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The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.

Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

Hence; A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

The quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.

Practicing or siding with both parties. All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings. L'Estrange.

In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly.

The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.

in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical.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.

An order of ganoid fishes of which Amis is type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei.

An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.

The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

A machine or automaton in the form of a human being.

The angle between the chord of an aërocurve and the relative direction of the undisturbed air current.

An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.

One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.

See Aphis.