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Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. [Obs.] Bacon.

A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc.

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.

ree bearing the almond. -- Almond willow (Bot.), a willow which has leaves that are of a light green on both sides; almond-leaved willow (Salix amygdalina). Shenstone.

On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.

its have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

cles (perhaps particles of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

, 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. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.

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

Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.

Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious. "Ambrosial food." "Ambrosial fragrance." Milton.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. "Smelt ambrosially." Tennyson.

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.

To enamel. [Obs.] Enlightened all with stars, And richly ameled. Chapman.

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.…

A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds.

Of or relating to, or produced by, love. "Amorous delight." Milton. "Amorous airs." Waller.

form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.

To become larger. [Obs.] Strait was the way at first, withouten light, But further in did further amplify. Fairfax.