ammunition

[Lat. ad to, and munitio a fortifying, fortification; munio = to raise a wall; to fortify.] Formerly: Military stores in general. Now : Powder, shot, shells, ., for guns of all sorts. "Arms for ten you sand men and great quantities of ammunition were put on board."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xii. Bread for the (mnēstis) = remembering.] An act of oblivion pa ed after an exciting political period. Its object is to encourage those who have compromised themselves by rebellion or otherwise to resume their ordinary occupations, and this it does by giving them a guarantee that they shall never be called upon to answer for their past offences. "But the Prince had determined that, as far as his power extended, all the past should be covered with a general amnesty." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. ăm-nic-ol-ist, s . [Lat. amnicola , from amnis a river, and colo (1) to cultivate, (2) to inhabit.] One dwelling near a river. (Johnson.)