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 ancient Egyptian sun god; supreme god of the universe in whom Amen and Ra were combined; the principal deity during the Theban supremacy.

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.

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.

Related to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid.

The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness.

Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement.

The quality of being amicable; amicability.

In an amicable manner.

A hood, or cape with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce.

See Amidst.

In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.

A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical.

Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

Containing, or derived from, amidogen.

A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.

A salt of a diamino phenol, C6H3(OH)(NH2)2, used as a developer.

In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth.

A friend; -- a Spanish term applied in the Philippine Islands to friendly natives.

One of a class of basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by an alkyl or aryl group. Compare amide, in which an acyl group is attached to the nitrogen. Hydroxylamine and hydrazine, which are not an organic compounds, are also basic and may also be considered amines.

a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals.

an oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines. Same as aniline.

A colorless liquid prepared from herring brine and containing amines, used as a local antiseptic.

a methyl with the hydrogen atom replaced by an amino radical.

a white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

Like or pertaining to the Amioidei. One of the Amioidei.

An order of ganoid fishes of which Amia is the type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei.

Same as Ameer.

an independent ruler or chieftan (especially in Africa or Arabia). Same as Emir.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as /worldly conformity/. There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States. A branch having particularly strict adherence to the Amish principles are called Old Order Amish

A fault, wrong, or mistake.

Liable to be lost.

Deprivation; loss.

To lose.

Cell division in which there is first a simple cleavage of the nucleus without change in its structure (such as the formation of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly specialized cells which are incapable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration.

Of or pertaining to amitosis; karyostenotic; -- opposed to mitotic.

Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories.

An abbes or spiritual mother.

The capital city of Jordan. Population (2000) = 963,490.

A contraction of amperometer or amp/remeter.

An obsolete form of admiral.

O/lite or roestone; -- written also hammite.

any plant of the genus Ammobium having yellow flowers and silvery foliage.

One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel. A kind of viper in southern Europe.