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The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.

Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of. Blessed art thou among women. Luke i. 28.

Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. In amours with, in love with. [Obs.]

A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

Pertaining to, containing, or making, anagram. -- An`a*gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

The act or practice of making anagrams. Camden.

The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.

A making angular; angular formation. Huxley.

The act or making narrow; a straitening or contacting. Wiseman.

Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known. [R.]

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

The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.

Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. -- Ap*pro"pri*a*tive*ness, n.

The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every…

The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption;…

Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. Shak.

The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to. Hall.

Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance. [R.] Dr. H. More.

A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.]

A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.