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Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty. Cowper.

Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior.

An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Eldi) resembling the swamp deer; -- called also Eld's deer.

The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.

Cross fertilization.

The sexual reproduction of animals.

olorless; as, in Physiol. Chem., the achromic point of a starch solution acted upon by an amylolytic enzyme is the point at which it fails to give any color with iodine.

ms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

Characterized by allogamy.

low which has leaves that are of a light green on both sides; almond-leaved willow (Salix amygdalina). Shenstone.

a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce.

Relating to apogamy.

Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights. Mitford.

To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phattaint. Spenser. Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. Spenser.

Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.

mmedan, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements. This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy, and frees women from many of the degradations imposed upon them among the orthodox Mohammedans. Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced. --Bab"ist…

ing bronze pigments. In addition to acetote, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.

cies of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses. Ure.

Beamy; radiant.

The state of being beamy.