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A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition. Every excellency is a degree of amiability. Jer. Taylor.

Lovable; lovely; pleasing. [Obs. or R.] So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert.

The quality of being amiable; amiability.

In an amiable manner.

See Amianthus. [Poetic]

Resembling amianthus in form.

Resembling amianthus.

Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.

Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. Dunglison.

The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.

A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.

A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

A Linnæan class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

Didynamous.

Unamiable. [Obs.] -- In*a"mi*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a with.

A Linnæan order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.

Of or pertaining to the Monogamia; having a simple flower with united anthers.