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The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

ined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

e succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

nother. If this demand is refused the alternative is war. Lewis. With no alternative but death. Longfellow.

To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. Ure.

To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt.

Leathery.

The tanning or dressing of leather. [Obs.] Blount.

The channel of a river. Weate.

At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. "They fled amain." Holinshed.

ia, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.

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.

o daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. "Amazing Europe with her wit." Goldsmith. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David Matt. xii. 23.

ng the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC

Circuit or compass. His great parts did not live within a small ambit. Milward.

Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. Shak.

tled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.