American ist

[Eng. American; -ist.] one who investigates what is distinctive of America, so far as that it belongs, or is supposed to belong, to the domain of scientific research." ( Times, Jan. 9, 1877.) A-měr-i-can-i'ze, v. t. [ Eng. American; -ize.] To render American, especially 1. To naturalize one as an American. ( Jack son .) 2. To a imilate political institutions to those of America. am-er-im-năm, s . [Lat. amerimnon ; Gr. ἀμέριμνον ( amerimnon ) = the house-leek; à, priv., and μέριμνα (merimna) = care, because it requires no care in cultivation.] A genus of Papilionaceous plants, tribe Dalbergieæ, with no affinity whatever to the house-leek. ebenus is "American ebony."