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To salute; to greet. [Poet.] Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings. Burke.

A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street. Gay.

eculiar 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.

A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.

A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

One of the tonsils. Almond oil, fixed oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds. -- Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde. -- Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene. -- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. --…

nce, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

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

A pastoral sweetheart. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Milton.

e life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

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

One of the suckers on the feet of mites.

A beetle of the genus Lamia.

ation, 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.

The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition. Every excellency is a degree of amiability. Jer. Taylor.

Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.