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In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.

A beehive, or something resembling a beehive. Barret.

A mixture or compound of different things.

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

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

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.

Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something. I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

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

A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. Spenser.

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

by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify. Mar not the thing that can not be amended. Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott.…

s amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.

To remove, as a person or thing, from a position. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]

g out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.

An elevation of mind to things celestial.

Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. Crabb.

Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becom…

That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing. The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many. I. Taylor.