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

rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

parent, colorless liquid, having a peculiar odor. It is the hydroxide of amyl. -- Amylic fermentation (Chem.), a process of fermentation in starch or sugar in which amylic alcohol is produced. Gregory.

Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. Foster.

A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

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

To refer to, or put into, a wrong time. [R.] Lowell.

An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

etween things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

R.] We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor.

nsists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.

The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.

Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*o"cism, -di*e"cism (#), n.

Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind- Fertilized. Lubbock.

An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.

ssue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels.

The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.