AMPHIBOLE
AM'PHIBOLE, noun [Gr. equivocal.]A name given by Hauy to a species of minerals, including the Tremolite, Hornblend, and Actinolite. Its primitive form is an oblique rhombic prism.
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AMPHIBOLIC
AMPHIBOL'IC, adjective Pertaining to amphibole; resembling amphibole, or partaking of its nature and characters.
AMPHIBOLOGICAL
AMPHIBOLOG'ICAL, adjective Doubtful; of doubtful meaning.
AMPHIBOLOGICALLY
AMPHIBOLOG'ICALLY, adverb With a doubtful meaning.
AMPHIBOLOGY
AMPHIBOL'OGY, noun [Gr. speech.]A phrase or discourse, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, a phrase of uncertain meaning. amphibology arises from the order of the phr...
AMPHIBOLOUS
AMPHIB'OLOUS, adjective [Gr. to strike.]Tossed from one to another; striking each way, with mutual blows. [Little used.]
AMPHIBOLY
AMPHIB'OLY, noun [Gr. both ways and to strike.]Ambiguity of meaning. [Rarely used.]
AMPHIBRACH
AM'PHIBRACH, noun [Gr. short.]In poetry, a foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short; as habere, in Latin. In English verse, it is used as the last ...
AMPHICOME
AM'PHICOME, noun [Gr. hair.]A kind of figured stone, of a round shape, but rugged and beset with eminences; called Erotylos, on account of its supposed power of exciting love. A...
AMPHICTYONIC
AMPHICTYON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the august council of Amphictyons.
AMPHICTYONS
AMPHIC'TYONS, noun In Grecian history, an assembly or council of deputies from the different states of Greece, supposed to be so called from Amphictyon, the son of Deucalion, bu...
AMPHIGENE
AM'PHIGENE, noun [Gr.]In mineralogy, another name of the leucite or Vesuvian.
AMPHIHEXAHEDRAL
AMPHIHEXAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. and hexahedral.]In crystallography, when the faces of the crystal, counted in two different directions, give two hexahedral outlines, or are fou...
AMPHIMACER
AMPHIM'ACER, noun [Gr. long on both sides.]In ancient poetry, a foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in castitas.
AMPHISBEN
AMPHIS'BEN,AMPHISBE'NA, noun [Gr. to go; indicating that the animal moves with either end foremost.]A genus of serpents, with the head small, smooth and blunt; the nostrils smal...
AMPHISBENA
AMPHISBE'NA, n. [Gr. to go; indicating that the animal moves with either end foremost.]A genus of serpents, with the head small, smooth and blunt; the nostrils small, the eyes m...
AMPHISCIANS
AMPHIS'CIANS, noun [Gr. on both sides and shadow.]In geography, the inhabitants of the tropics, whose shadows, in one part of the year, are cast to the north, and in the other, ...
AMPHISCIL
AMPHIS'CIL,AM'PHITANE, noun A name given by ancient naturalists to a fossil, called by Dr. Hill pyricubium. Pliny describes it as of a square figure and a gold color.
AMPHITHEATER
AMPHITHE'ATER, noun [Gr. about and to see or look.]1. An edifice in an oval or circular form, having its area encompassed with rows of seats, rising higher as they recede from t...
AMPHITHEATRAL
AMPHITHE'ATRAL, adjective Resembling an amphitheater.
AMPHITHEATRICAL
AMPHITHEAT'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to or exhibited in an amphitheater.
AMPHITRITE
AM'PHITRITE, noun [Gr. a goddess of the sea.]A genus of marine animals, of the Linnean order.
AMPHOR
AM'PHOR, or AM'PHORA, noun [Latin amphora; Gr.]
AMPHORA
AM'PHOR, or AM'PHORA, noun [Latin amphora; Gr.]Among the Greeks and Romans, a liquid measure. The AMPHORA of the Romans contained about forty-eight sextaries, equal to seven gal...
AMPLE
AM'PLE, adjective [Latin amplus.]1. Large; wide; spacious; extended; as ample room. This word carries with it the sense of room or space fully sufficient for the use intended.2....
AMPLENESS
AM'PLENESS, noun Largeness; spaciousness; sufficiency; abundance.
AMPLEXICAUL
AMPLEX'ICAUL, adjective [Latin amplexor, to embrace, of amb about, and plico, plexus, to fold, and caulis a stem.]In botany, surrounding or embracing the stem, as the base of a ...