [Gr. αμαυρος.] 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-MAZED, (a-mazd1) pp. Astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder.

A-MAZED-LY, adv. With amazement; in a manner to confound. [Little used.]

A-MAZED-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 μαζος.] 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 masculine 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. αμφι; L. am or amb.]

AM-BAGES, 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-BAGI-OUS, a. Circumlocutory; perplexed; tedious. †AM-BAS-SADE, n. Embassy. Shak.

AM-BAS/SA-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-BAS/SA-DRESS, n. The wife of an ambassador.
† AM/BAS-SAGE,
+AM/BAS-SY,

}n

An embassy.

AM/BE, or AM'BI, n. [Gr. αμβη.] Literally, a brim; but in surgery, an instrument for reducing dislocated shoulders. Also the mango tree.

AM'BER, 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. AM/BER-DRINK, n. A drink resembling amber in color. AM'BER-DROP-PING, a. Dropping amber. Milton. AMBER-SEED, n. Musk-seed, resembling millet. AMBER-TREE, n. The English name of a species of anthospermum, a shrub.

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

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-NAL, 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-GUI-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-OUS-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. λογος.] Talk or language of doubtful meaning.

AM-BILO-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-BITION, 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.

ΑΜ-ΒΙΤΙΟΝ, 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-BITIOUS-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.

AMBLE, n. A peculiar pace of a horse.
AMBLER, n. Á horse which ambles; a pate..
AMBLI-GON, or AM/BLY-GON, n. [Gr. αμβλυς and
γωνια.] An obtuse-angled triangle.
AM-BLIGO-NAL, a. Containing an obtuse angle.

AM/BLI-GO-NITE, n. [Gr. αμβλυγωνιος.] A greenish-col

ored mineral.

AMBLING, ppr. or a. Lifting the two legs on the same side, at first going off, and then changing. AM BLING-LY, adn. With an ambling gait. AM/BLY-O-PY, n. [Gr. αμβλυς and wψ.] Incipient amau. rosis; dullness or obscurity of sight.

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

AM-BRE-A/DA, n. A kind of factitious amber. AM-BROSIA, (am-bra-zha) n. [Gr. a and βροτος.] 1. In heathen antiquity, the imaginary food of the gods. 2. Whatever is very pleasing to the taste or smell. AM-BRO/SI-AC, 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 distribution to the poor. 2. A place in which are deposited

for cold victuals.

AMBS-ACE, (Amz-asel) n. [L. ambo, and ace.] A double ace, as when two dice turn up the ace. AM'BU-LANT, a. [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, a. Walking.

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

AM BU-LA-TO-RY, a. 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-TO-RY, n. A species of ichneumon

AM/BU-RY, or AN/BU-RY, n. [qu. L. umbo; Gr. αμβων.] Among farriers, a tumor or wart on a horse, full of blood. • AM'BUS-CADE, n. [Fr. embuscade.] 1. Alying 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 BUS-CADE, . 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-DING, ppr. Lying in wait for; attacking from a secret station.

AMBUSH, n. [Fr. embûche.] 1. A private or concealed station, where troops lie in wait to attack their enemy by surprise. 2. The state of lying concealed, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; a lying in wait. 3. The troops posted in a concealed place for attacking by surprise.

AM BUSH, v. t. To lie in wait for; to surprise by assailing unexpectedly from a concealed place.

AM BUSH, v. i. To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise. Trumbull.

*AM BUSHED, pp. Lain in wait for; suddenly attacked from a concealed station. AM/BUSH-ING, ppr. Lying in wait for.

AM BUSH-MENT, n. An ambush; which see. AM-BUST, a. [L. ambustus.] Burnt; scalded. AM-BUS TIÓN, n. [L. ambustio.] A burning; a burn or scald. A-MEIVA, 2. A species of lizard found in Brazil. AMEL, n. [Fr. email.] The matter with which metallic bodies are overlaid; but its use is superseded by enamel. A-MELIO-RATE, v. t. [Fr. ameliorer.] To make better; to improve; to meliorate. Christ. Obs. Buchanan. A-MELIO-RATE, v. i. To grow better; to meliorate. A-MEL-IO-RA TIÓN, n. A making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.

*A-MEN'. This word, with slight differences of orthography, is in all the dialects of the Assyrian stock. As a verb, 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 Christ;" that is, firmness, stability, constancy.

