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ollowing the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

Hence; A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.

A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

on or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

ixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone.

To go up; to ascend. [Obs.] So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser.

A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

he zeolite, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name.

Hence, confusion or disorder, in general. There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their reFuller.

with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. Priestley.

To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

Hence: Firm hold: security.

Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof. Isa. iii. 14.

A meteor appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Andromeda, -- whence the name.

sive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).