a. Detestable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Heb. abīb, lit. an ear of corn. The month was so called from barley being at that time in ear. ] The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ /mhw>, adv. [ See Able. ] Perhaps; possibly. [ Scotch ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accessibilitas: cf. F. accessibilité. ] The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accessibilis, fr. accedere: cf. F. accessible. See Accede. ] 1. Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Open to the influence of; -- with to. “Minds accessible to reason.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Obtainable; to be got at. [ 1913 Webster ]

The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an accessible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being added. “Addible numbers.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being adduced. [ 1913 Webster ]

Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. adhibitus, p. p. of adhibere to hold to; ad + habere to have. ] 1. To admit, as a person or thing; to take in. Muirhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To use or apply; to administer. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To attach; to affix. Alison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adhibitio. ] The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ At one's pleasure; as one wishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. admissibilité. ] The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. admissible, LL. admissibilis. See Admit. ] Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. -- Ad*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ad*mis"si*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be burnt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being affectible. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be affected. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. agibilis, fr. L. agere to move, do. ] Possible to be done; practicable. [ Obs. ] “Fit for agible things.” Sir A. Sherley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., elsewhere, at another place. See Alias. ] (Law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being alible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alibilis, fr. alere to nourish. ] Nutritive; nourishing. [ 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. pl. [ See Amphibium. ] (Zool.) One of the classes of vertebrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Amphibia are distinguished by having usually no scales, by having eggs and embryos similar to those of fishes, and by undergoing a complete metamorphosis, the young having gills. There are three living orders: (1) The tailless, as the frogs (Anura); (2) The tailed (Urodela), as the salamanders, and the siren group (Sirenoidea), which retain the gills of the young state (hence called Perennibranchiata) through the adult state, among which are the siren, proteus, etc.; (3) The Cœcilians, or serpentlike Amphibia (Ophiomorpha or Gymnophiona), with minute scales and without limbs. The extinct Labyrinthodonts also belonged to this class. The term is sometimes loosely applied to both reptiles and amphibians collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Amphibian. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Amphibia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to amphibiology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; amphibious + -logy: cf. F. amphibiologie. ] A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + biwtiko`s pertaining to life. ] (Zool.) A division of insects having aquatic larvæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'amfi`bios living a double life, i. e., both on land in water; 'amfi` + bi`os life. ] 1. Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water. [ 1913 Webster ]

The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Like an amphibious being. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Amphibia E. Amphibiums [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_; an animal). See Amphibious. ] An amphibian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + blastiko`s tending to sprout. ] (Biol.) Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'amfi`bolos doubtful, equivocal, fr. 'amfiba`llein to throw round, to doubt: cf. F. amphibole. Haüy so named the genus from the great variety of color and composition assumed by the mineral. ] (Min.) A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or resembling the mineral amphibole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous. “Amphibological expressions.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Am*phib`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n.; pl. Amphibologies [ L. amphibologia, for amphibolia, fr. Gr. 'amfiboli`a, with the ending -logia as if fr. Gr. 'amfi`bolos ambiguous + lo`gos speech: cf. F. amphibologie. See Amphiboly. ] A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. amphibolus, Gr. &unr_; thrown about, doubtful. See Amphibole. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Ambiguous; doubtful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel -- both parties declaring themselves for the king. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) Capable of two meanings. [ 1913 Webster ]

An amphibolous sentence is one that is capable of two meanings, not from the double sense of any of the words, but from its admitting of a double construction; e. g., “The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.” Whately. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Amphibolies [ L. amphibolia, Gr. &unr_;: cf. OE. amphibolie. See Amphibolous. ] Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. [ 1913 Webster ]

If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none. Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. &unr_;, Gr. &unr_; short at both ends; 'amfi` + brachy`s short. ] (Anc. Pros.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (˘ -- ˘); as, hăbēr&ebreve_;. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet&bprime_;ic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. 'anti` + &unr_;. See Bacchius. ] (Pros.) A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) (a) killing or inhibiting the growth of bacteria; -- applied also to serum for protection against bacterial diseases. (b) Opposed to the bacterial theory of disease. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. (Med.) a chemical substance which kills or inhibits the growth of bacteria. [ PJC ]

n. 1. the antiparticle of a baryon; a hadron with a baryon number of -1. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness. [ 1913 Webster ]