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Manifesting dichogamy.

ent; a difficult choice or position. A strong dilemma in a desperate case! To act with infamy, or quit the place. Swift. Horns of a dilemma, alternatives, each of which is equally difficult of encountering.

Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.

The state of being dreamy.

In a dreamy manner.

A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium. A. elemifera yields Mexican elemi; C. commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.

d by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art. "Enthusiastical raptures." Calamy. -- En*thu`si*as"tic*al*ly, adv. A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character. W. Irving.

Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether. Complex ether, Mixed ether (Chem.), an oxide of two different radicals in the same molecule; as, ethyl methyl ether, C2H5.O.CH3. -- Compound ether (Chem.), an ethereal salt or a salt of some hydrocarbon as the base; an ester. -- Ether engine (M…

Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.

The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula. (b) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.

which is in less neighborhods. Bacon. Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. Calamy.

Furnished with a frill or frills. Frilled lizard (Zoöl.), a large Australian lizard (Chlamydosaurus Kingii) about three feet long, which has a large, erectile frill on each side of the neck.

Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.

and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.

To expose to infamy; to blacken. I'll gibbet up his name. Oldham.

al luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth. The glossed and gleamy wave. J. R. Drake.

o sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments.

nsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into Southern Europe. [Written also goramy.]

t is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.

d also dragon root. -- Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green. -- Green ebony. (a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid wor…