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- English Word Amir Definition One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde.
- English Word Amir Definition Same as Ameer.
- English Word Amiss Definition Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
- English Word Amiss Definition Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
- English Word Amiss Definition A fault, wrong, or mistake.
- English Word Amissibility Definition The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost.
- English Word Amissible Definition Liable to be lost.
- English Word Amission Definition Deprivation; loss.
- English Word Amit Definition To lose.
- English Word Amities Definition of Amity
- English Word Amity Definition Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories.
- English Word Amma Definition An abbes or spiritual mother.
- English Word Ammeter Definition A contraction of amperometer or amperemeter.
- English Word Ammiral Definition An obsolete form of admiral.
- English Word Ammite Definition Oolite or roestone; -- written also hammite.
- English Word Ammodyte Definition One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.
- English Word Ammodyte Definition A kind of viper in southern Europe.
- English Word Ammonia Definition A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.
- English Word Ammoniac Definition Alt. of Ammoniacal
- English Word Ammoniac Definition Alt. of Gum ammoniac
- English Word Ammoniacal Definition Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.
- English Word Ammoniated Definition Combined or impregnated with ammonia.
- English Word Ammonic Definition Of or pertaining to ammonia.
- English Word Ammonite Definition A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.
- English Word Ammonitiferous Definition Containing fossil ammonites.
- English Word Ammonitoidea Definition An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.
- English Word Ammonium Definition A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals.
- English Word Ammunition Definition Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
- English Word Ammunition Definition Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
- English Word Ammunition Definition Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.