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Asparagine.

A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

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

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 collection of literary fragments.

at the top of the shank at right angles to the arms. -- The anchor comes home, when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts. -- Foul anchor, the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled. -- The anchor is acockbill, when it is suspend…

Fit for anchorage.

An ensign or flag. [Obs.] More dishonorable ragged than an old-faced ancient. Shak.

a, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.

icular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke. Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon.

A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. Dryden.

Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v. 6.

Mere spiritedness or courage. [Obs.] Skelton. Such as give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she [the crocodile] loveth. Holland.

ich connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus. Ankle bone, the bone of the ankle; the astragalus.