Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) (part 3)

Ale¶Ðknight· (?), n. A pot companion. [Obs.]
Al·eÏman¶nic (?), a. Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.
Al·eÏman¶nic, n. The language of the Alemanni.
The Swabian dialect… is known as the Alemannic.
Amer. Cyc.
AÏlem¶bic (?), n. [F. alambic (cf. Sp. alambique), Ar. alÐanbÆq, fr. Gr. ? cup, cap of a still. The cap or head was the alembic proper. Cf. Limbec.] An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.
Used also metaphorically.
The alembic of a great poet's imagination.
Brimley.
AÏlem¶broth (?), n. [Origin uncertain.] The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant.
Brande & C.
A·len·con¶ lace¶ (?). See under Lace.
AÏlength¶ (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ + length.] At full length; lenghtwise.
Chaucer.

AÏlep¶iÏdote , a. [Gr. ? priv. + ?, ?, a scale.] (Zo”l.) Not having scales. Ð n. A fish without scales.
Ale¶pole· (?), n. A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse. [Obs.]
AÏlert¶ (?), a. [F. alerte, earlier … l'erte on the watch, fr. It. all' erta on the watch, prop. (standing) on a height, where one can look around; erta a declivity, steep, erto steep, p. p. of ergere, erigere, to erect, raise, L. erigere. See Erect.] 1. Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
2. Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
An alert young fellow.
Addison.

Syn. - Active; agile; lively; quick; prompt.
AÏlert¶, n. (Mil.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. ½We have had an alert.¸
Farrow.
On the ~, on the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.
AÏlert¶ly, adv. In an alert manner; nimbly.
AÏlert¶ness, n. The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
Ale¶ sil·ver (?). A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.
Ale¶stake (?), n. A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a ½bush.¸ [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Ale¶tast·er (?), n. See Aleconner. [Eng.]
AÏle·thiÏol¶oÏgy (?), n. [Gr. ? truth + Ïlogy.] The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence.
Sir W. Hamilton.
AÏleth¶oÏscope (?), n. [Gr. ? true + ? to view.] An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.
AÏleu¶roÏman·cy (?), n. [Gr. ? wheaten flour + Ïmancy: cf. F. aleuromancie.] Divination by means of flour.
Encyc. Brit.
Al·euÏrom¶eÏter (?), n. [Gr. ? flour + Ïmeter.] An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour.
Knight.
AÏleu¶rone (?), n. [Gr. ? flour.] (Bot.) An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (½protein granules¸) in maturing seeds and tubers; Ð supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.
Al·euÏron¶ic (?), a. (Bot.) Having the nature of aleurone.
D. C. Eaton.
AÏleu¶tian (?), AÏleu¶tic (?), } a. [Said to be from the Russ. aleut a bold rock.] Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.
Al¶eÏvin (?), n. [F. alevin, OF. alever to rear, fr. L. ad + levare to raise.] Young fish; fry.
AÏlew¶ (?), n. Halloo. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Ale¶wife· (?), n.; pl. Alewives (?). A woman who keeps an alehouse.
Gay.
Ale¶wife·, n.; pl. Alewives. [This word is properly aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, ½Phil Trans.¸ No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam's ½Memoirs,¸ vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zo”l.) A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.
Al·exÏan¶ders (?), Al·iÏsan¶ders (?), n. [OE. alisaundre, OF. alissandere, fr. Alexander or Alexandria.] (Bot) A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; Ð called also horse parsely.
Al·exÏan¶driÏan (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.
2. Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.
Al·exÏan¶drine (?; 277), a. Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.
Bancroft.
Al·exÏan¶drine (?)(?), n. [F. alexandrin.] A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
The needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Pope.
AÏlex·iÏphar¶mac (?), AÏlex·iÏphar¶maÏcal (?), } a. & n. [See Alexipharmic.] Alexipharmic. [Obs.]
AÏlex·iÏphar¶mic (?), AÏlex·iÏphar¶micÏal (?), } a. [Gr. ? keeping off poison; ? to keep off + ? drug, poison: cf. F. alexipharmaque.] (Med.) Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.
AÏlex·iÏphar¶mic (?), n. (Med.) An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.
AÏlex·iÏpyÏret¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? + ? burning heat, fever, ? fire.] (Med.) Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile. Ð n. A febrifuge.
AÏlex·iÏter¶ic (?), AÏlex·iÏter¶icÏal (?), } a. [Gr. ? fit to keep off or help, fr. ? one who keeps off, helper; ? to keep off: cf. F. alexitŠre.] (med.) Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.
AÏlex·iÏter¶ic, n. [Gr. ? a remedy, an amulet: cf. F. alexitŠre, LL. alexiterium.] (Med.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general.
Brande & C.
Ø Al¶fa (?) or Al¶fa grass¶ (?), n. A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
AlÏfal¶fa (?), n. [Sp.] (Bot.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); Ð so called in California, Texas, etc.
Al¶feÏnide (?), n. (Metal.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.
Ø AlÏfe¶res (?), n. [Sp., fr. Ar. alÏf¾rs knight.] An ensign; a standard bearer. [Obs.]
J. Fletcher.
Al¶fet , n. [LL. alfetum, fr. AS. ¾lf‘t a pot to boil in; ¾l burning + f‘t vat.] A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
Ø AlÏfil·aÏri¶a (?), n. (Bot.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
Ø Al·fiÏo¶ne (?), n. (Zo”l.) An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
Ø AlÏfres¶co (?), adv. & a. [It. al fresco in or on the fresh.] In the openÐair.
Smollett.
Ø Al¶ga (?), n.; pl. Alg‘ (?). [L., seaweed.] (Bot.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water conferv‘, etc.
Al¶gal (?), a,. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or like, alg‘.
Ø Al·gaÏro¶ba (?), n. [Sp. algarroba, fr. Ar. alÏkharr?bah. Cf. Carob.] (Bot.) (a) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread. (b) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.
Al¶gaÏrot (?), Al¶gaÏroth (?), } n. [F. algaroth, fr. the name of the inventor, Algarotti.] (Med.) A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.
Ø Al·gaÏroÏvil¶la (?), n. The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marth‘). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.
Al¶gate (?), Al¶gates (?), } adv. [All + gate way. The s is and adverbial ending. See Gate.] 1. Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs. or Dial.]
Ulna now he algates must forego.
Spenser.
µ Still used in the north of England in the sense of ½everywhere.¸
2. By any or means; at all events. [Obs.]
Fairfax.
3. Notwithstanding; yet. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

Al¶gaÏzel· (?), n. [Ar. al the + ghaz¾l.] (Zo”l.) The true gazelle.
Al¶geÏbra (?), n. [LL. algebra, fr. Ar. alÐjebr reduction of parts to a whole, or fractions to whole numbers, fr. jabara to bind together, consolidate; alÐjebr w'almuq¾balah reduction and comparison (by equations): cf. F. algŠbre, It. & Sp. algebra.] 1. (Math.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
2. A treatise on this science.
Al·geÏbra¶ic (?), Al·geÏbra¶icÏal (?), } a. Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings.
Algebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the co”rdinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; Ð opposed to a transcendental curve.
Al·geÏbra¶icÏalÏly, adv. By algebraic process.
Al¶geÏbra·ist (?), n. One versed in algebra.
Al¶geÏbraÏize (?)(?), v. t. To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.
AlÏge¶riÏan (?), a. Of or pertaining to Algeria. Ð n. A native of Algeria.
Al·geÏrine¶ (?), a. Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.
Al·geÏrine¶, n. A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.
Al¶gid (?), a. [L. algidus cold, fr. algere to be cold: cf. F. algide.] Cold; chilly.
Bailey.
÷ cholera (Med.), Asiatic cholera.
AlÏgid¶iÏty (?), n. Chilliness; coldness; especially (Med.), coldness and collapse.
Al¶gidÏness (?), n. Algidity. [Obs.]
AlÏgif¶ic (?), a. [L. algificus, fr. algus cold + facere to make.] Producing cold.
Al¶goid (?), a. [L. alga + Ïoid.] Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.
Al¶gol (?), n. [Ar. alÐgh?l destruction, calamity, fr. gh¾la to take suddenly, destroy.] (Astron.) A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.
Al·goÏlog¶icÏal (?), a. Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.
AlÏgol¶oÏgist (?), n. One learned about alg‘; a student of algology.
AlÏgol¶oÏgy (?), n. [L. alga seaweed + Ïlogy.] (Bot.) The study or science of alg‘ or seaweeds.
AlÏgon¶quin (?), AlÏgon¶kin (?), } n. One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.
Ø Al¶gor (?), n. [L.] (Med.) Cold; chilliness.
Al¶goÏrism (?), Al¶goÏrithm (?), } n. [OE. algorism, algrim, augrim, OF. algorisme, F. algorithme (cf. Sp. algoritmo, OSp. alguarismo, LL. algorismus), fr. the Ar. alÐKhow¾rezmÆ of Khow¾rezm, the modern Khiwa, surname of Abu Ja'far Mohammed ben Mus¾, author of a work on arithmetic early in the 9th century, which was translated into Latin, such books bearing the name algorismus. The spelling with th is due to a supposed connection with Gr. ? number.] 1. The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.
2. The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.
Al¶gous (?), a. [L. algosus, fr. alga seaweed.] Of or pertaining to the alg‘, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.
Ø Al·guaÏzil¶ (?)(?), n. [Sp. alguacil, fr. Ar. alwazÆr the vizier. Cf. Vizier.] An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable.
Prescott.
Al¶gum (?), n. Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable).
2 Chron. ii. 8.
AlÏham¶bra (?), n. [Ultimately fr. Ar. al the + hamr¾ red; i. e., the red (sc. house).] The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Al·hamÏbra¶ic (?), Al·hamÏbresque¶ (?; 277), } a. Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.
Ø AlÏhen¶na (?), n. See Henna.
A¶liÏas (?), adv. [L., fr. alius. See Else.] (Law) (a) Otherwise; otherwise called; Ð a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson. (b) At another time.
A¶liÏas, n.; pl. Aliases (?). [L., otherwise, at another time.] (Law) (a) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect. (b) Another name; an assumed name.
Al¶iÏbi (?), n. [L., elsewhere, at another place. See Alias.] (Law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.
Al·iÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. Quality of being alible.
Al¶iÏble (?), a. [L. alibilis, fr. alere to nourish.] Nutritive; nourishing.
Al¶iÏcant (?), n. A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; Ð said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain.
J. Fletcher.
Al¶iÏdade (?), n. [LL. alidada, alhidada, fr. Ar. alÏ'id¾da a sort of rule: cf. F. alidade.] The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument
Whewell.
Al¶ien (?), a. [OF. alien, L. alienus, fr. alius another; properly, therefore, belonging to another. See Else.] 1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; Ð followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
An alien sound of melancholy.
Wordsworth.
÷ enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours.
Abbott.
Al¶ien, n. 1. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreignÐborn resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
2. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
Aliens from the common wealth of Israel.
Ephes. ii. 12.
Al¶ien, v. t. [F. ali‚ner, L. alienare.] To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [R.] ½It the son alien lands.¸
Sir M. Hale.
The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of… the marriage.
Clarendon.
Al·ienÏaÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. Capability of being alienated. ½The alienability of the domain.¸
Burke.
Al¶ienÏaÏble (?), a. [Cf. F. ali‚nable.] Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
Al¶ienÏage (?), n. [Cf. OF. ali‚nage.] 1. The state or legal condition of being an alien.
µ The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization.
Kent. Wharton.
Estates forfeitable on account of alienage.
Story.
2. The state of being alienated or transferred to another.
Brougham.

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Al¶ienÏate (?), a. [L. alienatus, p. p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See Alien, and cf. Aliene.] Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; Ð with from.
O alienate from God.
Milton.

Al¶ienÏate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alienated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating.] 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; Ð with from.
The errors which… alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
Macaulay.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.
I. Taylor.
Al¶ienÏate (?), n. A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
Al·ienÏa¶tion (?), n. [F. ali‚nation, L. alienatio, fr. alienare, fr. alienare. See Alienate.] 1. The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
2. (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
The alienation of his heart from the king.
Bacon.
4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.
Syn. - Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See Insanity.
Al¶ienÏa¶tor (?), n. One who alienates.
AlÏiene (?), v. t. To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.
Al¶ienÏee¶ (?), n. (Law) One to whom the title of property is transferred; Ð opposed to alienor.
It the alienee enters and keeps possession.
Blackstone.
Al¶ienÏism (?), n. 1. The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism.
Kent.
2. The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.
Al¶ienÏist (?), n. [F. ali‚niste.] One who treats diseases of the mind.
Ed. Rev.
Al·ienÏor¶ (?), n. [OF. ali‚neur.] One who alienates or transfers property to another.
Blackstone.
Al·iÏeth¶moid (?), Al·iÏethÏmoid¶al (?), } a. [L. ala wing + E. ethomoid.] (Anat.) Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or ?artilage.
AÏlife¶ (?), adv. [Cf. lief dear.] On my life; dearly. [Obs.] ½I love that sport alife.¸
Beau. & Fl.
AÏlif¶erÏous (?), a. [L. ala wing + Ïferous.] Having wings, winged; aligerous. [R.]
Al¶iÏform (?), a. [L. ala wing + Ïform.] WingÏshaped; winglike.
AÏlig¶erÏous (?), a. [L. aliger; ala wing + gerere to carry.] Having wings; winged. [R.]
AÏlight¶ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Alighted (?) sometimes Alit (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Alighting.] [OE. alihten, fr. AS. ¾lÆhtan; pref. ¾Ï (cf. Goth. usÏ, G. erÏ, orig. meaning out) + lÆhtan, to alight, orig. to render light, to remove a burden from, fr. lÆht, leoht, light. See Light, v. i.] 1. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
2. To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
3. To come or chance (upon). [R.]
AÏlight¶, a. [Pref. aÏ + light.] Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. ½The lamps were alight.¸
Dickens.
AÏlign¶ (?), v. t. [F. aligner; … (L. ad) + ligne (L. linea) line. See Line, and cf. Allineate.] To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
AÏlign¶, v. t. To form in line; to fall into line.
AÏlign¶ment (?), n. [F. alignement.] 1. The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.
2. (Engin.) The groundÏplan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.
AÏlike¶ (?), a. [AS. onlÆc, gelÆc; pref. ¾ + like.] Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.]
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Ps. cxxxix. 12.
AÏlike¶, adv. [AS. gelÆce, onlÆce.] In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerne? in religion.
AÏlike¶Ðmind·ed (?), a. LikeÐminded. [Obs.]
Al¶iÏment (?), n. [L. alimentum, fr. alere to nourish; akin to Goth. alan to grow, Icel. ala to nourish: cf. F. aliment. See Old.] 1. That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.
Aliments of thei? sloth and weakness.
Bacon.
2. An allowance for maintenance. [Scot.]
Al¶iÏment, v. t. 1. To nourish; to support.
2. To provide for the maintenance of. [Scot.]
Al·iÏmen¶tal (?), a. Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.
A·liÏmen¶talÏly, adv. So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality.
Sir T. Browne.

Al·iÏmen¶taÏriÏness (?), n. The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]
Al·iÏmen¶taÏry (?), a. [L. alimentarius, fr. alimentum: cf. F. alimentaire.] Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.
÷ canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the ?nus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.
Al·iÏmenÏta¶tion (?), n. [Cf. F. alimentation, LL. alimentatio.] 1. The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.
2. State or mode of being nourished.
Bacon.
Al·iÏmen¶tiveÏness (?), n. The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [Chiefly in Phrenol.]
Al·iÏmo¶niÏous (?), a. Affording food; nourishing. [R.] ½Alimonious humors.¸
Harvey.
Al¶iÏmoÏny (?), n. [L. alimonia, alimonium, nourishment, sustenance, fr. alere to nourish.] 1. Maintenance; means of living.
2. (Law) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same.
Wharton. Burrill.
Al·iÏna¶sal (?), a. [L. ala wing + E. nasal.] (Anat.) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.
AÏline¶ (?), v. t. To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align.
Evelyn.
AÏlin·eÏa¶tion (?), n. See Allineation.
AÏline¶ment (?), n. Same as Alignment.
The Eng. form alinement is preferable to alignment, a bad spelling of the Fr[ench].
New Eng. Dict. (Murray).
AÏlin¶er (?), n. One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line.
Evelyn.
Al¶iÏoth (?), n. [Ar. aly¾t the tail of a fat sheep.] (Astron.) A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.
Al¶iÏped (?), a. [L. alipes; ala wing + pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. alipŠde.] (Zo”l.) WingÏfooted, as the bat. Ð n. An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.
Al¶iÏquant (?), a. [L. aliquantus some, moderate; alius other + quantus how great: cf. F. aliquante.] (Math.) An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot.
Al¶iÏquot (?), a. [L. aliquot some, several; alius other + quot how many: cf. F. aliquote.] (Math.) An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.
Al·iÏsep¶tal (?), a. [L. ala wing + E. septal.] (Anat.) Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.
Al¶ish (?), a. Like ale; as, an alish taste.
Al·iÏsphe¶noid (?), Al·iÏspheÏnoid¶al (?), } a. [L. ala wing + E. sphenoid.] (Anat.) Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.
Al·iÏsphe¶noid, n. (Anat.) The ~ bone.
Al¶iÏtrunk (?), n. [L. ala wing + truncus trunk.] (Zo”l.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.
Kirby.
Al·iÏtur¶gicÏal (?), a. [Pref. aÏ + liturgical.] (Eccl.) Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered.
Shipley.
Ø A·liÏun¶de (?), adv. & a. [L.] (Law) From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.
AÏlive¶ (?), a. [OE. on live, AS. on lÆfe in life; lÆfe being dat. of lÆf life. See Life, and cf. Live, a.] 1. Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.
2. In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.
3. Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.
The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs.
Macaulay.

4. Sprightly; lively; brisk.
Richardson.
5. Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.
Tremblingly alive to nature's laws.
Falconer.
6. Of all living (by way of emphasis).
Northumberland was the proudest man alive.
Clarendon.
Used colloquially as an intensive; as, man alive!
µ Alive always follows the noun which it qualifies.
Ø A·liÏza¶ri (?), n. [Perh. fr. Ar. 'a?¾rah juice extracted from a plant, fr. 'a?ara to press.] (Com.) The madder of the Levant.
Brande & C.
AÏliz¶aÏrin (?), n. [F. alizarine, fr. alizari.] (Chem.) A coloring principle, C14H6O2 (OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.
Al¶kaÏhest (?), n. [LL. alchahest, F. alcahest, a word that has an Arabic appearance, but was probably arbitrarily formed by Paracelsus.] The fabled ½universal solvent¸ of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. Ð Al·kaÏhes¶tic (?), a.
Al·kalÏam¶ide (?), n. [Alkali + amide.] (Chem.) One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.
Al·kaÏles·cence (?), Al·kaÏles¶cenÏcy (?), } n. A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant.
Ure.
Al·kaÏles¶cent (?), a. [Cf. F. alcalescent.] Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.
Al¶kaÏli (?; 277), n. pl. Alkalis or Alkalies (?). [F. alcali, ultimately fr. Ar. alqalÆ ashes of the plant saltwort, fr. qalay to roast in a pan, fry.] 1. Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.
2. (Chem.) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammoma, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. Ð Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. Ð Volatile ~, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.
Al¶kaÏliÏfi·aÏble (?), a. [Cf. F. alcalifiable.] Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.
Al¶kaÏliÏfy (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alkalified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Alkalifying.] [Alkali + Ïfly: cf. F. alcalifier.] To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.
Al¶kaÏliÏfy, v. i. To become changed into an alkali.
Al·kaÏlim¶eÏter (?), n. [Alkali + Ïmeter. cf. F. alcalimŠtre.] An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.
Al·kaÏliÏmet¶ric (?), Al·kaÏliÏmet¶ricÏal (?), } a. Of or pertaining to alkalimetry.
Al·kaÏlim¶eÏtry (?), n. [Cf. F. alcalimŠtrie.] (Chem.) The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.
Al¶kaÏline (?; 277), a. [Cf. F. alcalin.] Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali.
÷ earths, certain substances, as lime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, possessing some of the qualities of alkalies. Ð ÷ metals, potassium, sodium, c‘sium, lithium, rubidium. Ð ÷ reaction, a reaction indicating alkalinity, as by the action on limits, turmeric, etc.
Al·kaÏlin¶iÏty (?), n. The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property.
Thomson.
AlÏka¶liÏous (?), a. Alkaline. [Obs.]
Al¶kaÏliÏzate (?), a. Alkaline. [Obs.]
Boyle.
Al¶kaÏliÏÏzate (?), v. t. To alkalizate. [R.]
Johnson.
Al·kaÏliÏza¶tion (?), n. [Cf. F. alcalisation.] The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.
Al¶kaÏlize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alkalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Alkalizing (?).] [Cf. F. alcaliser.] To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.
Al¶kaÏloid (?), Al·kaÏloid¶al (?), } a. [Alkali + Ïoid: cf. F. alcalo‹de.] Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.
Al¶kaÏloid (?), n. (Chem.) An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.
µ Alcaloids all contain nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen, and many of them also contain oxygen. They include many of the active principles in plants; thus, morphine and narcotine are alkaloids found in opium.
Al¶kaÏnet (?), n. [Dim. of Sp. alcana, alhe?a, in which al is the Ar. article. See Henna, and cf. Orchanet.] 1. (Chem.) A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.
2. (Bot.) (a) A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet. (b) The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.
AlÏkar¶gen (?), n. [Alkarsin + oxygen.] (Chem.) Same as Cacodylic acid.
AlÏkar¶sin (?), n. [Alkali + arsenic + Ïin.] (Chem.) A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; Ð called also Cadel's fuming liquid.
AlÏka¶zar (?)(?). See Alcazar.
Al·keÏken¶gi (?), n. [Cf. F. alk‚kenge, Sp. alquequenje, ultimately fr. Ar. alÐk¾kanj a kind of resin from Herat.] (Bot.) An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; Ð also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato.
D. C. Eaton.
AlÏker¶mes (?), n. [Ar. alÐqirmiz kermes. See Kermes.] (Old Pharmacy) A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient.
Al¶koÏran (?; 277), n. The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.
Al·koÏran¶ic (?), a. Same as Alcoranic.
Al·koÏran¶ist, n. Same as Alcoranist.
All (?), a. [OE. al, pl. alle, AS. eal, pl. ealle, Northumbrian alle, akin to D. & OHG. al, Ger. all, Icel. allr. Dan. al, Sw. all, Goth. alls; and perh. to Ir. and Gael. uile, W. oll.] 1. The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us).
Prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
1 Thess. v. 21.
2. Any. [Obs.] ½Without all remedy.¸
Shak.
µ When the definite article ½the,¸ or a possessive or a demonstrative pronoun, is joined to the noun that all qualifies, all precedes the article or the pronoun; as, all the cattle; all my labor; all his wealth; all our families; all your citizens; all their property; all other joys.
This word, not only in popular language, but in the Scriptures, often signifies, indefinitely, a large portion or number, or a great part. Thus, all the cattle in Egypt died, all Judea and all the region round about Jordan, all men held John as a prophet, are not to be understood in a literal sense, but as including a large part, or very great numbers.
3. Only; alone; nothing but.
I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
Shak.
All the whole, the whole (emphatically). [Obs.] ½All the whole army.¸
Shak.
All, adv. 1. Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. ½And cheeks all pale.¸
Byron.

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µ In the ancient phrases, all too dear, all too much, all so long, etc., this word retains its appropriate sense or becomes intensive.
2. Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or Poet.]
All as his straying flock he fed.
Spenser.
A damsel lay deploring
All on a rock reclined.
Gay.
All to, or AllÐto. In such phrases as ½all to rent,¸ all to break,¸ ½allÐto frozen,¸ etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether. But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all (as it does in ½all forlorn,¸ and similar expressions), and the to properly belongs to the following word, being a kind of intensive prefix (orig. meaning asunder and answering to the LG. terÏ, HG. zerÏ). It is frequently to be met with in old books, used without the all. Thus Wyclif says, ½The vail of the temple was to rent:¸ and of Judas, ½He was hanged and toÐburst the middle:¸ i. e., burst in two, or asunder. Ð All along. See under Along. Ð All and some, individually and collectively, one and all. [Obs.] ½Displeased all and some.¸ Fairfax. Ð All but. (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.] Shak. (b) Almost; nearly.½The fine arts were all but proscribed.¸ Macaulay. Ð All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low] Ð All one, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same thing. Ð All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Colloq.] Ð All the better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference. Ð All the same, nevertheless. ½There they [certain phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not.¸ J. C. Shairp. ½But Rugby is a very nice place all the same.¸ T. Arnold. Ð See also under All, n.
All (?), n. The whole number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing; everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake.
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.
Shak.
All that thou seest is mine.
Gen. xxxi. 43.
All is used with of, like a partitive; as, all of a thing, all of us.
After all, after considering everything to the contrary; nevertheless. Ð All in all, a phrase which signifies all things to a person, or everything desired; (also adverbially) wholly; altogether.
Thou shalt be all in all, and I in thee,
Forever.
Milton.

Trust me not at all, or all in all.
Tennyson.

