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A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. "The spirit of the age." Prescott. Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness. Milton. Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic a…

ns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

ating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territ…

To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy. Addison.

eference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

Full of love; amatory.

Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.

Amatory. [R.] Johnson.

Amatory. [Obs.] "Amatorious poem." Milton.

Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]

Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill.

n highly specialized cells which are incapable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration.

In a soft, tender, amatory style.

A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.

Amplificatory.

easured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements.

Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story. -- A*mus"ing*ly, adv.

Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

ia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.