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The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]

Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [Chiefly in Phrenol.]

Same as Alignment.

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.] The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.

Allegation. [Obs.] With many complaints and allegements. Bp. Sanderson.

See Alignment.

The act of allotting; assignment.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.

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

An ambush. [Obs.] 2 Chron. xiii. 13.

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

Imbecility; total want of understanding.

Bearing catkins. Balfour.

Shaped like a catkin.

Same as Ament.