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Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.

The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

To make as if dead; to destroy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Amortization.

In the morning. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office.

Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

To go up; to ascend. [Obs.] So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser.

air; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. In amours with, in love with. [Obs.]

Self-love; self-esteem.

Liability to be removed or dismissed from office. [R.] T. Jefferson.

Removable.

To remove, as a person or thing, from a position. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

A genus formerly including the Virginia creeper.

of a current of electricity carried by a conductor or generated by a machine, measured in ampères.

yed in calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.

A unit equal to the product of one complete convolution (of a coiled conductor) into one ampère of current; thus, a conductor having five convolutions and carrying a current of half an ampère is said to have 2½ ampère turns. The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of its ampère turns.…

tandard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.