Ammodyte :: Ammodyte (n.) One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.

Ammodyte :: Ammodyte (n.) A kind of viper in southern Europe.

Ammonia :: Ammonia (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn..

Ammoniac :: Ammoniac (a.) Alt. of Ammoniaca.

Ammoniac :: Ammoniac (n.) Alt. of Gum ammonia.

Ammoniacal :: Ammoniacal (a.) Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas..

Ammoniated :: Ammoniated (a.) Combined or impregnated with ammonia.

Ammonic :: Ammonic (a.) Of or pertaining to ammonia.

Ammonite :: Ammonite (n.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis..

Ammonitiferous :: Ammonitiferous (a.) Containing fossil ammonites.

Ammonitoidea :: Ammonitoidea (n. pl.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.

Ammonium :: Ammonium (n.) A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals..

Backgammon :: Backgammon (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a board marked off into twenty-four spaces called points. Each player has fifteen pieces, or men, the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables..

Backgammon :: Backgammon (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first table..

Cammock :: Cammock (n.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock..

Cornu Ammonis :: Cornu Ammonis () A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite..

Cornua Ammonis :: Cornua Ammonis (pl. ) of Cornu Ammoni.

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch..

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) Backgammon.

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his men or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person..

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron..

Gammoned :: Gammoned (imp. & p. p.) of Gammo.

Gammoning :: Gammoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gammo.

Gammoning :: Gammoning (n.) The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.

Gammoning :: Gammoning (n.) The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.

Gum Ammoniac :: Gum ammoniac (n.) The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters..

Hammochrysos :: Hammochrysos (n.) A stone with spangles of gold color in it.

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