a. [ Gr. &unr_; unusual (
‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; unmarried (
n. (Biol.) Reproducing or produced without sexual union. --
All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley. [1913 Webster]
a. [ Gr.
n. The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. & a. [ F. à la mode after the fashion. ] According to the fashion or prevailing mode. “Alamode beef shops.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode. Buchanan. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. à la mort to the death. Cf. Amort. ] To the death; mortally. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Bot.) Characterized by allogamy. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L. amœbaeus, Gr. &unr_;, alternate; L. amoebaeum carmen, Gr. &unr_; &unr_;, a responsive song, fr. &unr_; change. ] A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Alternately answering. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) One of the Amœbea. [ 1913 Webster ]
Amœboid movement,
a. Like an amœba in structure. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ Mex. ] (Bot.) Any detergent plant, or the part of it used as a detergent, as the roots of Agave Americana, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, etc. [ Sp. Amer. & Mex. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ L. amolitio, fr. amoliri to remove; a (ab) + moliri to put in motion. ] Removal; a putting away. [ Obs. ] Bp. Ward (1673). [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; an Indian spice plant. ] (Bot.) A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To admonish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
They heard,
And from his presence hid themselves among
The thickest trees. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Blessed art thou among women. Luke i. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]
What news among the merchants? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Human sacrifices were practiced among them. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]
Divide that gold amongst you. Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]
Whether they quarreled among themselves, or with their neighbors. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
‖n. [ Sp. ] A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. amorette, F. amourette, dim. of amour. ]
n. An amoret. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. armor love. See Amorous. ] A lover; a gallant. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ It. amoroso, fem. amorosa. ] A wanton woman; a courtesan. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [ R. ] Galt. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ It. amoroso, LL. amorosus. ] A lover; a man enamored. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖ adv. [ It. ] (Mus.) In a soft, tender, amatory style. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ OF. amoros, F. amoreux, LL. amorosus, fr. L. amor love, fr. amare to love. ]
Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]
High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an amorous manner; fondly. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
n. [ See Amorphous. ] A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc. There are stony substances which, when fused, may cool as glass or as stone; the glass state is spoken of as a state of amorphism. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. [ Gr. &unr_;;
Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]
--
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; shapeless;
a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Amorphozoa. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. amorphie. See Amorphous. ] Shapelessness. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. a- + F. mort death, dead; all amort is for alamort. ] As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. amortissable. ] Capable of being cleared off, as a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ LL. amortisatio, admortizatio. See Amortize, and cf. Admortization. ]
v. t. [ OE. amortisen, LL. amortisare, admortizare, F. amortir to sell in mortmain, to extinguish; L. ad + mors death. See Mortmain ].
n. [ F. amortissement. ] Same as Amortization. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ Pref. a- on + OE. morwe. See Morrow. ]
n. [ L. amotio. See Amove. ]
‖a. [ L., withdrawn (from it&unr_;place). ] (Zool.) Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]