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 A U O A M M ( 136 ) Ammunition, arms, utenfils of war, gun-powder, AMISIA, or Ami >SA, in geography. See Amasia. AMISS, or drawing amiss, among fportfmen. See imported without licence from his Majefty, are, by the law's of England, forfeited, and triple the value. Drawing. And again, luch licence obtained, except for furAmissa, or iex amij/d. See Lex. AMITTERE legem terra, among lawyers, a plxrafe niftiing his Majefty’s public ftores, is to be void, and importing the loi's of liberty of fwearing in any court. the offender to incur a premunire, and to be difabled to hold any office from the crown. AMMA, infurgery. See Hamma. Amma, among ecclefiallical writers, a term ufed to de- Ammunition bread4, Jhoes, &c. fuch as are ferved out note an abbefs or fpiritual mother. to the foldiers of an army or garrifon. AMMAA, in geography. See Amed. AMNA, among ancient phyficians. See Amnis. AMMAN, or Ammant, in the German and Belgic po- AMNESTY, in matters of policy, an ad by which two licy, a judge who has the cognizance of civil caufes. parties at variance promife to pardon and bury in obliAmmant, is alfo ufed among the French for a pu- vion all that is paft. blic notary, or officer who draws up inftruments and Amnefty is either general and unlimited, or partideeds. cular and reftrained, though moft commonly univerfal, AMMANNIA, in botany, a genus of the tetrandria u'ithout condition or exceptions ; fuch as that which monogynia clafs. The corolla confifts of four petals pafled in Germany at the peace of Ofnaburg in the inferred into the calix, v/hich has eight teeth. The year 1648. capfule has four cells. There are three fpecies of Amnesty, in a more limited fenfe, denotes a pardon ammannia, viz. the latifolia, and ramofior, both na- granted by a prince to his rebellious fubjeds, ufually tives of America; and the baccifera, a native of China. with fome exceptions : fuch was that granted by AMMERGAW, or AMMERLAND, a fmall territory in Charles II, at his reftoration. Weftphalia, belonging to the King of Denmark. AMNIMODAR, in aftrology, denotes the planet which AMMI, in botany, a genus of the pentandria digynia redilies a nativity, or rather the method of doing k. clafs. The involucrum is pinnated; and the flowers AMNIOS, in anatomy, a thin pellucid membrane which are allr hermophradite, with radiated petals. There furrounds the foetus in the womb. See Anatomy, are tw o fpecies of the ammi, viz. the majus and glau- Tart VI. cifolium, both natives of Europe. AMNIS alcalifatur, a term for water impregnated with AMMINIEiE uva, a name fometimes given to a fpecies an alkali. See Alkali. of vine. See Vitis. AMOER, in geography, the fame with Amour. See AMMITES, in natural hiftory, the name of a congeries Amour. of ftalagmitse. See Stalagmite. Amoer is alfo an ifland fituated eaft from Niulham, AMMOCOETUS, in ichthyology. SccAmmodytes. and north-weft from the land of Yeffo. AMMOCHRYSOS, the name of a fpecies of mica, a AMNITES. See Ammites. ftone common in Germany. See Mica. AMOEBiEUM, in ancient poetry, a kind of poem, reAMMODYTES, or Sand-eel, in ichthyology, a ge- prefenting a difpute between two perfons who are nus of fiflies belonging to the order of apodes. This made to anfwer each other alternately; fuch are the fiffi refembles an eel, and feldom exceeds a foot in third and feventh of Virgil’s eclogues. length. The head of the ammodytes is comprefled, AMOL, a city of Thabariftan in Afia upon the Gihun. and narrower than the body ; the upper jaw is larger See Gihun. than the under; the body is cylindrical, v'ith fcales AMOMUM, in botany, a genus of the monandria mohardly perceptible. There is but one fpecies of the nogynia clafs. The corolla of- the amomum is cut into the ammodytes, v/z. the tobianus, a native of Europe. four fegments, one of which fpreads open. There This fiffi gathers itfelf into a circle, and pierces the are four fpecies of this genus, viz. the zinziber, zefand with its head in the centre. rumbet, cardamom, and grana paradifl, all natives of AMMON, or Hammon, in heathen antiquity. See the Indies. See Cardamom, and Gra^na ParaHammon. disi. Cornua AMMONIS, in natural hiftory. See Snake- AMORBACH, a fmall city of Franconia, in Germany, stones. belonging to the eledor of Mentz. AMMONIAC, the name of a gum-refin extraded from AMORGO, an illand of the Archipelago, about ninety ■ an African plant. It is tranfported hither in the form miles north0 of Candia, lying in E. long. 26° 15, and of drops or granules, and fometimes in large mafles N. lat. 37 , compofed of thefe granules adhering together. The AMORPHA, in botany, a genus of the diadelphia deheft kind of it is that which is freeft of drofs, of a candria clafs, of which there is but one fpecies, viz. yellowifh colour, and a bitterifti tafte. It is much u- the fruticofa. The vexillum of the corolla is ovated fed in obftrudions of the vifcera.and infardions of the and concave; it has no alse or carina. It is a native' lungs. of Carolina, and is fometimes called barba Jovis Americ ma. £«/Ammoniac. See Armoniac. AMMONITE. See Snake-stones. AMORTIZATION, in law, the alienation <jf lands' or .AMMUNITION, a general term for all warlike provi- tenements to a corporation or fraternity ana their fucflons, but more efpecially ppv/der, ball, <&c. -r. . cefibrs. See M o r r m a 1 h. k AMOSSON,