ALN SUPPLEMENT. AMP 



ALNAGER, an officer appointed to examine AMIDO-ACIDS, a series of organic acids 



Into the awiize of cloth and collect the alnagu formed by expelling two equivalents of 



duty by a statute of Edward III. The duty water and replacing them by one equivalent 



lias been long abolished. of ammenia aud one of the hy .irate of a 



ALcfcxYLoN, the aloes wood, ligu-aloes or dibasic acid. 



eagle-wood. AMI DOG KN, a compound not jet isolated, 



ALOIN, the active principle of aloes. but traceable in combination witii com- 



ALOPKCIA. See ALOPECY. pounds known as amides, q. T. It is com- 



AL-SIRAT, the Mobammedan name given posed of one atom of nitrogen and two of 



to a bridge said to cross the abyss of hell, hydrogen. Symbol, N H^. 



forming the way to heaven and to be as AMIN 



ariss s-rssrsssj jwss 



?pr of whlA it is isomeric monia ' and VOaaxr, secondary, tertiary, In 

 *, relation to the proportion of hvdrogen one- 



u" E fou a nd inTon'toue VeinTn "*** *-*** & "* * %** 

 composed of '8 per cent, of f AM.SATINE a crystalline product ob- 



m; A-white neutra! compound 



ALUNOGE'NE, hydrous sulphate of alumina, obtained by the action of strong acids on 



found native in New South Wales and North ammeluie. 



and South America AMMELINE, a white crystalline body, 



ALURNUS, a genus of coleopterous insects, ak * basic, obtained by the action of 



with four to six rerv short palpi, short alkalls or "** on m f lam - , 



m^rma.uenn.ands.o^ 



*^.Z^^SSS! <*. " f J.?Y. ** * the quicksilver 

 glucina, taorina, peroxide of iron, and ^SS^ genus of cvclostomou, 



AMALFIAN CODE, a code of maritime laws fls ^ 8 exemplified by the .tone grig 

 compiled about the latter part of the eleventh ^T r f/ h ' " e f th . e lowest Of lhe 



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i a mildly stimulating expectorant, 



^ t rery certain in its action. 



TifA7yTH*M^"ridirpwdnced~l7 the AMMUNITION a military expression for 

 oxidation of orsellie ether a11 8Orts of warlike stores, and more parti 



AMASATINE, a product of the action of cularl 7 tnat necessary for loading and firing 

 ammonia on isatin. * 8 une - 



AMACHOSIS, the same with gutta serena, f AMNESTY, in political language, exemption 

 or loss of vision from defective action of the from Penalty, such as rebellion, treason, &c. 

 optic nerve. AMCEBA, (y.fj.0if], "alternation,") Eh- 



AMBRY. See ALMERY. renberg*s Amoeba diffluens is an acrite of the 



AMBUBAIJ:, the name given in Syria and order of Rhizopoda in the lowest state of 

 Arabia tocertain Syrian girls who maintained organisation known to zoology, being a mere 

 themselves in Rome by the public perform- rounded gelatinous mass, but suspected to be 

 ance of music. an embryonic condition of higher Rhizopoda. 



AMBUSCADE, from imboscata, ItaL, a It can emit lobes and processes from all 

 snare of any kind for an enemy. ', paints of its body, and withdraw them at 



AMBUSTION, a burn or scald. Medical pleasure, 

 term. AMPELIC ACID, a white solid, obtained 



AMIA, (Amia calva, Linn.,) a genus of from the action of nitric acid on coal tar. 

 abdominal fresh-water fishes found in AMPELIN, a liquid found in coal tar, 

 Carolina, North America, exemplifying the similar to creasote. 



sauroid fishes of Agassiz, the air-bladder of. AMPELIS, a Linnsean genus of passerine 

 which is like the lung of a reptile. birds, with straight convex beaks, of which 



AMICABLE IS'UMI ERS, numbersin relation ' the upper mandible is subincurred, and 

 to each other of which each is equal to the emarginate on both sides, and longer than 

 gum of the aliquot parts of the other. 'the lower. The Ampelu garruhu, nr Bo. 



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