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The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.

The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.

In an alterable manner.

Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

Causing ateration. Specifically:

A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level.

ess of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

Amasthenic. Sir J. Herschel.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

Amaranth, 1. [Obs.] Milton.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

Same as Amaranth.

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

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

Capable of being ameliorated.