Amacratic
(Am`a*crat"ic) a. [Gr. together + power.] (Photog.) Amasthenic. Sir J. Herschel.
Amadavat
(||Am`a*da*vat") n. [Indian name. From Ahmedabad, a city from which it was imported to
Europe.] (Zoöl.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird commonly caged and kept for fighting.
The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; — called also red waxbill. [Written also
amaduvad and avadavat.]
Amadou
(Am"a*dou) n. [F. amadou tinder, prop. lure, bait, fr. amadouer to allure, caress, perh. fr.
Icel. mata to feed, which is akin to E. meat.] A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus
(Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a
styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in
a strong solution of niter. Ure.
Amain
(A*main") adv. [Pref. a- + main. See 2d Main, n.]
1. With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.
They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down
amain.
Milton.
That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain.
T. Parker.
2. At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. "They fled amain." Holinshed.
Amain
(A*main"), v. t. [F. amener. See Amenable.] (Naut.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.
Amain
(A*main"), v. i. (Naut.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.
Amalgam
(A*mal"gam) n. [F. amalgame, prob. fr. L. malagma, Gr. emollient, plaster, poultice, fr. to
make soft, fr. soft.]
1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.
Medalists apply the term to soft alloys generally.
2. A mixture or compound of different things.
3. (Min.) A native compound of mercury and silver.
Amalgam
(A*mal"gam), v. t. i. [Cf. F. amalgamer] To amalgamate. Boyle. B. Jonson.
Amalgama
(||A*mal"ga*ma) n. Same as Amalgam.
They divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republics.
Burke.
Amalgamate
(A*mal"ga*mate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amalgamated; p. pr. & vb. n. Amalgamating.]
1. To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
2. To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to
amalgamate one race with another.
Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
Burke.
Amalgamate
(A*mal"ga*mate), v. i.
1. To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
