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To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one. Burke.

ns), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

rrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement.

ation. [Now const. with sing. verb.] "An honorable amends." Addison. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. Shak.

To make as if dead; to destroy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

A maker anagrams.

To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

To make like an angel; to angelize. [Obs.] Farindon (1647).

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [Obs.] He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon.

To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.

To make angular.

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenæa courbaril), and much used by varnish makers. Ure.

ng the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anæmia, Egyptian chlorosis.

To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.

To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon.

To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.…