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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.

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.…

The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver i…

An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in ampères.

The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).

A father. [Obs.] Wyclif.

One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. The nimble capperer on the cord. Dryden.

Furnished with tendrils.

To delay. Bailey.

One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. [Written also douzepere.] [Obs.] Big-looking like a doughty doucepere. Spenser.

See Empress. [Obs.]

A fripper. [Obs.] Johnson.

The alewife. [Local, Canada]

Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured.

A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid.

Same as Hyperæsthesia.

Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. [Obs.] So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.

Affected or tainted with leprosy.

A million ampères.

One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampère.