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injurious to vegetation. Black alkali is so called because water containing it dissolves humus, forming a dark-colored solution which, when it collects in puddles and evaporates, produces characteristic black spots.

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.

quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.

ibution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action. What news among the merchants Shak. Human sacrifices were practiced among them. Hume. Divide that gold amongst you. Marlowe. Whether they quarreled among themselves, or with their neighbors. Addison.

Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none. Whitlock.

s; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.

An embrace. [Obs.] An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall.

The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron.

Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations. Hume.

of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. Hume.

The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.

Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx.

A machine or automaton in the form of a human being.

and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and…

Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy. [R.]

The quality of being angelic; excellence more than human.

l; to render angelic. It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man. W. Taylor.