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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Am'ni-on or Am'ni-os, n.p. 45(Anat.) The innermost membrane surrounding the fetus in the womb.
  2. Am'ni-ōt'ic, a.p. 45Pertaining to, or contained in, the amnios; as, the amniotic fluid. 2. Relating to the liquor of the amnios. Amniotic acid, an acid found in the amniotic fluid of the cow; considered the same as the…
  3. A-mœ'bă, n.p. 45(Zoöl.) An animalcule capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. Dana.
  4. Ăm'ō-bē'an, a.p. 45Alternately answering. Warton.
  5. Am'æ-bæ'um, n.p. 45A poem in which persons are represented as speaking alternately, as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil. Encyc. Brit.
  6. A·mœ'bōüs, a.p. 45Like an amœba in structure. Dana.
  7. Am'o-lĭ'tion, n.p. 45Removal; a putting away. [Obs.]
  8. A-mō'mum, n.p. 46(Bot.) A genus of plants, all natives of warm climates, and remarkable for their pungency and aromatic properties. It includes the Grana Paradisi, or grains of paradise.
  9. A-mōng' or A-mōngst', prep.p. 46Mixed or mingled with. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton. 2. Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of. “Blessed art thou among…
  10. A-mōn'til-tā'do, n.p. 46A dry kind of sherry, of a light color, much used to reduce the color of other sherries when too high. Simmonds.
  11. Ăm'o-ret, n.p. 46A lover. “When amorets no more can shine.” J. Warton.
  12. Ām'o-rètte', n.p. 46An amorous woman. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. A love-knot, or love-token. [Obs.] Chaucer. 3. A petty love affair or amour. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  13. Ăm'o-rist, n.p. 46A lover; a gallant; an inamorato. [Rare.] It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.
  14. A-mòrn'ings, adv.p. 46In the mornings. “To give her music a-mornings.” Shak.
  15. Ām'o-rō'sā, n.p. 46A wanton woman; a courtesan.
  16. Ăm′o-rō′so, n.p. 46A lover; a man enamored. Bailey.
  17. Ām'o-rō'so, adv.p. 46(Mus.) In a tender, slow manner.
  18. Ăm'o-roŭs, a.p. 46Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; as, an amorous disposition. 2. In love; enamored; — usually with of. “Princes amorous of their chief.” Chapman. Sure my…
  19. Ăm'o-roŭs-ly, adv.p. 46In an amorous manner; fondly; lovingly.
  20. Ăm'o-roŭs-ness, n.p. 46The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; fondness; lovingness.
  21. A-môr'phism, n.p. 46A state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, &c. There are many substances which, when fused, may cool as glass or as stone; the glass state is…
  22. A-môr'phous, a.p. 46Having no determinate form; of irregular shape; not of any regular figure. Kirwan. 2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance. Dana. 3. Of no particular kind or…
  23. Ām'or-phō'tæ, n. pl.p. 46(Astron.) Stars not formed into any constellation.
  24. Ă-môr'/pho-zō'ā, n. pl.p. 46(Zoöl.) Living substances without a mouth or regular internal structure, as the sponges. Blainville.
  25. A-mōr'phy, n.p. 46Irregularity of form. [Obs.] Swift.
  26. A-mōrt', a.p. 46Lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed; inanimate. “What, sweeting! all amort!” Shak.
  27. A-môr'ti-zā'tion or A-môr'tize-ment, n.p. 46(Law.) The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain. 2. The extinction of debt, particularly by means of a…
  28. A-mór'tize, v. t.p. 46(Law.) To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See MORTMAIN.
  29. A-mō'tion, n.p. 46Removal; ouster. Warton. 2. (Law.) Deprivation of possession; the removal of an officer or member of a corporation, properly the former. Kent. Burvill.
  30. A-mount', v. i.p. 46To go up; to ascend; hence, to depart. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or…
  31. A-mount', v. t.p. 46To increase; to augment. [Rare.] “Whose number was now amounted to 300.” Swift.
  32. A-mount′, n.p. 46The sum total of two or more particular sums or quantities; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16. 2. The effect, substance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
  33. A-mour', n.p. 46An unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an affair of gallantry.
  34. A-mov'al, n.p. 46Total removal. [Obs.] Evelyn.
  35. A-mōve′, v. t.p. 46To remove. [Obs.] 2. To move; to touch; to excite. [Obs.] Speed. At her so piteous cry was much amoved Her champion stout. Spenser. 3. (Law.) To remove from a post or station. Hale.
  36. Ăm'pe-līte, n.p. 46(Min.) An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, &c., on vines. The term has been applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist. Dana.
  37. Am'per-sānd, n.p. 46A word used to describe the character &c. Halliwell.
  38. Am'phi, n.p. 46A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying about, around, on both sides, &c.
  39. Am-phĭbĭ-a, n. pl.p. 46Same as Reptilia, or the class of reptiles which includes the saurians, crocodiles, lizards, serpents, frogs or batrachians, turtles, and salamanders. † More correctly the term is restricted to the…
  40. Am-phib'i-al, n.p. 46Same as AMPHIBIAN. [Rare.]
  41. Am-phib'i-an, n.p. 46One of the Amphibia.
  42. Am-phib'i-o-lŏg'ie-al, a.p. 46Pertaining to amphibiology.
  43. Am-phīb'/i-ŏl'o-gy, n.p. 46A discourse or treatise on amphibious animals, or the history and description of such animals.
  44. Am-phíb'i-oüs, a.p. 46Having the power of living in the two elements, air and water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants. 2. Adapted for living on land or water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was…
  45. Am-phīb'i-ōūs-ness, n.p. 46The quality of being amphibious; ability to live in two elements.
  46. Am-phib'i-ŭm, n.p. 46An amphibious animal.
  47. Am'phi-bōle, n.p. 46(Min.) Hornblende. See HORNBLENDE. Dana.
  48. Ăm'phi-bŏl'ic, a.p. 46Pertaining to or resembling amphibole, or partaking of its nature and characters. (Cooper.)
  49. Am-phib'o-lite, n.p. 46(Min.) Trap, or greenstone; a rock with a base of amphibole or hornblende.
  50. Am·phib'o-lōg'ie-al, a.p. 46Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous. “Of great use in all doubtful or amphibological expressions.” Bp. Taylor.
  51. Am-phīb'o-lŏg'ie-al-ly, adv.p. 46With a doubtful meaning.
  52. Ăm'/phi-bŏl'o-gy, n.p. 46A 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. Browne.
  53. Am-phib'o-loûs, a.p. 46Tossed from one to another; striking each way, with mutual blows. [Obs.] Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel—both parties declaring themselves for the king. Howell. 2. Capable of two…
  54. Am-phĭb'o-ly, n.p. 46Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. [Rare.] Spelman.
  55. Am’phi-brāch, n.p. 46(Anc. Pros.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short; as, hăbēre.
  56. Am'phi-cär'pic, a.p. 46(Bot.) Producing fruit of two kinds either as to form or time of ripening.
  57. Am'phi-cœl'ian, a.p. 46(Zoöl.) Having both the fore and hinder ends concave, as the vertebræ of Teleosaurs and Ichthyosaurs, extinct Saurians. Dana.
  58. Am’phi-ēōme, n.p. 46A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. Encyc. Brit.
  59. Am-phic'ty-ōn'ic, a.p. 46Pertaining to the council of Amphictyons. Wm. Smith.
  60. Am-phic'ty-ons, n. pl.p. 46(Grecian Hist.) An assembly or council of deputies from the different states of Greece. ☞ Ten or twelve states were represented in this assembly, which sat alternately at Thermopylæ and at Delphi.…