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of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike. Shak.

ade from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC

Circuit or compass. His great parts did not live within a small ambit. Milward.

he can not see the kingdom of God. John ii. 3. Rhemish Trans. To say amen to, to approve warmly; to concur in heartily or emphatically; to ratify; as, I say Amen to all.

Removal; a putting away. [Obs.] Bp. Ward (1673).

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton.

The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

Of extent of means or resources. "Amplitude of reward." Bacon.

A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism. T. Warton.

Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. D. C. Eaton.

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

he road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

atious; rigorous. [Obs.] God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.

Monition; warning. [Obs.] Clarendon.

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.

Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.