Search the Dictionary

Same as Alignment.

Allegation. [Obs.] With many complaints and allegements. Bp. Sanderson.

A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

See Alemannic.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

See Longshoreman.

from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. His words impression left Of much amazement. Milton.

for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.

An embassy. [Obs.] Strype.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone.

Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc.

Same as Amortization.

An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in ampères.

Deep thought; muse. [Obs.] Here I . . . fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood.

A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson.

A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

Of or pertaining to anæmia.

movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems.

A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. Priestley.