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germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#), a.

by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

plied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure.

Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.

and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.

and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

cclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton.

right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

s; doubtful. [Obs.] Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel -- both parties declaring themselves for the king. Howell.

t manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert. A group children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.

ation. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.

rouse; to enliven. The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice. Knolles.

To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

dy at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.

to; to face. The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin.

eginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.