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Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

Capable of being ameliorated.

To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

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

Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.

One who ameliorates.

Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. Bancroft.

Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

Pertaining to amenorrhoea.

Shaped like a catkin.

Resembling amianthus in form.

Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton.

An amoret. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A lover; a gallant. [R.] Milton. It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

A wanton woman; a courtesan. Sir T. Herbert.

The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [R.] Galt.

A lover; a man enamored.

Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.