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One without method; a quack. [Obs.]

bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone. Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.

Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. -- Am`e*trop"ic, a.

Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic. -- n.

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition. Every excellency is a degree of amiability. Jer. Taylor.

Lovable; lovely; pleasing. [Obs. or R.] So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert.

The quality of being amiable; amiability.

In an amiable manner.

See Amianthus. [Poetic]

Resembling amianthus in form.

Resembling amianthus.

Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.

Related to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid. Amic acid (Chem.), one of a class of nitrogenized acids somewhat resembling amides.

The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness. Ash.

ceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent o…

The quality of being amicable; amicability.

In an amicable manner.

pe with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce.