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To manage. [Obs.] Spenser.

The strength of a current of electricity carried by a conductor or generated by a machine, measured in ampères.

Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.

dotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

Existence or state of angels.

Same as Appanage.

ngs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment. "Wealth . . . the appanage of wit." Swift.

See Appanage.

greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor.

Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic]

The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire.

That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears. The old arrearages . . . being defrayed. Howell.

The act of assembling, or the state o In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. Fenton.

sion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron.

Mitigation; abatement.

One who, or that which, assuages.

See Assuage.

A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.