All in the wind (Naut.), a phrase denoting that the sails are parallel with the course of the wind, so as to shake. Ð All told, all counted; in all. Ð And all, and the rest; and everything connected. ½Bring our crown and all.¸ Shak. Ð At all. (a) In every respect; wholly; thoroughly. [Obs.] ½She is a shrew at al(l).¸ Chaucer. (b) A phrase much used by way of enforcement or emphasis, usually in negative or interrogative sentences, and signifying in any way or respect; in the least degree or to the least extent; in the least; under any circumstances; as, he has no ambition at all; has he any property at all? ½Nothing at all.¸ Shak. ½It thy father at all miss me.¸ 1 Sam. xx. 6. Ð Over ~, everywhere. [Obs.] Chaucer.
µ All is much used in composition to enlarge the meaning, or add force to a word. In some instances, it is completely incorporated into words, and its final consonant is dropped, as in almighty, already, always: but, in most instances, it is an adverb prefixed to adjectives or participles, but usually with a hyphen, as, allÐbountiful, allÐglorious, allimportant, allÐsurrounding, etc. In others it is an adjective; as, allpower, allÐgiver. Anciently many words, as, alabout, alaground, etc., were compounded with all, which are now written separately.
All, conj. [Orig. all, adv., wholly: used with though or if, which being dropped before the subjunctive left all as if in the sense although.] Although; albeit. [Obs.]
All they were wondrous loth.
Spenser.
Ø Al·la bre¶ve (?). [It., according to the breve.] (Old Church Music) With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; Ð indicated in the time signature by ?.
Ø Al¶lah (?), n. [Ar., contr. fr. the article al the + ilah God.] The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.
All·ÐaÐmort¶ (?), a. See Alamort.
Al¶lanÏite (?), n. [From T. Allan, who first distinguished it as a species.] (min.) A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.
Al·lanÏto¶ic (?)(?), a. [Cf. F. allanto‹que.] Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.
Allantoic acid. (Chem.) See Allantoin.
AlÏlan¶toid (?), Al·lanÏtoid¶al (?), } a. [Gr. ? shaped like a sausage; ? sausage + ? form.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the allantois.
Ø Al·lanÏtoid¶eÏa (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo”l.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.
AlÏlan¶toÏin (?), n. (Chem.) A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; Ð formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.
{ Ø AlÏlan¶toÏis (?)(?), AlÏlan¶toid (?), } n. (Anat.) A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, Ð in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.
Al¶laÏtrate (?), v. i. [L. allatrare. See Latrate.] To bark as a dog. [Obs.]
Stubbes.
AlÏlay¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allayed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Allaying.] [OE. alaien, aleggen, to lay down, put down, humble, put an end to, AS. ¾lecgan; ¾Ï (cf. Goth. usÏ, G. erÏ, orig. meaning out) + lecgan to lay; but confused with old forms of allege, alloy, alegge. See Lay.] 1. To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.
2. To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity.
It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison.
Shak.
Syn. - To alleviate; check; repress; assuage; appease; abate; subdue; destroy; compose; soothe; calm; quiet. See Alleviate.
AlÏlay¶ (?), v. t. To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside. ½When the rage allays.¸
Shak.
AlÏlay¶, n. Alleviation; abatement; check. [Obs.]
AlÏlay¶, n. Alloy. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
AlÏlay¶, v. t. To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. [Archaic]
Fuller.
AlÏlay¶er (?), n. One who, or that which, allays.
AlÏlay¶ment (?), n. An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.]
The like allayment could I give my grief.
Shak.
Al¶leÏcret (?), n. [OF. alecret, halecret, hallecret.] A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss.
Fairholt.
AlÏlect¶ (?), v. t. [L. allectare, freq. of allicere, allectum.] To allure; to entice. [Obs.]
Al·lecÏta¶tion (?), n. [L. allectatio.] Enticement; allurement. [Obs.]
Bailey.
AlÏlec¶tive (?), a. [LL. allectivus.] Alluring. [Obs.]
AlÏlec¶tive, n. Allurement. [Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.
AlÏledge¶ (?)(?), v. t. See Allege. [Obs.]
µ This spelling, corresponding to abridge, was once the prevailing one.
Al·leÏga¶tion (?), n. [L. allegatio, fr. allegare, allegatum, to send a message, cite; later, to free by giving reasons; ad + legare to send, commission. Cf. Allege and Adlegation.] 1. The act of alleging or positively asserting.
2. That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment
I thought their allegation but reasonable.
Steele.
3. (Law) A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, Ð usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.
AlÏlege¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alleged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Alleging.] [OE. aleggen to bring forward as evidence, OF. esligier to buy, prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue (see Litigate). The word was confused with L. allegare (see Allegation), and lex law. Cf. Allay.] 1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
2. To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge. [Archaic]
3. To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.
Syn. - To bring forward; adduce; advance; assign; produce; declare; affirm; assert; aver; predicate.
AlÏlege¶, v. t. [See Allay.] To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. [Obs.]
Wyclif.
AlÏlege¶aÏble (?), a. Capable of being alleged or affirmed.
The most authentic examples allegeable in the case.
South.
AlÏlege¶ance (?), n. Allegation. [Obs.]
AlÏlege¶ment (?), n. Allegation. [Obs.]
With many complaints and allegements.
Bp. Sanderson.
AlÏleg¶er (?), n. One who affirms or declares.
AlÏlegge¶ (?), v. t. See Alegge and Allay. [Obs.]
AlÏle¶giance (?), n. [OE. alegeaunce; pref. aÏ + OF. lige, liege. The meaning was influenced by L. ligare to bind, and even by lex, legis, law. See Liege, Ligeance.] 1. The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
2. Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.
Syn. - Loyalty; fealty. Ð Allegiance, Loyalty. These words agree in expressing the general idea of fidelity and attachment to the ½powers that be.¸ Allegiance is an obligation to a ruling power. Loyalty is a feeling or sentiment towards such power. Allegiance may exist under any form of government, and, in a republic, we generally speak of allegiance to the government, to the state, etc. In well conducted monarchies, loyalty is a warmÐhearted feeling of fidelity and obedience to the sovereign. It is personal in its nature; and hence we speak of the loyalty of a wife to her husband, not of her allegiance. In cases where we personify, loyalty is more commonly the word used; as, loyalty to the constitution; loyalty to the cause of virtue; loyalty to truth and religion, etc.
Hear me, recreant, on thine allegiance hear me!
Shak.
So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found,…
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal.
Milton.

AlÏle¶giant (?), a. Loyal.
Shak.
Al·leÏgor¶ic (?), Al·leÏgor¶icÏal (?), } a. [F. all‚gorique, L. allegorius, fr. Gr. ?. See Allegory.] Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. ½An allegoric tale.¸ Falconer. ½An allegorical application.¸ Pope.
Allegorical being… that kind of language which says one thing, but means another.
Max Miller.
Ð Al·leÏgor¶icÏalÏly, adv. Ð Al·leÏgor¶icÏalÏness, n.
Al¶leÏgoÏrist (?), n. [Cf. F. allegoriste.] One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.
Hume.
Al·leÏgor¶iÏza¶tion (?), n. The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.
Al¶leÏgoÏrize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allegorized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing.] [Cf. F. all‚goriser, fr. L. allegorizare.] 1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.
Al¶leÏgoÏrize, v. t. To use allegory.
Holland.
Al¶leÏgoÏri·zer (?), n. One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.
Al¶leÏgoÏry (?), n.; pl. Allegories (?). [L. allegoria, Gr. ?, description of one thing under the image of another; ? other + ? to speak in the assembly, harangue, ? place of assembly, fr. ? to assemble: cf. F. all‚gorie.] 1. A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
2. Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.
3. (Paint. & Sculpt.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
Syn. - Metaphor; fable. Ð Allegory, Parable. ½An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are fictitiously represented as attached to things, to which they are as it were transferred. …A figure of Peace and Victory crowning some historical personage is an allegory. ½I am the Vine, ye are the branches¸ [John xv. 1Ð6] is a spoken allegory. In the parable there is no transference of properties. The parable of the sower [Matt. xiii. 3Ð23] represents all things as according to their proper nature. In the allegory quoted above the properties of the vine and the relation of the branches are transferred to the person of Christ and Hi? apostles and disciples.¸
C. J. Smith.
An allegory is a prolonged metaphor. Bunyan's ½Pilgrim's Progress¸ and Spenser's ½Fa‰rie Queene¸ are celebrated examples of the allegory.
Ø Al·le·gresse¶ (?), n. [F. all‚gresse, fr. L. alacer sprightly.] Joy; gladsomeness.
Ø Al·leÏgret¶to (?), a. [It., dim. of allegro.] (Mus.) Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro. Ð n. A movement in this time.
Ø AlÏle¶gro (?), a. [It., merry, gay, fr. L. alacer lively. Cf. Aleger.] (Mus.) Brisk, lively. Ð n. An ~ movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.
Al·leÏlu¶is, Al·leÏlu¶iah } (?), n. [L. alleluia, Gr. ?, fr. Heb. hall?l?Ðy¾h. See Hallelujah.] An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form.
I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia.
Rev. xix. 1.
Ø Al¶leÏmande¶ (?), n. [F., fr. allemand German.] 1. (Mus.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; Ð now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.
2. A figure in dancing.
Al·leÏman¶nic (?), a. See Alemannic.
AlÏlen¶arÏly (?), adv. [All + anerly singly, fr. ane one.] Solely; only. [Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.
Al¶ler (?), a. [For ealra, the AS. gen. pl. of eal all.] Same as Alder, of all. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

Ø AlÏle¶riÏon (?), n. [F. al‚rion, LL. alario a sort of eagle; of uncertain origin.] (Her.) Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings.
Burke.
AlÏle¶viÏate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alleviated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alleviating.] [LL. alleviare, fr. L. ad + levis light. See Alegge, Levity.] 1. To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [Obs. in a literal or general sense.]
Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense.
Evelyn.
Those large bladders… conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds].
Ray.
2. To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc.; Ð opposed to aggravate.
The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters.
Bp. Horsley.
3. To extenuate; to palliate. [R.]
He alleviates his fault by an excuse.
Johnson.
Syn. - To lessen; diminish; soften; mitigate; assuage; abate; relieve; nullify; allay. Ð To Alleviate, Mitigate, Assuage, Allay. These words have in common the idea of relief from some painful state; and being all figurative, they differ in their application, according to the image under which this idea is presented. Alleviate supposes a load which is lightened or taken off; as,, to alleviate one's cares. Mitigate supposes something fierce which is made mild; as, to mitigate one's anguish. Assuage supposes something violent which is quieted; as, to assuage one's sorrow. Allay supposes something previously excited, but now brought down; as, to allay one's suffering or one's thirst. To alleviate the distresses of life; to mitigate the fierceness of passion or the violence of grief; to assuage angry feeling; to allay wounded sensibility.
AlÏle·viÏa¶tion (?), n. [LL. alleviatio.] 1. The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

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2. That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable.
I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply.
Johnson.
AlÏle¶viÏaÏtive (?), a. Tending to alleviate. Ð n. That which alleviates.
AlÏle¶viÏa·tor (?), n. One who, or that which, alleviaties.
AlÏle¶viÏaÏtoÏry (?), a. Alleviative.
Carlyle.
Al¶ley (?), n.; pl. Alleys (?). [OE. aley, alley, OF. al‚e, F. all‚e, a going, passage, fr. OE. aler, F. aller, to go; of uncertain origin: cf. Prov. anar, It. andare, Sp. andar.] 1. A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
I know each lane and every alley green.
Milton.

2. A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street. Gay. 3. A passageway between rows of pews in a church. 4. (Persp.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length. 5. The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office. Al¶ley, n.; pl. Alleys (?). [A contraction of alabaster, of which it was originally made.] A choice taw or marble. Dickens. Al¶leyed (?), a. Furnished with alleys; forming an alley. ½An alleyed walk.¸ Sir W. Scott. Al¶leyÏway· (?), n. An alley. All¶ Fools' Day· (?). The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced. The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760). All·fours¶ (?). [All + four (cards).] A game at cards, called ½High, Low, Jack, and the Game.¸ All· fours¶ [formerly, All· four¶.] All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. ½This example is on all fours with the other.¸ No simile can go on all fours.¸ Macaulay. All· hail¶ (?)(?). [All + hail, interj.] All health; Ð a phrase of salutation or welcome. All·Ðhail¶, v. t. To salute; to greet. [Poet.] Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who allÐhailed me ½Thane of Cawdor.¸ Shak. All·hal¶lond (?), n. Allhallows. [Obs.] Shak. { All·hal¶low (?), All·hal¶lows (?), } n. 1. All the saints (in heaven). [Obs.] 2. All Saints' Day, November 1st. [Archaic] <— All Hallows Eve = Halloween, Dec. 31 st. —> All·hal¶low (?). The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween. All·hal¶lowÏmas (?), n. The feast of All Saints. All·hal¶lown (?), a. Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] ½Allhallown summer.¸ Shak. (i. e., late summer; ½Indian Summer¸). All·hal¶lowÏtide· (?), n. [AS. tÆd time.] The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st. All¶heal (?), n. A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants. AlÏli¶aÏble (?), a. Able to enter into alliance. Al·liÏa¶ceous (?), a. Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions. AlÏli¶ance (?), n. [OE. aliaunce, OF. aliance, F. alliance, fr. OF. alier, F. allier. See Ally, and cf. LL. alligantia.] 1. The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England. 2. Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity. The alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel. C. J. Smith. The alliance… between logic and metaphysics. Mansel. 3. The persons or parties allied. Udall. Syn. - Connection; affinity; union; confederacy; confederation; league; coalition. AlÏli¶ance, v. t. To connect by alliance; to ally. [Obs.] AlÏli¶ant (?), n. [Cf. F. alliant, p. pr.] An ally; a confederate. [Obs. & R.] Sir H. Wotton. { Al¶lice, Al¶lis } (?), n. (Zo”l.) The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose. AlÏli¶cienÏcy (?), n. Attractive power; attractiveness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. AlÏli¶cient (?), a. [L. alliciens, p. pr. of allicere to allure; ad + lacere to entice.] That attracts; attracting. Ð n. That attracts. [Rare or Obs.] AlÏlied¶ (?), a. United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. AlÏliÏgate (?), v. t. [L. alligatus, p. p. of alligare. See Ally.] To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale. Al·liÏga¶tion (?), n. [L. alligatio.] 1. The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached. [R.] 2. (Arith.) A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. µ The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain ligatureÐlike signs. Alligation is of two kinds, medial and alternate; medial teaching the method of finding the price or quality of a mixture of several simple ingredients whose prices and qualities are known; alternate, teaching the amount of each of several simple ingredients whose prices or qualities are known, which will be required to make a mixture of given price or quality. Al¶liÏga·tor (?), n. [Sp. el lagarto the lizard (el lagarto de Indias, the cayman or American crocodile), fr. L. lacertus, lacerta, lizard. See Lizard.] 1. (Zo”l.) A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America. 2. (Mech.) Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball; (b) (Mining) a rock breaker; (c) (Printing) a kind of job press, called also alligator press. Alligator apple (Bot.), the fruit of the Anona palustris, a West Indian tree. It is said to be narcotic in its properties. Loudon. Ð Alligator fish (Zo”l.), a marine fish of northwestern America (Podothecus acipenserinus). Ð Alligator gar (Zo”l.), one of the gar pikes (Lepidosteus spatula) found in the southern rivers of the United States. The name is also applied to other species of gar pikes. Ð Alligator pear (Bot.), a corruption of Avocado pear. See Avocado. Ð Alligator snapper, Alligator tortoise, Alligator turtle (Zo”l.), a very large and voracious turtle (Macrochelys lacertina) in habiting the rivers of the southern United States. It sometimes reaches the weight of two hundred pounds. Unlike the common snapping turtle, to which the name is sometimes erroneously applied, it has a scaly head and many small scales beneath the tail. This name is sometimes given to other turtles, as to species of Trionyx. Ð Alligator wood, the timber of a tree of the West Indies (Guarea Swartzii). AlÏlign¶ment (?), n. See Alignment. AlÏlin¶eÏate (?), v. t. [L. ad + lineatus, p. p. of lineare to draw a line.] To align. [R.] Herschel. { AlÏlin·eÏa¶tion (?), AÏline·eÏa¶tion (?), } n. Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. AlÏli¶sion (?), n. [L. allisio, fr. allidere, to strike or dash against; ad + laedere to dash against.] The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward. AlÏlit¶erÏal (?), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. AlÏlit¶erÏate (?), v. t. To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat. AlÏlit¶erÏate, v. i. To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration. AlÏlit·erÏa¶tion (?), n. [L. ad + litera letter. See Letter.] The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: Ð Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson. µ The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words is also called alliteration. AngloÐSaxon poetry is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort. Later poets also employed it. In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne, I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. P. Plowman. AlÏlit¶erÏaÏtive (?; 277), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. Ð AlÏlit¶erÏaÏtiveÏly, adv. Ð AlÏlit¶er ÏaÏtiveÏness, n. AlÏlit¶erÏa·tor (?), n. One who alliterates. Ø Al¶liÏum (?), n. [L., garlic.] (bot.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc. All¶mouth· (?), n. (Zo”l.) The angler. All¶ness (?), n. Totality; completeness. [R.] The allness of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity. R. Turnbull. All¶night· (?), n. Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. [Obs.] Bacon. Al¶loÏcate (?), v. t. [LL. allocatus, p. p. of allocare, fr. L. ad + locare to place. See Allow.] 1. To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke. 2. To localize. [R.] Al·loÏca¶tion (?), n. [LL. allocatio: cf. F. allocation.] 1. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam. 2. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley. 3. The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; Ð a term used in the English exchequer. Ø Al·loÏca¶tur (?), n. [LL., it is allowed, fr. allocare to allow.] (Law) ½Allowed.¸ The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer. Al·loÏchro¶ic (?), a. Changeable in color. AlÏloch¶roÏite (?), n. (Min.) See Garnet. AlÏloch¶roÏous (?), a. [Gr. ? changed in color, fr. ? other + ? color.] Changing color. Al·loÏcu¶tion (?), n. [L. allocuto, fr. alloqui to speak to; ad + loqui to speak: cf. F. allocution.] 1. The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words. 2. An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy. Addison. Al¶lod (?), n. See Allodium. AlÏlo¶diÏal (?), a. [LL. allodialis, fr. allodium: cf. F. allodial. See Allodium.] (Law) Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; Ð opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone. AlÏlo¶diÏal, a. Anything held allodially. W. Coxe. AlÏlo¶diÏalÏism (?), n. The allodial system. AlÏlo¶iÏalÏist, n. One who holds allodial land. AlÏlo¶diÏalÏly, adv. By allodial tenure. AlÏlo¶diÏaÏry (?), n. One who holds an allodium. AlÏlo¶diÏum (?), n. [LL. allodium, alodium, alodis, alaudis, of Ger. origin; cf. OHG. al all, and ?t (AS. e¾d) possession, property. It means, therefore, entirely one's property.] (Law) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier. AlÏlog¶aÏmous (?), a. (Bot.) Characterized by allogamy. AlÏlog¶aÏmy (?)(?) n. [Gr. ? other + ? marriage.] (Bot.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; crossÐfertilization. Al·loÏge¶neÏous (?), a. [Gr. ?.] Different in nature or kind. [R.] Al¶loÏgraph (?), n. [Gr. ? another + Ïgraph.] A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; Ð opposed to autograph. <— Allomer; Allomeric —> AlÏlom¶erÏism (?), n. [Gr. ? other + ? part.] (Chem.) Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form. AlÏlom¶erÏous (?), a. (Chem.) Characterized by allomerism. Al¶loÏmorph (?), n. [Gr. ? other + ? form.] (Min.) (a) Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; Ð as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite. (b) A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; Ð thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. G. H. Williams. Al·loÏmor¶phic (?), a. (Min.) Of or pertaining to allomorphism. Al·loÏmor¶phism (?), n. (Min.) The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph. AlÏlonge¶ (?), n. [F. allonge, earlier alonge, a lengthening. See Allonge, v., and cf. Lunge.] 1. (Fencing) A thrust or pass; a lunge. 2. A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider. [A French usage] Abbott. AlÏlomge¶, v. i. [F. allonger; … (L. ad) + long (L. longus) long.] To thrust with a sword; to lunge. Al¶loÏnym (?), n. [F. allonyme, fr. Gr. ? other + ? name.] 1. The name of another person assumed by the author of a work. 2. A work published under the name of some one other than the author. AlÏlon¶yÏmous (?), a. Published under the name of some one other than the author. AlÏloo¶ (?), v. t. or i. [See Halloo.] To incite dogs by a call; to halloo. [Obs.] Al¶loÏpath (?), n. [Cf. F. allopathe.] An allopathist. Ed. Rev. Al·loÏpath¶ic (?), a. [Cf. F. allopathique.] Of or pertaining to allopathy. Al·loÏpath¶icÏalÏly (?), adv. In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods. AlÏlop¶aÏthist (?), n. One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy. AlÏlop¶aÏthy (?), n. [Gr. ? other + ? suffering, ?, ?, to suffer: cf. G. allopathie, F. allopathie. See Pathos.] That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; Ð a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy. { Al·loÏphyl¶ic (?), Al·loÏphyl¶iÏan (?), } a. [Gr. ? of another tribe; ? other + ? class or tribe.] Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. J. Prichard. Al¶loÏquy (?), n. [L. alloquim, fr. alloqui.] A speaking to another; an address. [Obs.] AlÏlot¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Allotting.] [OF. aloter, F. allotir; a (L. ad) + lot lot. See Lot.] 1. To distribute by lot. 2. To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson. Al¶loÏtheÏism (?), n. [Gr. ? other + ? god.] The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor. AlÏlot¶ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. alotement, F. allotement.] 1. The act of allotting; assignment. 2. That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome. 3. (law) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

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Al·loÏtriÏoph¶aÏgy (?), n. [Gr. ? strange + ? to eat: cf. F. allotriophagie.] (Med.) A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food. { Al·loÏtrop¶ic (?), Al·loÏtrop¶icÏal (?), } a. [Cf. F. allotropique.] Of or pertaining to allotropism. Ð Al·loÏtrop¶icÏalÏly, adv. Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism. AlÏlot·roÏpic¶iÏty (?), n. Allotropic property or nature. { AlÏlot¶roÏpism (?), AlÏlot¶roÏpy (?), } n. [Gr. ? other + direction, way, ? to turn: cf. F. allotropie.] (Chem.) The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations. µ Thus, carbon occurs crystallized in octahedrons and other related forms, in a state of extreme hardness, in the diamond; it occurs in hexagonal forms, and of little hardness, in black lead; and again occurs in a third form, with entire softness, in lampblack and charcoal. In some cases, one of these is peculiarly an active state, and the other a passive one. Thus, ozone is an active state of oxygen, and is distinct from ordinary oxygen, which is the element in its passive state. AlÏlot¶roÏpize (?), v. t. To change in physical properties but not in substance. [R.] AlÏlot¶taÏble (?), a. Capable of being allotted. AlÏlot·tee¶ (?), n. One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made. AlÏlot¶ter (?), n. One who allots. AlÏlot¶terÏy (?), n. Allotment. [Obs.] Shak. AlÏlow¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Allowing.] [OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F. allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. Allocate, Laud.] 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [Obs. or Archaic] Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller. 2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.] How allow you the model of these clothes? Massinger. 3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.] Thou shalt be… allowed with absolute power. Shak. 4. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay. 5. To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct… was highly reprehensible. Thackeray. 6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage. 7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent. Syn. - To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate. See Permit. AlÏlow¶, v. i. To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement. Allowing still for the different ways of making it. Addison. To allow of, to permit; to admit. Shak. AlÏlow¶aÏble (?), a. [F. allouable.] 1. Praiseworthy; laudable. [Obs.] Hacket. 2. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends. AlÏlow¶aÏbleÏness, n. The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South. AlÏlow¶aÏbly, adv. In an allowable manner. AlÏlow¶ance (?), n. [OF. alouance.] 1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak. 3. Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak. 4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] Locke. 5. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray. 6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay. 7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. AlÏlow¶ance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing (?).] [See Allowance, n.] To put upon a fixed ~ (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced. AlÏlow¶edÏly (?)(?) adv. By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. AlÏlow¶er (?), n. 1. An approver or abettor. [Obs.] 2. One who allows or permits. AlÏlox¶an (?), n. [Allantoin + oxalic, as containing the elements of allantion and oxalic acid.] (Chem.) An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol. AlÏlox¶aÏnate (?), n. (Chem.) A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical. Al·loxÏan¶ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to alloxan; Ð applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan. Al·loxÏan¶tin (?), n. (Chem.) A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid. AlÏloy¶ , n. [OE. alai, OF. alei, F. aloyer, to alloy, alier to ally. See Alloy, v. t.] 1. Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam. 2. The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness. 3. A baser metal mixed with a finer. Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. Locke. 4. Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. ½Pure English without Latin alloy.¸ F. Harrison. AlÏloy¶, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alloyed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Alloying.] [ F. aloyer, OF. alier, allier, later allayer, fr. L. aligare. See Alloy, n., Ally, v. t., and cf. Allay.] 1. To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper. 2. To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound. 3. To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes. AlÏloy¶, v. t. To form a metallic compound. Gold and iron alloy with ease. Ure. AlÏloy¶age (?), n. [F. aloyage.] The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy. All·ÐposÏsessed¶ (?), a. Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. [Colloq.] { All¶ Saints· (?), All¶ Saints' (?), } The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival. All¶ Souls' Day· (?). The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church., on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead. All¶spice· (?), n. The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush. All·thing· (?), adv. [For in all (= every) thing.] Altogether. [Obs.] Shak. AlÏlude¶ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Alluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Alluding.] [L. alludere to play with, to allude; ad + ludere to play.] To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; Ð followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches… do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker. Syn. - To refer; point; indicate; hint; suggest; intimate; signify; insinuate; advert. See Refer. AlÏlude¶, v. t. To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable. [Obs.] Wither. Ø Al·lu·mette (?), n. [F., from allumer to light.] A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc. AlÏlu¶miÏnor (?), n. [OF. alumineor, fr. L. ad + liminare. See Luminate.] An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. [Obs.] Cowell. AlÏlur¶ance (?), n. Allurement. [R.] AlÏlure¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alluded (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Alluring.] [OF. aleurrer, alurer, fr. a (L. ad) + leurre lure. See Lure.] To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton. Syn. - To attract; entice; tempt; decoy; seduce. Ð To Allure, Entice, Decoy, Seduce. These words agree in the idea of acting upon the mind by some strong controlling influence, and differ according to the image under which is presented. They are all used in a bad sense, except allure, which has sometimes (though rarely) a good one. We are allured by the prospect or offer (usually deceptive) of some future good. We are commonly enticed into evil by appeals to our passions. We are decoyed into danger by false appearances or representations. We are seduced when drawn aside from the path of rectitude. What allures draws by gentle means; what entices leads us by promises and persuasions; what decoys betrays us, as it were, into a snare or net; what seduces deceives us by artful appeals to the passions. AlÏlure¶, n. Allurement. [R.] Hayward. Ø Al·lure¶ (?), n. [F.; aller to go.] Gait; bearing. The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. Harper's Mag. AlÏlure¶ment (?), n. 1. The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

