[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.