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Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.

At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

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 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana.

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

An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.

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 fine easy amble." B. Jonson.

In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth. Totten.

uantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.

Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.

One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.

A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.

frenzied and reckless. To run amuck, to rush out in a state of frenzy, as the Malays sometimes do under the influence of "bhang," and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope.…

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

To refer to, or put into, a wrong time. [R.] Lowell.

s of curves of the fourth degree which have certain peculiar relations to circles; -- sometimes called bicircular quartics. -- Anallagmatic surfaces, a certain class of surfaces of the fourth degree.

whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

ng the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [Sometimes spelt ancred.]