Am-phĭs'ci-ī or Am-phĭs'ci-ans, n. pl.

(-fĭsh'ī), Am-phĭs'ci-ans (-fĭsh'ĭ-anz), n. pl. [Gr. ἀμφίσκιος, throwing a shadow both ways, from ἀμφί, on both sides, and σκιά, shadow.] (Geog.) The inhabitants between the tropics, 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.