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That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. [R.] Grateful alternates of substantial. Prior.

a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. Burke.

A beehive, or something resembling a beehive. Barret.

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient. Sir H. Wotton.

s an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.

Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something. I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. Spenser.

by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify. Mar not the thing that can not be amended. Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott.…

An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]

Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becom…

A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

rm of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."

To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.

Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.

combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.

Methyl phenyl ether, C6H5OCH3, got by distilling anisic acid or by the action of methide on potassium phenolate.

to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.

Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.