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Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amica…

Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

Recovery of strength after sickness.

Restorative; giving strength after disease. -- n.

The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. [Obs.] Gwilt.

In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton.

ars's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

Opposition to imperialism; -- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matt…

sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

A verse said before and after the psalms. Shipley.

An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart.

The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. [Obs.]

The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation. Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle.