n. 1. 1 a genus of European fishes.
Syn. -- genus Abramis [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. & i. [ F. affamer, fr. L. ad + fames hunger. See Famish. ] To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Starvation. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Agamous. ] An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ Written also Omish. ] (Eccl. Hist.) The Amish Mennonites. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Written also Omish. ] (Eccl. Hist.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as “worldly conformity”. There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States. A branch having particularly strict adherence to the Amish principles are called Old Order Amish [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + miss. ] Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

What error drives our eyes and ears amiss? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at; to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. [ Used only in the predicate. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances. Wollaston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fault, wrong, or mistake. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Cf. F. amissibilité. See Amit. ] The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. amissibilis: cf. F. amissible. ] Liable to be lost. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. amissio: cf. F. amission. ] Deprivation; loss. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Digamist. ] One who is guilty of bigamy. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calamus a reed. ] One who plays upon a reed or pipe. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. calamistratus, curled with the curling iron, fr. calamistrum curling iron, fr. calamus a reed. ] To curl or friz, as the hair. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave.

n. The act or process of curling the hair. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a curling iron. ] (Zool.) A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chemise. ] A light, loose dress or robe. [ Also written camus. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All in a camis light of purple silk. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. camisade a night attack; cf. It. camiciata. See Camis. ] [ Obs. ] (Mil.) (a) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack. (b) An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give them a camisado in night season. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dressed with a shirt over the other garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See chemise. ] 1. A short dressing jacket for women. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of straitjacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Amer. Sp., fr. Sp. chamiza a kind of wild cane. ] 1. (Bot.) A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A chaparral formed by dense growths of this shrub. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One skilled in cryptogamic botany. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Deuterogamy. ] One who marries the second time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; = &unr_; twice + &unr_; to marry. Cf. Bigamist. ] One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dynamisme. See Dynamics. ] The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who would resolve matter into centers of force may be said to constitute the school of dynamists. Ward (Dyn. Sociol. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To famish; to starve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sending out; emission. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Famished p. pr. & vb. n. Famishing. ] [ OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See Famine, and cf. Affamish. ] 1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. [ 1913 Webster ]

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

And famish him of breath, if not of bread. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To force or constrain by famine. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had famished Paris into a surrender. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To die of hunger; to starve. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. [ 1913 Webster ]

You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. Prov. x. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being famished. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. (Sumerian mythology) A legendary king of Sumeria and the hero of famous Sumerian and Babylonian epics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The Epic of Gilgamesh, a long Babylonian epic written in cuneiform in the Sumerian language on clay tablets. Early versions of the written story date from 2000 B. C.; it is probably the first written story still in existence. A longer version was written in the Akkadian language, on 12 clay tablets found at Nineveh in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria from 669 to 633 B. C. The story depicted the life and heroic deeds of the legendary Gilgamesh, apparently derived from stories about a real king of ancient Mesopotamia who lived around 2700 B. C. The story includes a tale of a great flood, which has some parallels to the biblical story of the flood survived by Noah. The Nineveh tablets name the author of that version of the story, a Shin-eqi-unninni. [ PJC ]

☞ The entire text may be found in:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990)

and

Gilgamesh
Translated by John Maier and John Gardner
(New York: Vintage Press, 1981)

n. A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inamissibilis: cf. F. inamissible. ] Incapable of being lost. [ R. ] Hammond. -- In`a*mis"si*ble*ness, n. [R.] [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. F. islamisme. ] The faith, doctrines, or religious system of the Muslims; same as Islam, but less commonly used. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

a. Somewhat lame. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Miami /sing>. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. misei^n to hate + &unr_; marriage. ] A hater of marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force. G. H. Lewes. A philosophical form of the grand unified theory? [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One who practices or upholds monogamy. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. neo`gamos newly married. ] A person recently married. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pan- + Islamism. ] A desire or plan for the union of all Muslim nations for the conquest of the world. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. polygamiste, polygame, Gr. &unr_;, a. ] One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Pyramides [ L. ] A pyramid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A follower of Pierre Ramé, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Jap. ] (Mus.) A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ OE. squaimous, sweymous, probably from OE. sweem, swem, dizziness, a swimming in the head; cf. Icel. sveimr a bustle, a stir, Norw. sveim a hovering about, a sickness that comes upon one, Icel. svimi a giddiness, AS. swīma. The word has been perhaps confused with qualmish. Cf. Swim to be dizzy. ] Having a stomach that is easily turned or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish
That takes a basting for a blemish. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain
The men of squeamish taste to entertain. Southern. [ 1913 Webster ]

So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fastidious; dainty; overnice; scrupulous. See Fastidious. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Squeam"ish*ly, adv. -- Squeam"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]