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To admonish. [Obs.]

Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton.

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

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton.

An amoret. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A lover; a gallant. [R.] Milton. It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

A wanton woman; a courtesan. Sir T. Herbert.

The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [R.] Galt.

A lover; a man enamored.

; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.

In an amorous manner; fondly.

The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

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

rticular kind or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. -- A*mor"phous*ly, adv. -- A*mor"phous*ness, n.

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

Of or pertaining to the Amorphozoa.

Shapelessness. [Obs.] Swift.

As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed. Shak.

Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc.