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Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.

ll time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.

n rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. South.

bition: By that sin fell the angels. Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.

To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks. The skipping king, he ambled up and down. Shak. Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Shak.

Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.

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. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professed…

One without method; a quack. [Obs.]

Cell division in which there is first a simple cleavage of the nucleus without change in its structure (such as the formation of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly…

associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of. Blessed art thou among women. Luke i. 28.

A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.

Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges.

A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix.

possess power of attraction" is an ampliative judgment; because we can think of bodies without thinking of attraction as one of their immediate primary attribute. Abp. W. Thomson.

f a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

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

To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. [Obs.] Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. Fuller.