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; doubtful. [Obs.] Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel -- both parties declaring themselves for the king. Howell.

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert. A group children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

One of the rounded prominences of the lower surface of the lateral hemispheres of the cerebellum, each side of the vallecula.

Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether. Amylic alcohol (Chem.), one of the series of alcohols, a transparent, colorless liquid, having a peculiar odor. It is the hydroxide of amyl. -- Amylic fermentation (Chem.), a process of fermentation in starch or sugar in which amylic alcohol is produced. Gregory.…

The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

ho analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

tion. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.

m, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Hemans.

To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise. The hearts of all that he did angle for. Shak.

rouse; to enliven. The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice. Knolles.

Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute. [Obs.] Ash.

Vehemence of temper. [Obs.]

An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro- chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation. Faraday.

To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

y at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.

to; to face. The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin.

ginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres. Whewell.