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2. Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.

In amours with, in love with. [Obs.]

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||A"mour` pro"pre ("mr` pr"pr'). [F.] Self-love; self-esteem.

A*mov`a*bil"i*ty (&?;), n. Liability to be removed or dismissed from office. [R.] T. Jefferson.

A*mov"a*ble (&?;), a. [Cf. F. amovible.] Removable.

A*move" (&?;), v. t. [L. amovere; a- (ab) + movere to move: cf. OF. amover.] 1. To remove, as a person or thing, from a position. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

2. (Law) To dismiss from an office or station.

A*move", v. t. & i. [OE. amovir, L. admovere to move to, to excite; ad + movere.] To move or be moved; to excite. [Obs.] Spenser.

Am"pe*lite (m"p*lt), n. [L. ampelitis, Gr. 'ampeli^tis, fr. 'a`mpelos vine.] (Min.) An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

{ ||Am`père" (äN`pâr"), Am*pere" (m*pr"), } n. [From the name of a French electrician.] (Elec.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.

{ ||Am`père"me`ter (&?;), Am`pe*rom"e*ter (&?;), } n. [Ampère + meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in ampères.

Am"per*sand (&?;), n. [A corruption of and, per se and, i. e., & by itself makes and.] A word used to describe the character &?;, &?;, or &. Halliwell.

Am*phi-. [Gr. 'amfi`.] A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.

Am`phi*ar*thro"di*al (&?;), a. [Pref. amphi- + arthrodial.] Characterized by amphiarthrosis.

Am`phi*ar*thro"sis (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + &?; a joining, &?; a joint.] (Anat.) A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.

Am"phi*as`ter (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + 'asth`r a star.] (Biol.) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.

||Am*phib"i*a (&?;), n. pl. [See Amphibium.] (Zoöl.) One of the classes of vertebrates.

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.

Am*phib"i*al (-al), a. & n. Amphibian. [R.]

Am*phib"i*an (-an), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.

Am*phib"i*an, n. (Zoöl.) One of the Amphibia.

Am*phib`i*o*log"ic*al (&?;), a. Pertaining to amphibiology.

Am*phib`i*ol"o*gy (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; amphibious + -logy: cf. F. amphibiologie.] A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.

||Am*phib`i*ot"i*ca (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + biwtiko`s pertaining to life.] (Zoöl.) A division of insects having aquatic larvæ.

Am*phib"i*ous (&?;), 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.

2. Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water.

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