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Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare.

r mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters.

Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.

Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anæsthetic effect or operation.

A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.

eometry. See under Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.

Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so calle…

Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.

The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.

A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman.

A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold.

Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal t…

organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force wi…

A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.

Characterized by annotations; of the nature of annotation.