AMERCED
AMER'CED, participle passive Fined at the discretion of a court.
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AMERCEMENT
AMERCEMENT, noun amers'ment. A pecuniary penalty inflicted on an offender at the discretion of the court. It differs from a fine, in that the latter is, or was originally, a fix...
AMERCER
AMER'CER, noun One who set a fine at discretion, upon an offender.
AMERICA
AMER'ICA, noun [from Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine, who pretended to have first discovered the western continent.]One of the great continents, first discovered by Sebastian Cab...
AMERICAN
AMER'ICAN, adjective Pertaining to America.AMER'ICAN, noun A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but ...
AMERICANISM
AMER'ICANISM, noun The love which American citizens have to their own country, or the preference of its interests. Analogically, an American idiom.
AMERICANIZE
AMER'ICANIZE, verb transitive To render American; to naturalize in America.
AMERICIM
AMER'ICIM, noun A species of lizard in South America, not more than two inches in length, and the third of an inch in diameter. Its legs are of the size of a hog's bristle.
AMETHODIST
AMETH'ODIST, noun A quack. [Not used.]
AMETHYST
AM'ETHYST, noun [Latin amethystus; Gr. which the Greeks supposed to be formed from a neg. and to inebriate, from some supposed quality in the stone of resisting intoxication. Pl...
AMETHYSTINE
AMETHYST'INE, adjective Pertaining to or resembling amethyst; anciently applied to a garment of the color of amethyst, as distinguished from the Tyrian and hyacinthine purple.
AMIA
AM'IA, noun A genus of fish, of the abdominal order, found in the rivers of Carolina.
AMIABLE
A'MIABLE, adjective [Latin amabilis; from amo, to love.]1. Lovely; worth of love; deserving of affection; applied usually to persons. But in Psalms 84:1, there is an exception, ...
AMIABLENESS
A'MIABLENESS, noun The quality of deserving love; loveliness.
AMIABLY
A'MIABLY, adverb In an amiable manner; in a manner to excite or attract love.
AMIANTH
AM'IANTH,AMIANTH'IFORM, adjective [Amianth and form.] Having the form or likeness of amianthAmianthiform arseniate of copper.
AMIANTHINITE
AMIANTH'INITE, noun A species of amorphous mineral, a variety of actinolite; its color ash, greenish or yellowish gray, often mixed with yellow or red; its fracture confusedly f...
AMIANTHOID
AMIANTH'OID, noun [Amianth and Gr. form.]A mineral which occurs in tufts, composed of long capillary filaments, flexible and very elastic; more flexible than the fibers of asbes...
AMIANTHUS
AMIANTH'US, noun [Gr. of a neg. and to pollute, or vitiate; so called from its incombustibility. Plin. 36. 19.]Earth-flax, or mountain flax; a mineral substance somewhat resembl...
AMICABLE
AM'ICABLE, adjective [Latin amicabilis, from amicus, a friend, from amo, to love.]1. Friendly; peaceable; harmonious in social or mutual transactions; usually applied to the dis...
AMICABLENESS
AM'ICABLENESS, noun The quality of being peaceable, friendly, or disposed to peace; friendliness; a disposition to preserve peace and friendship.
AMICABLY
AM'ICABLY, adverb In a friendly manner; with harmony or good will; without controversy; as, the dispute was amicably adjusted.
AMICE
AM'ICE, noun [Latin amictus from amicior, to clothe.]A square linen cloth that a Catholic priest ties about his neck, hanging down behind under the alb, when he officiates at mass.
AMID
AMID'AMIDST', preposition [Latin medius. See Middle and Midst.]1. In the midst or middle.2. Among; mingled with; as, a shepherd amidst his flock.3. Surrounded, encompassed, or e...
AMILOT
AM'ILOT, noun A white fish in the Mexican lakes, more than a foot in length, and much esteemed at the table.
AMISS
AMISS', adjective [a and miss. See Miss.]1. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. [This adjective always follows its noun.]2.adverb In a ...
AMITY
AM'ITY, noun [Latin amo, amicitia.]Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies or nations; harmony; good understanding; as, our nation is in amity with all th...