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o lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [Obs.] Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.

To align. [R.] Herschel.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

A college or seminary where one is educated.

The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

Combined with alumina.

Formed or vaulted like a beehive.

Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.

To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one. Burke.

Coalesced; united; combined.

To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

ed 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.

In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ly, adv. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ness, n.