2. That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor.
AlÏlur¶er (?), n. One who, or that which, allures.
AlÏlur¶ing, a. That allures; attracting; charming; tempting. Ð AlÏlur¶ingÏly, adv. Ð AlÏlur¶ingÏness, n.
AlÏlu¶sion (?), n. [L. allusio, fr. alludere to allude: cf. F. allusion.] 1. A figurative or symbolical reference. [Obs.]
2. A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.
AlÏlu¶sive (?), a. 1. Figurative; symbolical.
2. Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.
AlÏlu¶siveÏly, adv. Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.
AlÏlu¶siveÏness, n. The quality of being allusive.
AlÏlu¶soÏry (?), a. Allusive. [R.]
Warburton.
AlÏlu¶viÏal (?), a. [Cf. F. alluvial. See Alluvion.] Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.
AlÏlu¶viÏon (?), n. [F. alluvion, L. alluvio, fr. alluere to wash against; ad + luere, equiv. to lavare, to wash. See Lave.] 1. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
2. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
Lyell.
3. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.
The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains.
R. Cobden.
4. (Law) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.]
AlÏlu¶viÏous (?), n. [L. alluvius. See Alluvion.] Alluvial. [R.]
Johnson.
AlÏlu¶viÏum (?), n.; pl. E. Alluviums, L. Alluvia (?). [L., neut. of alluvius. See Alluvious.] (Geol.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Lyell.
All¶where· (?), adv. Everywhere. [Archaic]
All¶work· (?), n. Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.
AlÏly¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Allying.] [OE. alien, OF. alier, F. alier, fr. L. alligare to bind to; ad + ligare to bind. Cf. Alligate, Alloy, Allay, Ligament.] 1. To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; Ð often followed by to or with.
O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied.
Pope.
2. To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
These three did love each other dearly well,
And with so firm affection were allied.
Spenser.
The virtue nearest to our vice allied.
Pope.
µ Ally is generally used in the passive form or reflexively.
AlÏly¶ (?), n.; pl. Allies (?). [See Ally, v.] 1. A relative; a kinsman. [Obs.]
Shak.
2. One united to another by treaty or league; Ð usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
The English soldiers and their French allies.
Macaulay.
3. Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally.
Buckle.
4. Anything akin to another by structure, etc.
Al¶ly (?), n. See Alley, a marble or taw.
Al¶lyl (?), n. [L. allium garlic + Ïyl.] (Chem.) An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.
Al¶lyÏlene (?), n. (Chem.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine<—; propyne —>.
Al¶ma, Al¶mah (?), n. Same as Alme.
Al·maÏcan¶tar (?), n. (Astron.) (a) Same as Almucantar. (b) A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.
{ Ø Al·maÏdi¶a (?), Ø Al¶maÏdie (?), } n. [F. almadie (cf. Sp. & Pg. almadia), fr. Ar. alma'dÆyah a raft, float.] (Naut.) (a) A bark canoe used by the Africans. (b) A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.
Al¶maÏgest (?), n. [F. almageste, LL. almageste, Ar. alÐmajistÆ, fr. Gr. ? (sc. ?), the greatest composition.] The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.
Ø AlÏma¶gra (?), n. [Sp. almagra, almagre, fr. Ar. alÐmaghrah red clay or earth.] A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver.
{ Al¶main (?), Al¶mayne (?), Al¶man (?), } n. [OF. Aleman, F. Allemand, fr. L. Alemanni, ancient Ger. tribes.] [Obs.] 1. A German. Also adj., German.
Shak.
2. The German language.
J. Foxe.
3. A kind of dance. See Allemande.
Almain rivets, Almayne rivets, or Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.
Ø Al¶ma Ma¶ter (?). [L., fostering mother.] A college or seminary where one is educated.
Al¶maÏnac (?; 277), n. [LL. almanac, almanach: cf. F. almanach, Sp. almanaque, It. almanacco, all of uncertain origin.] A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.
Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

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Al¶manÏdine (?), n. [LL. almandina, alamandina, for L. alabandina a precious stone, named after Alabanda, a town in Caria, where it was first and chiefly found: cf. F. almandine.] (Min.) The common red variety of garnet.
{ Ø Al¶me, Ø Al¶meh } (?), n. [Ar. 'almah (fem.) learned, fr. 'alama to know: cf. F. alm‚e.] An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma.
The Almehs lift their arms in dance.
Bayard Taylor.
Ø Al·menÏdron¶ (?), n. [Sp., fr. almendra almond.] The lofty BrazilÐnut tree.
Al¶merÏy (?), n. See Ambry. [Obs.]
Alm¶esse (?), n. See Alms. [Obs.]
{ AlÏmight¶ful (?), AlÏmight¶iÏful (?), } a. AllÐpowerful; almighty. [Obs.]
Udall.
AlÏmight¶iÏly, adv. With almighty power.
AlÏmight¶iÏness, n. Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might.
Jer. Taylor.
AlÏmight¶y (?), a. [AS. ealmihtig, ‘lmihtig; eal (OE. al) ail + mihtig mighty.] 1. Unlimited in might; omnipotent; allÐpowerful; irresistible.
I am the Almighty God.
Gen. xvii. 1.
2. Great; extreme; terrible. [Slang]
Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, Ð so that he is in an almighty fix.
De Quincey.
The Almighty, the omnipotent God.
Rev. i. 8.
Alm¶ner (?), n. An almoner. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Alm¶ond (?), n. [OE. almande, almaunde, alemaunde, F. amande, L. amygdala, fr. Gr. ?: cf. Sp. almendra. Cf. Amygdalate.] 1. The fruit of the almond tree.
µ The different kinds, as bitter, sweet, thinÐshelled, thickÐshelled almonds, and Jordan almonds, are the products of different varieties of the one species, Amygdalus communis, a native of the Mediterranean region and western Asia.
2. The tree bears the fruit; almond tree.
3. Anything shaped like an almond. Specifically: (Anat.) One of the tonsils.
Almond oil, fixed oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds. Ð Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde. Ð Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene. Ð Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. Ð Almond willow (Bot.), a willow which has leaves that are of a light green on both sides; almondÐleaved willow (Salix amygdalina).
Shenstone.
Al¶mond fur·nace (?). [Prob. a corruption of Almain furnace, i. e., German furnace. See Almain.] A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter.
Chambers.
Al¶monÏdine (?), n. See Almandine
Al¶monÏer (?), n. [OE. aumener, aulmener, OF. almosnier, aumosnier, F. aum“nier, fr. OF. almosne, alms, L. eleemosyna. See Alms.] One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.
Al¶monÏerÏship, n. The office of an almoner.
Al¶monÏry (?), n.; pl. Almonries (?). [OF. aumosnerie, F. aum“nerie, fr. OF. aumosnier. See Almoner.] The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed.
Al¶mose (?), n. Alms. [Obs.]
Cheke.
Al¶most (?), adv. [AS. ealm‘st, ‘lm‘st, quite the most, almost all; eal (OE. al) all + m?st most.] Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part.
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
Acts xxvi. 28.
Almost never, scarcely ever. Ð Almost nothing, scarcely anything.
Alm¶ry (?), n. See Almonry. [Obs.]
Alms (?), n. sing. & pl. [OE. almes, almesse, AS. ‘lmysse, fr. L. eleemosyna, Gr. ? mercy, charity, alms, fr. ? to pity. Cf. Almonry, Eleemosynary.] Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity.
A devout man… which gave much alms to the people.
Acts x. 2.
Alms are but the vehicles of prayer.
Dryden.

Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign.
Blackstone.
µ This word alms is singular in its form (almesse), and is sometimes so used; as, ½asked am alms.¸ Acts iii. 3.½Received an alms.¸ Shak. It is now, however, commonly a collective or plural noun. It is much used in composition, as almsgiver, almsgiving, alms bag, alms chest, etc.
Alms¶deed· (?), n. An act of charity.
Acts ix. 36.
Alms¶folk· (?), n. Persons supported by alms; almsmen. [Archaic]
Holinshed.
Alms¶giv·er (?), n. A giver of alms.
Alms¶giv·ing (?), n. The giving of alms.
Alms¶house· (?), n. A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.
Alms¶man (?), n.; fem. Almswoman. 1. A recipient of alms.
Shak.
2. A giver of alms. [R.]
Halliwell.
Al·muÏcan¶tar (?), n. [F. almucantarat, almicantarat, ultimately fr. Ar. alÐmuqantar¾t, pl., fr. qantara to bend, arch.] (Astron.) A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [Archaic]
Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass.
Al¶muce (?), n. Same as Amice, a hood or cape.
Ø AlÏmude¶ (?), n. [Pg. almude, or Sp. almud, a measure of grain or dry fruit, fr. Ar. alÐmudd a dry measure.] A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the ½almud¸ is about 1.4 gallons.
{ Al¶mug (?), Al¶gum (?), } n. [Heb., perh. borrowed fr. Skr. valguka sandalwood.] (Script.) A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. ??).
µ Most writers at the present day follow Celsius, who takes it to be the red sandalwood of China and the Indian Archipelago.
W. Smith.
Al¶nage (?), n., [OF. alnage, aulnage, F. aunage, fr. OF. alne ell, of Ger. origin: cf. OHG. elina, Goth. aleina, cubit. See Ell.] (O. Eng. Law) Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement.
Al¶naÏger (?), n. [See Alnage.] A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect act measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.
Al¶oe (?), n.; pl. Aloes (?). [L. alo‰, Gr. ?, aloe: cf. OF. aloe, F. aloŠs.] 1. pl. The wood of the agalloch. [Obs.]
Wyclif.
2. (Bot.) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.
3. pl. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but syntactically singular.]
American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.
Al¶oes wood· (?). See Agalloch.
Al·oÏet¶ic (?), a. [Cf. F. alo‚tique.] Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.
Al·oÏet¶ic, n. A medicine containing chiefly aloes.
AÏloft¶ (?; 115), adv. [Pref. aÏ + loft, which properly meant air. See Loft.] 1. On high; in the air; high above the ground. ½He steers his flight aloft.¸
Milton.
2. (Naut.) In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.
AÏloft¶, prep. Above; on top of. [Obs.]
Fresh waters run aloft the sea.
Holland.
AÏlo¶giÏan (?), n. [LL. Alogiani, Alogii, fr. Gr. ?; ? priv. + ? word.] (Eccl.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos.
Shipley.
Al¶oÏgy (?), n. [L. alogia, Gr. ?, fr. ? priv. + ? reason.] Unreasonableness; absurdity. [Obs.]
Al¶oÏin (?), n. (Chem.) A bitter purgative principle in aloes.
Al¶oÏman·cy (?), n. [Gr. ?, salt + Ïmancy: cf. F. alomancie, halomancie.] Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.]
Morin.
AÏlone¶ (?), a. [All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. ¾n one, alone. See All, One, Lone.] 1. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; Ï applied to a person or thing.
Alone on a wide, wide sea.
Coleridge.
It is not good that the man should be alone.
Gen. ii. 18.
2. Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
Luke iv. 4.
The citizens alone should be at the expense.
Franklin.
3. Sole; only; exclusive. [R.]
God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
Bentley.
4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless.
Shak.
µ The adjective alone commonly follows its noun.
To let or leave alone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.
AÏlone¶, adv. Solely; simply; exclusively.
AÏlone¶ly, adv. Only; merely; singly. [Obs.]
This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity.
Latimer.
AÏlone¶ly, a. Exclusive. [Obs.]
Fabyan.
AÏlone¶ness, n. A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.]
Bp. Montagu.
AÏlong¶ (?; 115), adv. [OE. along, anlong, AS. andlang, along; pref. andÏ (akin to OFris. ondÏ, OHG. antÏ, Ger. entÏ, Goth. andÏ, andaÏ, L. ante, Gr. ?, Skr. anti, over against) + lang long. See Long.] 1. By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.
Some laid along… on spokes of wheels are hung.
Dryden.
2. In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward.
We will go along by the king's highway.
Numb. xxi. 22.
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along.
Coleridge.
3. In company; together.
He to England shall along with you.
Shak.
All along, all trough the course of; during the whole time; throughout. ½I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper.¸ Addison. Ð To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. ½She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I.¸
Mrs. Stowe.
AÏlong¶, prep. By the length of, as distinguished from across. ½Along the lowly lands.¸
Dryden.
The kine… went along the highway.
1 Sam. vi. 12.
AÏlong¶. [AS. gelang owing to.] (Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.)
Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. [Obs. or Low. Eng.] ½On me is not along thin evil fare.¸ Chaucer. ½And all this is long of you.¸ Shak. ½This increase of price is all along of the foreigners.¸ London Punch.
AÏlong¶shore· (?), adv. Along the shore or coast.
AÏlong¶shore·man (?), n. See Longshoreman.
AÏlong¶side· (?), adv. Along or by the side; side by side with; Ð often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
AÏlongst¶ (?; 115), prep. & adv. [Formed fr. along, like amongst fr. among.] Along. [Obs.]
AÏloof¶ (?), n. (Zo”l.) Same as Alewife.
AÏloof¶, adv. [Pref. aÏ + loof, fr. D. loef luff, and so meaning, as a nautical word, to the windward. See Loof, Luff.] 1. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
Our palace stood aloof from streets.
Dryden.
2. Without sympathy; unfavorably.
To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties.
I. Taylor.
AÏloof¶ (?), prep. Away from; clear from. [Obs.]
Rivetus… would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands.
Milton.
AÏloof¶ness, n. State of being aloof.
Rogers (1642).
The… aloofness of his dim forest life.
Thoreau.
{ Ø Al·oÏpe¶ciÏa (?), AÏlop¶eÏcy (?), } n. [L. alopecia, Gr. ?, fr. ? fox, because loss of the hair is common among foxes.] (med.) Loss of the hair; baldness.
AÏlop¶eÏcist (?), n. A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.
AÏlose¶ (?), v. t. [OE. aloser.] To praise. [Obs.]
A¶lose (?), n. [F., fr. L. alosa or alausa.] (Zo”l.) The European shad (Clupea alosa); Ð called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.
Ø Al·ouÏatte¶ (?), n. [Of uncertain origin.] (Zo”l.) One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.
AÏloud¶ (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ + loud.] With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice.
Isa. lviii. 1.
AÏlow¶ (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ + low.] Below; in a lower part. ½Aloft, and then alow.¸
Dryden.
Alp (?), n. [L. Alpes the Alps, said to be of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. alp a high mountain, Ir. ailp any huge mass or lump: cf. F. Alpes.] 1. A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc.
Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp.
Milton.
Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise.
Pope.
2. Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.
µ The plural form Alps is sometimes used as a singular. ½The Alps doth spit.¸
Shak.
Alp, n. A bullfinch.
Rom. of R.
AlÏpac¶a (?), n. [Sp. alpaca, fr. the original Peruvian name of the animal. Cf. Paco.] 1. (Zo”l.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.
2. Wool of the alpaca.
3. A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.
Al¶pen (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Alps. [R.] ½The Alpen snow.¸
J. Fletcher.
Ø Al¶penÏstock· (?), n. [G.; Alp, gen. pl. Alpen + stock stick.] A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps.
Cheever.
AlÏpes¶trine (?), a. [L. Alpestris.] Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.
Al¶pha (?), n. [L. alpha, Gr. ?, from Heb. ¾leph, name of the first letter in the alphabet, also meaning ox.] The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.
In am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Rev. xxii. 13.
Formerly used also denote the chief; as, Plato was the alpha of the wits.
µ In cataloguing stars, the brightest star of a constellation in designated by Alpha (?); as, ? Lyr‘.
Al¶phaÏbet (?), n. [L. alphabetum, fr. Gr. ? + ?, the first two Greek letters; Heb. ¾leph and beth: cf. F. alphabet.] 1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
2. The simplest rudiments; elements.
The very alphabet of our law.
Macaulay.
Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology.
Al¶phaÏbet, v. t. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. [R.]
Al·phaÏbetÏa¶riÏan (?), n. A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian.
Abp. Sancroft.
{ Al·phaÏbet¶ic (?), Al·phaÏbet¶icÏal (?), } a. [Cf. F. alphab‚tique.] 1. Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.
2. Literal. [Obs.] ½Alphabetical servility.¸
Milton.
Al·phaÏbet¶icÏalÏly, adv. In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.
Al·phaÏbet¶ics (?), n. The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.
Al¶phaÏbetÏism (?), n. The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet.
Encyc. Brit.
Al¶phaÏbetÏize (?), v. t. 1. To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words.
2. To furnish with an alphabet.
AlÏphen¶ic (?), n. [F. alf‚nic, alph‚nic, Sp. alfe?ique, Ar. alÐf¾nÆd sweetness, sugar, fr. Per. f¾nÆd, p¾nÆd, sugar, cheese preserved in sugar.] (Med.) The crystallized juice of the sugarcane; sugar candy.
AlÐphit¶oÏman·cy (?), n. [Gr. ? barley meal + Ïmancy: cf. F. alphitomancie.] Divination by means of barley meal.
Knowles.

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AlÏphon¶sine (?), a. Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252Ð1284).
Alphonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under the patronage of Alphonso the Wise.
Whewell.
Al¶piÏgene (?), a. [L. Alpes Alps + Ïgen.] Growing in Alpine regions.
Al¶pine (?), a. [L. Alpinus, fr. Alpes the Alps: cf. F. Alpin.] 1. Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.
2. Like the Alps; lofty. ½Gazing up an Alpine height.¸
Tennyson.
Al¶pinÏist (?), n. A climber of the Alps.
{ Al¶pist (?), Al¶piÏa (?), } n. [F.: cf. Sp. & Pg. alpiste.] The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.
Ø Al¶quiÏfou (?), n. [Equiv. to arquifoux, F. alquifoux, Sp. alquif¢l, fr. the same Arabic word as alcohol. See Alcohol.] A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.
AlÏread¶y (?), adv. [All (OE. al) + ready.] Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. ½Joseph was in Egypt already.¸
Exod. i. 5.
I say unto you, that Elias is come already.
Matt. xvii. 12.
µ It has reference to past time, but may be used for a future past; as, when you shall arrive, the business will be already completed, or will have been already completed.
Als (?), adv. 1. Also. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
2. As. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
AlÏsa¶tian (?), a. Pertaining to Alsatia.
AlÏsa¶tian, n. An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.
Ø Al· se¶gno (?). [It., to the mark or sign.] (Mus.) A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign ?.
Al¶sike (?), n. [From Alsike, in Sweden.] A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.
Al¶so (?), adv. & conj. [All + so. OE. al so, AS. ealsw¾, alsw?, ‘lsw‘; eal, al, ‘l, all + sw¾ so. See All, So, As.] 1. In like manner; likewise. [Obs.]
2. In addition; besides; as well; further; too.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven… for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matt. vi. 20.
3. Even as; as; so. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Syn. - Also, Likewise, Too. These words are used by way of transition, in leaving one thought and passing to another. Also is the widest term. It denotes that what follows is all so, or entirely like that which preceded, or may be affirmed with the same truth; as, ½If you were there, I was there also;¸ ¸If our situation has some discomforts, it has also many sources of enjoyment.¸ Too is simply less formal and pointed than also; it marks the transition with a lighter touch; as, ½I was there too;¸ ¸a courtier yet a patriot too.¸ Pope. Likewise denotes literally ½in like manner,¸ and hence has been thought by some to be more specific than also. ½It implies,¸ says Whately, ½some connection or agreement between the words it unites. We may say, ? He is a poet, and likewise a musician; 'but we should not say, ? He is a prince, and likewise a musician, because there is no natural connection between these qualities.¸ This distinction, however, is often disregarded.
Alt (?), a. & n. [See Alto.] (Mus.) The higher part of the scale. See Alto.
To be in ~, to be in an exalted state of mind.
AlÏta¶ian (?), AlÏta¶ic (?), a. [Cf. F. alta‹que.] Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.
Al¶tar (?), n. [OE. alter, auter, autier, fr. L. altare, pl. altaria, ~, prob. fr. altus high: cf. OF. alter, autier, F. autel. Cf. Altitude.] 1. A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.
Noah builded an altar unto the Lord.
Gen. viii. 20.
2. In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table.
µ Altar is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, altar bread or altarÐbread.
÷ cloth or ÷Ðcloth, the cover for an ~ in a Christian church, usually richly embroidered. Ð ÷ cushion, a cushion laid upon the ~ in a Christian church to support the service book. Ð ÷ frontal. See Frontal. Ð ÷ rail, the railing in front of the ~ or communion table. Ð ÷ screen, a wall or partition built behind an ~ to protect it from approach in the rear. Ð ÷ tomb, a tomb resembling an ~ in shape, etc. Ð Family ~, place of family devotions. Ð To ?ead (as a bride) to the ~, to marry; Ð said of a woman.
Al¶tarÏage (?), n. [Cf. OF. auterage, autelage.] 1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.
2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes.
Shipley.
Al¶tarÏist (?), n. [Cf. LL. altarista, F. altariste.] (Old Law) (a) A chaplain. (b) A vicar of a church.
Al¶tarÏpiece· (?), n. The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
Al¶tarÏwise· (?), adv. In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south.
Shipley.
AltÏaz¶iÏmuth (?), n. [Alltude + azimuth.] (Astron.) An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.
Al¶ter (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Altered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Altering.] [F. alt‚rer, LL. alterare, fr. L. alter other, alius other. Cf. Else, Other.] 1. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. ½To alter the king's course.¸ ½To alter the condition of a man.¸ ½No power in Venice can alter a decree.¸
Shak.
It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Pope.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Ps. lxxxix. 34.
2. To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.]
Milton.
3. To geld. [Colloq.]
Syn. - Change, Alter. Change is generic and the stronger term. It may express a loss of identity, or the substitution of one thing in place of another; alter commonly expresses a partial change, or a change in form or details without destroying identity.
Al¶ter, v. i. To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure. ½The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.¸
Dan. vi. 8.
Al·terÏaÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. [Cf. F. alt‚rabilit‚.] The quality of being alterable; alterableness.
Al¶terÏaÏble (?), a. [Cf. F. alt‚rable.] Capable of being altered.
Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents.
Rogers.
Al¶terÏaÏbleÏness, n. The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.
Al¶terÏaÏbly, adv. In an alterable manner.
Al¶terÏant (?), a. [LL. alterans, p. pr.: cf. F. alt‚rant.] Altering; gradually changing.
Bacon.
Al¶terÏant, n. An alterative. [R.]
Chambers.
Al·terÏa¶tion (?), n. [Cf. F. alt‚ration.] 1. The act of altering or making different.
Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences.
Hooker.
2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
Ere long might perceive
Strange alteration in me.
Milton.
Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt.
Swift.
Al¶terÏaÏtive (?), a. [L. alterativus: cf. F. alt‚ratif.] Causing alteration. Specifically: (Med.) Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.
Burton.
Al¶terÏaÏtive, n. A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
Al¶terÏcate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Altercated; p. pr. & vb. n. Altercating.] [L. altercatus, p. p. of altercare, altercari, fr. alter another. See Alter.] The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.
Al·terÏca¶tion (?; 277), n. [F. altercation, fr. L. altercatio.] Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. ½Stormy altercations.¸
Macaulay.
Syn. - Altercation, Dispute, Wrangle. The term dispute is in most cases, but not necessarily, applied to a verbal contest; as, a dispute on the lawfulness of war. An altercation is an angry dispute between two parties, involving an interchange of severe language. A wrangle is a confused and noisy altercation.
Their whole life was little else than a perpetual wrangling and altercation.
Hakewill.
Al¶terÏcaÏtive (?), a. Characterized by wrangling; scolding. [R.]
Fielding.
AlÏter¶iÏty (?), n. [F. alt‚rit‚.] The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. [R.]
For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented.
Coleridge.
Al¶tern (?), a. [L. alternus, fr. alter another: cf. F. alterne.] Acting by turns; alternate.
Milton.
÷ base (Trig.), a second side made base, in distinction a side previously regarded as base.
AlÏter¶naÏcy (?), n. Alternateness; alternation. [R.]
Mitford.
AlÏter¶nant (?), a. [L. alternans, p. pr.: cf. F. alternant. See Alternate, v. t.] (Geol.) Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
AlÏter¶nate (?; 277), a. [L. alternatus, p. p. of alternate, fr. alternus. See Altern, Alter.] 1. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
And bid alternate passions fall and rise.
Pope.
2. Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.; read every alternate line.
3. (Bot.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
Gray.
÷ alligation. See Alligation. Ð ÷ angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH, GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate angles. Ð ÷ generation. (Biol.) See under Generation.
AlÏter¶nate (?; 277), n. 1. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. [R.]
Grateful alternates of substantial.
Prior.
2. A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
3. (Math.) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
Al¶terÏnate (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alternated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alternating.] [L. alternatus, p. p. of alternare. See Altern.] To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil.
Grew.
Al¶terÏnate, v. i. 1. To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; Ð followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast.
J. Philips.
Different species alternating with each other.
Kirwan.
2. To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
AlÏter¶nateÏly (?), adv. 1. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
2. (Math.) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
AlÏter¶nateÏness, n. The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
Al·terÏna¶tion (?), n. [L. alternatio: cf. F. alternation.] 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
2. (Math.) Permutation.
3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
Mason.
÷ of generation. See under Generation.
AlÏter¶naÏtive (?), a. [Cf. F. alternatif.] 1. Offering a choice of two things.
2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.]
Holland.
AlÏter¶naÏtive, n. [Cf. F. alternative, LL. alternativa.] 1. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.
There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence.
Burke.
2. Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.
Having to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse.
Jowett (Thucyd.).
3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
If this demand is refused the alternative is war.
Lewis.
With no alternative but death.
Longfellow.
4. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
My decided preference is for the fourth and last of th?? alternatives.
Gladstone.
AlÏter¶naÏtiveÏly, adv. In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
AlÐter¶naÏtiveÏness, n. The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
AlÏter¶niÏty (?), n. [LL. alternitas.] Succession by turns; alternation. [R.]
Sir T. Browne.
{ Ø AlÏth‘¶a , Ø AlÏthe¶a } (?), n. [L. althaea, Gr. ?.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. (b) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.
AlÏthe¶ine (?), n.ÿ(Chem.) Asparagine.
AlÏtho¶ (?), conj. Altough. [Reformed spelling.]
Alt¶horn· (?), n. [Alt + horn.] (Mus.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn.
Grove.
AlÏthough¶ (?), conj. [All + though; OE. al thagh.] Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.
Although all shall be offended, yet will no I.
Mark xiv. 29.
Syn. - Although, Though. Although, which originally was perhaps more emphatic than though, is now interchangeable with it in the sense given above. Euphonic consideration determines the choice.
AlÏtil¶oÏquence (?), n. Lofty speech; pompous language. [R.]
Bailey.
AlÏtil¶oÏquent (?), a. [L. altus (adv. alte) high + loquens, p. pr. of loqui to speak.] HighÐsounding; pompous in speech. [R.]
Bailey.
AlÏtim¶eÏter (?), n. [LL. altimeter; altus high + metrum, Gr. ?, measure: cf. F. altimŠtre.] An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc.
Knight.
AlÏtim¶eÏtry (?), n. [Cf. F. altim‚trie.] The art of measuring altitudes, or heights.
AlÏtin¶car (?), n. See Tincal.
Al¶tiÏscope (?), n. [L. altus high + Gr. ? to view.] An arrangement of lenses and mirrors.

