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The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]

Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [Chiefly in Phrenol.]

Same as Alignment.

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.] The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.

Allegation. [Obs.] With many complaints and allegements. Bp. Sanderson.

See Alignment.

The act of allotting; assignment.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

The lofty Brazil-nut tree.

Alum.

; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.

The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. His words impression left Of much amazement. Milton.

An ambush. [Obs.] 2 Chron. xiii. 13.

o truly, verily. It is used as a noun, to demote: (a) concurrence in belief, or in a statement; assent; (b) the final word or act; (c) Christ as being one who is true and faithful. And let all the people say, Amen. Ps. cvi. 48. Amen, amen, I say to thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God. Jo…

The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.

Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.

The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

In an amenable manner.