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female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. [Written also Ametabolia.]

A hood, or cape with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce.

Oölite or roestone; -- written also hammite. [Obs.]

a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also amphigouri.]

ng particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't. [Colloq. & illiterate speech.]

nces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

ing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. [Written also aneurysmal.]

A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle. [Written also anelace.]

longing to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

nnelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having to teeth at the hinge. [Written also Anodonta.]

Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. [Written also anomoural, anomouran.]

Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6.

Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]

the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]