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An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. [Colloq.] Richardson. The man of law began to get into his altitude. Sir W. Scott. Meridian altitude, an arc of the meridian intercepted between the south point on the horizon and any point on the meridian. See Meridian, 3.

The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be. God said unto Moses, I am that am. Exod. iii. 14.

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

To amalgamate. Boyle. B. Jonson.

A genus of poisonous fungi of the family Agaricaceæ, characterized by having a volva, an annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.…

The poisonous principle of some fungi.

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

us of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

Amatory. [R.] Johnson.

urope with her wit." Goldsmith. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David Matt. xii. 23.

Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored. "The amber morn." Tennyson.

A person who uses both hands with equal facility.

o be or to do something. I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side. "A fine easy amble." B. Jonson.

A horse or a person that ambles.

Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious. [R.]"Ambrosiac odors." B. Jonson.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. "Smelt ambrosially." Tennyson.