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Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

d his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

o, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. Tyndale.

by to, rarely by with. That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. L'Estrange.

or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or llliterate speech]. See An't.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.

A contraction of amperometer or ampèremeter.

Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative. Ammunition bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.]

Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none. Whitlock.

Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative. Johnson.

A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't. [Colloq. & illiterate speech.]

Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), ., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

eath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

le between the tangent to the advancing edge (of an aërocurve) and the line of motion; -- contrasted with angle of trail, which is the angle between the tangent to the following edge and the line of motion.

Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.