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Ambrosial. [R.] . Jonson.

injury; recompense; reparation. [Now const. with sing. verb.] "An honorable amends." Addison. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. Shak.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

ongst you. Marlowe. Whether they quarreled among themselves, or with their neighbors. Addison.

A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks. [Obs.]

erly with on. Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak.

Liability to be removed or dismissed from office. [R.] T. Jefferson.

To remove, as a person or thing, from a position. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative. Johnson.

s without thinking of attraction as one of their immediate primary attribute. Abp. W. Thomson.

eep in extraction; to beguile; to delude. He amused his followers with idle promises. Johnson.

a word used by old English authors. Shak. Nay, an thou dalliest, then I am thy foe. B. Jonson. An if, and if; if.

A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.

A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson.

Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.

Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures. L. Addison.

an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument. Johnson.

One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy. Cheyne.

To employ, or reason by, analogy.