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

account.

†AM'EN-AGE, v. t. To manage. Spenser. †AMEN-ANCE, n. Conduct; behavior. Spenser. A-MEND, v. t. (Fr. amender; L. emendo.] 1. To correct; to rectify 2. To reform, by

3.

quitting bad habits; to make better in a moral sense. To correct; to supply a defect; to improve or make better, by adding what is wanted, as well as by expunging what is wrong.

A-MEND', v. i. To grow or become better, by reformation, or rectifying something wrong in manners or morals. A-MEND, n. [Fr.] A pecuniary punishment or fine. The amende honorable, in France, is an infamous punishment inflicted on traitors, parricides, and sacrilegious persons. These words denote also a recantation in open court, or in presence of the injured person.

A-MEND/A-BLE, a. That may be amended; capable of

correction.

jury; recompense; satisfaction; equivalent.

A-MĚNI-TY, n. [L. amænitas; Fr. aménité.] Pleasantness; agreeableness of situation; that which delights the eye AMENT, n. [L. amentum.) In botany, a species of inflo rescence, from a common, chaffy receptacle.

A-MEN-TACEOUS, a. Growing in an ament; resembling a thong.

† A-MEN/TY, n. [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.

Α-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-MERCER, n. One who sets a fine at discretion upon an offender.

†A-MER CIA-MENT, n. Amercement. Selden. A-MERI-CA, n. [from Amerigo Vespucci.] One of the great continents.

A-MERI-CAN, a. Pertaining to America. A-MERI-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-MERI-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 natu-
ralize 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-THYSTINE, a. Pertaining to or resembling amethyst.
АМІ-А, п. 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'MI-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, 1 π. [Gr. αμιαντος.] Earth-flax, or mounAM-I-ANTHUS, tain flax; a mineral substance, somewhat resembling flax.

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

AM-I-ANTHOID, a Resembling amianth in form.
AMI-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.
AMI-CA-BLY, adv. In a friendly manner.
†A-MICAL, a. 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. În marine language, the middle of a ship, with regard to her length and breadth. AMI-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.

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

AM/MA, n. [Heb. 1 [.אס. An abbess, or spiritual moth er. 2. A girdle or truss used in ruptures. [Gr. αμμα.] 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/MΙΤΕ, η. [Gr. αμμος.] A sand-stone or free-stone, of a pale-brown color.

AM/MO-CETE, n. An obsolete name of the ammodyte. In Cuvier, the name of a genus of fish.

AM/MO-CHRYSE, n. [Gr. αμμος and χρυσος.] A yellow, soft stone, found in Germany. AM/MO-DYTE, n. [Gr. αμμος and δυω.] The sand eel, a genus of fish of the apodal order.

AM-MONI-A, or AM/MO-NY, n. Volatile alkali; a substance, which, in its purest form, exists in a state of gas. AM-MONI-AC, or AM-MO-NIA-CAL, a. Pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties. AM-MONI-AC, or AM-MONI-AC 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 forın, like a ram's horn.

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

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

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. AM/NES-TY, n. [Gr. αμνηστια.] An act of oblivion; a general pardon of the offenses of subjects against the government, or the proclamation of sucn pardon. †AM-NICO-LIST, n. One who dwells near a river. AM-NIG/E-NOUS, a. Born of a river.

AM/NI-OS, or AM/NI-ON, n. [Gr. αμνιον.] The innermost membrane surrounding 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. αμοιβαιος.] A poem in which persons are represented as speaking alternately †AM-O-LITION, n. A removal; a putting away. Bp.

Ward.

A-MOMUM, n. [Gr. αμωμον.] 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 commen

tators 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, adv. 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. amoreuz.) 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. AMO-ROUS-NESS, n. The quality of being inclined to love, or to sexual pleasure; fondness.

A-MORPHA, n. [Gr. a and μορφη.] False or bastard indi go, a native plant of Carolina.

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

A-MORPH/Y, n. Irregularity of form; deviation from a determinate shape. Swift.

A-MOR'T', adv. [L. mors, mortuus.) In the state of the dead. Shak.

A-MOR-TI-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

to, in effect, or substance; to result in, by consequence when all things are considered.

A-MOUNT', n. 1. The sum total of two or more particula. sums or quantities. 2. The effect, substance, or result the sum.

