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Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

Bearing catkins. Balfour.

statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone.

A colorless liquid prepared from herring brine and containing amines, used as a local antiseptic.

Alternately answering.

t or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

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

iguous; doubtful. [Obs.] Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel -- both parties declaring themselves for the king. Howell.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

Immorality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. -- a. Ambrosial; immortal.

The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

Almond-bearing.

A microörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]

Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass. Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a li…

Capable of rendering insensible; as, anæsthetic agents.

A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name.

Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becom…

An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror.

The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.