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Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.

An ensign; a standard bearer. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

Everywhere. [Archaic]

A unit, employed in calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.

A unit equal to the product of one complete convolution (of a coiled conductor) into one ampère of current; thus, a conductor having five convolutions and carrying a current of half an ampère is said to have 2½ ampère turns. The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of its ampère turns.…

The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver i…

An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in ampères.

Ahungered; longing. [Archaic]

A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

ming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

One who answers.

ctric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic.

Furnished with antlers. The antlered stag. Cowper.

In any place. Udall.

The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).

Same as Apheresis.

The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.