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To amplify. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.

Amplificatory.

Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell.

One who or that which amplifies.

o expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

State of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size. The cathedral of Lincoln . . . is a magnificent structure, proportionable to the amplitude of the diocese. Fuller.

In an ample manner.

Same as Ampulla, 2.

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. Ampullaceous sac (Zoöl.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells.

Resembling an ampulla.

Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.

Flask-shaped; dilated.

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.

One who amputates.

A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.

Immorality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. -- a. Ambrosial; immortal.

The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).