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tion. [Now const. with sing. verb.] "An honorable amends." Addison. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. Shak.

us of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.

septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

To make as if dead; to destroy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

iddle one long, the first and last short (as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet''ic.

erpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

s with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate. Walker.

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

A maker anagrams.

Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks.

To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.

The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

To make like an angel; to angelize. [Obs.] Farindon (1647).

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [Obs.] He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon.

To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.