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ry to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none. Whitlock.

Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.

A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also amphigouri.]

he lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.

The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral. [R.] Smart.

Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative. Johnson.

e is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

An administrative territorial division in Denmark and Norway.

sed in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. Fuller.

iety of trap or basaltic 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.

A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

s properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent…

A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.

The science of reflected light, now called catoptrics.

Containing an anachronism; anachronistic. -- An*ach"ro*nous*ly, adv.

smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.