knight-errant, of whom Don Quixote is the caricature.

AMADOU, a spongy substance, consisting of slices of certain fungi
beaten together, used as a styptic, and, after being steeped in
saltpetre, used as tinder.

AMAIMON, a devil who could he restrained from working evil from the
third hour till noon and from the ninth till evening.

AMALARIC, king of the Visigoths, married a daughter of Clovis; _d_.
581.

AMALEKITES, a warlike race of the Sinaitic peninsula, which gave
much trouble to the Israelites in the wilderness; were as good as
annihilated by King David.

AMAL`FI, a port on the N. of the Gulf of Salerno, 24 m. SE. of
Naples; of great importance in the Middle Ages, and governed by Doges of
its own.

AMALFIAN LAWS, a code of maritime law compiled at Amalfi.

AMA`LIA, ANNA, the Duchess of Weimar, the mother of the grand-duke;
collected about her court the most illustrious literary men of the time,
headed by Goethe, who was much attached to her (1739-1807).

AMALRIC, one of the leaders in the crusade against the Albigenses,
who, when his followers asked him how they were to distinguish heretics
from Catholics, answered, "Kill them all; God will know His own;" _d_.
1225.

AMALTHE`A, the goat that suckled Zeus, one of whose horns became the
cornucopia--horn of plenty.

AMA`RA SINHA, a Hindu Buddhist, left a valuable thesaurus of
Sanskrit words.

AMA`RI, MICHELE, an Italian patriot, born at Palermo, devoted a
great part of his life to the history of Sicily, and took part in its
emancipation; was an Orientalist as well; he is famous for throwing light
on the true character of the Sicilian Vespers (1806-1889).

AMARYL`LIS, a shepherdess in one of Virgil's pastorals; any young
rustic maiden.

AMA`SIA (25), a town in Asia Minor, once the capital of the kings of
Pontus.

AMA`SIS, king of Egypt, originally a simple soldier, took part in an
insurrection, dethroned the reigning monarch and assumed the crown,
proved an able ruler, and cultivated alliances with Greece; reigned from
570 to 546 B.C.

AMA`TI, a celebrated family of violin-makers; Andrea and Niccolo,
brothers, at Cremona, in the 16th and 17th centuries.

AMATITLAN (10), a town in Guatemala, the inhabitants of which are
mainly engaged in the preparation of cochineal.

AMAUROSIS, a weakness or loss of vision, the cause of which was at
one time unknown.

AMAZON, a river in S. America and the largest on the gl