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f or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic. -- n.

A friend; -- a Spanish term applied in the Philippine Islands to friendly natives.

urative. Ammunition bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.]

n earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium. [R.]

A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

ll summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

e extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements.

Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.

Forming starch; -- applied specif. to leucoplasts.

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

inus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifæ, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

ht in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his…

An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.

strument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.