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Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.…

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

sult; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this. The whole amount of that enormous fame. Pope.

A unit, employed in calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. Milton.

[Obs.] Strait was the way at first, withouten light, But further in did further amplify. Fairfax.

deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood.

imulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.

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.

ts are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

Anaërobic bacteria. They are called facultative anaërobia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.

one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin "pater" is the analogue of the English "father."

a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

on; a curse; a malediction. Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families]. Thackeray.

han the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.