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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

Same as Amaranth.

A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

Bitterness. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

A pastoral sweetheart. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Milton.

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

Capable of being amassed.

One who amasses.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.

Uniting the chemical rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens; amacratic.

To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ly, adv. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ness, n.

The practice, habit, or work of an amateur.

The quality or character of an amateur.

Full of love; amatory.