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Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.

ned in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward. We will go along by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.

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

A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

nor, 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.

To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

To attack by ambush; to waylay.

Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.

To change or modify in any way for the better; as,

in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States. The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism. Washington.

Removal; a putting away. [Obs.] Bp. Ward (1673).

A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. Milton.

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

An administrative territorial division in Denmark and Norway.

alays 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.

us of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude. A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel. Berkeley.

pass the shank painter. -- To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.

himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.