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Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

The angler.

An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy. Addison.

An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.

Leathery.

The tanning or dressing of leather. [Obs.] Blount.

A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics.

ère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.

To cut off (a limb or projecting part (of the body). Wiseman.

The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.

One who amputates.

Lacking grammatical sequence. -- An`a*co*lu"thic*al*ly, adv.

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.

A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

An initial sound, as of a word or syllable.

Opposed to the constitution; unconstitutional.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

Counteracting scurvy. -- n.

Antiscorbutic.

shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early…