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One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.

Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.

A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.

Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.

The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

ased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

Instrument for determining the amount of starch in a substance.

eir power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

ction of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.

A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality. No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain. Darwin.

Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.