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Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. W. Smith.

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Analogue.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

dings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

eld safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise. The hearts of all that he did angle for. Shak.

racteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold.

answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.

An animal which has a tongue resembling that of man, as the parrot.

Good or used against bubonic plague; as, antibubonic serum, obtained from immunized horses; antibubonic vaccine, a sterilized bouillon culture of the plague bacillus; antibubonic measures.

A remedy against the plague. Brande & C.

A teller of apologues. [Obs.]

speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.

. become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue.

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

To argue pertinaciously. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

To make an argument; to argue. [Obs.] Gower.