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AMICABILITY n.
The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness. Ash.
AMISSIBILITY n.
The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [R.] Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.
AMIT v.
To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.
AMITOSIS n.
Cell division in which there is first a simple cleavage of the nucleus without change in its structure (such as the formation of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly…
AMITOTIC a.
Of or pertaining to amitosis; karyostenotic; -- opposed to mitotic.
AMITY n.
viduals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. To live on terms of amity with vice. Cowper.
AMMITE n.
Oölite or roestone; -- written also hammite. [Obs.]
AMMONITE n.
us. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.
AMMONITIFEROUS a.
Containing fossil ammonites.
AMMONITOIDEA n.
An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.
AMMUNITION n. 4 definitions
Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. [Obs.]
AMOLITION n.
Removal; a putting away. [Obs.] Bp. Ward (1673).
AMOROSITY n.
The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [R.] Galt.
AMOVABILITY n.
Liability to be removed or dismissed from office. [R.] T. Jefferson.
AMPELITE n.
An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
AMPHITHEATER; AMPHITHEATRE n. 2 definitions
An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.
AMPHITHEATRAL a.
Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.
AMPHITHEATRIC; AMPHITHEATRICAL a.
Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
AMPHITHEATRICALLY adv.
In the form or manner of an amphitheater.
AMPHITROCHA n.
A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.
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