<— p. 45 —> which enables a person to see an object in spite of interning. AlÏtis¶oÏnant (?), a. [L. altus high + ?onans, p. pr. of sonare to sound.] HighÐsounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton. AlÏtis¶oÏnous (?), a. [L. altisonus.] Altisonant. Ø AlÏtis¶siÏmo (?), n. [It.; superl. of alto.] (Mus.) The part or notes situated above F in alt. Al¶tiÏtude (?), n. [L. altitudo, fr. altus high. Cf. Altar, Haughty, Enhance.] 1. Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree. 2. (Astron.) The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon. 3. (Geom.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc. 4. Height of degree; highest point or degree. He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue. Shak. 5. Height of rank or excellence; superiority. Swift. 6. pl. Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. [Colloq.] Richardson. The man of law began to get into his altitude. Sir W. Scott. Meridian ~, an arc of the meridian intercepted between the south point on the horizon and any point on the meridian. See Meridian, 3. Al·tiÏtu¶diÏnal (?), a. Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements. Al·tiÏtu·diÏna¶riÏan (?), a. Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge. AlÏtiv¶oÏlant (?), a. [L. altivolans. See Volant.] Flying high. [Obs.] Blount. Al¶to (?), n.; pl. Altos (?). [It. alto high, fr. L. altus. Cf. Alt.] 1. (Mus.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counterÐtenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor. 2. An alto singer. ÷ clef (Mus., the counterÐtenor clef, or the C clef, placed so that the two strokes include the middle line of the staff. Moore. Al·toÏgeth¶er (?), adv. [OE. altogedere; al all + togedere together. See Together.] 1. All together; conjointly. [Obs.] Altogether they wen? at once. Chaucer. 2. Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. AlÏtom¶eÏter (?), n. [L. altus high + Ïmeter.] A theodolite. Knight. Al¶toÐreÏlie¶vo (?), n. AltoÐrilievo. Ø Al¶toÐriÏlieÏvo (?), n.; pl. AltoÐrilievos (?). [It.] (Sculp.) High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an altoÏrilievo or in altoÏrilievo. µ When the figure stands only half out, it is called mezzoÐrilievo, or medium relief; when its projection is less than one half, bassoÐrilievo, basÐrelief, or low relief. Al¶triÏcal (?), a. (Zo”l.) Like the articles. Ø AlÏtri¶ces (?), n. pl. [L., nourishes, pl. of altrix.] (Zo”l.) Nursers, Ð a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; Ð opposed to pr‘coces. Al¶truÏism (?), n. [F. altruisme (a word of Comte's), It. altrui of or to others, fr. L. alter another.] Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; Ð opposed to egoism or selfishness. [Recent] J. S. Mill. Al¶truÏist, n. One imbued with altruism; Ð opposed to egoist. Al·truÏis¶tic (?), a. [Cf. F. altruiste, a. See Altruism..] Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; Ð opposed to egoistic or selfish. Bain. Ð Al·truÏis¶ticÏalÏly, adv. Al¶uÏdel (?), n. [F. & Sp. aludel, fr. Ar. aluth¾l.] (Chem.) One of the pearÐshaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; Ð used in the process of sublimation. Ure. Ø Al¶uÏla (?), n. [NL., dim. of L. ala a wing.] (Zo”l.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard. Al¶uÏlar (?), a. (Zo”l.) Pertaining to the alula. Al¶um (?), n. [OE. alum, alom, OF. alum, F. alun, fr. L. alumen alum.] (Chem.) A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twentyÐfour molecules of water of crystallization. µ Common alum is the double sulphate of aluminium and potassium. It is white, transparent, very astringent, and crystallizes easily in octahedrons. The term is extended so as to include other double sulphates similar to ~ in formula. Al¶um (?), v. t. To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of ~; to treat with ~. Ure. Ø AÏlu¶men (?), n. [L.] (Chem.) Alum. AÏlu¶miÏna (?), n. [L. alumen, aluminis. See Alum.] (Chem.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3. µ It is the oxide of the metal aluminium, the base of aluminous salts, a constituent of a large part of the earthy siliceous minerals, as the feldspars, micas, scapolites, etc., and the characterizing ingredient of common clay, in which it exists as an impure silicate with water, resulting from the decomposition of other aluminous minerals. In its natural state, it is the mineral corundum. AÏlu·miÏnate (?), n. (Chem.) A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen. AÏlu¶miÏna·ted (?). a. Combined with alumina. Al¶uÏmine (?), n. [F.] Alumina. Davy. Al·uÏmin¶ic (?), a. Of or containing aluminium; as, aluminic phosphate. AÏlu·miÏnif¶erÏous (?), a. [L. alumen alum + Ïferous: cf. F. aluminifŠre.] Containing alum. AÏlu¶miÏniÏform (?), a. [L. alumen + Ïform.] pertaining the form of alumina. Al·uÏmin¶iÏum (?), n. [L. alumen. See Alum.] (Chem.) The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, pertaining a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. ÷ bronze or gold, a pale goldÐcolored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc. AÏlu¶miÏnize (?), v. t. To treat impregnate with alum; to alum. AÏlu¶miÏnous (?), a. [L. aluminosus, fr. alumen alum: cf. F. alumineux.] Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution. AÏlu¶miÏnum (?), n. See Aluminium. Al¶umÏish (?), a. Somewhat like alum. Ø AÏlum¶na (?), n. fem.; pl. Alumn‘ . [L. See Alumnus.] A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college. Ø AÏlum¶nus (?), n.; pl. Alumni (?). [L., fr. alere to nourish.] A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning. Al¶um root· (?). (Bot.) A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties. { Al¶um schist¶ (?), Al¶um shale¶ (?), } (Min.) A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock. Al¶um stone· (?). (Min.) A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite. Al¶uÏnite (?), n. (Min.) Alum stone. AÏlu¶noÏgen (?), n. [F. alun alum + Ïgen.] (Min.) A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; Ð also called feather alum, and hair salt. Al¶ure (?), n. [OF. alure, aleure, walk, gait, fr. aler (F. aller) to go.] A walk or passage; Ð applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton. Al¶uÏta¶ceous (?), a. [L. alutacius, fr. aluta soft leather.] 1. Leathery. 2. Of a pale brown color; leatherÏyellow. Brande. Al·luÏta¶tion (?), n. [See Alutaceous.] The tanning or dressing of leather. [Obs.] Blount. Al¶veÏaÏry (?), n.; pl. Alvearies (?). [L. alvearium, alveare, beehive, fr. alveus a hollow vessel, beehive, from alvus belly, beehive.] 1. A beehive, or something resembling a beehive. Barret. 2. (Anat.) The hollow of the external ear. Quincy. Al¶veÏa·ted (?), a. [L. alveatus hollowed out.] Formed or vaulted like a beehive. Al¶veÏoÏlar (?; 277), a. [L. alveolus a small hollow or cavity: cf. F. alv‚olaire.] (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. ÷ processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth. Al¶veÏoÏlaÏry (?), a. Alveolar. [R.] Al¶veÏoÏlate (?), a. [L. alveolatus, fr. alveolus.] (Bot.) Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb. Al¶veÏole (?), n. Same as Alveolus. AlÏve¶oÏliÏform (?), a. [L. alvelous + Ïform.] Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities. Ø AlÏve¶oÏlus (?), n.; pl. Alveoli (?). [L., a small hollow or cavity, dim. of alveus: cf. F. alv‚ole. See Alveary.] 1. A cell in a honeycomb. 2. (Zo”l.) A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil 3. (Anat.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc. Ø Al¶veÏus (?), n.; pl. Alvei (?). [L.] The channel of a river. Weate. Al¶vine (?), a. [L. alvus belly: cf. F. alvin.] Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions. Al¶way (?), adv. Always. [Archaic or Poetic] I would not live alway. Job vii. 16. Al¶ways (?), adv. [All + way. The s is an adverbial (orig. a genitive) ending.] 1. At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton. 2. Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; Ð opposed to sometimes or occasionally. He always rides a black galloway. Bulwer. Ø AÏlys¶sum (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, name of a plant, perh. fr. ? priv. + ? raging madness.] (Bot.) A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweetÏscented flowers. Am (?). [AS. am, eom, akin to Gothic im, Icel. em, Olr. am, Lith. esmi, L. sum., Gr. ?, Zend ahmi, Skr. asmi, fr. a root as to be. ?. See Are, and cf. Be, Was.] The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be. God said unto Moses, I am that am. Exod. iii. 14. Am·aÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. [L. amabilitas.] Lovableness. Jer. Taylor. µ The New English Dictionary (Murray) says this word is ½usefully distinct from Amiability.¸ Am·aÏcrat¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? together + ? power.] (Photog.) Amasthenic. Sir J. Herschel. Ø Am·aÏdaÏvat¶ (?), n. [Indian name. From Ahmedabad, a city from which it was imported to Europe.] (Zo”l.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; Ð called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.] Am¶aÏdou (?), n. [F. amadou tinder, prop. lure, bait, fr. amadouer to allure, caress, perh. fr. Icel. mata to feed, which is akin to E. meat.] A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure. AÏmain¶ (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ + main. See 2d Main, n.] 1. With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly. They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain. Milton. That striping giant, illÐbred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker. 2. At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. ½They fled amain.¸ Holinshed. AÏmain¶, v. t. [F. amener. See Amenable.] (Naut.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc. AÏmain¶, v. i. (Naut.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield. AÏmal¶gam (?), n. [F. amalgame, prob. fr. L. malagma, Gr. ?, emollient, plaster, poultice, fr. ? to make soft, fr. ? soft.] 1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. µ Medalists apply the term to soft alloys generally. 2. A mixture or compound of different things. 3. (Min.) A native compound of mercury and silver. AÏmal¶gam, v. t. ? i. [Cf. F. amalgamer] To amalgamate. Boyle. B. Jonson. Ø AÏmal¶gaÏma (?), n. Same as Amalgam. They divided this their amalgam into a number of incoherent republics. Burke. AÏmal¶gaÏmate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amalgamated; p. pr. & vb. n. Amalgamating.] 1. To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury. 2. To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one. Burke. AÏmal¶gaÏmate, v. i. 1. To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver. 2. To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate. { AÏmal¶gaÏmate (?), AÏmal¶gaÏma·ted (?), } a. Coalesced; united; combined. AÏmal·gaÏma¶tion (?), n. [Cf. F. amalgamation.] 1. The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; Ð applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure. 2. The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union. Macaulay.

AÏmal¶gaÏmaÏtive (?), a. Characterized by amalgamation.
AÏmal¶gaÏma·tor (?), n. One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.
AÏmal¶gaÏmize (?), v. t. To amalgamate. [R.]
AÏman¶dine (?), n. [F. amande almond. See Almond.] 1. The vegetable casein of almonds.
2. A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc.
AlÏman¶iÏtine (?), n. [Gr. ? a sort of fungus.] The poisonous principle of some fungi.
AÏman·uÏen¶sis (?), n.; pl. Amanuenses (?). [L., fr. a, ab + manus hand.] A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
Ø AÏmar¶aÏcus (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] A fragrant flower.
Tennyson.
Am¶aÏrant (?), n. Amaranth, 1. [Obs.]
Milton.
Am·aÏranÏta¶ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.
Am¶aÏranth (?), n. [L. amarantus, Gr. ?, unfading, amaranth; ? priv. + ? to quench, cause to wither, fr. a root meaning to die, akin to E. mortal; Ð so called because its flowers do not soon wither: cf. F. amarante. The spelling with th seems to be due to confusion with Gr. ? flower.] 1. An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]
2. (Bot.) A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.
2. A color inclining to purple.
Am·aÏran¶thine (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to amaranth. ½Amaranthine bowers.¸
Pope.

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2. Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying.
They only amaranthine flower on earth
Is virtue.
Cowper.
3. Of a purplish color.
Buchanan.
{ Am·aÏran¶thus (?), Ø Am·aÏran¶tus (?), } n. Same as Amaranth.
Am¶aÏrine (?), n. [L. amarus bitter.] (Chem.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.
AÏmar¶iÏtude (?), n. [L. amaritudo, fr. amarus bitter: cf. OF. amaritude.] Bitterness. [R.]
{ Am·aÏryl·liÏda¶ceous (?), Am·aÏrylÏlid¶eÏous (?), } a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the ?etals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family.
Ø Am·aÏryl¶lis (?), n. [L. Amaryllis, Gr. ?, ?, the name of a country girl in Theocritus and Virgil.] 1. A pastoral sweetheart.
To sport with Amaryllis in the shade.
Milton.
2. (bot.) (a) A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others. (b) A genus of the same family, including the Belladonna lily.
AÏmass¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amassed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Amassing.] [F. ambusher, LL. amassare; L. ad + massa lump, mass. See Mass.] To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.
The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with.
Pope.
Syn. - To accumulate; heap up; pile.
AÏmass¶, n. [OF. amasse, fr. ambusher.] A mass; a heap. [Obs.]
Sir H. Wotton.
AÏmass¶aÏble (?), a. Capable of being amassed.
AÏmass¶er (?), n. One who amasses.
Ø A·mas·sette¶ (?), n. [F. See Amass.] An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.
AÏmass¶ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. amassement.] An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation.
An amassment of imaginary conceptions.
Glanvill.
Am·asÏthen¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? together + ? force.] (Photog.) Uniting the chemical rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens; amacratic.
AÏmate¶ (?), v. t. [OF. amater, amatir.] To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic]
The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true.
Milton.
AÏmate¶, v. t. [Pref. aÏ + mate.] To be a mate to; to match. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Am·aÏteur¶ (?), n. [F., fr. L. amator lover, fr. amare to love.] A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
Am·aÏteur¶ish, a. In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. Ð Am·aÏteur¶ishÏly, adv. Ð Am·aÏteur¶ishÏness, n.
Am¶aÏteurÏism (?), n. The practice, habit, or work of an amateur.
Am¶aÏteur·ship, n. The quality or character of an amateur.
Am¶aÏtive (?), a. [L. amatus, p. p. of amare to love.] Full of love; amatory.
Am¶aÏtiveÏness, n. (Phren.) The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.
Combe.
Am·aÏto¶riÏal (?), a. [See Amatorious.] Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.
Am·aÏto¶riÏalÏly, adv. In an amatorial manner.
Am·aÏto¶riÏan (?), a. Amatory. [R.]
Johnson.
Am·aÏto¶riÏous (?), a. [L. amatorius, fr. amare to love.] Amatory. [Obs.] ½Amatorious poem.¸
Milton.
Am¶aÏtoÏry (?), a. Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.
Ø Am·auÏro¶sis (?), n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? dark, dim.] (Med.) A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; Ð called also gutta ?erena, the ½drop serene¸ of Milton.
Am·auÏrot¶ic (?), a. Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.
AÏmaze¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amazed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Amazing.] [Pref. aÏ + maze.] 1. To ??wilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.]
A labyrinth to amaze his foes.
Shak.
2. To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. ½Amazing Europe with her wit.¸
Goldsmith.
And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
Matt. xii. 23.
Syn. - To astonish; astound; confound; bewilder; perplex; surprise. Ð Amaze, Astonish. Amazement includes the notion of bewilderment of difficulty accompanied by surprise. It expresses a state in which one does not know what to do, or to say, or to think. Hence we are amazed at what we can not in the least account for. Astonishment also implies surprise. It expresses a state in which one is stunned by the vastness or greatness of something, or struck with some degree of horror, as when one is overpowered by the ?normity of an act, etc.
AÏmaze¶, v. i. To be astounded. [Archaic]
B. Taylor.
AÏmaze¶, v. t. Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic]
The wild, bewildered
Of one to stone converted by amaze.
Byron.
AÏmaz¶edÏly (?), adv. In amazement; with confusion or astonishment.
Shak.
AÏmaz¶edÏness, n. The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder.
Bp. Hall.
AÏmaze¶ful (?), a. Full of amazement. [R.]
AÏmaze¶ment (?), n. 1. The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.
His words impression left
Of much amazement.
Milton.
2. Frenzy; madness. [Obs.]
Webster (1661).
AÏmaz¶ing (?), a. Causing amazement; very wonderful; ; as, amazing grace. Ð AÏmaz¶ingÏly, adv.
Am¶aÏzon (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] 1. One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.
2. A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.
3. (Zo”l.) A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis
÷ antÿ(Zo”l.), a species of ant (Polyergus rufescens), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larv‘ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.
Am·aÏzo¶niÏan (?), a. 1. Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.
Shak.
2. Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.
{ Am¶aÏzonÏite (?), Am¶aÏzon stone· (?), } n. [Named from the river Amazon.] (Min.) A variety of feldspar, having a verdigrisÐgreen color.
AmbÏ, AmÏbiÏ. [L. prefix ambiÏ, ambÏ, akin to Gr. ?, Skr. abhi, AS. embe, emb, OHG. umbi, umpi, G. um, and also L. ambo both. Cf. AmphiÏ, Both, By.] A prefix meaning about, around; Ð used in words derived from the Latin.
Ø AmÏba¶ges (?), n. pl. [L. (usually in pl.); pref. ambiÏ, ambÏ + agere to drive: cf. F. ambage.] A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is.
Burton.
AmÏbag¶iÏnous (?), a. Ambagious. [R.]
AmÏba¶gious (?), a. [L. ambagiosus.] Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]
AmÏbag¶iÏtoÏry (?), a. Ambagious. [R.]
Am¶basÏsade (?), Em¶basÏsade (?), n. [F. ambassade. See Embassy.] 1. The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.]
Carew.
2. An embassy. [Obs.]
Strype.
AmÏbas¶saÏdor (?), EmÏbas¶saÏdor (?), n. [See Embassador.] 1. A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.
µ Ambassador are either ordinary [or resident] or extraordinary, that is, sent upon some special or unusual occasion or errand.
Abbott.
2. An official messenger and representative.
AmÏbas·saÏdo¶riÏal (?), a. Of or pertaining to an ambassador.
H. Walpole.
AmÏbas·saÏdorÏship (?), n. The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.
AmÏbas¶saÏdress (?), n. A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador.
Prescott.
Am¶basÏsage (?), n. Same as Embassage. [Obs. or R.]
Luke xiv. 32.
Am¶basÏsy (?), n. See Embassy, the usual spelling.
Helps.
Am¶ber , n. [OE. aumbre, F. ambre, Sp. mbar, and with the Ar. article, al mbar, fr. Ar. 'anbar ambergris.] 1. (Min.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.
2. ÷ color, or anything ~Ðcolored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
3. Ambergris. [Obs.]
You that smell of amber at my charge.
Beau. & Fl.
4. The balsam, liquidambar.
Black ~, and old and popular name for jet.
Am¶ber, a. 1. Consisting of ~; made of ~. ½Amber bracelets.¸
Shak.
2. Resembling ~, especially in color; ~Ðcolored. ½The amber morn.¸
Tennyson.
Am¶ber, v. t. [p. p. & p. a. Ambered .] 1. To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.
2. To preserve in ~; as, an ambered fly.
Am¶ber fish (?). (Zo”l.) A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.)
Am¶berÏgrease (?), n. See Ambergris.
Am¶berÏgris (?), n. [F. ambre gris, i. e., gray amber; F. gris gray, which is of German origin: cf. OS. grŒs, G. greis, grayÐhaired. See Amber.] A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ashÐgray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twentyÐfive pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 2120 Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.
Dana.
Am¶ber seed· (?). Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed.
Chambers.
Am¶ber tree· (?). A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.
Ambes¶Ðas (?), n. AmbsÐace. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Am¶biÏdex¶ter (?), a. [LL., fr. L. ambo both + dexter right, dextra (sc. manus) the right hand.] Using both hands with equal ease.
Smollett.
Am·biÏdex¶ter, n. 1. A person who uses both hands with equal facility.
2. Hence; A doubleÐdealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes.
The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so ??any turning pictures Ð a lion on one side, a lamb on the other.
Burton.
3. (Law) A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict.
Cowell.
Am¶biÏdexÏter¶iÏty (?), n. 1. The quality of being ambidex?rous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility. Hence: Versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation.
Sterne.
Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity.
De Quincey.
2. DoubleÐdealing. (Law) A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict.
Am·biÏdex¶tral (?), a. Pertaining equally to the rightÐhand side and the leftÐhand side.
Earle.
Am·biÏdex¶trous (?), a. 1. Pertaining the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.
Sir T. Browne.
2. Practicing or siding with both parties.
All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings.
L'Estrange.
Am¶biÏdex¶trousÏly, adv. In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly.
Am·biÏdex¶trousÏness (?), n. The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.
Am¶biÏent (?), a. [L. ambiens, p. pr. of ambire to go around; ambÏ + ire to go.] Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. ½Ambient air.¸ Milton. ½Ambient clouds.¸ Pope.
Am¶biÏent, n. Something that surrounds or invests; as, air… being a perpetual ambient.
Sir H. Wotton.
AmÏbig¶eÏnous (?), a. [L. ambo both + genus kind.] Of two kinds. (bot.) Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.
Am¶biÏgu (?), n. [F., fr. ambigu doubtful, L. ambiquus. See Ambiguous.] An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.
Am·biÏgu¶iÏty (?), n.; pl. Ambiguities (?). [L. ambiguitas, fr. ambiguus: cf. F. ambiguit‚.] The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.
No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued.
I. Taylor.
The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity.
South.
AmÏbig¶uÏous (?), a. [L. ambiguus, fr. ambigere to wander about, waver; ambÏ + agere to drive.] Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression.
What have been thy answers? What but dark,
Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding?
Milton.
Syn. - Doubtful; dubious; uncertain; unsettled; indistinct; indeterminate; indefinite. See Equivocal.
AmÏbig¶uÏousÏly, adv. In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
AmÏbig¶uÏousÏness, n. Ambiguity.
Am·biÏle¶vous (?), a. [L. ambo both + laevus left.] LeftÐhanded on both sides; clumsy; Ð opposed to ambidexter. [R.]
Sir T. Browne.
AmÏbil¶oÏquy (?), n. Doubtful or ambiguous language. [Obs.]
Bailey.
AmÏbip¶aÏrous (?), a. [L. ambo both + parere to bring forth.] (Bot.) Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; Ð applied to a bud.
Am¶bit (?), n. [L. ambitus circuit, fr. ambire to go around. See Ambient.] Circuit or compass.
His great parts did not live within a small ambit.
Milward.
AmÏbi¶tion (?), n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor? fr. ambire to go around. See Ambient, Issue.] 1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Milton.
2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels.
Shak.
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.
Burke.
AmÏbi¶tion, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.] To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
Trumbull.
AmÏbi¶tionÏist, n. One excessively ambitious. [R.]
AmÏbi¶tionÏless, a. Devoid of ambition.
Pollok.
AmÏbi¶tious (?), a. [L. ambitiosus: cf. F. ambitieux. See Ambition.] 1. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
Shak.
2. Strongly desirous; Ð followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.
I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony.
Evelyn.
Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain.
Cowper.
3. Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
A giant statue…
Pushed by a wild and artless race,
From off wide, ambitious base.
Collins.
AmÏbi¶tiousÏly, adv. In an ambitious manner.

