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The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. [R.] For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.

A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. Gray. Alternate alligation. See Alligation. -- Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line…

The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.

The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.

An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.

A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt.

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.

The quality or character of an amateur.

Using both hands with equal ease. Smollett.

The quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.

Pertaining the faculty of using both hands with equal ease. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.

The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, w…

The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.

Of or pertaining to amblyopy. Quain.

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

The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.