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An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. Combe.

Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.

Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.

The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.

Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

Sexual generation; amphigony.

Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation. [R.]

Sexual propagation. [R.]

Absence of sexual appetite.

Produced without concourse of sexes.

Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.

Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism.

A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size; -- opposed to isospore.

to faults; accusation. In the sixth satire, which seems only an Arraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition. Dryden.

by transfer of title; assignment. House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.

ronomical day. See under Day. -- Astronomical fractions, Astronomical numbers. See under Sexagesimal.

Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids.

An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.

An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.