‖n.; pl. Agamis [ F. agami, fr. the native name. ] (Zool.) A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Agamous. ] (a) (Biol.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs. (b) Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an agamic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. t. To amalgamate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to apogamy.
Syn. -- apogamous, apogametic [ 1913 Webster ]

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

{ a. [ Gr. &unr_; closed (fr. &unr_; to shut) + ga`mos marriage. ] (Bot.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Cryptogamiæ [ NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden, secret + ga`mos marriage. ] (Bot.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The subdivisions have been variously arranged. The following arrangement recognizes four classes: -- I. Pteridophyta, or Vascular Acrogens. These include Ferns, Equiseta or Scouring rushes, Lycopodiaceæ or Club mosses, Selaginelleæ, and several other smaller orders. Here belonged also the extinct coal plants called Lepidodendron, Sigillaria, and Calamites. II. Bryophita, or Cellular Acrogens. These include Musci, or Mosses, Hepaticæ, or Scale mosses and Liverworts, and possibly Characeæ, the Stoneworts. III. Algæ, which are divided into Florideæ, the Red Seaweeds, and the orders Dictyoteæ, Oosporeæ, Zoosporeæ, Conjugatæ, Diatomaceæ, and Cryptophyceæ. IV. Fungi. The molds, mildews, mushrooms, puffballs, etc., which are variously grouped into several subclasses and many orders. The Lichenes or Lichens are now considered to be of a mixed nature, each plant partly a Fungus and partly an Alga. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

{ a. Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series. [ 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 ]

adj. 1. fertilized by pollen from another flower of the same plant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of marriage within a class or tribe as required by custom or law; same as endogamous.
Syn. -- endogamous, within-group. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; marriage. ] (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab. [ 1913 Webster ]

In Japan, the gamins run after you, and say, 'Look at the Chinaman.' L. Oliphant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. behavior or language bordering on indelicacy.
Syn. -- raciness, ribaldry, spiciness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling. [ 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. (Zool.) The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Monogamous. ] (Bot.) A Linnaean order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Monogamous. ] 1. Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the Monogamia; having a simple flower with united anthers. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. A shrub (Fortunella margarita) bearing oval-fruited kumquats. See also kumquat.
Syn. -- nagami kumquat, oval kumquat, Fortunella margarita. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

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

n. pl.; sing. Outagamie /sing>. (Ethnol.) See 1st Fox, 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. fai`nein to show + ga`mos marriage. ] (Bot.) The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Same as Phænogamous. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. fanero`s visible (fr. fai`nein to bring to light) + ga`mos marriage. ] (Bot.) That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Phanerogamous. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; -- said of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. (Bot.) Same as Phænogamia. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Same as Phænogamian, Phænogamic, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Polygamous. ] (Bot.) (a) A Linnæan class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant. (b) A name given by Linnæus to file orders of plants having syngenesious flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Polygamous. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. i. To practice polygamy; to marry several wives. Sylvester. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Trigamy. ] One who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time. [ 1913 Webster ]