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expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl.

Agency. Beau. & Fl.

A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di

by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

On my life; dearly. [Obs.] "I love that sport alife." Beau. & Fl.

A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others.

Ambergris. [Obs.] You that smell of amber at my charge. Beau. & Fl.

A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc.

Divinely excellent or beautiful. "Shakes his ambrosial curls." Pope.

Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled. Beau. & Fl.

Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets. He published a geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.

To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor. Beau. & Fl.

A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.

y, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

A pimp; a kept gallant. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

cott. I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Void of appoinment, that thou liest. Beau. & Fl.

ustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how. Beau. & Fl.