The tanning or dressing of leather.

A beehive, or something resembling a beehive.

Formed or vaulted like a beehive.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets.

Alveolar.

Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.

Same as Alveolus.

Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities.

A cell in a honeycomb.

The channel of a river.

Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

Always.

At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same.

A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (Alyssum maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented flowers.

a genus of amphibians comprising the midwife toads.

Lovableness.

Amasthenic.

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; -- called also red waxbill.

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.

a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.

To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

To amalgamate.

Same as Amalgam.

To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.

Coalesced; united; combined.

The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.

Characterized by amalgamation.

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.

To amalgamate.

The vegetable casein of almonds.

A genus of poisonous fungi of the family Agaricace/, characterized by having a volva, an annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and Agaricus phalloides is the death cup (or death cap).

The poisonous principle of some fungi.

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

A fragrant flower.

Amaranth, 1.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade.

a cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs.

Of or pertaining to amaranth.

Same as Amaranth.

any of several varieties of cultivated sour cherry trees of the species Prunus cerasus bearing fruit with colorless juice, e.g. Prunus cerasus caproniana.

A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

Bitterness.

a family of flowering plants including the snowdrop, narcissus, and daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the petals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family.

A pastoral sweetheart.

A mass; a heap.

Capable of being amassed.

One who amasses.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation.

Uniting the chemical rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens; amacratic.

To be a mate to; to match.

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.

In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.

Behavior that demonstrates a lack of professional competency.

The practice, habit, or work of an amateur.

The quality or character of an amateur.

Full of love; amatory.

Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.

In an amatorial manner.

Amatory.

Amatory.

Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.

a very large closely branched South African shrub (Carissa grandiflora) of the dogbane family having forked bright green spines, white flowers, shiny leaves, and red berries. Also called natal plum.

a genus of epiphytic or terrestrial ferns of America and Africa and Polynesia.

A loss or decay of sight as the result of a neurological disease, without any perceptible changes in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the /drop serene/ of Milton.

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement.

In amazement; with confusion or astonishment.

The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder.

Full of amazement.

The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.

Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.

One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.

Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.

A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.

Ambagious.

Circumlocutory; circuitous.

Ambagious.

A valuable East Indian fiber plant (Hibiscus cannabinus), or its fiber, which is used throughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; -- called also brown Indian hemp.

Of or pertaining to an ambassador.

The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.

A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador.

Same as Embassage.

See Embassy, the usual spelling.

To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.

a genus of herbs of Mediterranean to Central Asia cultivated for their flowers.

See Ambergris.

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, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212/ Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.

Ambs-ace.

A person who uses both hands with equal facility.

The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility. Versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side.

Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.

In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly.

The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient.

Of two kinds. Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.

An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.

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.

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.

In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.

Ambiguity.

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter.

Doubtful or ambiguous language.

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

Circuit or compass.

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

One excessively ambitious.

Devoid of ambition.

Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.

In an ambitious manner.

The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.

The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

mixed feelings or emotions; uncertainty or vacillation in making a choice.

undecided as to whether or not to take a proposed course of action; having feelings both for and against the proposed action.

a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion.