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in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC…

In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

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

Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds.

Relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine.

An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems.

A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.

A record made by an anemograph.

A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy.

Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc. [Obs.] I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . the greatest anger and soreness still continued. Temple.

The figure made by. two lines which meet.

A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.

A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

y manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.

Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.

ecisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.

A division of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

The announcement of the incarnation, made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary.

r, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action. Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the answer be Britons must take. Shak.

A hymenopterous insect of the Linnæan genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.