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Amender
n.
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One who amends.
Amendful
a.
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Much improving.
Amendment
n.
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An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
Amendment
n.
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In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.
Amendment
n.
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Correction of an error in a writ or process.
Amends
n. sing. & pl.
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Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
Amenities
pl.
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of Amenity
Amenity
n.
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The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness.
Amenorrhoea
n.
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Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.
Amenorrhoeal
a.
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Pertaining to amenorrhoea.
A mensa et thoro
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A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife.
Ament
n.
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A species of inflorescence; a catkin.
Amentaceous
a.
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Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.
Amentaceous
a.
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Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.
Amentia
n.
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Imbecility; total want of understanding.
Amentiferous
a.
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Bearing catkins.
Amentiform
a.
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Shaped like a catkin.
Amenta
pl.
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of Amentum
Amentum
n.
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Same as Ament.
Amenuse
v. t.
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To lessen.
Amerced
imp. & p. p.
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of Amerce
Amercing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Amerce
Amerce
v. t.
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To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.
Amerce
v. t.
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To punish, in general; to mulct.
Amerceable
a.
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Liable to be amerced.
Amercement
n.
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The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.]
Amercer
n.
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One who amerces.
Amerciament
n.
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Same as Amercement.
American
a.
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Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
American
a.
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Of or pertaining to the United States.