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rcle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.

Amasthenic. Sir J. Herschel.

One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

Hence; A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

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

A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

on or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

rs, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily. It is used as a noun, to demote: (a) concurrence in belief, or in a statement; assent; (b) the final word or act; (c) Christ as being one who is true and faithful…

ixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone.

A salt of a diamino phenol, C6H3(OH)(NH2)2, used as a developer.

s by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.

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. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.…

Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

To go up; to ascend. [Obs.] So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser.

m of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.

A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

e words, but from its admitting of a double construction; e. g., "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." Whately.

-- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.