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AmÏbi¶tiousÏness (?), n. The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness. Ø Am¶biÏtus (?), n. [L. See Ambit, Ambition.] 1. The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell. 2. (Rom. Antiq.) A canvassing for votes. Am¶ble (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ambled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ambling (?).] [F. ambler to amble, fr. L. ambulare to walk, in LL., to amble, perh. fr. ambÏ, ambiÏ, and a root meaning to go: cf. Gr. ? to go, E. base. Cf. Ambulate.] 1. To go at the easy gait called an ~; Ð applied to the horse or to its rider. 2. To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks. The skipping king, he ambled up and down. Shak. Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Shak. Am¶ble, n. 1. A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side. ½A fine easy amble.¸ B. Jonson. 2. A movement like the ~ of a horse. Am¶bler (?), n. A horse or a person that ambles. Am¶blingÏly, adv. With an ambling gait. AmÏblot¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? an abortion.] Tending to cause abortion. Am¶blyÏgon (?), n. [Gr. ? obtuse + ? angle: cf. F. amblygone.] (Geom.) An obtuseÐangled figure, esp. and obtuseÐangled triangle. [Obs.] AmÏblyg¶oÏnal (?), a. ObtuseÐangled. [Obs.] Hutton. { Ø Am·blyÏo¶piÏa (?), Am¶blyÏo·py (?), } n. [Gr. ?; ? blunt, dim + ? eye: cf. F. amblyopie.] (Med.) Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis. Am¶blyÏop¶ic (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to amblyopy. Quain. Ø AmÏblyp¶oÏda (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? blunt + ?, ?, foot.] (Paleon.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States. Ø Am¶bo (?), n.; pl. Ambos (?). [LL. ambo, Gr. ?, any rising, a raised stage, pulpit: cf. F. ambon.] A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches. Gwilt. Ø Am¶bon (?), n. Same as Ambo. AmÏboy¶na wood (?). A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. Am¶breÏate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical. AmÏbre¶ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to ambrein; Ð said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid. Am¶breÏin (?), n. [Cf. F. ambr‚ine. See Amber.] (Chem.) A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris. Am¶brite (?), n. [From amber.] A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand. Am¶brose (?), n. A sweetÏscented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3. Turner. AmÏbro¶sia (?; 277), n. [L. ambrosia, Gr. ?, properly fem. of ?, fr. ? immortal, divine; ? priv. + ? mortal (because it was supposed to confer immortality on those who partook of it). ? stands for ?, akin to Skr. mrita, L. mortuus, dead, and to E. mortal.] 1. (Myth.) (a) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. (b) An unguent of the gods,. His dewy locks distilled ambrosia. Milton. 2. A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. Spenser. 3.ÿFormerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. Am¶bro¶siÏac (?), a. [L. ambrosiacus: cf. F. ambrosiaque.] Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious. [R.]½Ambrosiac odors.¸ B. Jonson. AmÏbro¶sial (?), a. [L. ambrosius, Gr. ?.] 1. Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious. ½Ambrosial food.¸ ½Ambrosial fragrance.¸ Milton. 2. Divinely excellent or beautiful. ½Shakes his ambrosial curls.¸ Pope. AmÏbro¶sialÏly, adv. After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. ½Smelt ambrosially.¸ Tennyson. AmÏbro¶sian (?), a. Ambrosial. [R.] . Jonson. AmÏbro¶sian, a. Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. ÷ chant, the mode of signing or chanting introduced by St. Ambrose in the 4th century. Am¶broÏsin (?), n. [LL. Ambrosinus nummus.] An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback. Am¶broÏtype (?), n. [Gr. ? immortal + Ïtype.] (Photog.) A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass. Am¶bry (?), n.; pl. Ambries (?). [OE. aumbry, almery, OF. almarie, armarie, aumaire, F. armoire, LL. armarium chest, cupboard, orig. a repository for arms, fr. L. arama arms. The word has been confused with almonry. See Armory.] 1. In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc. 2. A store closet, as a pantry, cupboard, etc. 3. Almonry. [Improperly so used] Ambs¶Ðace (?), n. [OF. ambesas; ambes both (fr. L. ambo) + as ace. See Ace.] Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value. Am·buÏla¶cral (?), a. (Zo”l.) Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms. Am·buÏla¶criÏform (?), a. [Ambulacrum + Ïform.] (Zo”l.)ÿHaving the form of ambulacra. Ø Am·buÏla¶crum (?), n. pl; pl. Ambulacra (?). [L., an alley or covered way.] (Zo”l.) (a) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays. (b) One of the suckers on the feet of mites. Am¶buÏlance (?), n. [F. ambulance, h“pital ambulant, fr. L. ambulare to walk. See Amble.] (Mil.) (a) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps. (b) An ~ wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital. Am¶buÏlant (?), a. [L. ambulans, p. pr. of ambulare to walk: cf. F. ambulant.] Walking; moving from place to place. Gayton. Am¶buÏlate (?), v. i. [L. ambulare to walk. See Amble.] To walk; to move about. [R.] Southey. Am·buÏla¶tion (?), n. [L. ambulatio.] The act of walking. Sir T. Browne. Am¶buÏlaÏtive (?), a. Walking. [R.] Am¶buÏla·tor (?), n. 1. One who walks about; a walker. 2. (Zo”l.) (a) A beetle of the genus Lamia. (b) A genus of birds, or one of this genus. 3. An instrument for measuring distances; Ð called also perambulator. Knight. Am·buÏlaÏto¶riÏal (?), a. Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill. Am¶buÏlaÏtoÏry (?), a. [L. ambulatorius.] 1. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal. 2. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. The priesthood… before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families. Jer. Taylor. 3. Pertaining to a walk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton. 4. (Law) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator. Am¶buÏlaÏtoÏry, n.; pl. Ambulatories (?). [Cf. LL. ambulatorium.] (Arch.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building. Am¶burÏry (?), n. Same as Anbury. Am·busÏcade¶ (?), n. [F. embuscade, fr. It. imboscata, or Sp. emboscada, fr. emboscar to ambush, fr. LL. imboscare. See Ambush, v. t.] 1. A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush. 2. A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly. [R.] Dryden. 3. (Mil.) The body of troops lying in ambush. Am·busÏcade¶, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ambuscaded (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ambuscading (?).] 1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush. 2. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay. Am·busÏcade¶, v. i. To lie in ambush. Am·busÏca¶do (?), n. Ambuscade. [Obs.] Shak. Am·busÏca¶doed (?), p. p. Posted in ambush; ambuscaded. [Obs.] Am¶bush (?), n. [F. emb–che, fr. the verb. See Ambush, v. t.] 1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton. 2. A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise. Bold in close ambush, base in open field. Dryden. 3. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait. [Obs.] The ambush arose quickly out of their place. Josh. viii. 19. To lay an ~, to post a force in ~. Am¶bush (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ambushed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ambushing.] [OE. enbussen, enbushen, OF. embushier, embuissier, F. emb–cher, embusquer, fr. LL. imboscare; in + LL. boscus, buscus, a wood; akin to G. bush, E. bush. See Ambuscade, Bu?h.] 1. To station in ~ with a view to surprise an enemy. By ambushed men behind their temple ?ai?, We have the king of Mexico betrayed. Dryden. 2. To attack by ~; to waylay. Am¶bush, v. i. To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk. Nor saw the snake that ambushed for his prey. Trumbull. Am¶bushÏer (?), n. One lying in ~. Am¶bushÏment (?), n. [OF. embuschement. See Ambush, v. t.] An ~. [Obs.] 2 Chron. xiii. 13. AmÏbus¶tion (?; 106), n. [L. ambustio.] (Med.) A burn or scald. Blount. Am·eÏbe¶an (?), a. (Zo”l.) See Am?bean. AÏmeer¶, AÏmir¶ (?), n. [See Emir.] 1. Emir. [Obs.] 2. One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde. Am¶el (?), n. [OE. amell, OF. esmail, F. ‚mail, of German origin; cf. OHG. smelzi, G. schmelz. See Smelt, v. t.] Enamel. [Obs.] Boyle. Am¶el, v. t. [OE. amellen, OF. esmailler, F. ‚mailler, OF. esmail, F. ‚mail.] To enamel. [Obs.] Enlightened all with stars, And richly ameled. Chapman. Am¶elÏcorn· (?), n. [Ger. amelkorn: cf. MHG. amel, amer, spelt, and L. amylum starch, Gr. ?.] A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; Ð called also French rice. AÏmel¶ioÏraÏble (?), a. Capable of being ameliorated. AÏmel¶ioÏrate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ameliorated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ameliorating.] [L. ad + meliorare to make better: cf. F. am‚liorer. See Meliorate.] To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay. AÏmel¶ioÏrate, v. i. To grow better; to ~; as, wine ameliorates by age. AÏmel·ioÏra¶tion (?), n. [Cf. F. am‚lioration.] The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. ½Amelioration of human affairs.¸ J. S. Mill. AÏmel¶ioÏraÏtive (?), a. Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts. AÏmel¶ioÏra·tor (?), n. One who ameliorates. A·men¶ (?; 277), interj., adv., & n. [L. amen, Gr. ?, Heb. ¾m?n certainly, truly.] An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily. It is used as a noun, to demote: (a) concurrence in belief, or in a statement; assent; (b) the final word or act; (c) Christ as being one who is true and faithful. And let all the people say, Amen. Ps. cvi. 48. Amen, amen, I say to thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of Gods. John ii. 3. Rhemish Trans. To say ÷ to, to approve warmly; to concur in heartily or emphatically; to ratify; as, I say Amen to all. A·men¶, v. t. To say ÷ to; to sanction fully. AÏmen·naÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge. AÏme¶naÏble (?), a. [F. amener to lead; ? (L. ad) = mener to lead, fr. L. minare to drive animals (properly by threatening cries), in LL. to lead; L. minari, to threaten, minae threats. See Menace.] 1. (Old Law) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob. 2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive… to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor. 3. Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc. 4. Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling… always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle. AÏme¶naÏbleÏness, n. The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness. AÏme¶naÏbly, adv. In an amenable manner. Am¶eeÏnage (?), v. t. [OF. amesnagier. See Manage.] To manage. [Obs.] Spenser. Am¶eÏnance (?), n. [OF. See Amenable.] Behavior; bearing. [Obs.] Spenser. AÏmend¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amended; p. pr. & vb. n. Amending.] [F. amender, L. emendare; e(ex) + mendum, menda, fault, akin to Skr. minda personal defect. Cf. Emend, Mend.] To change or modify in any way for the better; as, (a) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like; (b) by supplying deficiencies; (c) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify. Mar not the thing that can not be amended. Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement. Syn. - To Amend, Emend, Correct, Reform, Rectify. These words agree in the idea of bringing things into a more perfect state. We correct (literally, make

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straight) when we conform things to some standard or rule; as, to correct proof sheets. We amend by removing blemishes, faults, or errors, and thus rendering a thing more a nearly perfect; as, to amend our ways, to amend a text, the draft of a bill, etc. Emend is only another form of amend, and is applied chiefly to editions of books, etc. To reform is literally to form over again, or put into a new and better form; as, to reform one's life. To rectify is to make right; as, to rectify a mistake, to rectify abuses, inadvertencies, etc.
AÏmend¶ (?), v. i. To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve. ½My fortune… amends.¸
Sir P. Sidney.
AÏmend¶aÏble (?), a. Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error. Ð AÏmend¶aÏbleÏness, n.
AÏmend¶aÏtoÏry (?), a. Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory.
Bancroft.
Ø A·mende¶ (?), n. [F. See Amend.] A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.
÷ honorable (?). (Old French Law) A species of infamous punishment in which the offender, being led into court with a rope about his neck, and a lighted torch in his hand, begged pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denotes a public apology or recantation, and reparation to an injured party, for improper language or treatment.
AÏmend¶er (?), n. One who amends.
AÏmend¶ful (?), a. Much improving. [Obs.]
AÏmend¶ment (?), n. [F. amendement, LL. amendamentum.] 1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
2. In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.
3. (Law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
Syn. - Improvement; reformation; emendation.
AÏmends¶ (?), n. sing. & pl. [F. amendes, pl. of amende. Cf. Amende.] Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation. [Now const. with sing. verb.] ½An honorable amends.¸
Addison.
Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends.
Shak.
AÏmen¶iÏty (?), n. pl. Amenities (?). [F. am‚nit‚, L. amoenitas, fr. amoenus pleasant.] The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness.
A sweetness and amenity of temper.
Buckle.
This climate has not seduced by its amenities.
W. Howitt.
Ø AÏmen·orÏrh?¶a (?), n. [Gr. ? priv. + ? month + ? to flow: cf. F. am‚norrh‚e.] (Med.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.
AÏmen·orÏrh?¶al (?), a. Pertaining to amenorrh?a.
Ø A men¶sa et tho¶ro (?). [L., from board and bed.] (Law) A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bong, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife.
Abbott.
Am¶ent (?), n. [L. amentum thong or strap.] (Bot.) A species of inflorescence; a catkin.
The globular ament of a buttonwood.
Coues.
Am·enÏta¶ceous (?), a. [LL. amentaceus.] (Bot.) (a) Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence. (b) Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.
Ø AÏmen¶tiÏa (?), n. [L.] (Med.) Imbecility; total want of understanding.
Am·enÏtif¶erÏous (?), a. [L. amentum + Ïferous.] (Bot.) Bearing catkins.
Balfour.
AÏmen¶tiÏform (?), a. [L. amentum + Ïform.] (Bot.) Shaped like a catkin.
Ø AÏmen¶tum (?), n.; pl. Amenta (?). Same as Ament.
Am¶eÏnuse (?), v. t. [OF. amenuisier. See Minute.] To lessen. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
AÏmerce¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amerced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Amercing.] [OF. amercier, fr. a merci at the mercy of, liable to a punishment. See Mercy.] 1. To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.
µ The penalty of fine may be expressed without a preposition, or it may be introduced by in, with, or of.
2. To punish, in general; to mulct.
Millions of spirits for his fault amerced
Of Heaven.
Milton.

Shall by him be amerced with penance due.
Spenser.
AÏmerce¶aÏble (?), a. Liable to be amerced.
AÏmerce¶ment (?), n. [OF. amerciment.] The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.]
Blackstone.
µ This word, in old books, is written amerciament.
÷ royal, a penalty imposed on an officer for a misdemeanor in his office.
Jacobs.
AÏmer¶cer (?), n. One who amerces.
AÏmer¶ciaÏment (?), n. [LL. amerciamentum.] Same as Amercement.
Mozley & W.
AÏmer¶iÏcan (?), a. [Named from Ameri?us Vespucius.] 1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
2. Of or pertaining to the United States. ½A young officer of the American navy.¸
Lyell.
÷ ivy. See Virginia creeper. Ð ÷ Party (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreignÐborn citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. Ð Native ~ Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the ÷ party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out.
AÏmer¶iÏcan (?), n. A native of America; Ð originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism.
Washington.
AÏmer¶iÏcanÏism (?), n. 1. Attachment to the United States.
2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea.
3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
AÏmer·iÏcanÏiÏza¶tion (?), n. The process of Americanizing.
AÏmer¶iÏcanÏize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Americanizer (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Americanizing.] To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
Ames¶Ðace (?), n. Same as AmbsÐace.
Am¶ess (?), n. (Eccl.) Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.
Ø Am·eÏtab¶oÏla (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo”l.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. [Written also Ametabolia.]
AÏmet·aÏbo¶liÏan (?), a. [Gr. ? unchangeable; ? priv. + ? changeable, ? to change.] (Zo”l.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.
{ AÏme·aÏbol¶ic (?), Am·eÏtab¶oÏlous, } a. (Zo”l.) Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.
AÏmeth¶oÏdist (?), n. [Pref. aÏ not + methodist.] One without method; a quack. [Obs.]
Am¶eÏthyst (?), [F. ametiste, amatiste, F. am‚thyste, L. amethystus, fr. Gr. ? without drunkenness; as a noun, a remedy for drunkenness, the amethyst, supposed to have this power; ? priv. + ? to be drunken, ? strong drink, wine. See Mead.]
1. (Min.) A variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone.
Oriental ~, the violetÐblue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.
2. (Her.) A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms.
Am·eÏthys¶tine (?), a. [L. amethystinus, Gr. ?.] 1. Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.
2. Composed of, or containing, amethyst.
Ø Am·eÏtro¶piÏa (?), n. [Gr. ? irregular + ?, ?, eye.] (Med.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. Ð Am·eÏtrop¶ic (?), a.
AmÏhar¶ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic. Ð n. The Amharic language (now the chief language of Abyssinia).
Ø Am¶iÏa (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a kind of tunny.] (Zo”l.) A genus of freshÐwater ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.
A·miÏaÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition.
Every excellency is a degree of amiability.
Jer. Taylor.
A¶miÏaÏble (?), a. [F. amiable, L. amicabilis friendly, fr. amicus friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, Amorous, Amability.] 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. [Obs. or R.]
So amiable a prospect.
Sir T. Herbert.
2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.
3. Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kindÐheartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman.
4. Done out of love. [Obs.]
Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife.
Shak.
A·miÏaÏbleÏness, n. The quality of being amiable; amiability.
A¶miÏaÏbly, adv. In an amiable manner.
Am¶iÏanth (?), n. See Amianthus. [Poetic]
Am·iÏan¶thiÏform (?), a. [Amianthus + Ïform.] Resembling amianthus in form.
Am·iÏan¶thoid (?), a. [Amianthus + Ïoid: cf. F. amianto‹de.] Resembling amianthus.
Am·iÏan¶thus (?), n. [L. amiantus, Gr. ? ? (lit., unsoiled stone) a greenish stone, like asbestus; ? priv. + ? to stain, to defile; so called from its incombustibility.] (Min.) Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.
Am¶ic (?), a. [L. ammonia + Ïic.] (Chem.) Related to, or derived, ammonia; Ð used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid.
÷ acid (Chem.), one of a class of nitrogenized acids somewhat resembling amides.
Am·iÏcaÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness.
Ash.
Am¶iÏcaÏble (?), a. [L. amicabilis, fr. amicus friend, fr. amare to love. See Amiable.] Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement.
That which was most remarkable in this contest was… the amicable manner in which it was managed.
Prideoux.
÷ action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by ~ consent of the parties, for the purpose of obtaining a decision of the court on some matter of law involved in it. Bouvier. Burrill. Ð ÷ numbers (Math.), two numbers, each of which is equal to the sum of all the aliquot parts of the other.
Syn. - Friendly; peaceable; kind; harmonious. Ð Amicable, Friendly. Neither of these words denotes any great warmth of affection, since friendly has by no means the same strength as its noun friendship. It does, however, imply something of real cordiality; while amicable supposes very little more than that the parties referred to are not disposed to quarrel. Hence, we speak of amicable relations between two countries, an amicable adjustment of difficulties. ½Those who entertain friendly feelings toward each other can live amicably together.¸
Am¶iÏcaÏbleÏness (?), n. The quality of being amicable; amicability.
Am¶iÏcaÏbly, adv. In an amicable manner.
Am¶ice (?), n. [OE. amyse, prob. for amyt, OF. amit, ameit, fr. L. amictus cloak, the word being confused with amice, almuce, a hood or cape. See next word.] A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.
µ Examples of the use of the words amice, a square of linen, and amice, amess, or amyss, a hood or cape, show confusion between them from an early date.
Am¶ice, n. [OE. amuce, amisse, OF. almuce, aumuce, F. aumusse, LL. almucium, almucia, aumucia: of unknown origin; cf. G. mtze cap, prob. of the same origin. Cf. Mozetta.] (Eccl.) A hood, or cape with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; Ð written also amess, amyss, and almuce.
AÏmid¶ (?), prep. See Amidst.
Am¶ide (?; 277), n. [Ammonia + Ïide.] (Chem.) A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical.
Acid ~, a neutral compound formed by the substitution of the amido group for hydroxyl in an acid.
Am¶iÏdin (?), n. [Cf. F. amidine, fr. amido? starch, fr. L. amylum, Gr. ? fine meal, neut. of ? not ground at the mill, Ð hence, of the finest meal; ? priv. + ?, ?, mill. See Meal.] (Chem.) Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.
AÏmi¶do (?), a. [From Amide.] (Chem.) Containing, or derived from, amidogen.
÷ acid, an acid in which a portion of the nonacid hydrogen has been replaced by the ~ group. The ~ acids are both basic and acid. Ð ÷ group, amidogen, NH2.
AÏmid¶oÏgen (?), n. [Amide + Ïgen.] (Chem.) A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; Ð called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.
AÏmid¶ships (?), adv. (Naut.) In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth.
Totten.
{ AÏmidst¶ (?) , AÏmid¶ (?), } prep. [OE. amidde, amiddes, on midden, AS. on middan, in the middle, fr. midde the middle. The s is an adverbial ending, originally marking the genitive; the t is a later addition, as in whilst, amongst, alongst. See Mid.] In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. ½This fair tree amidst the garden.¸ ½Unseen amid the throng.¸ ½Amidst thick clouds.¸ Milton. ½Amidst acclamations.¸ ½Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court.¸ Macaulay.
But rather famish them amid their plenty.
Shak.
Syn. Ð Amidst, Among. These words differ to some extent from each other, as will be seen from their etymology. Amidst denotes in the midst or middle of, and hence surrounded by; as, this work was written amidst many interruptions. Among denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects; as, ½He fell among thieves.¸ ½Blessed art thou among women.¸ Hence, we say, among the moderns, among the ancients, among the thickest of trees, among these considerations, among the reasons I have to offer. Amid and amidst are commonly used when the idea of separate or distinguishable objects is not prominent. Hence, we say, they kept on amidst the storm, amidst the gloom, he was sinking amidst the waves, he persevered amidst many difficulties; in none of which cases could among be used. In like manner, Milton speaks of Abdiel, Ð
The seraph Abdiel, faithful found;
Among the faithless faithful only he,
because he was then considered as one of the angels. But when the poet adds, Ð
From amidst them forth he passed,
we have rather the idea of the angels as a collective body.
Those squalid cabins and uncleared woods amidst which he was born.
Macaulay.
Am¶ine (?; 277), n. [Ammonia + Ïine.] (Chem.) One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.
Am¶iÏoid (?), a. (Zo”l.) Like or pertaining to the Amioidei. Ð n. One of the Amioidei.
Ø Am·iÏoi¶deÏi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Amia + Ïoid.] (Zo”l.) An order of ganoid fishes of which Amis is type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei.
Ø AÏmir¶ (?), n. Same as Ameer.
AÏmiss¶ (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ + miss.] Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?
Shak.
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss.
James iv. 3.
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AÏmiss¶ (?), a. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. [Used only in the predicate.]
Dryden.
His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
Wollaston.
AÏmiss¶, n. A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.]
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
Shak.
AÏmis·siÏbil¶iÏty (?), [Cf. F. amissibilit‚. See Amit.] The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [R.]
Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe.
Hallam.
AÏmis¶siÏble (?), a. [L. amissibilis: cf. F. amissible.] Liable to be lost. [R.]
AÏmis¶sion (?), n. [L. amissio: cf. F. amission.] Deprivation; loss. [Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
AÏmit¶ (?), v. t. [L. amittere, amissum, to lose; a (ab) + mittere to send. See Missile.] To lose. [Obs.]
A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue.
Sir T. Browne.
Am¶iÏty (?), n.; pl. Amities (?). [F. amiti‚, OF. amisti‚, amist‚, fr. an assumed LL. amisitas, fr. L. amicus friendly, from amare to love. See Amiable.] Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories.
To live on terms of amity with vice.
Cowper.
Syn. - Harmony; friendliness; friendship; affection; good will; peace.
Ø Am¶ma (?), n. [LL. amma, prob. of interjectional or imitative origin: cf. Sp. ama, G. amme, nurse, Basque ama mother, Heb. ?m, Ar. immun, ummun.] An abbes or spiritual mother.
Am¶meÏter (?), n. (Physics) A contraction of amperometer or ampŠremeter.
Am¶miÏral (?), n. An obsolete form of admiral. ½The mast of some great ammiral.¸
Milton.
Am¶mite (?), n. [Gr. ?, ?, sandstone, fr. ? or ? sand.] (Geol.) O”lite or roestone; Ð written also hammite. [Obs.]
Am¶moÏdyte (?), n. [L. ammodytes, Gr. ? sand burrower, a kind of serpent; ? sand + ? diver, ? to dive.] (Zo”l.) (a) One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel. (b) A kind of viper in southern Europe. [Obs.]
AmÏmo¶niÏa (?), n. [From sal ammoniac, which was first obtaining near the temple of Jupiter Ammon, by burning camel's dung. See Ammoniac.] (Chem.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: Ð often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.
{ AmÏmo¶niÏac (?), Am·moÏni¶aÏcal (?), } a. Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.
Ammoniacal engine, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia is used as the motive force. Ð Sal ammoniac [L. sal ammoniacus], the salt usually called chloride of ammonium, and formerly muriate of ammonia.
AmÏmo¶niÏac (or Gum· amÏmo¶niÏac), n. [L. Ammoniacum, Gr. ? a resinous gum, said to distill from a tree near the temple of Jupiter Ammon; cf. F. ammoniac. See Ammonite.] (Med.) The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.
AmÏmo¶niÏa·ted (?), a. (Chem.) Combined or impregnated with ammonia.
AmÏmo¶nic (?), a. Of or pertaining to ammonia.
Am¶monÏite (?), n. [L. cornu Ammonis born of Ammon; L. Ammon, Gr. ? an appellation of Jupiter, as represented with the horns of a ram. It was originally the name of an. Egyptian god, Amun.] (Paleon.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.
Am·monÏiÏtif¶erÏous (?), a. [Ammonite + Ïferous.] Containing fossil ammonites.
Ø AmÏmon·iÏtoid¶eÏa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Ammonite + Ïoid.] (Zo”l.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.
AmÏmo¶niÏum (?), n. [See Ammonia.] (Chem.) A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals.
Am·muÏni¶tion (?), n. [F. amunition, for munition, prob. caused by taking la munition as l'amunition. See Munition.] 1. Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. [Obs.]
2. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
3. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.
÷ bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.]
Am·muÏni¶tion (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ammunitioned (?); p pr. & vb. n. Ammunitioning.] To provide with ammunition.
Ø AmÏne¶siÏa (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ? priv. + ? to remember.] (Med.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.
Quian.
AmÏne¶sic (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to amnesia. ½Amnesic or co”rdinate defects.¸
Quian.
AmÏnes¶tic (?), a. Causing loss of memory.
Am¶nesÏty (?), n. [L. amnestia, Gr. ?, a forgetting, fr. ? forgotten, forgetful; ? priv. + ? to remember: cf. F. amnistie, earlier amnestie. See Mean, v.] 1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
2. An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
Am¶nesÏty, v. t. [imp. p. p. Amnestied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Amnestying.] To grant ~ to.
AmÏnic¶oÏlist (?), n. [L. amnicola, amnis a river + colere to dwell.] One who lives near a river. [Obs.]
Bailey.
AmÏnig¶eÏnous (?), a. [L. amnigena; amnis a river + root gen of gignere to beget.] Born or bred in, of, or near a river. [Obs.]
Bailey.
Am¶niÏon (?), n. [Gr. ? the membrane round the fetus, dim. of ? lamb.] (Anat.) A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
Am¶niÏos (?), n. Same as Amnion.
Ø Am·niÏo¶ta (?), n. pl. [NL. See Amnion.] (Zo”l.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.
Am·niÏot¶ic (?), a. [Cf. F. amniotique.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac.
÷ acid. (Chem.) [R.] See Allantoin.
AÏm?¶ba (?), n; pl. L. Am?b‘ (?); E. Am?bas (?). [NL., fr. Gr. ? change.] (Zo”l.) A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.
Ø Am·?Ïb‘¶um (?), n. [L. amoebaeus, Gr. ?, alternate; L. amoebaeum carmen, Gr. ? ?, a responsive song, fr. ? change.] A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.
Ø Am·?Ïbe¶a (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo”l.) That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the am?ba and similar forms.
Am·?Ïbe¶an (?), a. Alternately answering.
AÏm?¶biÏan (?), n. (Zo”l.) One of the Am?bea.
{ AÏm?¶biÏform (?), AÏm?¶boid (?), } a. [Am?ba + Ïform or Ïoid.] (Biol.) Resembling an am?ba; am?baÐshaped; changing in shape like an am?ba.
÷ movement, movement produced, as in the am?ba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.
AÏm?¶bous (?), a. Like an am?ba in structure.
Am·oÏli¶tion (?), n. [L. amolitio, fr. amoliri to remove; a (ab) + moliri to put in motion.] Removal; a putting away. [Obs.]
Bp. Ward (1673).
Ø AÏmo¶mum (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ? an Indian spice plant.] (Bot.) A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.
AÏmon¶este (?), v. t. To admonish. [Obs.]
{ AÏmong¶ (?), AÏmongst¶ (?), } prep. [OE. amongist, amonges, amonge, among, AS. onmang, ongemang, gemang, in a crowd or mixture. For the ending Ïst see Amidst. See Mingle.] 1. Mixed or mingled; surrounded by.
They heard,
And from his presence hid themselves among
The thickest trees.
Milton.

2. Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of. Blessed art thou among women. Luke i. 28. 3. Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action. What news among the merchants? Shak. Human sacrifices were practiced among them. Hume. Divide that gold amongst you. Marlowe. Whether they quarreled among themselves, or with their neighbors. Addison. Syn. - Amidst; between. See Amidst, Between. Ø AÏmon·tilÏla¶do (?), n. [Sp.] A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds. Am¶oÏret (?), n. [OF. amorette, F. amourette, dim. of amour.] 1. An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton. 2. A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks. [Obs.] 3. A petty love affair or amour. [Obs.] Am¶oÏrette¶ (?), n. An amoret. [Obs.] Rom. of R. Am¶oÏrist (?), n. [L. armor love. See Amorous.] A lover; a gallant. [R.] Milton. It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey. AÐmorn¶ings (?), adv. [See Amorwe. The Ïs is a genitival ending. See Ïwards.] In the morning; every morning. [Obs.] And have such pleasant walks into the woods AÏmornings. J. Fletcher. Ø Am·oÏro¶sa (?), n. [It. amoroso, fem. amorosa.] A wanton woman; a courtesan. Sir T. Herbert. Am·oÏros¶iÏty (?), n. The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [R.] Galt. Ø Am·oÏro¶so (?), n. [It. amoroso, LL. amorosus.] A lover; a man enamored. Ø Am·oÏro¶so, adv. [It.] (Mus.) In a soft, tender, amatory style. Am¶oÏrous (?), a. [OF. amoros, F. amoreux, LL. amorosus, fr. L. amor love, fr. amare to love.] 1. Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition. 2. Affected with love; in love; enamored; Ð usually with of; formerly with on. Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak. 3. Of or relating to, or produced by, love. ½Amorous delight.¸ Milton. ½Amorous airs.¸ Waller. Syn. - Loving; fond; tender; passionate; affectionate; devoted; ardent. Am¶oÏrousÏly, adv. In an amorous manner; fondly. Am¶oÏrousÏness, n. The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness. AÏmor¶pha (?), n.; pl. Amorphas (?). [Gr. ? shapeless.] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow. AÏmor¶phism (?), n. [See Amorphous.] A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc. There are stony substances which, when fused, may cool as glass or as stone; the glass state is (Chem.) spoken of as a state of amorphism. AÏmor¶phous (?), a. [Gr. ?; ? priv. + ? form.] 1. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan. 2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized. 3. Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises… are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. Ð AÏmor¶phousÏly, adv. Ð AÏmor¶phousÏness, n. Ø AÏmor·phoÏzo¶a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? shapeless; ? priv. + ? form + ? animal.] (Zo”l.) Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges. AÏmor·phoÏzo¶ic (?), a. (Zo”l.) Of or pertaining to the Amorphozoa. AÏmor¶phy (?), n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. amorphie. See Amorphous.] Shapelessness. [Obs.] Swift. AÏmort¶ (?), a. [Pref. aÏ + F. mort death, dead; all amort is for alamort.] As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed. Shak. AÏmor¶tise (?), v., AÏmor·tiÏsa¶tion (?), n., AÏmor¶tisÏaÏble (?), a. AÏmor¶tiseÏment (?), n. Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc. AÏmor¶tizÏaÏble (?), a. [Cf. F. amortissable.] Capable of being cleared off, as a debt. AÏmor·tiÏza¶tion (?), n. [LL. amortisatio, admortizatio. See Amortize, and cf. Admortization.] 1. (Law) The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain. 2. The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid. Simmonds. AÏmor¶tize (?), v. t. [OE. amortisen, LL. amortisare, admortizare, F. amortir to sell in mortmain, to extinguish; L. ad + mors death. See Mortmain. 1. To make as if dead; to destroy. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. (Law) To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain. 3. To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund. AÏmor¶tizeÏment (?), n. [F. amortissement.] Same as Amortization. AÏmor¶we (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ on + OE. morwe. See Morrow.] 1. In the morning. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. On the following morning. [Obs.] Chaucer. AÏmo¶tion (?), n. [L. amotio. See Amove.] 1. Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office. 2. Deprivation of possession. Ø AÏmo¶tus (?), a. [L., withdrawn (from it?place).] (Zo”l.) Elevated, Ð as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground. AÏmount¶ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Amounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Amounting.] [OF. amonter to increase, advance, ascend, fr. amont (equiv. to L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See Mount, n.] 1. To go up; to ascend. [Obs.] So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; Ð with to or unto. 3. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little. AÏmount¶, v. t. To signify; to ~ to. [Obs.] AÏmount¶, n. 1. The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue. 2. The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this. The whole amount of that enormous fame. Pope. AÏmour¶ (?), n. [F., fr. L. amor love.] 1. Love; affection. [Obs.] 2. Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. In amours with, in love with. [Obs.]

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Ø A¶mour· pro¶pre (?). [F.] SelfÐlove; selfÐesteem.
AÏmov·aÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. Liability to be removed or dismissed from office. [R.]
T. Jefferson.
AÏmov¶aÏble (?), a. [Cf. F. amovible.] Removable.
AÏmove¶ (?), v. t. [L. amovere; aÐ (ab) + movere to move: cf. OF. amover.] 1. To remove, as a person or thing, from a position. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
2. (Law) To dismiss from an office or station.
AÏmove¶, v. t. & i. [OE. amovir, L. admovere to move to, to excite; ad + movere.] To move or be moved; to excite. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Am¶peÏlite (?), n. [L. ampelitis, Gr. ?, fr. ? vine.] (Min.) An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; Ð applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
{ Ø Am·pŠre¶ (?), AmÏpere¶ (?),} n. [From the name of a French electrician.] (Elec.) The unit of electric current; Ð defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electroÐmagnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampŠre.
{ Ø Am·pŠre¶me·ter (?), Am·peÏrom¶eÏter (?),} n. [AmpŠre + meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in ampŠres.
Am¶perÏsand (?), n. [A corruption of and, per se and, i. e., ? by itself makes and.] A word used to describe the character ?, ?, or &.
Halliwell.
AmÏphiÏ. [Gr. ?.] A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.
Am·phiÏarÏthro¶diÏal (?), a. [Pref. amphiÐ + arthrodial.] Characterized by amphiarthrosis.
Am·phiÏarÏthro¶sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? + ? a joining, ? a joint.] (Anat.) A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.
Am¶phiÏas·ter (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? + ? a star.] (Biol.) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cellÐdivision, consisting of two asters connected by a spindleÐshaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.
Ø AmÏphib¶iÏa (?), n. pl. [See Amphibium.] (Zo”l.) One of the classes of vertebrates.
µ The Amphibia are distinguished by having usually no scales, by having eggs and embryos similar to those of fishes, and by undergoing a complete metamorphosis, the young having gills. There are three living orders: (1) The tailless, as the frogs (Anura); (2) The tailed (Urodela), as the salamanders, and the siren group (Sirenoidea), which retain the gills of the young state (hence called Perennibranchiata) through the adult state, among which are the siren, proteus, etc.; (3) The C?cilians, or serpentlike Amphibia (Ophiomorpha or Gymnophiona), with minute scales and without limbs. The extinct Labyrinthodouts also belonged to this class. The term is sometimes loosely applied to both reptiles and amphibians collectively.
AmÏphib¶iÏal (Ðal), & n. Amphibian. [R.]
AmÏphib¶iÏan (Ðan), a. (Zo”l.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.
AmÏphib¶iÏan, n. (Zo”l.) One of the Amphibia.
AmÏphib·iÏoÏlog¶icÏal (?), a. Pertaining to amphibiology.
AmÏphib·iÏol¶oÏgy (?), n. [Gr. ? amphibious + Ðlogy: cf. F. amphibiologie.] A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.
Ø AmÏphib·iÏot¶iÏca (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? + ? pertaining to life.] (Zo”l.) A division of insects having aquatic larv‘.
AmÏphib¶iÏous (?), a. [Gr. ? living a double life, i. e., both on land in water; ? + ? life.] 1. Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.
2. Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water.
The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea.
Hare.
3. Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures.
Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage.
Blackstone.
AmÏphib¶iÏousÏly, adv. Like an amphibious being.
AmÏphib¶iÏousÏness, n. The quality of being amphibious; ability to live in two elements.
Ø AmÏphib¶iÏum (?), n.; pl. L. Amphibia (?); E. Amphibiums (?). [NL., fr. Gr. ? (sc. ? an animal). See Amphibious.] An amphibian.
Am·phiÏbias¶tic (?), a. [Gr. ? + ? tending to sprout.] (Biol.) Segmenting unequally; Ð said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.
Am¶phiÏbole (?), n. [Gr. ? doubtful, equivocal, fr. ? to throw round, to doubt: cf. F. amphibole. Hay so named the genus from the great variety of color and composition assumed by the mineral.] (Min.) A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnetism and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.
Am·phiÏbol¶ic (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.
2. Of or resembling the mineral amphibole.
AmÏphib·oÏlog¶icÏal (?), a. Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous. ½Amphibological expressions.¸
Jer. Taylor. Ð AmÏphib·oÏlog¶icÏalÏly, adv.
Am·phiÏbol¶oÏgy (?), n.; pl. Amphibologies (?). [L. amphibologia, for amphibolia, fr. Gr. ?, with the ending Ðlogia as if fr. Gr. ? ambiguous + ? speech: cf. F. amphibologie. See Amphiboly.] A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.
AmÏphib¶oÏlous (?), a. [L. amphibolus, Gr. ? thrown about, doubtful. [Obs.]
Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel Ð both parties declaring themselves for the king.
Howell.
2. (Logic) Capable of two meanings.
An amphibolous sentence is one that is capable of two meanings, not from the double sense of any of the words, but from its admitting of a double construction; e. g., ½The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.¸
Whately.
AmÏphib¶oÏly (?), n.; pl. Amphibolies (?). [L. amphibolia, Gr. ?: cf. OE. amphibolie. See Amphibolous.] Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.
If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none.
Whitlock.
Am¶phiÏbranch (?), n. [L. ?, Gr. ? short at both ends; ? + ? short.] (Anc. Pros.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (? Ð ?); as, h?b?r?. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, proÐphet¶ic.
{ Am·phiÏcar¶pic (?), Am·phiÏcar¶pous (?),} a. [Gr. ? + ? fruit.] (Bot.) Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.
Am·phiÏchro¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? + ? color.] (Chem.) Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.
{ Am·phiÏc?¶liÏan (?), Am·phiÏc?¶lous (?),} a. [Gr. ? hollowed all round; ? + ? hollow.] (Zo”l.) Having both ends concave; biconcave; Ð said of vertebr‘.
Am¶phiÏcome (?), n. [Gr. ? with hair all round; ? + ? hair.] A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. [Obs.]
Encyc. Brit.
AmÏphic·tyÏon¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body.
W. Smith.
AmÏphic¶tyÏons (?), n. pl. [L. Amphictyones, Gr. ?. Prob. the word was orig. ? dwellers around, neighbors.] (Grecian Hist.) Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.
AmÏphic¶tyÏoÏny (?), n.; pl. Amphictyonies (?). [Gr. ?.] (Grecian Hist.) A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.
Am¶phid (?), n. [Gr. ? both: cf. F. amphide.] (Chem.) A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound. [R.]
Berzelius.
Am¶phiÏdisc (?), n. [Gr. ? + ? a round plate.] (Zo”l.) A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; Ð found in freshwater sponges.
Am·phiÏdrom¶icÏal (?), a. [Gr. ? running about or around.] Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; Ð so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.
AmÏphig¶aÏmous (?), a. [Gr. ? + ? marriage.] (Bot.) Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; Ð a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.
Am·phiÏge¶an (?), a. [Gr. ? + ?, ?, the earth.] Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.
Am¶phiÏgen (?), n. [Gr. ? + Ðgen: cf. F. amphigŠne.] (Chem.) An element that in combination produces amphid salt; Ð applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium. [R.]
Am¶phiÏgene (?), n. (Min.) Leucite.
Am·phiÏgen¶eÏsis (?), n. [Gr. ? + ? generation.] (Biol.) Sexual generation; amphigony.
AmÏphig¶eÏnous (?), a. (Bot.) Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens.
Am·phiÏgon¶ic (?), a. Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation. [R.]
AmÏphig¶oÏnous (?), a. [Gr. ? + ? a begetting.] Relating to both parents. [R.]
AmÏphig¶oÏny (?), n. Sexual propagation. [R.]
Am·phiÏgor¶ic (?), a. [See Amphigory.] Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.
Am¶phiÏgoÏry (?), n. [F. amphigouri, of uncertain derivation; perh. fr. Gr. ? + ? a circle.] A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also amphigouri.]
{ AmÏphil¶oÏgism (?), AmÏphil¶oÏgy (?),} n. [Gr. ? + Ðlogy.] Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [R.]
AmÏphim¶aÏcer (?), n. [L. amphimacru?, Gr. ?; ? on both sides + ? long.] (Anc. Pros.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c¾st?t¾s.
Andrews.
Ø Am·phiÏneu¶ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. ? + ? sinew, nerve.] (Zo”l.) A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.
Ø Am·phiÏox¶us (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? + ? sharp.] (Zo”l.) A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; Ð also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr‘, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.
AmÏphip¶neust (?), n. [Gr. ? + ? one who breathes, ? to breathe.] (Zo”l.) One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.
Am¶phiÏpod (?), n. (Zo”l.) One of the Amphipoda.
{ Am¶phiÏpod (?), AmÏphip¶oÏdan (?),} a. (Zo”l.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
Ø AmÏphip¶oÏda (?), n. pl. [NL., FR. Gr. ? + ?, ? foot.] (Zo”l.) A numerous group of fourteen Ð footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.
AmÏphip¶oÏdous (?), a. (Zo”l.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
AmÏphip¶roÏstyle (?), a. [L. amphiprostylos, Gr. ? having a double prostyle: cf. F. amphiprostyle. See Prostyle.] (Arch.) Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. Ð n. An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.
Ø Am·phiÏrhi¶na (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? + ?, ?, nose.] (Zo”l.) A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.
Ø Am·phisÏb‘¶na (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? on both ends + ? to go.] 1. A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way.
Milton.
2. (Zo”l.) A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix.
µ The Gordius aquaticus, or hairworm, has been called an amphisb‘na; but it belongs among the worms.
Ø Am·phisÏb‘¶noid (?), a. [NL., fr. L. amphisbaena + Ðoid.] (Zo”l.) Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisb‘na.
{ Ø AmÏphis¶ciÏi (?), AmÏphis¶cians (?),} n. pl. [Gr. ? throwing a shadow both ways; ? + ? shadow.] The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the order to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.
AmÏphis¶toÏmous (?), a. [Gr. ? + ? mouth.] (Zo”l.) Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.
Am·phiÏsty¶lic (?), a. [Gr. ? + ? pillar, support.] (Anat.) Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; Ð said of a skull.
{ Am·phiÏthe¶aÏter, Am·phiÏthe¶aÏtre,} (?), n. [L. amphitheatrum, fr. Gr. ?; ? + ? theater: cf. F. amphith‚ƒtre. See Theater.] 1. An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.
µ The Romans first constructed amphitheaters for combats of gladiators and wild beasts.
2. Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.
Am·phiÏthe¶aÏtral (?), a. [L. amphitheatralis: cf. F. amphith‚ƒtral.] Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.
{ Am·phiÏtheÏat¶ric (?), Am·phiÏtheÏat¶ricÏal (?),} a. [L. amphitheatricus.] Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
Am·phiÏtheÏat¶ricÏalÏly, adv. In the form or manner of an amphitheater.
Ø AmÏphit¶roÏcha (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? + ? a wheel.] (Zo”l.) A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.
{ AmÏphit¶roÏpal (?), AmÏphit¶roÏpous (?),} a. [Gr. ? + ? to turn.] (Bot.) Having the

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ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous. Ø Am·phiÏu¶ma (?), n. (Zo”l.) A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake. Am·phoÏpep¶tone (?), n. [Gr. ? + E. peptone.] (Physiol.) A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone. Ø Am¶phoÏra (?), n.; pl. Amophor‘ (?). [L., fr. Gr. ?, ?, a jar with two handles; ? + ? bearer, ? to bear. Cf. Ampul.] Among the ancients, a twoÐhandled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc. Am¶phoÏral (?), a. [L. amphoralis.] Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora. AmÏphor¶ic (?), a. (Med.) Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance. Am·phoÏter¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? both.] Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral. [R.] Smart. Am¶ple (?), a. [F. ample, L. amplus, prob. for ambiplus full on both sides, the last syllable akin to L. plenus full. See Full, and cf. Double.] Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser. 2. Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice. 3. Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative. Johnson. Syn. - Full; spacious; extensive; wide; capacious; abundant; plentiful; plenteous; copious; bountiful; rich; liberal; munificent. Ð Ample, Copious, Abundant, Plenteous. These words agree in representing a thing as large, but under different relations, according to the image which is used. Ample implies largeness, producing a sufficiency or fullness of supply for every want; as, ample stores or resources, ample provision. Copious carries with it the idea of flow, or of collection at a single point; as, a copious supply of materials. ½Copious matter of my song.¸ Milton. Abundant and plenteous refer to largeness of quantity; as, abundant stores; plenteous harvests. AmÏplec¶tant (?), a. [L. amplecti to embrace.] (Bot.) Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray. Am¶pleÏness (?), n. The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness. Am·plexÏa¶tion (?), n. [L. amplexari to embrace.] An embrace. [Obs.] An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall. AmÏplex¶iÏcaul (?), a. [L. amplexus, p. p. of amplecti to encircle, to embrace + caulis stem: cf. F. amplexicaule.] (Bot.) Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray. Am¶pliÏate (?), v. t. [L. ampliatus, p. p. of ampliare to make wider, fr. amplus. See Ample.] To enlarge. [R.] To maintain and ampliate the external possessions of your empire. Udall. Am¶pliÏate (?), a. (Zo”l.) Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects. Am·pliÏa¶tion (?), n. [L. ampliatio: cf. F. ampliation.] 1. Enlargement; amplification. [R.] 2. (Civil Law) A postponement of the decision of a cause, for further consideration or reÐargument. Am¶pliÏaÏtive (?), a. (Logic) Enlarging a conception by adding to that which is already known or received. ½All bodies possess power of attraction¸ is an ampliative judgment; because we can think of bodies without thinking of attraction as one of their immediate primary attribute. Abp. W. Thomson. AmÏplif¶iÏcate (?), v. t. [L. amplificatus, p. p. of amplificare.] To amplify. [Obs.] Bailey. Am·pliÏfiÏca¶tion (?), n. [L. amplificatio.] 1. The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension. 2. (Rhet.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies. 3. The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications. AmÏplif¶iÏcaÏtive (?), a. Amplificatory. AmÏplif¶iÏcaÏtoÏry (?), a. Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell. Am¶pliÏfi·er (?), n. One who or that which amplifies. Am¶pliÏfy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amplified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Amplifying.] [F. amplifier, L. amplificare. See Ample, Ïfy.] 1. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; Ð used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc. 2. (Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden. Am¶pliÏfy (?), v. i. 1. To become larger. [Obs.] Strait was the way at first, withouten light, But further in did further amplify. Fairfax. 2. To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; Ð often with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South. Am¶pliÏtude (?), n. [L. amplitudo, fr. amplus: cf. F. amplitude. See Ample.] 1. State of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size. The cathedral of Lincoln… is a magnificent structure, proportionable to the amplitude of the diocese. Fuller. 2. Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness. (a) Of extent of capacity or intellectual powers. ½Amplitude of mind.¸ Milton. ½Amplitude of comprehension.¸ Macaulay. (b) Of extent of means or resources. ½Amplitude of reward.¸ Bacon. 3. (Astron.) (a) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the ~ is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator. (b) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object. 4. (Gun.) The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range. 5. (Physics) The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; Ð applied especially to vibratory movements. 6. (math.) An angle upon which the value of some function depends; Ð a term used more especially in connection with elliptic functions. Magnetic ~, the angular distance of a heavenly body, when on the horizon, from the magnetic east or west point as indicated by the compass. The difference between the magnetic and the true or astronomical ~ (see 3 above) is the ½variation of the compass.¸ Am¶ply (?), adv. In an ample manner. Am¶pul (?), n. [AS. ampella, ampolla, L. ampulla: cf. OF. ampolle, F. ampoule.] Same as Ampulla, 2. Ø AmÏpul¶la, n.; pl. Ampull‘ (?). [L. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A narrowÐnecked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug. 2. (Eccl.) (a) A cruet for the wine and water at Mass. (b) The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept. Shipley. 3. (Biol.) Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear. Am·pulÏla¶ceous (?), a. [L. ampullaceus, fr. ampulla.] Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottleÏshaped; swelling. Kirby. ÷ sac (Zo”l.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells. { Am¶pulÏlar (?), Am·pulÏlaÏry (?), } a. Resembling an ampulla. { Am¶pulÏlate (?), Am¶pulÏla·ted (?) } a. Having an ampulla; flaskÐshaped; bellied. AmÏpul¶liÏform (?), a. [Ampulla + Ïform.] FlaskÏshaped; dilated. Am¶puÏtate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amputated; p. pr. & vb. n. Amputating.] [L. amputatus, p. p. of amputare: ambÏ + putare to prune, putus clean, akin to E. pure. See Putative.] 1. To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils. 2. (Surg.) To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body). Wiseman. Am·puÏta¶tion (?), n. [L. amputatio: cf. F. amputation.] The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body. Am¶puÏta¶tor (?), n. One who amputates. Ø Am¶pyx (?), n. [Gr. ?.] (Greek Antiq.) A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair. Ø AmÏri¶ta (?), n. [Skr. amrita.] (Hind. Myth.) Immorality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. Ð a. Ambrosial; immortal. Am¶sel, Am¶zel (?), n. [Ger. See Ousel.] (Zo”l.) The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus). AÏmuck¶ (?), a. & adv. [Malay amoq furious.] In a frenzied and reckless. To run ~, to rush out in a state of frenzy, as the Malays sometimes do under the influence of ½bhang,¸ and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope. Am¶uÏlet (?), n. [L. amuletum: cf. F. amulette.] An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. [Also used figuratively.] Am·uÏlet¶ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm. AÏmur¶cous (?), a. [LL. amurcous, L. amurca the dregs of olives, Gr. ?, fr. ? to pluck.] Full off dregs; foul. [R.] Knowles. AÏmus¶aÏble (?), a. [Cf. F. amusable.] Capable of being amused. AÏmuse¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Amusing.] [F. amuser to make stay, to detain, to ~, ? (L. ad) + OF. muser. See Muse, v.] 1. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. [Obs.] Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. Fuller. 2. To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert. A group children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin. 3. To keep in extraction; to beguile; to delude. He amused his followers with idle promises. Johnson. Syn. - To entertain; gratify; please; divert; beguile; deceive; occupy. Ð To Amuse, Divert, Entertain. We are amused by that which occupies us lightly and pleasantly. We are entertained by that which brings our minds into agreeable contact with others, as conversation, or a book. We are diverted by that which turns off our thoughts to something of livelier interest, especially of a sportive nature, as a humorous story, or a laughable incident. Whatever amuses serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains usually a wakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects. Crabb. AÏmuse¶, v. i. To muse; to mediate. [Obs.] AÏmused¶ (?), a. 1. Diverted. 2. Expressing amusement; as, an amused look. AÏmuse¶ment (?), n. [Cf. F. amusement.] 1. Deep thought; muse. [Obs.] Here I… fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood. 2. The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion. His favorite amusements were architecture and gardening. Macaulay. Syn. - Diversion; entertainment; recreation; relaxation; pastime; sport. AÏmus¶er (?), n. One who amuses. Ø Am·uÏsette¶ (?), n. [F.] A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel. AÏmus¶ing (?), a. Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story. Ð AÏmus¶ingÏly, adv. AÏmu¶sive (?; 277), a.ÿHaving power to amuse or entertain the mind; fitted to excite mirth. [R.] Ð AÏmu¶siveÏly, adv. Ð AÏmu¶siveÏness, n. AÏmy¶ (?), n. [F. ami, fr. L. amicus.] A friend. [Obs.] Chaucer. AÏmy¶eÏlous (?), a. [Gr. ? without marrow.] (Med.) Wanting the spinal cord. AÏmyg·daÏla¶ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Akin to, or derived from, the almond. AÏmyg¶daÏlate (?), a. [L. amygdala, amygdalum, almond, Gr. ?, ?. See Almond.] Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds. AÏmyg¶daÏlate, n. 1. (Med.) An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds. Bailey. Coxe. 2.ÿ(Chem.) A salt amygdalic acid. Am·ygÏdal¶ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid. AÏmyg·daÏlif¶erÏous (?), a. [L. amygdalum almond + Ïferous.] AlmondÐbearing. AÏmyg¶daÏlin (?), n. (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance. AÏmyg¶daÏline (?), a. [L. amygdalinus.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds. AÏmyg¶daÏloid (?), n. [Gr. ? almond + Ïoid: cf. F. amygdalo‹de.] (Min.) A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava. { AÏmyg¶daÏloid (?), AÏmyg·daÏloid¶al (?), } a. 1. AlmondÐshaped. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid. Am¶yl (?), n. [L. amylum starch + Ïyl. Cf. Amidin.] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in ~ alcohol or fusel oil, etc. Am·yÏla¶ceous (?), a. [L. amylum starch, Gr. ?. See Amidin.] Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy. Am¶yÏlate (?), n. (Chem.) A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical. Am¶yÏlene (?), n.ÿ(Chem.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group. AÏmyl¶ic (?), a. (Chem.)ÿPertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether. ÷ alcohol (Chem.), one of the series of alcohol?, a transparent, colorless liquid, having a peculiar odor. It is the hydroxide of amyl. Ð ÷ fermentation (Chem.), a process of fermentation in starch or sugar in which ~ alcohol is produced. Gregory. Am·yÏloÏbac¶ter , n. [L. amylum starch + NL. bacterium. See Bacterium.] (Biol.) A micro”rganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg. { Am¶yÏloid (?), Am·yÏloid¶al (?), } a. [L. amylum starch + Ïoid.] Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; Ð called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

