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.

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.

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.

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.

intermediate between introversive and extroversive. Contrasted to introversive and extroversive.

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.

A horse or a person that ambles.

With an ambling gait.

Tending to cause abortion.

An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle.

Obtuse-angled.

Of or pertaining to amblyopia.

Weakness of sight, without any detectable organic lesion.

A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.

A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches.

Same as Ambo.

A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.

Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.

A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3.

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. An unguent of the gods.

Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.

in some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds.

Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.

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.

An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.

A picture taken on a plate 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.

In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.

Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

Having the form of ambulacra.

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. One of the suckers on the feet of mites.

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. An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital.

Walking; moving from place to place.

To walk; to move about.

The act of walking.

Walking.

One who walks about; a walker.

Ambulatory; fitted for walking.

A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.

Same as Anbury.

A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

To lie in ambush.

Ambuscade.

Posted in ambush; ambuscaded.

To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk.

One lying in ambush.

An ambush.

A burn or scald.

naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion. Same as amoeba.

of or pertaining to amoebae. Same as amoeban.

See Amoebean.

Resembling an amoeba especially in the shape or manner of motion

same as amoebic.

A natural family of fish comprising the North American catfishes.

the type genus of the Ameiuridae: bullhead catfishes.