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Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.

Resembling amianthus in form.

Resembling amianthus.

acid; phosphamic acid. Amic acid (Chem.), one of a class of nitrogenized acids somewhat resembling amides.

s hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.

otive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.

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

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton.

Of or resembling the mineral amphibole.

A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. [Obs.] Encyc. Brit.

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.

Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora.

The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications.

l of Lincoln . . . is a magnificent structure, proportionable to the amplitude of the diocese. Fuller.

Resembling an ampulla.