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Am¶yÏloid (?), n. 1. A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance. 2. (Med.) The substance deposited in the organs in ~ degeneration. Am·yÏloÏly¶tic (?), a. [Gr. ? starch + ? solvent; ? to dissolve.] (Physiol.) Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. Foster. Am·yÏlose¶ (?), n. (Chem.) One of the starch group (C6H10O5)? of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc. Am¶yÏous (?), a. [Gr. ?.] (Med.) Wanting in muscle; without flesh. Am¶yss (?), n. Same as Amice, a hood or cape. An (?). [AS. ¾n one, the same word as the numeral. See One, and cf. A.] This word is property an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as ½twice an hour,¸ ½once an age,¸ a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every. µ An is used before a word beginning with a vowel sound; as, an enemy, an hour. It in also often used before h sounded, when the accent of the word falls on the second syllable; as, an historian, an hyena, an heroic deed. Many writers use a before h in such positions. Anciently an was used before consonants as well as vowels. An, conj. [Shortened fr. and, OE. an., and, sometimes and if, in introducing conditional clauses, like Icel. enda if, the same word as and. Prob. and was originally pleonastic before the conditional clause.] If; Ð a word used by old English authors. Shak. Nay, an thou dalliest, then I am thy foe. B. Jonson. ÷ if, and if; if. An¶aÏ. [Gr. ? on; in comp., on, up, upwards.] A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew. A¶na (?), adv. [Gr. ? (used distributively).] (Med.) Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), ? ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a… long bill of anas. Dryden. Ïa¶na (?). [The neut. pl. ending of Latin adjectives in Ïanus.] A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc. Used also as a substantive; as, the French anas. It has been said that the tableÐtalk of Selden is worth all the ana of the Continent. Hallam. An·aÏbap¶tism (?), n. [L. anabaptismus, Gr. ?: cf. F. anabaptisme. See Anabaptize.] The doctrine of the Anabaptists. An·aÏbap¶tist (?), n. [LL. anabaptista, fr. Gr. as if ?: cf. F. anabaptiste.] A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy. µ In church history, the name Anabaptists usually designates a sect of fanatics who greatly disturbed the peace of Germany, the Netherlands, etc., in the Reformation period. In more modern times the name has been applied to those who do not regard infant baptism as real and valid baptism. { An·aÏbapÏtis¶tic (?), An·aÏbapÏtis¶ticÏal (?), } a. Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines. Milton. Bp. Bull. An·aÏbap¶tistÏry (?), n. The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists. [R.] Thus died this imaginary king; and Anabaptistry was suppressed in Munster. Pagitt. An·aÏbapÏtize¶ (?), v. t. [Gr. ?, fr. ? again + ? to baptize. See Baptize.] To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename. [R.] Whitlock. Ø An¶aÏbas (?), n. [Gr. ?, p. p. of ? to advance.] (Zo”l.) A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes. Ø AÏnab¶aÏsis (?), n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to go up; ? up + ? to go.] 1. A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called ½The Anabasis.¸ The anabasis of Napoleon. De Quincey. 2. (Med.) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation. [Obs.] An·aÏbat¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ?.] Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever. [Obs.] An·aÏbol¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? something heaped up; ? + ? a stroke.] (Physiol.) Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature. AÏnab¶oÏlism (?), n. (Physiol.) The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism. An·aÏcamp¶tic (?), a. [Gr. ? to bend back; ? back + ? to bend.] Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo). µ The word was formerly applied to that part of optics which treats of reflection; the same as what is now called catoptric. See Catoptrics. An·aÏcamp¶ticÏalÏly (?), adv. By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. Hutton. An·aÏcamp¶tics (?), n. 1. The science of reflected light, now called catoptrics. 2. The science of reflected sounds. { Ø An·aÏcan¶thiÏni (?), An¶aÏcanths (?), } n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? priv. + ? thorny, fr. ? thorn.] (Zo”l.) A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny finÐrays, as the cod. An·aÏcan¶thous (?), a. Spineless, as certain fishes. An·aÏcar¶diÏa¶ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples. An·aÏcar¶dic (?), a. Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid. Ø An·aÏcar¶diÏum (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? similar to + ? heart; Ð the fruit of this plant being thought to resemble the heart of a bird.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew. An·aÏcaÏthar¶tic (?), a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to cleanse upward, i. e., by vomiting; ? + ?. See Cathartic.] (Med.) Producing vomiting or expectoration. Ð n. An anacatharic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic. Ø AnÏach¶aÏris (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? up + ? grace.] (Bot.) A freshÐwater weed of the frog'sbit family (Hydrocharidace‘), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme. AnÏach¶oÏret (?), n. AnÏach·oÏret¶icÏal (?), a. See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.] AnÏach¶oÏrism (?), n. [Gr. ? + ? place.] An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.] { An·aÏchron¶ic (?), An·aÏchron¶icÏal (?), } a. Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic. AnÏach¶roÏnism (?), n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to refer to a wrong time, to confound times; ? + ? time: cf. F. anachronisme.] A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation. AnÏach·roÏnis¶tic (?), a. Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism. T. Warton. AnÏach¶roÏnize (?), v. t. [Gr. ?.] To refer to, or put into, a wrong time. [R.] Lowell. AnÏach¶roÏnous (?), a. Containing an anachronism; anachronistic. Ð AnÏach¶roÏnousÏly, adv. An·aÏclas¶tic (?), a. [Gr. ? to bend back and break; to reflect (light); ? + ? to break.] 1. (Opt.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves. Hutton. 2. Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass. ÷ glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form. An·aÏclas¶tics (?), n. (Opt.) That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; Ð commonly called dioptrics. Encyc. Brit. Ø An·aÏc?Ïno¶sis (?), n. [Gr. ?, fr. ?, to communicate; ? up + ? to make common, ? common.] (Rhet.) A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate. Walker. An·aÏcoÏlu¶thic (?), a. Lacking grammatical sequence. Ð An·aÏcoÏlu¶thicÏalÏly (?), adv. Ø An·aÏcoÏlu¶thon (?), n. [Gr. ?, ?, not following, wanting sequence; ? priv. + ? following.] (Gram.) A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part. An·aÏcon¶da (?), n. [Of Ceylonese origin?] (Zo”l.) A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon. AÏnac·reÏon¶tic (?), a. [L. Anacreonticus.] Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey. AÏnac·reÏon¶tic, n. A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine. An·aÏcrot¶ic (?), a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to anachronism. AÏnac¶roÏtism (?), n. [Gr. ?, up, again + ? a stroke.] (Physiol.) A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing. Ø An·aÏcru¶sis (?), n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to push up or back; ? + ? to strike.] (Pros.) A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable. An¶aÏdem (?), n. [L. anadema, Gr. ?, fr. ? to wreathe; ? up + ? to bind.] A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson. Ø An·aÏdiÏplo¶sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? + ? to double, ?, ?, twofold, double.] (Rhet.) A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, ½He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes Ð misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent.¸ An¶aÏdrom (?), n. [Cf. F. anadrome.] (Zo”l.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers. AÏnad¶roÏmous (?), a. [Gr. ? running upward; ? + ? a running, ? to run.] 1. (Zo”l.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc. 2. (Bot.) Tending upwards; Ð said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. D. C. Eaton. Ø AÏn‘¶miÏa (?), a. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ? priv. + ? blood.] (Med.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity. AÏn‘m¶ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to an‘mis. AnÏa·‰Ïrob¶ic (?), a. (Biol.) Relating to, or like, ana‰robies; ara‰robiotic. AnÏa¶‰rÏoÏbies (?), n. pl. [Gr. ? priv. + ?, ?, air + ? life.] (Biol.) Micro”rganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it. Sternberg. AnÏa·‰rÏoÏbiÏot¶ic (?), a. (Anat.) Related to, or of the nature of, ana‰robies. Ø An·‘sÏthe¶siÏa (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ? priv. + ? feeling, ? to feel: cf. F. anesth‚sie. See ’sthetics.] (Med.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an an‘sthetic. Ø An·‘sÏthe¶sis (?), n. See An‘sthesia. An·‘sÏthet¶ic (?), a. (Med.) (a) Capable of rendering insensible; as, an‘sthetic agents. (b) Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an an‘sthetic effect or operation. An·‘sÏthet¶ic, n. (Med.) That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc. AnÏ‘s·theÏtiÏza¶tion (?), n. The process of an‘sthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by an‘sthetics. AnÏ‘s¶theÏtize (?), v. t. (Med.) To render insensible by an an‘sthetic. Encyc. Brit. An¶aÏglyph (?), n. [Gr. ? wrought in low relief, ? embossed work; ? + ? to engrave.] Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo. { An·aÏglyph¶ic (?), An·aÏglyph¶icÏal (?), } a. Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; Ð opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work. An·aÏglyph¶ic, n. Work chased or embossed relief. An·aÏglyp¶tic (?), a. [L. anaglypticus, Gr. ?, ?. See Anaglyph.] Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief. An·aÏglyp¶tics (?), n. The art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc. An·aÏglyp¶toÏgraph (?), n. [Gr. ? + Ïgraph.] An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed. Brande & C. An·aÏglyp·toÏgraph¶ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to anaglyptography; as, analyptographic engraving. An·aÏglypÏtog¶raÏphy (?), n. [Gr. ? embossed + Ïgraphy.] The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; Ð used in representing coins, basÐreliefs, etc. Ø An·agÏnor¶iÏsis (?), n. [Latinized fr. Gr. ?; ? + ? to recognize.] The unfolding or d‚nouement. [R.] De Quincey. An·aÏgo¶ge (?), n. [Gr. ? a leading up; ? + ? a leading, ? to lead.] 1. An elevation of mind to things celestial. 2. The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New. { An·aÏgog¶ic (?), An·aÏgog¶icÏal (?), } a. Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication. Ð An·aÏgog¶icÏalÏly, adv. An·aÏgog¶ics (?), n. pl. Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures. L. Addison. An¶aÏgo·gy (?), n. Same as Anagoge. An¶aÏgram (?), n. [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. ? back, again + ? to write. See Graphic.] Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorneyÐgeneral to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law. An¶aÏgram, v. t. To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton. { An·aÏgramÏmat¶ic (?), An·aÏgramÏmat¶icÏal (?), } a. [Cf. F. anagramtique.] Pertaining to, containing, or making, anagram. Ð An·aÏgramÏmat¶icÏalÏly, adv. An·aÏgram¶maÏtism (?), n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. anagrammatisme.] The act or practice of making anagrams. Camden. An·aÏgram¶maÏtist, n. [Cf. F. anagrammatiste.] A maker anagrams. An·aÏgram¶maÏtize (?), v. t. [Gr. ? cf. F. anagrammatiser.] To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram. Cudworth. An¶aÏgraph (?), n. [Gr. ? a writing out, fr. ? to write out, to record; ? + ? to write.] An inventory; a record. [Obs.] Knowles. { Ø An¶aÏkim (?), A¶naks (?), } n. pl. [Heb.] (Bibl.) A race of giants living in Palestine. A¶nal (?), a. [From Anus.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands. AÏnal¶cime (?), n. [Gr. ? priv. + ? strong, ? strength: cf. F. analcime.] (Min.) A white or fleshÐred mineral, of the zeolite, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name. AÏnal¶cite (?), n. [Gr. ? weak.] Analcime. An·aÏlec¶tic (?), a. Relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine. { An¶aÏlects (?), Ø An·aÏlec¶ta (?), } n. pl. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to collect; ? + ? to gather.] A collection of literary fragments. Ø An·aÏlem¶ma (?), n. [L. analemma a sun dial on a pedestal, showing the latitude and meridian of a place, Gr. ? a support, or thing supported, a

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sun dial, fr. ? to take up; ? + ? to take.] 1. (Chem.) An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.
2. An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; Ð formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems.
3. A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.
{ Ø An¶aÏlep¶sis (?), An¶aÏlep¶sy (?), } [Gr. ? a taking up, or again, recovery, from ?. See Analemma.] (Med.) (a) Recovery of strength after sickness. (b) A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.
An¶aÏlep¶tic (?), a. [Gr. ? restorative: cf. F. analeptique. See Analepsis.] (Med.) Restorative; giving strength after disease. Ð n. A restorative.
Ø An·alÏge¶siÏa (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ? priv. + ? sense of pain.] (Med.) Absence of sensibility to pain.
Quain.
An·alÏlagÏmat¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? priv. + ? a change.] (Math.) Not changed in form by inversion.
÷ curves, a class of curves of the fourth degree which have certain peculiar relations to circles; Ð sometimes called bicircular quartics. Ð ÷ surfaces, a certain class of surfaces of the fourth degree.
An·alÏlanÏto¶ic (?), a. (Anat.) Without, or not developing, an allantois.
Ø An·alÏlanÏtoid¶eÏa (?), n. pl. [Gr. ? priv. + E. allantoidea.] (Zo”l.) The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.
AÏnal¶oÏgal (?), a. Analogous. [Obs.]
Donne.
An·aÏlog¶ic (?), a. [See Analogous.] Of or belonging to analogy.
Geo. Eliot.
An·aÏlog¶icÏal (?), a. 1. Founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy.
When a country which has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical.
J. S. Mill.
2. Having analogy; analogous.
Sir M. Hale.
An·aÏlog¶icÏalÏly, adv. In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.
A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel.
Berkeley.
An·aÏlog¶icÏalÏness, n. Quality of being analogical.
AÏnal¶oÏgism (?), n. [Gr. ? course of reasoning, fr. ? to think over, to the effect; an a priori argument.
Johnson.
2. Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.
Crabb.
AÏnal¶oÏgist (?), n. One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy.
Cheyne.
AÏnal¶oÏgize, v. i. To employ, or reason by, analogy.
Ø AÏnal¶oÏgon (?), n. [Gr. ?.] Analogue.
AÏnal¶oÏgous (?), a. [L. analogous, Gr. ? according to a due ratio, proportionate; ? + ? ratio, proportion. See Logic.] Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; Ð often followed by to.
Analogous tendencies in arts and manners.
De Quincey.
Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death.
J. H. Newman.
÷ pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.
Syn. - Correspondent; similar; like.
Ð AÏnal¶o gousÏly, adv. Ð AÏnal¶oÏgousÏness, n.
An¶aÏlogue (?; 115), n. [F., fr. Gr. ?.] 1. That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.
The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many.
I. Taylor.
2. (Philol.) A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin ½pater¸ is the analogue of the English ½father.¸
3. (Nat. Hist.) (a) An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations. (b) A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group. (c) A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera.
Dana.
AÏnal¶oÏgy (?), n.; pl. Analogies (?). [L. analogia, Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. analogie. See Analogous.] 1. A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.
Followed by between, to, or with; as, there is an analogy between these objects, or one thing has an analogy to or with another.
µ Analogy is very commonly used to denote similarity or essential resemblance; but its specific meaning is a similarity of relations, and in this consists the difference between the argument from example and that from analogy. In the former, we argue from the mere similarity of two things; in the latter, from the similarity of their relations.
Karslake.
2. (Biol.) A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.
3. (Geom.) Proportion; equality of ratios.
4. (Gram.) Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.
Johnson.
An¶aÏlyse (?), v., An¶aÏly·ser (?), n., etc. Same as Analyze, Analyzer, etc.
AÏnal¶yÏsis (?), n.; pl. Analyses (?). [Gr. ?, fr. ? to unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements; ? up + ? to loose. See Loose.] 1. A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.
2. (Chem.) The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.
3. (Logic) The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.
4. (Math.) The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.
5. (a) A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order. (b) A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.
6. (Nat. Hist.) The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.
Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, Quantitative, and Volumetric ~. (Chem.) See under Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, etc.
An¶aÏlyst (?), n. [F. analyste. See Analysis.] One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.
{ An·aÏlyt¶ic (?), An·aÏlyt¶icÏal (?), } a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. analytique. See Analysis.] Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; Ð opposed to synthetic.
Analytical or co”rdinate geometry. See under Geometry. Ð Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. Ð Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.
An·aÏlyt¶icÏalÏly, adv. In an analytical manner.
An·aÏlyt¶ics (?), n. The science of analysis.
An¶aÏly·zaÏble (?), a. That may be analyzed.
An·aÏlyÏza¶tion (?), n. The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.
An¶aÏlyze (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Analyzed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Analyzing.] [Cf. F. analyser. See Analysis.] To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.
No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain.
Darwin.
An¶aÏly·zer (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, analyzes.
2. (Opt.) The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.
An·aÏmese¶ (?), a. Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. Ð n. A native of Anam.
Ø An·amÏne¶sis (?), n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to remind, recall to memory; ? + ? to put in mind.] (Rhet.) A recalling to mind; recollection.
An·amÏnes¶tic (?), a. [Gr. ?.] Aiding the memory; as, anamnestic remedies.
AnÏam·niÏot¶ic (?), a. (Anat.) Without, or not developing, an amnion.
An·aÏmor¶phism (?), n. [Gr. ? again + ? form.] 1. A distorted image.
2. (Biol.) A gradual progression from one type to another, generally ascending.
Huxley.
An·aÏmor¶phoÏsis (?), n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to form anew; ? again + ? to form; ? form.] 1. (Persp.) A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.
2. (Biol.) Same as Anamorphism, 2.
3. (Bot.) A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration.
An·aÏmor¶phoÏsy (?), n. Same as Anamorphosis.
AÏnan¶ (?), interj. [See Anon.] An expression equivalent to What did you say? Sir? Eh? [Obs.]
Shak.
Ø AÏna¶nas (?), n. [Sp. ananas, from the native American name.] (Bot.) The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).
AnÏan¶drous (?), a. [Gr. ? priv. + ? a man.] (Bot.) Destitute of stamen? as certain female flowers.
AnÏan¶guÏlar (?), a. [Gr. ? priv. + E. angular.] Containing no angle. [R.]
AnÏan¶therÏous (?), a. [Gr. ? priv. + E. anther.] (Bot.) Destitute of anthers.
Gray.
AnÏan¶thous (?), a. [Gr. ? priv. + ? a flower.] (Bot.) Destitute of flowers; flowerless.
An·aÏp‘st (?), An·aÏp‘s¶tic (?). Same as Anapest, Anapestic.
An¶aÏpest (?), n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. ? an ÷, i. e., a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. ?; ? back + ? to strike.] 1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (?); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d?Ð?Ït¾s, and in English inÏterÏvene?, are examples of anapests.
2. A verse composed of such feet.
An·aÏpes¶tic (?), a. [L. anapaesticus, Gr. ?.] Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. Ð n. Anapestic measure or verse.
An·aÏpes¶ticÏal (?), a. Anapestic.
Ø AÏnaph¶oÏra (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to carry up or back; ? + ? to carry.] (Rhet.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.
Ø AnÏaph·roÏdis¶iÏa (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? priv. + ? sexual pleasure, ? the goddess of love.] (Med.) Absence of sexual appetite.
AnÏaph·roÏdis¶iÏac (?), a. & n. [Gr. ? priv. + ? pertaining to venery.] (Med.) Same as Antaphrodisiac.
Dunglison.
AnÏaph·roÏdit¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? without love.] (Biol.) Produced without concourse of sexes.
An·aÏplas¶tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to anaplasty.
An·aÏplas·ty (?), n. [Gr. ? again + ? to form: cf. F. anaplastie.] (Surg.) The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.
An·aÏpleÏrot¶ic (?), a. [L. anapleroticus, fr. Gr. ? to fill up; ? + ? to fill.] (Med.) Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers. Ð n. A remedy which promotes such granulation.
AÏnap¶noÏgraph (?), n. [Gr. ? respiration + Ïgraph.] A form of spirometer.
An·apÏno¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? respiration.] (Med.) Relating to respiration.
AnÏap·oÏdeic¶tic (?), a. [Gr. ?; ? priv. + ?. See Apodeictic.] Not apodeictic; undemonstrable. [R.]
Ø An·aÏpoph¶yÏsis (?), n. [Gr. ? back + ? offshoot.] (Anat.) An accessory process in many lumbar vertebr‘.
An·apÏtot¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? back + ? belonging to case.] Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.
Ø AnÏap¶tyÏchus (?), n.; pl. Anaptichi (?). [NL., fr. Gr. ? unfolding; ? back + ? to fold.] (Paleon.) One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.
An¶arch (?), n. [Gr. ? without head or chief; ? priv. + ? beginning, the first place, magistracy, government.] The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
Milton.
Imperial anarchs doubling human woes.
Byron.
AÏnar¶chal (?), a. Lawless; anarchical. [R.]
We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.
Landor.
{ AÏnar¶chic (?), AÏnar¶chicÏal (?), } a. [Cf. F. anarchique.] Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.
An¶archÏism (?), n. [Cf. F. anarchisme.] The doctrine or practice of anarchists.
An¶archÏist (?), n. [Cf. F. anarchiste.] An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.
An¶archÏize (?), v. t. To reduce to anarchy.
An¶archÏy (?), n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. anarchie. See Anarch.] 1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
Spread anarchy and terror all around.
Cowper.
2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
There being then… an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their re?koning of years.
Fuller.
Ø An·arÏthrop¶oÏda (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ? without joints + Ïpoda. See Anarthrous.] (Zo”l.) One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; Ð opposed to Arthropoda.
An·arÏthrop¶oÏdous (?), a. (Zo”l.) Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.
AnÏar¶throus (?), a. [Gr. ? without joints, without the article; ? priv. + ? joint, the article.] 1. (Gr. Gram.) Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive.
2.ÿ(Zo”l.) Without joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects.
Ø A¶nas (?), n. [L., duck.] (Zo”l.) A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of freshÏwater ducks.
Ø An·aÏsar¶ca (?), n. [NL., from Gr. ? throughout + ?, ?, flesh.] (Med.) Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.
An·aÏsar¶cous (?), a. Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.
Wiseman.
An·aÏstal¶tic (?), a. & n. [Gr. ?

