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An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. Combe.

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

e infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone…

. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843,…

Composed of, or containing, amethyst.

on of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly specialized cells which are incapable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early sta…

Of or pertaining to amitosis; karyostenotic; -- opposed to mitotic.

nia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.

Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; -- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work.

An orthographic projection 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.

uage; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to pl. analogies. Johnson.

ce, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

nto elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to synthetic. Analytical or coördinate geometry. See under Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the…

A verse composed of such feet.

of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.

eting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray.

es long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.