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In an amorous manner; fondly.

The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.

Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan.

Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges.

Of or pertaining to the Amorphozoa.

Shapelessness. [Obs.] Swift.

As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed. Shak.

Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc.

Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.

The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

Same as Amortization.

In the morning. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.

A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also amphigouri.]

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora.

Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.