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See Agalloch.

Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.

Posted in ambush; ambuscaded. [Obs.]

Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

Pertaining to amenorrhoea.

A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms.

Alternately answering.

One of the Amoebea.

Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

Like an amoeba in structure.

Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebræ.

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

Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*o"cism, -di*e"cism (#), n.

The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

Unthinkable. [Rare]

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East India. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [Written also assafoetida.]