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Bearing catkins. Balfour.

Shaped like a catkin.

Same as Ament.

To lessen. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.

Liable to be amerced.

s, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone.

One who amerces.

Same as Amercement. Mozley & W.

Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.

In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.

ganization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea.

The process of Americanizing.

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

Same as Ambs-ace.

Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.

A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. [Written also Ametabolia.]

Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.