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A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.

by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify. Mar not the thing that can not be amended. Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott.…

ies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

ve been replaced by an acid atom or radical. Acid amide, a neutral compound formed by the substitution of the amido group for hydroxyl in an acid.

One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.

Forgetfulness; 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.

of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.

Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.

A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.

d nature; partaking of two natures. Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone.

Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.

cal effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South.

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

iseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

Instrument for determining the amount of starch in a substance.

The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc.