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To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson.

The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation. The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation. Paley.

Tending or serving to intimidate.

The chief or leader of a hand or body of persons; esp., in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army. [Written also jemadar, jamadar.]

Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.

An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is metameric with alanine.

A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.

See Macroprism.

The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.

An amido compound with only one amido group.

The acid amide of mucic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A dunghill. [Scot.]

ffs, constables, etc. Thackeray. With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. W. H. Ainsworth.

Consisting of, or like, myrmidons. Pope.

Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa. Numidian crane. (Zoöl.) See Demoiselle, 2.

The secretion of fetid sweat.

Same as Oxalan.

l substance (C2O2(NH2)2) obtained by treating ethyl oxalate with ammonia. It is the acid amide of oxalic acid. Formerly called also oxalamide.

One of a series of bases containing the amido and the isonitroso groups united to the same carbon atom.

cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.