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Amiability

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

Amianthus

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

Amic

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

Amicability

The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness.

Amicable

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

Amice

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

Amid Amidst

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

Amide

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 It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical.

Amidin

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

Amido

Containing, or derived from, amidogen.

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.

Amidol

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

Amidships

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

Amigo

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

Amine

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.

aminoalkane

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

aminobenzine

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

Aminol

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

aminomethane

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

aminopyrine

a white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

Amioid

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

Amioidei

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

Amir Ameer

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

Amish

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

Amiss

A fault, wrong, or mistake.

Amitosis

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.

Amitotic

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

Amity

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.

Amma

An abbes or spiritual mother.

Amman

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

Ammeter

A contraction of amperometer or amp/remeter.

Ammiral

An obsolete form of admiral.

Ammite

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

ammobium

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

Ammodyte

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

Ammonal

An explosive consisting of a mixture of powdered aluminum and ammonium nitrate.

ammonia

A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn. It is very soluble in water, forming a moderately alkaline solution, and is used in aqueous solution as a household cleaning agent, such as for cleaning grease from glass.

Ammoniac Gum ammoniac

The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Iran in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in alcohol, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

ammoniacal Ammoniac

Of, pertaining, or containing ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.

ammoniate

treat with ammonia; expose to ammonia

Ammonic

Of or pertaining to ammonia.

Ammonite

A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

Ammonitoidea

An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.

Ammonium

A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals.

ammonoid

one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks; same as ammonite.

amnesia

Forgetfulness; loss of long-term memory.

amnesiac

A patient suffering from amnesia.

Amnesic

Of or pertaining to amnesia.

amnesty

Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.

Amnion

A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

Amniota

That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.

Amniotic

Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac.

Amoeba Amoeba

A rhizopod common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. Same as ameba. See Rhizopoda.

Amoebaeum

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

Amoebea

That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms.

Amole

Any detergent plant, or the part of it used as a detergent, as the roots of Agave Americana, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, etc.

Amomum

A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

Amon-Ra

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

Amoret

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton.

Amorosa

A wanton woman; a courtesan.

Amorosity

The quality of being amorous; lovingness.

Amoroso

In a soft, tender, amatory style.

Amorous

Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.

Amorousness

The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.

Amorpha

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo.

Amorphism

A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.

Amorphous

Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.

Amorphozoa

Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges.

Amort

As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed.

Amortization

The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

Amotion

Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office.

Amotus

Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

Amount

The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

Amovability

Liability to be removed or dismissed from office.

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