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To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. J. Philips. Different species alternating with each other. Kirwan.

The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

ng to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

ly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level.

eet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet- scented flowers.

To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

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

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.

A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict. Cowell.

dexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, 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.

Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. Shak.

Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.

Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out.

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. -- Am`e*trop"ic, a.