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; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.

In an amorous manner; fondly.

The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.

ng loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton.

The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [R.] Galt.

Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. As doth a rock againts the chiding flood. Shak.

Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorousky. "Clamant children." Thomson.

A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage. For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden. Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other. Addison.

children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

t order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. South.

An amorous composition or poem.

clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.

A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak.

folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace. Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold. Shak. Fold net, a kind of net used in catching birds.

The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness. Cyrus made no . . . amorous fondling To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart. Mickle.

ere the duke was given to understand That in a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica. Shak. To give away, to make over to another; to transfer. Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our lives, is given away from ourselves. Atterbury. -- To give back, to return; to restore. Atterbury. -- T…