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Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. Foster.

Instrument for determining the amount of starch in a substance.

Starch-forming; amylogenic.

One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.

Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

To near; to approach. [Archaic]

A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches. [Archaic] Unto-the angel of the church of Ephesus write. Rev. ii. 1.

An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.

oint where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton.

Ahungered; longing. [Archaic]

Nigh. [Archaic]

In the night time; at night. [Archaic] Does he hawk anights still Marston.

Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." Wesley.

Having the power of perceiving; percipient. [Archaic] Glanvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment. [Archaic] Grew.

Anhilated. [Archaic] Swift.

To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.

The festival celebrated (March 25th) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day.

Of another sort. [Archaic] It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.

Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic] Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton.