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Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. [Colloq.]

r appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton.

A thrust or pass; a lunge.

d, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass.

summits of mountains; specif., a reillumination sometimes observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

ime or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. "Ambient air." Milton. "Ambient clouds." Pope.

Circuit or compass. His great parts did not live within a small ambit. Milward.

bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement.

In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. "This fair tree amidst the garden." "Unseen amid the throng." "Amidst thick clouds." Milton. "Amidst acclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.

rc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object.

hor to keep a ship at rest. -- To cat the anchor, to hoist the anchor to the cathead and pass the ring-stopper. -- To fish the anchor, to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and pass the shank painter. -- To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.…

incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury. Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him. Shak.