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High-sounding; pompous in speech. [R.] Bailey.

High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

altitude. Sir W. Scott. Meridian altitude, an arc of the meridian intercepted between the south point on the horizon and any point on the meridian. See Meridian, 3.

A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis Amazon ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant (Polyergus rufescens), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.

A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.)

e to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. South.

To walk; to move about. [R.] Southey.

d to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

A kind of viper in southern Europe. [Obs.]

me of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

pic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

en with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South.

Of extent of means or resources. "Amplitude of reward." Bacon.

ough-exciting odor and burning taste, the chief constituent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo).

By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. Hutton.

The science of reflected sounds.