Amplificative (a.) Amplificatory.
Amplificatory (a.) Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative.
Amplifier (n.) One who or that which amplifies.
Amplified (imp. & p. p.) of Amplify
Amplifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amplify
Amplify (v. t.) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
Amplify (v. t.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
Amplify (v. i.) To become larger.
Amplify (v. i.) To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.
Amplitude (n.) State of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size.
Amplitude (n.) Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness.
Amplitude (n.) Of extent of capacity or intellectual powers.
Amplitude (n.) Of extent of means or resources.
Amplitude (n.) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.
Amplitude (n.) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object.
Amplitude (n.) The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.
Amplitude (n.) The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements.
Amplitude (n.) An angle upon which the value of some function depends; -- a term used more especially in connection with elliptic functions.
Amply (adv.) In an ample manner.
Ampul (n.) Same as Ampulla, 2.
Ampullae (pl. ) of Ampulla
Ampulla (n.) A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.
Ampulla (n.) A cruet for the wine and water at Mass.
Ampulla (n.) The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept.
Ampulla (n.) Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.
Ampullaceous (a.) Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling.
Ampullar (a.) Alt. of Ampullary
Ampullary (a.) Resembling an ampulla.
Ampullate (a.) Alt. of Ampullated
Ampullated (a.) Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.
Ampulliform (a.) Flask-shaped; dilated.
Amputated (imp. & p. p.) of Amputate
Amputating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amputate
Amputate (v. t.) To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.
Amputate (v. t.) To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)
Amputation (n.) The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.
Amputator (n.) One who amputates.
Ampyx (n.) A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.
Amrita (n.) Immortality; also, the nectar conferring immortality.
Amrita (a.) Ambrosial; immortal.
Amsel (n.) Alt. of Amzel
Amzel (n.) The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).
Amuck (a. & adv.) In a frenzied and reckless manner.
Amulet (n.) An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. [Also used figuratively.]
Amuletic (a.) Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm.
Amurcous (a.) Full off dregs; foul.
Amusable (a.) Capable of being amused.
Amused (imp. & p. p.) of Amuse
Amusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amuse
Amuse (v.) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
Amuse (v.) To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.
Amuse (v.) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
Amuse (v. i.) To muse; to mediate.
Amused (a.) Diverted.
Amused (a.) Expressing amusement; as, an amused look.
Amusement (n.) Deep thought; muse.
Amusement (n.) The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion.
Amuser (n.) One who amuses.
Amusette (n.) A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.
Amusing (a.) Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.
Amusive (a.) Having power to amuse or entertain the mind; fitted to excite mirth.
Amy (n.) A friend.
Amyelous (a.) Wanting the spinal cord.
Amygdalaceous (a.) Akin to, or derived from, the almond.
Amygdalate (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds.
Amygdalate (n.) An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds.
Amygdalate (n.) A salt amygdalic acid.
Amygdalic (a.) Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.
Amygdaliferous (a.) Almond-bearing.
Amygdalin (n.) A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.
Amygdaline (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.
Amygdaloid (n.) 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.
Amygdaloid (a.) Alt. of Amygdaloidal
Amygdaloidal (a.) Almond-shaped.
Amygdaloidal (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid.
Amyl (n.) A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
Amylaceous (a.) Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.
Amylate (n.) A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.
Amylene (n.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.
Amylic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether.
Amylobacter (n.) A microorganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.
Amyloid (a.) Alt. of Amyloidal
Amyloidal (a.) Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike.
Amyloid (n.) A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.
Amyloid (n.) The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.
Amylolytic (a.) Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment.
Amylose (n.) One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.
Amyous (a.) Wanting in muscle; without flesh.
Amyss (n.) Same as Amice, a hood or cape.
An () This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
An (conj.) If; -- a word used by old English authors.
Ana- () A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.
Ana (adv.) Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
-ana () A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.
Anabaptism (n.) The doctrine of the Anabaptists.
Anabaptist (n.) A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.
Anabaptistic (a.) Alt. of Anabaptistical
Anabaptistical (a.) Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines.
Anabaptistry (n.) The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists.
Anabaptize (v. t.) To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename.