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 AMP ( 137 ) AMP AMOSSON, a river of France, in the province.of Lan- of three fyllables, whereof the firfl and laf are long, and that in the middle ffiort : fuch is the word guedoc. AMOVING, the ad of expelling a perfon from his place [caflitas]. -or office. • AMPHIPNEUMA, with phyficians, fignifies great difAMOUR, a large river of Alia, which, arifing in Sibe- ficulty of breathing. ria, runs eaftward through Chinefe Tartary, and falls AMPHIPGLES, in antiquity, the principal magifrates of the city of Syracufe in Sicity, called Archons at into the bay of Corea in the Indian Ocean. AMOY, an illand on the fouth-weft coaft of .China, fi- Athens. See Archon. utated in E. long. xi8°, N. lat. 250. AMPHIPOLIS, or Strymon, a town of European fituated in E. AMPANA, in botany, an obfolete name of the boraflus. Turky, once the capital of Macedonia, long. 40°5', and N. lat. 410 30'. See Borassus. AMPHIPPII, in Grecian antiquity, foldiers who, in AMPELIS, in botany. See Vitis. AMPELITES, Cannel-coal, a hard, opaque, foffile, war, ufed two horfes without faddles, and were dexinflammable fubltance, of a black colour. It does terous enough to leap from one to the other. in the naval affairs of the ancients, not effervefce with acids; it is capable of a fine po- AMPHIPRORiE, vefiels with a prow at each end. They were ufed lifii, and for that reafon is turned into a number of chiefly in rapid rivers and narrow channels, where it toys, as fnuff-boxes, and the like. AMPER, or Ampor, an Eflex term for a phlegmon. was not eafy to tack about. AMPHIPROSTYLE, in the archite&ure of the anSee Phlegmon. cients, a temple which had four columns in the front, AMPEZO, a town in the Tyroleze, belonging formerly and as many in the face behind. to the Venetians, but now to the houfe of Auftria. .AMPHISBAlNA, in zoology, a genus of ferpents beAMPHERES, in antiquity, a kind of veflels wherein to the order of amphibia ferpentes, fo called the rowers plied two oars at the fame time, one with longing from the falfe notion of its having two heads, becaufe the right hand, and another with the left. AMPHIARTHROSIS, in anatomy, a term for fuch it moves with either end fofemoft. The head of the amphilbaena is fmall, fmooth, and jundures of bones as have an evident motion, but different from the diarthrofis, &c. See Diarthrosis. blunt; the noftrils are very fmall; the eyes are miAMPHIBIA, in zoology, the name of Linnasus’s third nute and blackiffi ; and the mouth is furnifted with a clafs of animals, including all thofe which live partly great number of fmall teeth. The body is cylindriin water, and partly on land. This clafs is fubdivided cal, about a foot long, and divided iiito about 200 into three orders, viz. 1. The amphibia reptiles; the annular convex fegments like thofe of a worm ; and amphibia ferpentes; and the amphibia nantes. See it has about 40 longitudinal ftreaks, of which 12 on each fide are in the form of fmall croffes like the RoNatural History. AMPHIBIOUS, in botany, the fame with aquatic. man X; the anus is a tranfverfe flit; and the laft ring or fegment of the belly has eight fmall papilla?, formSee Aquatic. AMPHIBLESTROIDES, in anatomy, a name by ing a tranfverfe line before the anus; the tail, i. e. which fome call the retina of the eye. See Retina. all the fpace below the anus, is ffiort, confifting of thirty annular fegments, without being marked with AMPHIBOLIA. See the next article. AMPHIBOLOGY, in grammar and rhetoric, a term the crofs-lines, and is thick and blunt at the point. ufed to denote a phrafe fufceptible of two different in- The colour of the whole animal is black, variegated terpretations. Amphibology arifes from the order of with white; but the black prevails moft on the back, the phrafe,'rather than from the ambiguous meaning and the white on the belly. It has a great refemblance to a worm, living in the earth, and movin'* eof a word. well with either end foremoft. There are but AMPHIBRACHYS, in anciept poetry, the name of a qually foot confiding of three .fyllables, whereof that in the two fpecies, viz. 1. the fuliginofa, which anfwers to the above defeription, and is found dn Lymiddle is long, and the other two ffiont; fuch is the exaftly bia, and in different parts of America. 2. The riword [[abide]. which is totally white, is a native of both the AMPHICTYONS, in Grecian antiquity, an affembly ba, compofed of deputies from the different fates of Indies, and is generally found in ant-hillocks. The of the amphiffisena is reckoned to be mortal by Greece, and refembling, in fome meafurq, the diet of bite many authors; but as it is not furniffied with dogthe German empire. the ufual inftruments of cpnveying the poifon The amphiftyons met regularly at Delphi twice fangs, a-year, viz. in fpring and autumn, and decided all of ferpents, later writers efteem it not to be poifonous. feed upon ants and earth-worms, but particularly differences between any of the Grecian fates, their They the latter. See plate XI. fig.'2. determinations being held facred and inviolable. among geographers, a name applied to AMPHIDROMIA, in antiquity, confituted part of the AMPHISCII, the people who inhabit the torrid zone.' The Amlufration of infants. See Lustration. as the word imports, have their- ffiadows one AMPHIDRYON, in ecdefiafical writers, denotes the phifeii, veil or curtain which w^. drawn before the door of part of the year towards the north, and at the other towards the fouth, according to the fun’s place in the the bema in ancient churches. AMPHIMACER, in ancient poetry, a foot confifing ecliptic. They are alfo called Afcii. See Ascii. Vol. I. No. 6. 3 Mm AMPHIS-