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To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

To keep in extraction; to beguile; to delude. He amused his followers with idle promises. Johnson.

One of the rounded prominences of the lower surface of the lateral hemispheres of the cerebellum, each side of the vallecula.

ion of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

Destitute of flowers; flowerless.

Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.

Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*o"cism, -di*e"cism (#), n.

The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.