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air; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. In amours with, in love with. [Obs.]

Self-love; self-esteem.

A flower, but of what kind is unknown. [Obs.] Her snowy brows, like budded belamours. Spenser.

A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.

The plant love-lies-bleeding. [Obs.] Prior.

ings to appear different from what they really are. The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley. W. Black.

Glamour. [Scot.]

To exceed in the number of mistresses. [R.] Shak.

sed of a man or a woman. The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour Macaulay.

with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words. [Obs.] For par amour, I loved her first ere thou. Chaucer.

A petty love affair or amour. [Obs.]

A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.

ain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. Spenser. I went to make my court to the Dike and Duches of Newcastle. Evelyn.

said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.

hing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science. [Written also enamour.] Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. W. Irving.

A favorite; a paramour; an ingle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

See Floramour. [Obs.]

A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.

A paramour of either sex. [Obs.] Shak. A friend at court or in court, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence. -- To be friends with, to have friendly relations with. "He's . . . friends with Cæsar." Shak. -- To make friends with, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms wit…

A female paramour; a mistress, concubine, or harlot. -- He*tæ"ric, He*tai"ric (#), a.