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Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.

In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.

ganization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea.

The process of Americanizing.

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.

A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such a person.

Of or pertaining to both North and South America.

were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the promotion of trade relations.

The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.

A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).

sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

A native of Acadie. Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

ord or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

American Federation of Labor.

anseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

lants (order Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulqu…