Vocabulary : Amylopsin to Anabaptism

Amylopsin : The diastase of the pancreatic juice.
Amylose : One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.
Amyous : Wanting in muscle; without flesh.
Amyss : Same as Amice, a hood or cape.
Amzel : The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

An : This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every. ;; If; -- a word used by old English authors.
An 't : An it, that is, and it or if it. See An, conj.
Ana : Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
Ana- : A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.
Anabaptism : The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

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