amanca

[Sp.] A species of yellow lily growing in Peru. "On the hills near Lima, at a height but little greater, the ground is carpeted with mo and beds of beautiful yellow lilies, called Amancues ."-Darwin: Voyage round the World , ch. xvi. a-mănd', v. t. [Lat. amando = to send away.] To send one away. ( Cocker am.) "In the amalgamated plate it is not zinc itself, but chemical combination of mercury and zinc, which is presented to the acid.-Graham: Chem ., 2nd ed., vol. i., p. 247. a-mal-gam-ā-ting, pr. par. [AMALGAMATE.] a-măl-gam-a-tion, s. [Eng. amalgam; -ation . In Ger. & Fr. amalgamation ; Sp. amalgam a cion; Port. amalgam açao .] 1. Lit. The act or proce of uniting or alloying a metal with mercury; or the state of being so united. (It is by amalgamation that native gold and native silver are extracted from the rocks in which they occur.) "Amalgamation is the joining or mixing of mercury with any other of the metals."-Bacon. Physiol. Rem., $6. 2. Fig .: The act or proce of uniting two things together, or the state of being so united. "Early in the fourteenth century the amalgamation of the races was all but complete."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. i