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. AMPEL-ITE, n. [Gr. αμπελος.] Cannel coal, or candle coal, an inflammable substance.

AM-PHIBI-AL, or AM-PHIBI-A, n. [Gr. αμφι and βιος.] 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. αμφιβιος and λιθος.] A fragment of a petrified amphibious animal. AM-PIIB-I-O-LOGI-CAL, a. Pertaining to amphibiology AM-PHIB-I-OL/O-GY, n. [Gr. αμφι, βιος, and λογος.] Α discourse or treatise on amphibious animals, or the history and description of such animals.

AM-PHIBI-OUS, a. 1. Having the power of living in two elements, air and water. 2. Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures.

AM-PHIBIOUS-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.

AMPHI-BOLE, n. [Gr. αμφιβολος; 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, adv. With a doubtful meaning. AM-PHI-BOLO-GY, n. [Gr. αμφιβολογια.] Α phrase or discourse susceptible of two interpretations; and, hence. AM-PHIBO-LOUS, a. [Gr. αμφιβολος.] Tossed from one to a phrase of uncertain meaning. another; striking each way, with mutual blows. [L.u.] AM-PHIBO-LY, n. [Gr. αμφιβολια.] Ambiguity of meaning. Spelman. [Rarely used.]

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

AM'PHI-COME, n. [Gr. αμφι and κομη.] A kind of figured stone, of a round shape.

AM-PHIC-TY-ONIC, a. Pertaining to the august council of Amphictyons.

AM-PHIC TY-ONS, n. In Grecian history, an assembly or council of deputies from the different states of Greece, who sat at Thermopylæ, but ordinarily at Delphi. AMPHI-GENE, n. [Gr. αμφι and γενος.] In mineralogy. another name of the leucite or Vesuvian.

AM-PHI-HEX-A-HEDRAL, a. [Gr. αμφι, 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, n. [Gr. αμφιμακρος.] In ancient poetry, a foot of three syllables, the middle one short, and the others long, as in cāstītās.

AM-PHIS BENA, G. αμφισβαινα.] A genus of ser

pents.

AM-PHIS/CI-I, or AM-PHISCIANS, n. [Gr. αμφι and σκια.] In geography, the inhabitants of the tropics, whese 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-THE A-TRE, n. [Gr. αμφιθεατρον.] 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-THEA-TRAL, a. Resembling an amphitheatre

Tooke.

Romans, a liquid measure.

AM-PLEXI-CAUL, a. [L. amplezor.] In botany, surrounding, or embracing the stem, as the base of a leaf. AMPLI-ATE, v. t. [L. amplio.] To enlarge; to make greater; to extend. [Little used.]

AM-PLI-ATION, n. 1. Enlargement; amplification; diffuseness. [Little used.]-2. In Roman antiquity, a deferring to pass sentence.

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

AM-PLIF-I-CATION, n. [L. amplificatio.] 1. Enlargement; extension.-2. In rhetoric, diffusive description, or discussion, exaggerated representation; diffuse narrative, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. AMPLIFIED, pp. Enlarged; extended.

AM'PLI-FI-ER, n. One who amplifies or enlarges. AMPLI-FY, v. 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

AMPLI-FY, v. 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

tion.

AM/PLI-FY-ING, ppr. Enlarging; exaggerating; diffusively treating.

AMPLI-TUDE, n. [L. amplitudo.] 1. Largeness; extent applied to bodies. 2. Largeness; extent of capacity, or intellectual powers. 3. Extent of means or 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 projectiles, 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 east or west point of the horizon, by the compass. Encyc. AMPLY, adv. Largely; liberally; fully; sufficiently; copiously; in a diffusive manner.

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

AM-PU-TATION, n. [L. amputatio.] The act or operation of cutting off a límb or some part of the body.

AM'U-LET, n. [L. amuletum.] Something worn as a remedy or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft. Amulets, in days of ignorance,

were common.

AM-UR-COSI-TY, n. The quality of lees. A-MUSE, v.t. [Fr. amuser.] 1. To entertain the mind agreeably; to occupy or detain attention with agreeable objects, whether by singing, conversation, or a show of curiosities. 2. To detain; to engage the attention by hope or expectation.

A-MUS/ED, (a-mūzd') pp. Agreeably entertained; having the mind engaged by something pleasing

A-MUSE MENT, n. That which amuses, detains, or engages the mind; entertainment of the mind; pastime; a pleasurable occupation of the senses, or that which furnishes it, as dancing, sports, or music.

A-MUSER, n. One who amuses, or affords an agreeable

entertainment to the mind.

A-MUSING, ppr. or a. Entertaining; giving moderate pleasure to the mind, so as to engage it; pleasing. A-MUSING-LY, adv. In an amusing manner.

A-MOSIVE, a. That has the power to amuse or entertain the mind.

A-MOSIVE-LY, adv. In an amusive manner.

A-MYG DA-LATE, a. [L. amygdalus.] Made of almonds. A-MYG DA-LATE, n. An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds.

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

mond.

A-MYG DA-LITE, n. A plant; a species of spurge. A-MYG/DA-LOID, n. [Gr. αμυγδαλεα.] Toad-stone. A-MYG/DA-LOID-AL, a. Pertaining to amygdaloid. AM-Y-LACEOUS, a. [L. amylum.] Pertaining to starch, or the farinaceous part of grain; resembling starch. AM/Y-LINE, n. [L. amylum.] A farinaceous substance between gum and starch

AMY-RALD-ISM, n. In church history, the doctrine of universal grace, as explained by Amyraldus. A MYZ TLI, n. A Mexican name of the sea-lion.

AN, a. [Sax. an, ane, one; D. een; Ger. ein; Sw. and Dan, en; Fr. on, un, une; Sp. un, uno; It. uno, una; L. unus, una, unum; Gr. εν; Ir. ein, ean, aon; W. un, yn.] One; noting an individual; either definitely, known, certain, specified, or understood; or indefinitely, not certain, known, or specified. Definitely; as, "Noah built an ark of gopher wood." "Paul was an eminent apostle." In

definitely; as, "Bring me an orange." Before a conso nant, the letter a is dropped; as, a man. AN, in old English authors, signifies if; as, "an it please your honor.

A'NA, da, or a. [Gr. ava.] In medical prescriptions, it signifies an equal quantity of the several ingredients; as, wine and honey, ana, &a, 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-BAP/TISM, n. The doctrine of the Anabaptists. AN-A-BAPTIST, n. [Gr. ava and βαπτιστης.] One who holds the loctrine 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,

a. Relating to the Anabaptists

AN-A-BAP-TISTI-CAL, or to their doctrines.
AN-A-BAPTIST-RY, n. The sect of Anabaptists.
†AN-A-BAP-ΤΙΖΕ, v. t. To rebaptize. Whitlock.
ANACA, n. A species of paroquet, about the size of a

lark.

AN-A-CAMP/TICS, n. The doctrine of reflected light. Sce CATOPTRICs.

AN-A-CAR/DIUM, n. The cashew nut, or marking nut. AN-A-CA-THAR/TIC, a. [Gr. ανα and καθαρσις.] Throwing upwards; cleansing, by exciting vomiting, expectoration, &c.

AN-A-CA-THARTIC, n. A medicine which excites discharges by the mouth or nose.

AN-A-CEPH-A-LE-OSIS, n. [Gr. ανακεφαλάιωσις.] Recapitulation of the heads of a discourse.

AN-ACHO-RET. See ANCHORET.
AN-A-CHO-RETI-CAL, a. Relating to an anachoret, or

anchoret.

ANA-DEME, n. [Gr. αναδημα.] Α chaplet or crown of flowers. W. Browne.

AN-A-DI-PLOSIS, n. [Gr. ava and διπλοος.] Duplication, a figure in rhetoric and poetry, consisting in the repetition 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 δρομος.] Ascending; a word applied to such fish as pass from the sea into fresh waters, at stated seasons.

ANA-GLYPH, n. [Gr. ava and γλυφω.] An ornament made by sculpture.

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

ANA-GO-GE, or ANA-GO-GY, n. [Gr. αναγωγη.] An elevation of mind to things celestial; the spiritual meaning or application of words.

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

AN-A-GOGIES, n. Mysterious considerations.

ANA-GRAM, n. [Gr. ava and γραμμα.] 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 moyl in law. AN-A-GRAM-МАТІЄ, AN-A-GRAM-MATI-CAL, 4. Making an anagram. AN-A-GRAM-MATI-CAL-LY, adv. In the manner of an

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

ANA-LECTS, n. [Gr. ava and λεγω.] A collection of short essays, or remarks. Encyc.

