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s. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

To please. [Obs.] Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.

To bark as a dog. [Obs.] Stubbes.

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

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

One who alliterates.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

Causing ateration. Specifically:

A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level.

Amasthenic. Sir J. Herschel.

To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.

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

One who ameliorates.

Anchor-shaped.

An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.

To add on; to count in. [Obs.] Wollaston.

Addition to a former number. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.