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

Lovable; lovely; pleasing. [Obs. or R.] So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert.

A colorless liquid prepared from herring brine and containing amines, used as a local antiseptic.

The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [R.] Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.

Liable to be lost. [R.]

Deprivation; loss. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.

of the nucleus without change in its structure (such as the formation of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly specialized cells which are incapable of long-continued…

A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal.…

Causing loss of memory.

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

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.

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.

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.

Love; affection. [Obs.]

Self-love; self-esteem.

and water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare.