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The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

A chaplain.

The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.

Leathery.

The tanning or dressing of leather. [Obs.] Blount.

n annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. [Written also Ametabolia.]

Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.

Any fermentation process by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.

That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.

Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray.

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.

One who amputates.

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