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Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

lace of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.

g an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

Of or relating to, or produced by, love. "Amorous delight." Milton. "Amorous airs." Waller.

A unit equal to the product of one complete convolution (of a coiled conductor) into one ampère of current; thus, a conductor having five convolutions and carrying a current of half an ampère is said to have 2½ ampère turns. The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of its ampère turns.…

Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.

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

An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium. [R.]

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

in medicine as a heart stimulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.

entation (Chem.), a process of fermentation in starch or sugar in which amylic alcohol is produced. Gregory.

rchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased 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.

The conversion of starch into soluble products, as dextrins and sugar, esp. by the action of enzymes. -- Am`y*lo*lyt"ic (#), a.

By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. Hutton.

Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n.

Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.

artial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.