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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB

Al"way (?), adv. Always. [Archaic or Poetic]

I would not live alway.
Job vii. 16.

Al"ways (?), adv. [All + way. The s is an adverbial (orig. a genitive) ending.]

1. At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same.

Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts.
Milton.

2. Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally.

He always rides a black galloway.
Bulwer.

A·lys"sum (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, name of a plant, perh. fr. α priv. + ? raging madness.] (Bot.) A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented flowers.

Am (?). [AS. am, eom, akin to Gothic im, Icel. em, Olr. am, Lith. esmi, L. sum., Gr. ?, Zend ahmi, Skr. asmi, fr. a root as to be. ?. See Are, and cf. Be, Was.] The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be.

God said unto Moses, I am that am.
Exod. iii. 14.

Am`a·bil"i·ty (?), n. [L. amabilitas.] Lovableness. Jer. Taylor.

The New English Dictionary (Murray) says this word is "usefully distinct from Amiability."


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