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Persons supported by alms; almsmen. [Archaic] Holinshed.

neutral paper." Addison. -- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.

Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil

At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. "They fled amain." Holinshed.

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

An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.

or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style. A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race, From off wide, ambitious base. Collins.

exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

ear 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.

To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy. By ambushed men behind their temple Dryden.

A genus 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.

An order of ganoid fishes of which Amis is type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei.

One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.

A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal.…

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

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

A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.