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Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.

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.

A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

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.

To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.

To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.

followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

On the following morning. [Obs.] Chaucer.

culating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

ndicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.

A cruet for the wine and water at Mass.

Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), ., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

le air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.

A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.

rtain its morality. No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain. Darwin.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

etc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.