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size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.

Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray.

The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.

An embrace. [Obs.] An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall.

Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray.

A piece of champlevé enamel; also, the process or art of making such enamel work; champlevé work.

An example; a pattern or model for imitation. [Obs.] Tyndale. Being ensamples to the flock.

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

Without or above example. [R.]

A pattern; an exemplar. [Obs.]

Exampleless. [Wrongly formed.] B. Jonson.

a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull. Your ladies' eyes are lampless to that virtue. Beau. & Fl.

A rambler.

Example; pattern. [Obs.] Spenser. "A sample to the youngest." Shak. Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight His sample followed. Fairfax.

One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.

Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.

Samples taken for assay from a molten metallic mass pouring a portion into water, to granulate it.

To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6.

One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper.

Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.