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Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be. God said unto Moses, I am that am. Exod. iii. 14.

; vigorously; violently; exceedingly. They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain. Milton. That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker.

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.

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

A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.

Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike. Shak.

way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.

and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hun…

A person who uses both hands with equal facility.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.