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ouvier. Burrill. -- Amicable numbers (Math.), two numbers, each of which is equal to the sum of all the aliquot parts of the other.

To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.

particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

g, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.

nalyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality. No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain. Darwin.

htly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the he…

A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils. Do the strings answer to thy noble hand Dryden.

Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.

Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system. Draper.

Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption. -- n.

anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit. Gray.

whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive.

ute their orders. Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

To summon; to challenge. [Archaic] Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists. Sir W. Scott.