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fitted for checking, fr. ? + ? to send.] (Med.) Styptic. [Obs.]
Coxe.
An¶aÏstate (?), n. [Gr. ? up + ? to make to stand.] (Physiol.) One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; Ð opposed to katastate.
Foster.
An·aÏstat¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ? up + ? to make to stand: cf. ? causing to stand.] Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.
In this process the letterpress, engraving, or design of any kind is transferred to a zinc plate; the parts not covered with ink are eaten out, leaving a facsimile in relief to be printed from.
AÏnas¶toÏmose (?), v. i. [imp. p. p. Anastomozed (?); p. pr. ? vb. n. Anastomosing.] [Cf. F. anastomoser, fr. anastomose. See Anastomosis.] (Anat. & Bot.) To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.
The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels.
I. Taylor.
Ø AÏnas·toÏmo¶sis (?), n.; pl. Anastomoses (?). [NL., fr. Gr. ? opening, fr. ? to furnish with a mouth or opening, to open; ? + ? mouth;: cf. F. anastomose.] (Anat. & Bot.) The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.
AÏnas·toÏmot¶ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to anastomosis.
Ø AÏnas¶troÏphe (?), n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn up or back; ? + ? to turn.] (Rhet. & Gram.) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.
AÏnath¶eÏma (?), n.; pl. Anathemas (?). [L. anath?ma, fr. Gr. ? anything devoted, esp. to evil, a curse; also L. anath?ma, fr. Gr. ? a votive offering; all fr. ? to set up as a votive gift, dedicate; ? up + ? to set. See Thesis.] 1. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
[They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers.
Priestley.
2. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families].
Thackeray.
3. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
The Jewish nation were an anathema destined to destruction. St. Paul… says he could wish, to save them from it, to become an anathema, and be destroyed himself.
Locke.
÷ Maranatha (?) (see 1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, ½Our Lord cometh.¸
{ AÏnath·eÏmat¶ic (?), AÏnath·eÏmat¶icÏal (?), } a. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema. Ð AÏnath·eÏmat¶icÏalÏly, adv.
AÏnath¶eÏmaÏtism (?), n. [Gr. ? a cursing; cf. F. anath‚matisme.] Anathematization. [Obs.]
We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists.
J. Taylor.
AÏnath·eÏmaÏtiÏza¶tion (?), n. [LL. anathematisatio.] The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation.
Barrow.
AÏnath¶eÏmaÏtize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anathematized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Anathematizing.] [L. anathematizare, Gr. ? to devote, make accursed: cf. F. anath‚matiser.] To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed.
Milton.
AÏnath¶eÏmaÏti·zer (?), n. One who pronounces an anathema.
Hammond.
Ø AÏnat¶iÏfa (?), n.; pl. Anatif‘ (?). [NL., contr. fr. anatifera. See Anatiferous.] (Zo”l.) An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.
µ The term Anatif‘, in the plural, is often used for the whole group of pedunculated cirripeds.
AÏnat¶iÏfer, (?), n. (Zo”l.) Same as Anatifa.
An·aÏtif¶erÏous (?), a. [L. anas, anatis, a duck + Ïferous.] (Zo”l.) Producing ducks; Ð applied to Anatif‘, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.
An¶aÏtine (?), a. [L. anatinus, fr. anas, anatis, a duck.] (Zo”l.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.
AÏnat¶oÏcism (?), n. [L. anatocismus, Gr. ?; ? again + ? to lend on interest.] (Law) Compound interest. [R.]
Bouvier.
{ An·aÏtom¶ic (?), An·aÏtom¶icÏal (?), } a. [L. anatomicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. anatomique. See Anatomy.] Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations.
Hume.
An·aÏtom¶icÏalÏly, adv. In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.
AÏnat¶oÏmism (?), n. [Cf. F. anatomisme.] 1. The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters.
The London Spectator.
2. The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.
AÏnat¶oÏmist (?), n. [Cf. F. anatomiste.] One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.
AÏnat·oÏmiÏza¶tion (?), n. The act of anatomizing.
AÏnat¶oÏmize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anatomized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Anatomizing.] [Cf. F. anatomiser.] 1. To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.
2. To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze.
If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect.
Hume.
AÏnat¶oÏmi·zer (?), n. A dissector.
AÏnat¶oÏmy (?), n.; pl. Anatomies (?). [F. anatomie, L. anatomia, Gr. ? dissection, fr. ? to cut up; ? + ? to cut.] 1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.
Dryden.
µ ½Animal ~¸ is sometimes called zo”tomy; ½vegetable ~,¸ phytotomy; ½human ~,¸ anthropotomy.
Comparative ~ compares the structure of different kinds and classes of animals.
3. A treatise or book on ~.
4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
5. A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature.
Fuller.
They brought one Pinch, a hungry, leanÏfaced villain,
A mere anatomy.
Shak.
An·aÏtrep¶tic (?), a. [Gr. ? overturning, fr. ? to turn up or over; ? + ? too turn.] Overthrowing; defeating; Ð applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.
Enfield.
Ø An¶aÏtron (?), n. [F. anatron, natron, Sp. anatron, natron, fr. Ar. alÐnatr?n. See Natron, Niter.] [Obs.] 1. Native carbonate of soda; natron.
2. Glass gall or sandiver.
3. Saltpeter.
Coxe. Johnson.
{ AÏnat¶roÏpal (?), AÏnat¶roÏpous (?), } a. [Gr. ? up + ? to turn.] (Bot.) Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; Ð opposed to orthotropous.
Gray.
AÏnat¶to (?), n. Same as Annotto.
An¶burÐy (?), Am¶burÏy (?), n. [AS. ampre, ompre, a crooked swelling vein: cf. Prov. E. amper a tumor with inflammation. Cf. the first syllable in agnail, and berry a fruit.] 1. (Far.) A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.
2. A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; Ð called also fingers and toes.
Ïance. [F. Ïance, fr. L. Ïantia and also fr. Ïentia.] A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See Ïancy.
µ All recently adopted words of this class take either Ïance or Ïence, according to the Latin spelling.
An¶cesÏtor (?), n. [OE. ancestre, auncestre, also ancessour; the first forms fr. OF. ancestre, F. ancˆtre, fr. the L. nom. antessor one who goes before; the last form fr. OF. ancessor, fr. L. acc. antecessorem, fr. antecedere to go before; ante before + cedere to go. See Cede, and cf. Antecessor.] 1. One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
2. (Biol.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
3. (Law) One from whom an estate has descended; Ð the correlative of heir.
An·cesÏto¶riÏal (?), a. Ancestral.
Grote.
An·cesÏto¶riÏalÏly, adv. With regard to ancestors.
AnÏces¶tral (?; 277), a. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. ½Ancestral trees.¸
Hemans.
An¶cesÏtress (?), n. A female ancestor.
An¶cesÏtry (?), n. [Cf. OF. ancesserie. See Ancestor.] 1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
Addison.
2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
An¶chor (?), n. [OE. anker, AS. ancor, oncer, L. ancora, sometimes spelt anchora, fr. Gr. ?, akin to E. angle: cf. F. ancre. See Angle, n.] 1. A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.
µ The common ~ consists of a straight bar called a shank, having at one end a transverse bar called a stock, above which is a ring for the cable, and at the other end the crown, from which branch out two or more arms with flukes, forming with the shank a suitable angle to enter the ground.
Formerly the largest and strongest ~ was the sheet anchor (hence, Fig., best hope or last refuge), called also waist anchor. Now the bower and the sheet anchor are usually alike. Then came the best bower and the small bower (so called from being carried on the bows). The stream anchor is one fourth the weight of the bower ~. Kedges or kedge anchors are light anchors used in warping.
2. Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's ~, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
3. Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul.
Heb. vi. 19.
4. (Her.) An emblem of hope.
5. (Arch.) (a) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together. (b) Craved work, somewhat resembling an ~ or arrowhead; Ð a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or eggÐandÐanchor (called also eggÐandÐdart, eggÐandÐtongue) ornament.
6. (Zo”l.) One of the anchorÐshaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
÷ ice. See under Ice. Ð ÷ ring. (math.) Same as Annulus, 2 (b). Ð ÷ stock (Naut.), the crossbar at the top of the shank at right angles to the arms. Ð The ~ comes home, when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts. Ð Foul ~, the ~ when it hooks, or is entangled with, another ~, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled. Ð The ~ is acockbill, when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cathead, ready to be let go. Ð The ~ is apeak, when the cable is drawn in do tight as to bring to ship directly over it. Ð The ~ is atrip, or aweigh, when it is lifted out of the ground. Ð The ~ is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. Ð At ~, anchored. Ð To back an ~, to increase the holding power by laying down a small ~ ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home. Ð To cast ~, to drop or let go an ~ to keep a ship at rest. Ð To cat the ~, to hoist the ~ to the cathead and pass the ringÐstopper. Ð To fish the ~, to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the billÐboards), and pass the shank painter. Ð To weigh ~, to heave or raise the ~ so as to sail away.
An¶chor (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anchored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Anchoring.] [Cf. F. ancrer.] 1. To place at ~; to secure by an ~; as, to anchor a ship.
2. To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes.
Shak.
An¶chor, v. i. 1. To cast ~; to come to ~; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
2. To stop; to fix or rest.
My invention…anchors on Isabel.
Shak.
An¶chor, n. [OE. anker, ancre, AS. ancra, fr. L. anachoreta. See Anchoret.] An anchoret. [Obs.]
Shak.
An¶chorÏaÏble (?), a. Fit for anchorage.
An¶chorÏage (?), n. 1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.
3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.
5. Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
6. A toll for anchoring; ~ duties.
Johnson.
An¶choÏrage (?), n. Abode of an anchoret.
An¶chorÏate (?), a. AnchorÏshaped.
An¶chored (?), a. 1. Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.
2. (Her.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [Sometimes spelt ancred.]
An¶choÏress (?), n. A female anchoret.
And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt.
Wordsworth.
An¶choÏret (?), An¶choÏrite (?), n. [F. anachorŠte, L. anachoreta, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to go back, retire; ? + ? to give place, retire, ? place; perh. akin to Skr. h¾ to leave. Cf. Anchor a hermit.] One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a r?cluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.]
Our Savior himself… did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals.
Boyle.
{ An·choÏret¶ic (?), An·choÏret¶icÏal (?), } a. [Cf. Gr. ?.] Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.
An¶choÏret·ish (?), a. Hermitlike.
An¶choÏretÏism (?), n. The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.
An¶chorÐhold· (?), n. 1. The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.
2. Hence: Firm hold: security.
An¶choÏrite (?), n. Same as Anchoret.
An¶choÏri·tess (?), n. An anchoress. [R.]
An¶chorÏless (?), a. Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
AnÏcho¶vy (?), n. [Sp. anchoa, anchova, or Pg. anchova, prob. of Iberian origin, and lit. a dried or pickled fish, fr. Bisc. antzua dry: cf. D. anchovis, F. anchois.] (Zo”l.) A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

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AnÏcho¶vy pear· (?). (Bot.) A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit. An¶chuÏsin (?), n. [L. anchusa the plant alkanet, Gr. ?.] (Chem.) A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root. An¶chyÏlose (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Anchylosed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Anchylosing.] [Cf. F. ankyloser.] To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen. Ø An·chyÏlo¶sis, An·kyÏlo¶sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?, fr. ? to crook, stiffen, fr. ? crooked: cf. F. ankylose.] 1. (Med.) Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint. Dunglison. 2. (Anat.) The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals. An·chyÏlot¶ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to anchylosis. An¶cient (?), a. [OE. auncien, F. ancien, LL. antianus, fr. L. ante before. See AnteÏ, pref.] 1. Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; Ð opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius… much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller. 2. Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle. ½Our ancient bickerings.¸ Shak. Remove not the ancient landmarks, which thy fathers have set. Prov. xxii. 28. An ancient man, strangely habited, asked for quarters. Scott. 3. Known for a long time, or from early times; Ð opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent. A friend, perhaps, or an ancient acquaintance. Barrow. 4. Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland. 5. Experienced; versed. [Obs.] Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm. Berners. 6. Former; sometime. [Obs.] They mourned their ancient leader lost. Pope. ÷ demesne (Eng. Law), a tenure by which all manors belonging to the crown, in the reign of William the Conqueror, were held. The numbers, names, etc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book. Ð ÷ lights (Law), windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right. Syn. - Old; primitive; pristine; antique; antiquated; oldÐfashioned; obsolete. Ð Ancient, Antiquated, Obsolete, Antique, Antic, Old. Ð Ancient is opposed to modern, and has antiquity; as, an ancient family, ancient landmarks, ancient institutions, systems of thought, etc. Antiquated describes that which has gone out of use or fashion; as, antiquated furniture, antiquated laws, rules, etc. Obsolete is commonly used, instead of antiquated, in reference to language, customs, etc.; as, an obsolete word or phrase, an obsolete expression. Antique is applied, in present usage, either to that which has come down from the ancients; as, an antique cameo, bust, etc.; or to that which is made to imitate some ~ work of art; as, an antique temple. In the days of Shakespeare, antique was often used for ancient; as, ½an antique song,¸ ½an antique Roman;¸ and hence, from singularity often attached to what is ~, it was used in the sense of grotesque; as, ½an oak whose antique root peeps out; ¸ and hence came our present word antic, denoting grotesque or ridiculous. We usually apply both ancient and old to things subject to gradual decay. We say, an old man, an ancient record; but never, the old stars, an old river or mountain. In general, however, ancient is opposed to modern, and old to new, fresh, or recent. When we speak of a thing that existed formerly, which has ceased to exist, we commonly use ancient; as, ancient republics, ancient heroes; and not old republics, old heroes. But when the thing which began or existed in former times is still in existence, we use either ancient or old; as, ancient statues or paintings, or old statues or paintings; ancient authors, or old authors, meaning books. An¶cient, n. 1. pl. Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns. 2. An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof. Isa. iii. 14. 3. A senior; an elder; a predecessor. [Obs.] Junius and Andronicus… in Christianity… were his ancients. Hooker. 4. pl. (Eng. Law) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chanc?y. Council of Ancients (French Hist.), one of the two assemblies composing the legislative bodies in 1795. Brande. An¶cient, n. [Corrupted from ensign.] 1. An ensign or flag. [Obs.] More dishonorable ragged than an oldÐfaced ancient. Shak. 2. The bearer of a flag; an ensign. [Obs.] This is Othello's ancient, as I take it. Shak. An¶cientÏly, adv. 1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner. [R.] An¶cientÏness, n. The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times. An¶cientÏry (?), n. 1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. [R.] Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller. An¶cientÏy (?), n. [F. anciennet‚, fr. ancien. See Ancient.] 1. Age; antiquity. [Obs.] Martin. 2. Seniority. [Obs.] Ø AnÏci¶le (?), n. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) The sacred shield of the Romans, said to haveÐfallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome. An¶cilÏlaÏry (?), a. [L. ancillaris, fr. ancilla a female servant.] Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam. AnÏcille¶ (?), n. [OF. ancelle, L. ancilla.] A maidservant; a handmaid. [Obs.] Chaucer. { AnÏcip¶iÏtal (?), AnÏcip¶iÏtous (?), } a. [L. anceps, ancipitis, twoÐheaded, double; anÏ for ambÏ on both sides + caput head.] (Bot.) TwoÐedged instead of round; Ð said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves. AnÏcis¶troid (?), a. [Gr. ?; ? a hook + ? shape.] HookÐshaped. An¶cle (?), n. See Ankle. An¶come (?), n. [AS. ancuman, oncuman, to come.] A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow. [Obs.] Boucher. Ø An¶con (?), n.; L. pl. Ancones (?). [L., fr. Gr. ? the bent arm, elbow; any hook or bend.] (Anat.) The olecranon, or the elbow. ÷ sheep (Zo”l.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; Ð called also the otter breed. { An¶con (?), An¶cone (?), } n. [See Ancon, above.] (Arch.) (a) The corner or quoin of a wall, crossÐbeam, or rafter. [Obs.] Gwilt. (b) A bracket supporting a cornice; a console. { An¶coÏnal (?), AnÏco¶neÏal (?), } a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. ½The olecranon on anconeal process.¸ Flower. Ø AnÏco¶neÏus (?), n. [NL., fr. L. ancon elbow.] (Anat.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm. An¶coÏnoid (?), a. Elbowlike; anconal. An¶coÏny (?), n. [Origin unknown.] (Iron Work) A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends. ÏanÏcy. [L. Ïantia.Ï A suffix expressing more strongly than Ïance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy. And (?), conj. [AS. and; akin to OS. endi, Icel. enda, OHG. anti, enti, inti, unti, G. und, D. en, OD. ende. Cf, An if, AnteÏ.] 1. A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence. (a) It is sometimes used emphatically; as, ½there are women and women,¸ that is, two very different sorts of women. (b) By a rhetorical figure, notions, one of which is modificatory of the other, are connected by and; as, ½the tediousness and process of my travel,¸ that is, the tedious process, etc.; ½thy fair and outward character,¸ that is, thy outwardly fair character, Schmidt's Shak. Lex. 2. In order to; Ð used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton. 3. It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak. 4. If; though. See An, conj. [Obs.] Chaucer. As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon. ÷ so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or & c., is usually read and so forth. An¶daÏbaÏtism (?), n. [L. andabata a kind of Roman gladiator, who fought hoodwinked.] Doubt; uncertainty. [Obs.] Shelford. An·daÏlu¶site (?), n. (Min.) A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain. Ø AnÏdan¶te (?), a. [It. andante, p. pr. of andare to go.] (Mus.) Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. Ð n. A movement or piece in andante time. Ø An·danÏti¶no (?), a. [It., dim. of andante.] (Mus.) Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto. µ Some, taking andante in its original sense of ½going,¸ and andantino as its diminutive, or ½less going,¸ define the latter as slower than andante. An¶daÏrac (?), n. [A corruption of sandarac.] Red orpiment. Coxe. AÏde¶an , a. Pertaining to the Andes. An¶desÏine (?), n. (Min.) A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes. An¶desÏite (?), n. (Min.) An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene. An¶dine (?), a. Andean; as, Andine flora. And¶i·ron (?), n. [OE. anderne, aunderne, aundyre, OF. andier, F. landier, fr. LL. andena, andela, anderia, of unknown origin. The Eng. was prob. confused with brandÐiron, AS. brandÐÆsen.] A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons. An·draÏnat¶oÏmy (?), n. [Gr. ?, ?, man + ?: cf. F. andranatomie. See Anatomy, Androtomy.] The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe. Ø AnÏdr?¶ciÏum (?), n. [NL., from Gr. ?, ?, man + ? house.] (bot.) The stamens of a flower taken collectively. An¶droÏgyne (?), n. 1. An hermaphrodite. 2. (Bot.) An androgynous plant. Whewell. { AnÏdrog¶yÏnous (?), AnÏdrog¶yÏnal (?), } a. [L. androgynus, Gr. ?; ?, ?, man + ? woman: cf. F. androgyne.] 1. Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge. 2. (Bot.) Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster. { AnÏdrog¶yÏny (?), AnÏdrog¶yÏnism (?), } n. Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism. { An¶droid (?), Ø AnÏdroi¶des (?), } n. [Gr. ? of man's form; ?, ?, man + ? form.] A machine or automation in the form of a human being. An¶droid, a. Resembling a man. AnÏdrom¶eÏda (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. When bound to a rock and exposed to a sea monster, she was delivered by Perseus.] 1. (Astron.) A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical ÷. 2. (bot.) A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water. Ø An¶dron (?), n. [L. andron, Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, man.] (Gr. & Rom. Arch.) The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house. An·droÏpet¶alÏous (?), a. [Gr. ?, ?, man + ? leaf.] (Bot.) Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande. Ø AnÏdroph¶aÏgi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ?, ?, man + ? to eat.] Cannibals; manÐeaters; anthropophagi. [R.] AnÏdroph¶aÏgous (?), a. Anthropophagous. An¶droÏphore (?), n. [Gr. ?, ?, man + ? to bear.] 1. (Bot.) A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray. 2. (Zo”l.) The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores. An¶droÏsphinx (?), n. [Gr. ?, ?, man + ? sphinx.] (Egypt. Art.) A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion. An¶droÏspore (?), n. [Gr. ?, ?, a man + ? a seed.] (Bot.) A spore of some alg‘, which has male functions. AnÏdrot¶oÏmous (?), a. (Bot.) Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts. AnÏdrot¶oÏmy (?), n. [Gr. ?, ?, man + ? a cutting. Cf. Anatomy.] Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zo”tomy; anthropotomy. [R.] Ïan¶drous (?). [Gr. ?, ?, a man.] (Bot.) A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens. AÏnear¶ (?), prep. & adv. [Pref. aÏ + near.] Near. [R.] ½It did not come anear.¸ Coleridge. The measure of misery anear us. I. Taylor. AÏnear¶, v. t. & i. To near; to approach. [Archaic] AÏneath¶ (?), prep. & adv. [Pref. aÏ + neath for beneath.] Beneath. [Scot.] An¶ecÏdo·tage (?), n. Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey. An¶ecÏdo·tal (?), a. Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation. An¶ecÏdote (?), n. [F. anecdote, fr. Gr. ? not published; ? priv. + ? given out, ? to give out, to publish; ? out + ? to give. See Dose, n.] 1. pl. Unpublished narratives. Burke. 2. A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life. { An·ecÏdot¶ic (?), An·ecÏdot¶icÏal (?), } a. Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. ½Anecdotical traditions.¸ Bolingbroke. An¶ecÏdo¶tist (?), n. One who relates or collects anecdotes. An¶eÏlace (?), n. Same as Anlace. AÏnele¶ (?), v. t. [OE. anelien; an on + AS. ele oil, L. oleum. See Oil, Anoil.] 1. To anoit. Shipley. 2. To give extreme unction to. [Obs.] R. of Brunne. An·eÏlec¶tric (?), a. [Gr. ? priv. + E. electric.] (Physics) Not becoming electrified by friction; Ð opposed to idioelectric. Ð n. A substance incapable of being electrified by friction. Faraday. An·eÏlec¶trode (?), n. [Gr. ? up + E. electrode.] (Elec.) The positive pole of a voltaic battery. Ø An·eÏlecÏtrot¶oÏnus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? up + E. electrotonus.] (Physiol.) The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster. AÏnem¶oÏgram (?), n. [Gr. ? wind + Ïgram.] A record made by an anemograph. AÏnem¶oÏgraph (?), n. [Gr. ? wind + Ïgraph.]

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An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind. Knight. AÏnem·oÏgraph¶ic (?), a. Produced by an anemograph; of or pertaining to anemography. An·eÏmog¶raÏphy (?), n. [Gr. ? wind + Ïgraphy.] 1. A description of the winds. 2. The art of recording the direction and force of the wind, as by means of an anemograph. An·eÏmol¶oÏgy (?), n. [Gr. ? wind + Ïlogy.] The science of the wind. An·eÏmom¶eÏter (?), n. [Gr. ? wind + Ïmeter.] An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge. { An·eÏmoÏmet¶ric (?), An·eÏmoÏmet¶ricÏal (?), } a. Of or pertaining to anemometry. An·eÏmoÏmet¶roÏgraph (?), n. [Anemometer + Ïgraph.] An anemograph. Knight. An·eÏmom¶eÏtry (?), n. The act or process of ascertaining the force or velocity of the wind. AÏnem¶oÏne (?), n. [L. anemone, Gr. ?, fr. ? wind.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens. 2. (Zo”l.) The sea ~. See Actinia, and Sea anemone. µ This word is sometimes pronounced ?n??Ïm??Ïn?, especially by classical scholars. An·eÏmon¶ic (?), a. (Chem.) An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin. AÏnem¶oÏnin (?), n. (Chem.) An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone. AÏnem¶oÏny (?), n. See Anemone. Sandys. An·eÏmorph¶iÏlous (?), a. [Gr. ? wind + ? lover.] (Bot.) Fertilized by the agency of the wind; Ð said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; windÐFertilized. Lubbock. AÏnem¶oÏscope (?), n. [Gr. ? wind + Ïscope: cf. F. an‚moscope.] An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathÐercock; Ð usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind. { AnÏen·ceÏphal¶ic (?), An·enÏceph¶aÏlous (?), } a. [Gr. ?, priv. + ? the brain: cf. Encephalon.] (Zo”l.) Without a brain; brainless. Todd & B. { AÏnenst¶ (?), AÏnent¶ (?), } prep. [OE. anent, anentis, anence, anens, anents, AS. onefen, onemn; an, on, on + efen even, equal; hence meaning, on an equality with, even with, beside. See Even, a.] [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] 1. Over against; as, he lives anent the church. 2. About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular. AnÏen¶terÏous (?), a. [Gr. ? priv. + ? intestine, ? within, ? in.] (Zo”l.) Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen. An¶eÏroid (?), a. [Gr. ? priv. + ? wet, moist + Ïoid: cf. F. an‚ro‹de.] Containing no liquid; Ð said of kind of barometer. ~ barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure. An¶eÏroid, n. An ~ barometer. Anes (?), adv. Once. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott. Ø An·esÏthe¶siÏa (?), n., An·esÏthet¶ic (?), a. Same as An‘sthesia, An‘sthetic. An¶et (?), n. [F. aneth, fr. L. anethum, Gr. ?. See Anise.] The herb dill, or dillseed. An¶eÏthol (?), n. [L. anethum (see Anise) + Ïol.] (Chem.) A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shinning scales; Ð called also anise camphor. Watts. AÏnet¶ic (?), a. [L. aneticus, Gr. ? relaxing; ? back + ? to send.] (Med.) Soothing. An¶euÏrism (?), n. [Gr. ?, ?, a widening, an opening; ? up + ? wide.] (Med.) A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.] An·euÏris¶mal (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. [Written also aneurysmal.] AÏnew¶ (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ + new.] Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew. Dryden.