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

Like or pertaining to the Amioidei. -- n.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.

Of or pertaining to amitosis; karyostenotic; -- opposed to mitotic.

Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas. Ammoniacal engine, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia is used as the motive force. -- Sal ammoniac Etym: [L. sal ammoniacus], the salt usually called chloride of ammonium, and formerly muriate of ammonia.…

ine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

Of or pertaining to ammonia.

Containing fossil ammonites.

Of or pertaining to amnesia. "Amnesic or coördinate defects." Quian.

Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac. Amniotic acid. (Chem.) [R.] See Allantoin.

Of or pertaining to the Amorphozoa.

Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.

Pertaining to amphibiology.

Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare.

Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.

phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. W. Smith.

sp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation. [R.]