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ing to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.

ir a room. It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired. Bacon. Were you but riding forth to air yourself. Shak.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

A fortress; also, a royal palace. Prescott.

To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.

That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor.

mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

ending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.

To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve. "My fortune . . . amends." Sir P. Sidney.

e; reparation. [Now const. with sing. verb.] "An honorable amends." Addison. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. Shak.

Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.

ginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

er. As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon. And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9. Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer. iv. 31.

A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy. Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy. Shak.

al plant. Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.

A foretaste. Antepasts of joy and comforts. Jer. Taylor.

To fortify or preserve by an antidote.

That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority.