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.

type genus of the Ammodytidae.

a family comprising the sand lances.

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

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.

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.

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

treat with ammonia; expose to ammonia

Combined or impregnated with ammonia.

Of or pertaining to ammonia.

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.

Containing fossil ammonites.

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

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

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

a genus of wild sheep.

To provide with ammunition.

Forgetfulness; loss of long-term memory.

A patient suffering from amnesia.

Of or pertaining to amnesia.

Causing loss of memory.

A drug causing loss of memory.

Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.

To grant amnesty to.

One who lives near a river.

Born or bred in, of, or near a river.

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

Same as Amnion.

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

any member of the Amniota.

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

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

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

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

Alternately answering.

One of the Am/bea.

Resembling an am/ba; am/ba-shaped; changing in shape like an am/ba.

Like an am/ba in structure.

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

Removal; a putting away.

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

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

To admonish.

Mixed or mingled; surrounded by.

A dry kind of cherry, of a light color.

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton.

An amoret.

A lover; a gallant.

A wanton woman; a courtesan.

The quality of being amorous; lovingness.

In a soft, tender, amatory style.

In an amorous manner; fondly.

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

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

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

any plant of the genus Amorphophallus.

Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.

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

Of or pertaining to the Amorphozoa.

Shapelessness.

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

Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc.

Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.

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

To make as if dead; to destroy.

Same as Amortization.

In the morning.

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

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

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.

Love; affection.

Liability to be removed or dismissed from office.

Removable.

To move or be moved; to excite.

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

A genus formerly including the Virginia creeper.

The strength of a current of electricity carried by a conductor or generated by a machine, measured in amp/res.

The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international amp/re.

a unit of charge equal to that acquired by the accumulation of one ampere for one second.

An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in amp/res.

A word used to describe the character /, /, or .

Characterized by amphiarthrosis.

A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.

The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.

One of the classes of vertebrates.

Amphibian.

One of the Amphibia.

Pertaining to amphibiology.

A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.

A division of insects having aquatic larv/.

Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.

Like an amphibious being.

An amphibian.

Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.

A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.

a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase.

Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous.

A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.

A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (/ -- /); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet/ic.

Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.

Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.

Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebr/.

A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination.

Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body.

Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound.

A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.

Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.