Amicable. Friendly:—‘We have lived in amicable relations’ (friendly, in friendliness).
Amphibious. Twy-breath’d, twy-aired: by lungs and gills.
Amphibology. A twy-casting, a wording of two meanings.
Amphimacrum. Long sidelings, long end-sounds. A foot (in verse) of one short sound between two long ones, or of a low sound between two high ones; as, Tó and fró.
Amputate. Forcarve.
Anachronism. A mistiming.
Anagram. A letter-shuffling; as, out of ‘name’ to
Anagram. A letter-shuffling; as, out of ‘1234
make ‘mane,’ or of ‘march’ to make ‘charm.’
make ‘3214
Analysis. A forloosening or unmaking of a word or wording, or any thing, into its sundry clear pieces.
Anastrophe. A word-shifting; as, ‘Fasten it up well,’ ‘Fasten it well up.’ ‘He brought back the horse,’ or ‘He brought the horse back.’ ‘There is none to dispute my right,’ or ‘My right there is none to dispute.’
Anastrophe affords a case
Of the shifting of words from place to place.