AMORIST
AM'ORIST, noun [Latin amor, love.] A lover, a gallant; an inamorato.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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AMOROSO
AMORO'SO, noun A lover; a man enamored.
AMOROUS
AM'OROUS, adjective [Latin amor, love.]1. Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond.2. In love; enamored.3. Pertaining or relating to l...
AMOROUSLY
AM'OROUSLY, adverb In an amorous manner; fondly; lovingly.
AMOROUSNESS
AM'OROUSNESS, noun The quality of being inclined to love, or to sexual pleasure; fondness; lovingness.
AMORPHA
AMORPH'A, noun [Gr. a neg and form.]False or bastard indigo. The plant is a native of Carolina, constituting a genus. It rises, with many irregular stems, to the height of twelv...
AMORPHOUS
AMORPH'OUS, adjective [Gr. a neg and form.]Having no determinate form; of irregular shape; not of any regular figure.
AMORPHY
AMORPH'Y, noun Irregularity of form; deviation from a determinate shape.
AMORT
AMORT', adverb [Latin mors, mortuus.] In the state of the dead.
AMORTIZATION
AMORTIZA'TION or AMORT'IZEMENT, noun The act or right of alienating lands or tenements to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, as suc...
AMORTIZE
AMORT'IZE, verb transitive [Latin mors, death. See Mortmain.]In English law, to alienate in mortmain, that is, to sell to a corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or tem...
AMORTIZEMENT
AMORTIZA'TION or AMORT'IZEMENT, noun The act or right of alienating lands or tenements to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, as suc...
AMOTION
AMO'TION, noun [Latin amotio; amoveo.] Removal.
AMOUNT
AMOUNT', verb intransitive [Latin mons, a mountain, or its root.]1. To rise to or reach, by an accumulation of particulars, into an aggregate whole; to compose in the whole; as,...
AMOUNTING
AMOUNT'ING, participle present tense Rising to, by accumulation or addition; coming or increasing to; resulting in effect or substance.
AMOUR
AMOUR', noun [Latin amor, love.]An unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an affair of gallantry.
AMOVAL
AMOV'AL, noun [Latin amoveo.] Total removal. [Not used.]
AMOVE
AMOVE', verb transitive [Latin amoveo, a and moveo, to move.] To remove. [Not used.]
AMPELITE
AM'PELITE, noun [Gr. a vine. The name of an earth used to kill worms on vines. Pliny says it is like bitumen.Cannel coal, or candle coal; an inflammable substance of a black col...
AMPHIBIA
AMPHIB'IAL, AMPHIB'IA, noun [Gr. both or about and life.]
AMPHIBIAL
AMPHIB'IAL, AMPHIB'IA, noun [Gr. both or about and life.]In zoology, amphibials are a class of animals, so formed as to live on land, and for a long time under water. Their hear...
AMPHIBIOLITE
AMPHIB'IOLITE, noun [Gr. amphibious and stone.]A fragment of a petrified amphibious animal.
AMPHIBIOLOGICAL
AMPHIBIOLOG'ICAL, adjective [Infra.] Pertaining to amphibiology.
AMPHIBIOLOGY
AMPHIBIOL'OGY, noun [Gr. on both sides, life, and discourse.]A discourse or treatise on amphibious animals, or the history and description of such animals.
AMPHIBIOUS
AMPHIB'IOUS, adjective [See Amphibial.]1. Having the power of living in two elements, air and water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and the like.2. Of a mixed nature; partaking ...
AMPHIBIOUSNESS
AMPHIB'IOUSNESS, noun The quality of being able to live in two elements, or of partaking of two natures.
AMPHIBIUM
AMPHIB'IUM, noun That which lives in two elements, as in air and water.