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e whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande.

song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.

ten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

ughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.

Pertaining the faculty of using both hands with equal ease. Sir T. Browne.

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.

which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

The act of walking. Sir T. Browne.

To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.

ssibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement.…

Deprivation; loss. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.

enerally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the w…

Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens.

The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.