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Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker.

Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.

In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.

Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. Massey.

An affix.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

A college or seminary where one is educated.

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.

The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure.

Characterized by amalgamation.

One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.

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

A person attached 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.

The practice, habit, or work of an amateur.

The quality or character of an amateur.