Tending to cause abortion.

An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle.

Obtuse-angled.

Of or pertaining to amblyopia.

Weakness of sight, without any detectable organic lesion.

A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.

A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches.

Same as Ambo.

A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.

Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.

A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3.

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. An unguent of the gods.

Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.

in some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds.

Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.

Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose.

An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.

A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.

Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

Having the form of ambulacra.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays. One of the suckers on the feet of mites.

A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps. An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital.

Walking; moving from place to place.

To walk; to move about.

The act of walking.

Walking.

One who walks about; a walker.

Ambulatory; fitted for walking.

A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.

Same as Anbury.

A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

To lie in ambush.

Ambuscade.

Posted in ambush; ambuscaded.

To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk.

One lying in ambush.

An ambush.

A burn or scald.

naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion. Same as amoeba.

of or pertaining to amoebae. Same as amoeban.

See Amoebean.

Resembling an amoeba especially in the shape or manner of motion

same as amoebic.

A natural family of fish comprising the North American catfishes.

the type genus of the Ameiuridae: bullhead catfishes.

To enamel.

a genus of North American deciduous trees or shrubs.

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

Capable of being ameliorated.

To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.

causing improvement in or reducing the bad effects of an unfavorable condition.

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.

Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.

One who ameliorates.

To say Amen to; to sanction fully.

The quality of being amenable; amenableness.

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.

The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

In an amenable manner.

To manage.

Behavior; bearing.

To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.

Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error.

Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory.

A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.

One who amends.

Much improving.

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.

absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow.

things that make you comfortable and at ease.

The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness.

Pathological or physiological absence of menstruation.

Pertaining to amenorrhoea.

A species of inflorescence; a catkin.

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence. Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

Mental retardation.

used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins.

Bearing catkins.

Shaped like a catkin.

Same as Ament.

To lessen.

To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the court amerced the criminal in the sum of one hundred dollars.

Liable to be amerced.

The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine, in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statute for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.]

One who amerces.

Same as Amercement.

A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.

a red-skinned member of a race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived.

a sign language, used in the United States mostly by the deaf or for communication with the deaf, in which gestures made with the hands symbolize words, alphabetical letters, or ideas, permitting rapid communication in the absence of speech.

of or pertaining to American Indians

any artifact (such a books or furniture or art) that is distinctive to America.

Attachment to the United States.

The process of Americanizing.

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

Same as Ambs-ace.

American sign language.

Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.

A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.

Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects. Opposite of metabolic.

One without method; a quack.

Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.

A visual impairment resulting from faulty refraction of light rays in the eye. Subtypes include myopia astigmatism and hyperopia.

Of or pertaining to ametropia.

Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic. The Amharic language (now the chief language of Abyssinia).

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition.

Lovable; lovely; pleasing.

The quality of being amiable; amiability.

In an amiable manner.

See Amianthus.

Resembling amianthus in form.

Resembling amianthus.

Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.