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Done out of love. [Obs.] Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.

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

Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

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

also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

A word used to describe the character Halliwell.

A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.

nd water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare.

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.

y cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

Wanting the spinal cord.

Any of eight isomeric liquid compounds, C5H11OH; ordinarily, a mixture of two of these forming a colorless liquid with a peculiar cough-exciting odor and burning taste, the chief constituent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is…

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

Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram. Cudworth.