ANA-LEM-MA, n. [Gr. αναλημμα.] 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. αναληψις.] The augmentation or nutrition of an emaciated body; recovery of strength after a disease.

A-NARCHIє, a. Without rule or government; in a A-NARCHI-CAL, state of confusion; applied to a state or society. Fielding uses anarchial.

† AN ARCH-ISM, a. Confusion.

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

ANARCH-Y, n. [Gr. αναρχια.] 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.

ANAS, n. [L.) A genus of water fowl. AN-A-SARCA, n. [Gr. ava and σαρξ.] A species of dropsy, from a serous humor spread between the skin and flesh.

strength after disease.

AN-A-LEPTIC, n. A medicine which gives strength; a

restorative.

AN-AL/O-GISM, n. [Gr. αναλογισμος.] 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-AL/O-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-NAL/O-GOUS, a. Having analogy; bearing some resemblance or proportion.

A-NAL/O-GOUS-LY, adv. In an analogous inanner. A-NAL/O-GY, n. [Gr. αναλογια.] 1. An agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. 2. With grammarians, analogy is a conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language.

A-NALYSIS, n. [Gr. αναλυσις.] 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 analy

sis. Kirwan.

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. αναλυω.] Το 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.

ANJA-LYZED, pp. Resolved into its corstituent parts or principles, for examination.

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

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

* AN-A-MORPHO-SIS, n. [Gr. ανα and μορφωσις.] 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-NA NAS, n. The name of a species of pine-apple.
ANA-PEST, n. [Gr. ανα and ταιω.] In poetry, a foot, con-
sisting of three syllables, the two first short, the last long.
AN-A-PESTIC, n. The anapestic measure.

AN-A-PESTIC, a. Pertaining to an anapest, consisting of anapestic feet.

A-NAPHO-RA, n. [Gr. from αναφερω.] 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 (€, α. [Gr. αναπληροω.] Filling up; supplying or rene ating flesh.

AN-A-PLE-RC FIC, n. A medicine which renews flesh or wasted part. Core

dropsical

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

A-NASTO-MOSE, v.i. [Gr. ava and στομα.] Το inosculate; to unite the mouth of one vessel with another, as the arteries with the veins.

A-NAS-TOMO-SY, or A-NAS-TO-MOSIS, n. The inoscu lation of vessels, or the opening of one vessel into another, as an artery into a vein; the communication of two ves sels, as a vein with a vein.

A-NAS-TO-MOTIC, 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.

A-NAS TRO-PHE, n. [Gr. aναστροφη.] In rhetoric and A-NAS TRO-PHY, grammar, an inversion of the natu

ral order of words. ANA-TASE, n. [Gr. ανατασις.] Octahedrite; octahedral oxyd of titanium; a mineral that shows a variety of colors by reflected light.

A-NATHE-MAΑ, η. [Gr. αναθεμα.] Excommunication with curses. Hence, a curse or denunciation by ecclesiastical authority, accompanying excommunication. A-NATH-E-MATI-CAL, a. Pertaining to anathema. A-NATH-E-MATI-CAL-LY, adv. In the manner of anath

ema.

AN-A-THEM-A-TI-ZATION, n. The act of anathematiz
ing. Encyc.
A-NATHE-MA-TIZE, v. t. To excommunicate with a de-
nunciation of curses; to pronounce an anathema against
Hammond.

A-NATH-E-MA-TISM, n. Excommunication. Tooker.
A-NATH E-MA-TIZE), pp. Excommunicated with curses
A-NATHE-MA-TIZ-ER, n. One who anathematizes.
A-NATH E-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 inter-
est; the taking of compound interest. [Rarely used.]
AN-A-TOMI-CAL, a. Belonging to anatomy or dissec-
tion; 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, #. One who dissects bodies; one who is skilled in the art of dissection, or versed in the doctrine and principles of anatomy.

A-NAT O-MIZE, c. 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-NAT-O-MIZ-ING, ppr. Dissecting.

A-NATO-MY, n. [Gr. ανατομη.] 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, corporeal 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/TΙΕ, α. [Gr. ανατρεπω.] Overthrowing; defeating; prostrating.

ANA-TRON, n. [Gr. νιτρον.] 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, dissolves in the air, and then coagulates into common salı 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.

AN CES-TOR, 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 or blood; a predecessor in the order of office.