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of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#), a.…

e reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.] How allow you the model of these clothes Massinger.

us expression. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding Milton.

Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious. [R.]"Ambrosiac odors." B. Jonson.

Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious. "Ambrosial food." "Ambrosial fragrance." Milton.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. "Smelt ambrosially." Tennyson.

Of or relating to, or produced by, love. "Amorous delight." Milton. "Amorous airs." Waller.

The 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.

Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.

To keep in extraction; to beguile; to delude. He amused his followers with idle promises. Johnson.

Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.

obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.

Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.

Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.

Good against mephitic or deletplwious gases. -- n.

The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.

A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople.

"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.…