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54, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out.

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.

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.

A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks. [Obs.]

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.

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

A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptoca…

nd like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness.

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

A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

ed 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.

r power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

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

ion of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.