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.

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

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.

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.

Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.

An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.

Leucite.

Sexual generation; amphigony.

Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens.

Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation.

Relating to both parents.

Sexual propagation.

Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.

A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.

Ambiguity of speech; equivocation.

A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c/st/t/s.

A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

a family comprising the lancelets.

A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr/, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.

One of the Amphipoda.

A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.

Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.

having columns at both ends but not on the sides.

Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.

A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way.

Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisb/na.

The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.

An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.

Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.

In the form or manner of an amphitheater.

A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.

A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora.

Resembling a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty bottle; especially, a respiratory sound heard over cavities in the lungs during percussion and auscultation; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

Partly one and partly the other

an antibiotic and antifungal agent (C47H73NO17), produced by a strain of Streptomyces nodosus. It is one of a class of polyene macrolide antibiotics effective against fungal infections. It has a molecular weight of 924.11; it is soluble in oganic solvents but only slightly soluble in water.

a semisynthetic penicillin which can be considered as the common benzylpenicillin containing an amino group at the alpha benzyl position.

Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.

Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils.