Ammunition bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.]
Am`mu*ni"tion (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ammunitioned (&?;); p pr. & vb. n. Ammunitioning.] To provide with ammunition.
||Am*ne"si*a (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;; 'a priv. + &?; to remember.] (Med.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.
Am*ne"sic (&?;), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to amnesia. "Amnesic or coördinate defects." Quian.
Am*nes"tic (&?;), a. Causing loss of memory.
Am"nes*ty (&?;), n. [L. amnestia, Gr. &?;, a forgetting, fr. &?; forgotten, forgetful; 'a priv. + &?; to remember: cf. F. amnistie, earlier amnestie. See Mean, v.] 1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
2. An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
Am"nes*ty, v. t. [imp. p. p. Amnestied (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Amnestying.] To grant amnesty to.
Am*nic"o*list (&?;), n. [L. amnicola, amnis a river + colere to dwell.] One who lives near a river. [Obs.] Bailey.
Am*nig"e*nous (&?;), a. [L. amnigena; amnis a river + root gen of gignere to beget.] Born or bred in, of, or near a river. [Obs.] Bailey.
Am"ni*on (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; the membrane round the fetus, dim. of &?; lamb.] (Anat.) A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
Am"ni*os (&?;), n. Same as Amnion.
||Am`ni*o"ta (&?;), n. pl. [NL. See Amnion.] (Zoöl.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.
Am`ni*ot"ic (&?;), a. [Cf. F. amniotique.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac.
Amniotic acid. (Chem.) [R.] See Allantoin.
A*mœ"ba (&?;), n.; pl. L. Amœbæ (&?;); E. Amœbas (&?;). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; change.] (Zoöl.) A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.
||Am`œ*bæ"um (&?;), n. [L. amœbaeus, Gr. &?;, alternate; L. amoebaeum carmen, Gr. &?; &?;, a responsive song, fr. &?; change.] A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.
||Am`œ*be"a (&?;), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amœba and similar forms.
Am`œ*be"an (&?;), a. Alternately answering.
A*mœ"bi*an (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Amœbea.
{ A*mœ"bi*form (&?;), A*mœ"boid (&?;), } a. [Amœba + -form or -oid.] (Biol.) Resembling an amœba; amœba-shaped; changing in shape like an amœba.
Amœboid movement, movement produced, as in the amœba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.
A*mœ"bous (&?;), a. Like an amœba in structure.
Am`o*li"tion (&?;), n. [L. amolitio, fr. amoliri to remove; a (ab) + moliri to put in motion.] Removal; a putting away. [Obs.] Bp. Ward (1673).
||A*mo"mum (&?;), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?; an Indian spice plant.] (Bot.) A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.