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Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

s whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.

algamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one. Burke.

. 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.

The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] Carew.

A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.)

A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc.

An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital.

d or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.

orth America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

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

A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

ites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

The strength of a current of electricity carried by a conductor or generated by a machine, measured in ampères.

led conductor) into one ampère of current; thus, a conductor having five convolutions and carrying a current of half an ampère is said to have 2½ ampère turns. The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of its ampère turns.

Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

ither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.

One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.