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Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.

ic crystals; also massive, generally 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…

position, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

able of two meanings. An amphibolous sentence is one that is capable of two meanings, not from the double sense of any of the words, but from its admitting of a double construction; e. g., "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." Whately.

Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.

or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound. [R.] Berzelius.

Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.

The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements.

A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.

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.

Akin to, or derived from, the almond.

Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

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.…

A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.

A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis." The anabasis of Napoleon. De Quincey.

The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid.

A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.