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A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

ic apology or recantation, and reparation to an injured party, for improper language or treatment.

Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.] Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. Shak.

the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.

tween individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. To live on terms of amity with vice. Cowper.

An obsolete form of admiral. "The mast of some great ammiral." Milton.

in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on. Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak.

Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. -- A*mor"phous*ly, adv. -- A*mor"phous*ness, n.

A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.

biguous discourse; amphibology. If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none. Whitlock.

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…

Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.

To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

. [Obs.] Here I . . . fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood.

The diastase of the pancreatic juice.

ing 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 like noise, springs into its former convex form.

That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics. Encyc. Brit.

A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson.