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Above; on top of. [Obs.] Fresh waters run aloft the sea. Holland.

One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.

A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

stian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table.

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

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

Offering a choice of two things.

us of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

Although. [Reformed spelling] Alt"horn`, n. Etym: [Alt + horn.] (Mus.)

An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.…

The hollow of the external ear. Quincy.

Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.

A cell in a honeycomb.

s of their enemies, came down amain. Milton. That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker.

ent elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union. Macaulay.

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 instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. His words impression left Of much amazement. Milton.

An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.