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A friend. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Wanting the spinal cord.

An almond.

Akin to, or derived from, the almond.

A salt amygdalic acid.

Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.

Almond-bearing.

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid.

A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.

ing odor and burning taste, the chief constituent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

A yellowish oily volatile liquid, C5H11NO2, used in medicine as a heart stimulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.

Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.

A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.

ns, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether. Amylic alcohol (Chem.), one of the series of alcohols, a transparent, colorless liquid, having a peculiar odor. It is the hydroxide of amyl. -- Amylic fermentation (Chem.), a process of fermentation in starch or sugar in which amylic alcohol is produced. Gregory.…

A microörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

That part of the starch granule or granulose which is soluble in water.