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hing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.

A kind of viper in southern Europe. [Obs.]

Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. [Obs.]

A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds.

Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. -- A*mor"phous*ly, adv. -- A*mor"phous*ness, n.

A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.

Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.

A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. [Obs.] Encyc. Brit.

A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes.

Containing no liquid; -- said of kind of barometer. Aneroid barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.

An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused. Johnson. R. Browning.

A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

Of another kind. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

An opposing law or rule of any kind. As it were by his own antinomy, or counterstatute. Milton.

Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present are there any other houses like it "Who will show us any good" Ps. iv. 6.

Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.